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11/17/08
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The High School Girls
basketball season opened for ISD as they hosted the
Triopia Trojans in a WIVC contest. The Trojans
won 50-26 as they played as well as we have seen
them play in a long time. First year coach,
Travis Sievers, had them ready and they took care of
business. They turned the ball over 15 times in the
first half but cut that to only 6 in the second half
and shot 57% from the free throw line (12-21) in the
win. They forced 25 turnovers on the Tigers and
played a pretty sticky defense. For ISD, they were
led in scoring by Sanchez, Rainey and Bernal with 7
points each. Mancera had the other 3 points on a
long range shot. The Tigers only hit 3 of 16 free
throws and will need to do a better job from the
charity stripe. Randi Huey led the Trojans
with 16 points while Kimmie Carlin added 11 as she
came in off of the bench. She is a nice addition to
the Trojan team as she handles the ball pretty well,
can shoot and was 3-4 from the free throw line. She
need to get a little stronger with her passes, but
that will come in time. Welch poured in 8, Reither
6, Andersn 4, Lovekamp 3 and McLain 2 in the
victory. Triopia led from the beginning and will
take their 1-0 record up against a good Tiger team
from Beardstown on Thursday. Their JV won 18-5 in
the earlier game.
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11/15/08
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The Triopia Trojan
Football team has not been in the semi-final round
since 2004 but they earned it yesterday with a hard
fought win over the Tuscola Warriors 22-21.
They scored the winning touchdown, after a Warrior
fumble, with 1:22 on the game clock and hung on to
post the victory. Phelps took a knee with .01
seconds on the clock and the celebration
began. The Trojans were trailing in the ball
game with a little over 5 minutes left, by a scored
of 21-8 but were able to score on a 27 yard reverse
to Dinsmore and a 2 point conversion from Phelps to
Fricke got them close at 21-16. With only 3:29 left
on the clock, they needed the ball back and got it
as Brockhouse recovered a fumble on the Warrior 33.
Phelps faked a hand off to Arendt and Kerr was wide
open on the left side, so he threw a pass right on
the numbers and the rest is history. Triopia will
play Sidell Jamaica at home next Saturday for the
chance to play in the state finals in Champaign on
the 28th at 10:00 am. Tuscola rushed for
approximately 104 yards and threw for 204 but you
could see they were wearing down in the 4th quarter,
with their hands on their knees, etc. It was a tough
physical battle and a game worthy of a quarter-final
match up. Caleb Little is a good quarterback who can
run or throw and was 14-26 through the air with 47
yards on the ground. He threw for 1 score and
rushed for one as the Warriors ended their season
with 8 wins and 4 losses. For the Trojans,
they took what Tuscola gave them. Arendt (70 yds),
who has 1,666 yards on the year, was the focus of
the Tuscola defense, so they ran Dinsmore (31 yds),
Chute (29 yds), Kleinschmidt (36 yds) and Nordsiek
(29 yds). Then Phelps had a nice day through
the air with a 3-5 day, 62 yards including the game
winner. The defense did their job as they forced 3
turnovers, (Dinsmore and Wise interceptions) and (Brockhouse
fumble recovery) and Fricke kicked the ball well.
Millard also had one of his best kick offs of the
year at crunch time, so all in all (with the
exception of the bad snap) it was a solid game for
Triopia and they deserve to be where they are.
Sidell-Jamaica will be strong, but from my own
personal opinion, I would rather play them than face
Tuscola again based on strength of schedule and the
home field advantage.
I would imagine
that AC/Virginia may be down a little after their
loss in the championship volleyball game at Redbird
Arena, but I hope not. They are a very good
team and when they take a moment to think about it,
they will realize what a great state run they
made. They won the conference, they won a
sectional, a super-sectional and took a good Lanark
team (39-3) to the wire before taking 2nd place n
the state. That's good stuff and this is a
relatively young team. They will miss their
seniors, Birdsell, Jacobs and Honkala, but their
nucleus for a strong team will be in place when they
get ready for the 2009 season. They played in
good tournaments, against winning programs and
finished the year with 34 wins and 8 losses.
If they are disappointed, I hope it is short lived
as they made their fans and the local area very
proud and deserve all they praise they have
received. Kristy VanMeter took over a good
team and helped guide them to the state
finals. The ground work was laid by Carrie Jo
Donnan and when she stepped down, the Knights never
lost a beat. They will be a front-runner, in my
opinion, again next season and I only hope they know
that.
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11/14/08
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It wasn't easy, but
AC/Central-Virginia won their semi-final volleyball
20-25, 25-18, 25-22 over Sciota-West Priarie today
at Redbird Arena in Normal. They had lost to
the Cyclones earlier this year at the Mt. Pulaski
Tournament so got a small measure of revenge along
with the right to play for the state title in class
1A. Gentes had 9 kills and 2 blocks to lead W.
Prairie while Shelly added 8 kills and Peterson 6.
Peterson & Burke led in points with 5 each
while Derry sered 4 winners and Chapin 3. Derry was
a good setter with 21 on the day as the Cyclones end
their title run with a record of 33 wins against
only 8 losses. Jacobs had 21 kills, Bergerud
10, Honkala 8 and Allen 7. Bergerud led with 5
blocks and Honkala added 3 while Jokisch had 1.
Stribling led the way in points with 8 and also
contributed 40 assists in the win. The Knights
only had 3 service errors in the match and while
they started off slowly, they picked up the pace and
finished strong. They will face Lanark (Eastland) at
10:30 in the morning for the championship.
In the opening
match at Redbird Arena, for the Class 1A volleyball
championship, it was Lanark improving to 38-3 with a
25-22, 25-16 victory over Toledo. Sparks had 6 kills
and 2 blocked for the Pirates. Gable had 3 kills, 2
points and 1 assist and Whitaker added 3 kills, 2
points, 1 block and 12 assists. Brandt was strong
with 6 blocks, 2 kills and 2 points and Titus served
up 5 points. Toledo was having some difficulty with
the net play of the Cougars and just weren't
consistent enough to force a third game. Toledo will
take a 28-4 record into the 3rd place game tomorrow.
Blair was big time with 9 kills and 3 blocks for
Lanark. Hare added 6 kills and 4 blocks and Bunyer
was able to kill 4 and block 1 as they led the
Cougar attack. Damaris Linker had 7 points, Kane 6
and Kniss 6 as Lanark showed they have several areas
of scoring. Pierce had 4 assists and Hope Linker had
17 assists and 2 service errors. They will give the
Knights some trouble around the net tomorrow, but
they will have to deal with AC's offense
themselves. It should be a very good title
match and will start around 10:30
am.
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11/8/08
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On Thursday night the
AC/Virginia volleyball team made a little history
when they won their first sectional championship.
Tonight they won a super-sectional match with
Warrensburg-Latham 25-18, 25-23. They will
play Sciota West Prairie in final four action from
Redbird Arena on Friday. Sciota defeated the
Knights earlier this year for one of their 7
losses. It should be a great match and the
worst either team can do is 4th in 1A volleyball for
2008. Boyd had 6 points and 5 kills, Babb 9 points
and 2 kills, Heffernan 2 points, 14 assists, Ellis 2
kills and 2 blocks, Green 5 kills and 2 blocks and
Wood played well with 2 points, 3 kills and 3
blocks. They only had 1 service error on the night.
Fr the Knights, Birdsell served 5 points and had 5
digs. Jacobs had her usual good match with 9 points,
7 kills and 3 digs. Allen had 2 points and 3 digs
while Bergerud added 3 points, 6 kills, 6 blocks.
Stribling continued to play well with 3 points, 1
kill, 3 digs and 24 assists. Honkala had 8 kills and
2 blocks. Jokisch contributed 1 point, 4 kills,
including the game winner, 2 blocks and 1 assist.
The Knights had 2 service errors in the win and
played solid volleyball in a hostile environment.
The Lady Cardinals had a large crowd behind them,
but the black and yellow of AC/Virginia was large as
well and the fans wanted to be with the team as they
continue to make history. They will take a 33-7
record to Normal and Redbird Arena where they will
try to win the state title.
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11/8/08
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The Triopia Trojan
football team defeated Arcola 46-0 and will take on
Tuscola next Saturday. The Warriors won their
game 21-7 over Mt. Olive. Arcola had trouble
moving the ball with consistency today and ended up
with 108 yards of offense. They had 53 yards of
rushing as their lead carrier, Beau Fishel had 22
carries for 55 yards. VanGundy was 8 of 17
passing for 55 yards. They will end their season
with a record of 7 wins and 4 losses. Triopia was
led in rushing by Arendt with 178 yards on 14
carries. He scored from 13, 36 and 63
yards. Phelps carried 9 for 49 with touchdown
runs of 1 yard and 4 yards. Dinsmore went
around end for a 45 yard TD and he carried 3 times
for 98 yards. Phelps was 3-3 through the air
for 48 yards. Kerr caught 1 pass for 24 yards and
Fricke also had a 16 yard catch. The Trojans
converted on 5 (2 point) extra point tries.
Triopia had 398 yards on the ground and 48 through
the air as they got their offense in gear after a
slow start and couple of fumbles. It was a
relatively clean game with the exception of a couple
of un-sportsman like penalties. With the win,
Triopia moved to 11-0 on the year and will try to
get a little revenge at Tuscola on Saturday.
It will be a tough game but the Trojans have got
what it takes to get the job done. It should be a
great game and real test for both
teams.
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11/6/08
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AC-Virginia volleyball
made history tonight as they won their first
sectional and will move on to Warrensburg-Latham on
Saturday night in super-sectional action against the
host school. Warrensburg defeated Moweaqua Central A
& M 25-12, 25-14 in Tuscola tonight. The
Camp Point Central Panthers got off to a slow start
tonight and the Knights, who wee sharp, took them in
two 25-12, 25-17. Kayla Moore had 6 points and
6 assists while Jennings recorded 3 kills and 3
assists. Miller served 2 points with 3 kills
and March came on late with 5 points and 2 kills.
The Panthers ended their season with a 22-13
record. As for the Knights, they improved to
32-7 behind some good play and numbers.
Birdsell did a solid job as libero and served 2
points. Jacobs had 8 kills and Allen had 6 points
and 3 kills. Bergerud added 9 points as well
as 6 kills and 2 blocks. Stribling served 12
points, had 2 kills and 18 assists in the win.
Jokisch had 1 kill and 1 block while Honkala was
strong at the net with 2 kills and 8 blocks.
It was a good win as AC-Virginia put the pressure on
from the beginning and only had a couple of points
in the game where they showed a lack of
concentration. The crowd for both teams were
supportive and well behaved and it was a fun night
of volleyball. We will be at Warrensburg with
a 6:40 start on
Saturday.
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11/4/08
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The host school,
AC-Virginia Knights will move on to the title game
on Thursday against the Camp Point Central Panthers
at 7:00 to determine who plays in the supers in
Warrensburg on Saturday night. The Knights won
25-23 in a hard fought first game over Routt
Catholic and lived off of Rocket mistakes in game
two to win it 25-17. Routt ended their season
with 29 wins and 9 losses and the Knights improved
to 31-7 with the win. Katie Lindsey led the Rockets
with 12 kills, 5 points and 2 blocks and fry had 16
assists. White and Morgan Eilering each recorded 5
kills while Eilering added 3 blocks and White 1.
Fitzgerald had 3 points and 2 assists and Routt only
had 1 service error on the night. They just didn't
play well at crunch time and AC took advantage of
the situation. Bergerud was strong with 10 kills, 6
points and 4 blocks. Jacobs added 5 points and 5
kills, while Birdsell served up 5 points. Allen
contributed 4 points and 3 kills and Honkala had a
good net game with 4 kills and 2 blocks. Stribling
served 2 points, had 4 kills and 18 assists as she
went about her business in steady fashion.
In the night cap it
was a fun match with CPC winning the opener 25-21
after the Big Red made a late surge. The
second game went to 33-31 before March put away the
game winner. Girard is a scrappy team, led by
LeGrand's 11 points, 6 kills and 1 block. Sloman had
6 blocks, Roller 7 and Ryan 3 as Girard made
it hard to score. Dunn served 5 points and had
a kill of her own. Fouts played a nice match with 4
points, 1 kill, 2 blocks and 18 assists. The Big Red
finished heir season with 27 wins and 8 losses. The
Panthers have an interesting team with several
players who can step up when necessary. Katelyn
Moore served 8 points and recorded 18 assists.
Kestner did a nice job of libaro work and Jennings
put 3 kills, 3 blocks and 2 assists on the books.
Kristen Moore killed 6 and blocked 1 and made
herself well known at the net. Miller had 2 points
and 8 kills and Heimann served 8, killed 6 and
blocked 3. March had numerous digs in the back
row, added 4 points and had 5 kills, including the
game winner. It was a seesaw battle from 24-24 until
the end of 33-31 and was tied at 26, 28, 30 and 31.
It was a great semi-final match. The only
downside was the radio broadcast was interrupted by
a dropped cell phone call. According to A T
& T, it was caused by too many trying to call
out of the gym at the same time and over-loaded the
system. Good luck on title night as it may get
worse. These are good teams and we expect a
hard fought win. Whoever wins, will face the
winner of the Tuscola sectional in the last match
prior to Redbird Arena.
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11/1/08
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In the IHSA Class 1A
Football Playoffs, in the lower bracket, Triopia
defeated Hardin-Calhoun 20-6 and Arcola got past
Carrollton 21-16, so Arcola will travel to Triopia
to play the Trojans next Saturday at 2:00 pm.
Mt. Olive was a big winner over Astoria (South
Fulton Co-op) 36-14 and Tuscola defeated Routt
Catholic 31-12 and that means Mt. Olive will travel
to the Warriors for their meeting. Villa Grove
improved to 10-0 with their 41-21 win over
Arthur-Lovington and the Pawnee Indians won at Brown
County 20-0 and those winner will play in Pawnee in
the next round. The final games of the lower
bracket had Sidell (Jamaica) South Fork Co-op
handing Cerro-Gordo a 50-31 loss and they will host
the Greenfield Tigers who dropped Virden 15-14 in
their meeting. In the Triopia game, Phelps
rushed for 20, threw for 10 and scored twice in the
game. Arendt rushed for 74 yards, Chute 12,
Nordsiek 39 and Dinsmore 24 while Kleinschmidt
carried for 63 yards and a 41 yard touchdown run.
Baalman led the Warriors with 27 yards and Lammy
scored the lone touchdown. In the Pawnee-Brown
County game, the Hornets had trouble with the
offense and ended up with 177 yards on the day and 0
points. They missed a field goal, had a bad snap on
another and fumbled twice in the loss. Warrd had 59
yards and Cross 46. The Indians were led by
Benitone's 63 yards and 3 touchdowns. Reynolds
added 43, Thompson 2 yards, Donahue 86 and Pearce
with 80 yards. Pawnee runs a very tight
offensive line and Benitone (225 lbs) was hard to
get a hand on and get to the ground. This was
an entertaining, hard fought ground game with some
good hitting.
In the Regional
Championship games in volleyball, Routt defeated
West Central 25-16, 25-18 at the Meredosia-Chambersburg
site and will face AC/Virginia who beat Illini
Central 26-24, 15-25, 25-18 at the New Berlin
Regional.. They will play the first game on Tuesday
at the AC Sectional. In game two, it will
feature Girard who upset Greenfield (at Virden)
25-16, 18-25, 25-16 taking on Camp Point Central who
beat Liberty at Liberty 22-25, 25-14, 26-24.
The two winners will play for the title on Thursday
at 7:00 pm. We will carry both days on 101.3
WVIL. The winner of the AC Sectional will face
the winner of the Tuscola Sectional at Warrensburg
Latham on Saturday November 8th at 7:00
pm. Routt played a solid game and they
were intense throughout, which has not always been
the case. Fitzgerald served 7 point, Lindsey 5,
Eilering (Morgan) 5, Fry 4 and Drake 3.
Vortman led the Cougars with 6 points. In
kills, Bailey Eilering had 3, Lindsey 5, M. Eilering
9, Fry 2, White 8 and Drake 1. Vortman 2,
White 5, Kirbach 4 and Anslyn 2 led West Central.
Fry led Routt with 17 assists and Fisher led the
Cougars with 8. The Rockets will take a 29-8 record
to AC to face the 30-7 Knights. We don't have CPC's
record or the record for the Big Red.
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10/30/08
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Day two of the
Meredosia-Chambersburg Volleyball Regional had no
surprises and West Central will move on to take on
the #1 seed, Routt Catholic Lady Rockets. The
Championship game will be Saturday night at 7:00
pm. In game one this evening, the Cougars
easily defeated ISD 25-7, 25-10 as the Tigers were
just no match. In the second game, Griggsville-Perry
had some trouble with Triopia but bet them in two
games, 25-16, 25-17 and ended the Trojans season.
Triopia had some good volleys, but they didn't have
enough fire power t the net to stop the Tornadoes
and finished their season with a record of 3-25.
They lose 3 seniors so will come back next season
with a veteran squad. They played tonight
without one of their floor leaders, Rachel Carls.
In the semi-final
match up, it was West Central 24-11 and the #2 seed
facing Griggsville-Perry 18-10, the #3 seed.
The Tornades started out well but just couldn't keep
the pressure on and lost 25-20 as Vortman served out
with the final 5 points. In the second game,
Griggsville-Perry got 21 points but came up a little
short. Whitaker had 3 points, 6 kills and 1
block. Emrick added 5 points and 2 kills.
Freeman was active with 4 points and 15
assists. DeSpain put 2 points, 3 kills and 1
assist on the books, while Katie Sharrow recorded 6
points, 3 kills and 1 assist and Kelsey Sharrow
ended her high school volleyball career wih 4 points
and 4 kills. Fisher was strong for the Cougars
with 9 points and 17 assists. Todd had 2 points,
McLaughlin 4 points and 3 kills, Anslyn 3 kills,
Vortman 6 points and 3 kills as Kirbach had 3
points, 5 kills and 2 blocks. White had a good
evening with 1 point, 10 kills and 2 blocks.
Routt split with West Central, the first time they
met this season, then the Cougars defeated Routt in
two and the Rockets came back to knock of West
Central in two. Basically that tells you that when
the two meet, Saturday night on a neutral court, it
is anybody's guess as to how it will turn out. The
winner will get the regional title and the right to
play the winner of the New Berlin Regional.
Game day for the next round is the 4th at AC High
School. AC/Virginia will be the title game at New
Berlin, Liberty upset Augusta Southeastern and will
be in the championship match at Liberty and
Greenfield faces Girard for the Virden
title.
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10/29/08
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Pleasant Hill knocked
off Meredosia-Chambersburg 25-7, 14-25, 25-17 but it
wasn't easy. The Indians fought back in game
two and finished their season strongly. Hopper
had 8 points, 5 kills and 2 blocks. Large had 3
service points and 6 assists while Chute added 5
points and 5 assists. Erica Martin contributed
3 points and 2 kills while Abby Martin had 3 points,
4 kills, 1 block and 1 assist. Meredosia-Chambersburg
finished their season with 3 wins and 19 losses.
P-Hill earned the right to play Routt by winning
game one easily, then stumbled in game two and made
a nice recovery in the tie-breaker. Madison Black
led the way with 7 points, 9 kills, 2 blocks and 1
assist. Macy Black also played well with 2 points,
11 kills and 3 blocks. Edwards was solid from the
service line (12 points) and had 1 kill with 22
assists. Clowers adder 5 kills and Rouse recorded 8
points. Damon had 1 point, 2 kills, 3 blocks and 1
assist. The Wolves improved to 12-15 with the win.
In match two, Routt
started slowly and had to work to win the first game
25-17 and game two they led from the beginning to
win 25-18. The Wolves ended their season 12-16
as Damon had 4 points, 2 kills and 2 blocks.
Madison Black had 4 points and 2 kills and Macy
Black finished with 5 kills and Clowers added 5
kills and 1 point. Edwards was solid with 11
assists and 1 point. Routt was led by Morgan
Eilering with 7 points, 7 kills and 7 blocks. Erika
White had 2 points, 8 kills, 1 block and 8 assists.
Lonergan had 3 kills, 1 block and 1 assist and Drake
continued to serve well with 5 points. Fitzgerald
added 3 points and an assist while Bailey Eilering
ended with 3 kills and a block. Redd had 4 points
and Fry had 5 points, 1 kill and 12 assists. Lindsay
had a sore back and played very little as Routt
improved to 28-8 and will play for the regional
title on Saturday
night.
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10/24/08
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Triopia played well
tonight as they knocked off Hardin-Calhoun in
football 45-0. The win kept the Trojans
undefeated as they improved to 9-0 and the Warriors
fell to 5-4. Arendt led the way with 178 yards
and 3 touchdowns which gives him 21 on the year.
Chute carried 7 times for 68 yards and 2 touchdowns
and Dinsmore was 6 for 61 with a 41 yard scoring
run. The Trojans converted on four 2 point
plays and kicked one out of two with one being
blocked. Phelps carried 10 times for 34 yards,
Nordsiek 4 times for 20 yards and Meyer had one
carry for 0 yards. Phelps was 1 for 4 in passing for
29 yards. Triopia had 3 penalties for 22 yards
and fumbled 5 times while losing 2. Kerr caught the
1 pass. David Baalman led the Warriors with 35
yards as Hager added 24, Bushnell 23, Hazlewonder 5
and Lammy minus 1. Baalman was 6 for 12 with 1
interception as Kleinschmidt picked him off late in
the game. They fumbled twice and lost them both.
They rushed 35 times for 86 yards and had 28 yards
through the air. Their only penalty was for 10
yards. Dan Long caught 2 for 10 yards, Hagen 2 for
10 yards and Hazelwonder 2 for 8 yards.
Hardin-Calhoun is hoping to make the play offs with
their 5-4 record and could possibly face the Trojans
in the first round. If Virginia upset
Carrollton tonight, then the Hawks may be the
Triopia foe in the opening
round.
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10/23/08
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It was an important
high school volleyball game tonight at Routt
Catholic between the Rockets and the visiting
Cougars from West Central. It was not a well
played match with numerous errors on both sides and
the Rockets prevailed 25-22, 25-16 to improve to24-6
(8-2). West Central fell to 21-11 and this may
not be the last time they see each other this
year. If they survive to the championship game
of the Meredosia-Chambersburg regional, they will
play on Nov. 1 at 7:00 pm. Routt had 10
service errors this evening and several service
return errors. The Cougars had 6 service
errors and an extraordinary high number of service
errors. Part of it was senior night and part of it
was familiarity of the two opponents. Fisher
had 2 points, 1 kill and 10 assists while McLaughlin
added 6 points and a kill. Kirbach had a nice
defensive night with 4 blocks, 2 kills and a point.
White tallied 2 points, 3 kills and 2 blocks. Redd
served 4 points, Bailey Eilering had a point and 2
kills and Erika White had 4 kills and 3
assists. Morgan Eilering served 1 point,
killed 4 and blocked 1 while Fry killed 3 and
counted 14 assists. Fitzgerald had another nice
night of serving with 10 points, 1 kill and 1
assist. Drake had 2 points and Stice 1.
Lindsey led the way again with 12 points and 6 kills
and had several digs. Routt will play at QND this
week end and play next week in the regional as will
West Central. There is no such thing as a bad win,
so while it wasn't pretty to watch it was an
important night of volleyball for both
teams.
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10/21/08
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If you like high
school volleyball, you needed to be at AC High
School where the Knights took on the Routt
Rockets. It was senior night and the WIVC
championship was on the line. The match was
championship style and you knew whoever made the
fewest mistakes would be the winner. It turned
out the more consistent of the two teams, all year
long, prevailed tonight as the Knights won 25-17,
19-25, 25-18 . They had the help of three service
errors in a row for Routt late in game three. In a
tough match you simply can't give away points and
three in a row was a little more than the Rocket
defense could handle. The Knights were not
without their share of miscues and service errors(8)
but they deserve the title. Stribling had 4 points,
3 kills and 30 assist tonight as Jacobs added 13
kills and 5 service points. Bergerud had 2 points, 5
kills and 2 blocks while Birdsell had 9 points and
numerous digs from back court. Allen tossed in 4
points and 1 kill and Honkala was good at the net
with 6 kills and 4 blocks. Jokisch started strong
and compiled 1 point, 6 kills and a block. For the
Rockets, they were led in kills by Lindsey with 10
and she also had 2 blocks. Drake led the points with
11, as Fitzgerald added 7. Fry had 5 of her
own with a kill, a block and 23 assists. Bailey
Eilering had 3 kills and 3 blocks and Morgan
Eilering counted 1 point, 1 kill and 5 blocks. Meado
had a kill and a block and Erika White tallied 6
kills and 1 assist. Redd did her usual good
job of digging the ball and she served 2 points.
Routt had 7 service errors but none bigger than the
late 3 at crunch time. The Knights are 25-4 (8-0)
and Routt will take a 23-6 (7-2) record into their
senior night Thursday against West Central. With the
regional coming up, it is important that Routt take
care of the Cougars or they will give them a
psychological advantage next week in what could be a
regional title match. West Central has take the last
three games from Routt, so it should be a fun night
of volleyball from the
Routtdome.
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10/20/08
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Routt volleyball got
exactly what they were looking for with a great
effort against a quality Hartsburg-Emden team. The
Stags are young (2 seniors) but they are athletic
and talented and will have a couple of very good
years coming up. Ubbenga had 4 points, 9 kills, 4
blocks and 1 assist. Langley recorded 4
points, 1 kill and 20 assists. Boundy had 4 points,
3 kills and 1 assist, Alissa Hoerbert 4 points,
Johnson 5 points and a number of nice digs. Rankin
(Fr) added 5 kills, Parke 5 kills and K. Hoerbert 2
points. Hartem fell to 7-16 but this is a very
good team for that record. The Rockets have a
big match coming up tomorrow night as they play the
AC/jVirginia Knights for a piece of the WIVC
crown. They finished well tonight as Morgan
Eilering had 4 points, 8 kills and 10 blocks. Bailey
Eilering had 5 kills, Fry 5 points, 2 kills, 1 block
and 21 assists. Fitzgerald recorded 6 points,
Drake 5 points, Lindsey 8 points, 7 kills and 2
assists. Erike White had a solid game with 2 points,
9 kills, 2 blocks and 4 assists. Routt played
well as a unit tonight and had contributions from
several players as they cut down on the mistakes.
After they play AC/jVirginia tomorrow, they have
West Central (who has beaten them 3 games in a row)
on Thursday and will likely face the Cougars in the
title game of the Meredosia-Chambersburg Regional in
the near future. They also will play at QND
over the week end, so it is crunch time if the
Rockets want to make a good post-season run.
Routt's JV squad also won 26-24, 26-24. The
varsity score was 20-25, 25-20, 25-18 in a well
deserved win for the Rockets.
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10/18/08
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Routt Catholic, West
Central, New Berlin and Northwestern made up pool A
at the Waverly Volleyball Tournament for 2008. Routt
won the pool play with a 5-1 record, West Central
was 2nd with a 5-1 record (Routt had 48 points in
head to head and the Cougars 43), New Berlng was 2-6
and Northwestern 0-6. Greenfield was 5-1 in
pool B, Pleasant Plains was 4-2, Franklin-Waverly
3-3 and Springfield Calvary 0-6.
Franklin-Waverly won the consolation championship
match over Calvary. In the championship round,
it was Routt over Pleasant Plains 25-9, 25-18.
West Central defeated Greenfield 26-24, 32-30.
Pleasant Plains took 3rd place in the tournament
with a 25-22, 25-23 win over Greenfield who finished
4th. In the title game, the West Central
Cougar was more consistent than Routt and defeated
the Rockets 25-23, 25-21. The All Tournament
team was Kaci Keltner of Franklin-Waverly, Kelsie
Dearing of Pleasant Plains, Leah Pembrook and Olivia
Walker from Greenfield, Kali Fry and Katie Lindsey
of Routt Catholic, Tomi White and MCkea
Fischer of West Central. Players who stood out but
didn't make the All Tournament team were Morgan
Eilering and Erika White of Routt Kate Mansfield of
Greenfield, Claire Maskey of Pleasant Plains and Hannah Vortman of West Central. They
were instrumental in the success of their respective
teams and need to be recognized.
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10/17/08
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White Hall North
Greene got off to a great start tonight with a 7-0
lead over the undefeated Triopia Trojans in
football. Once they were down 12-7, they came back
and scored again to make it 13-12 and that's the
last time they led in the game. The final
score was 56-19 and the Trojans improved to 8-0 and
the Spartans fell to 2-6. This is a pretty good 2-6
team. Willeford was 13-19 for 163 yards and 1
touchdown. He also ran 11 times for minus 1 yard.
McGee caught 5 passes for 117 yards, White 4 for 37,
Meyer 3 for 12 and Willeford caught 1 from Hull for
7 yards. The Spartans rushed 26 times for 43 yards.
Caristi scored from 11 yards out and recovered a
fumble that he ran in from 67 yards out. They
also fumbled once and lost it and were penalized 8
times for 74 yards. Triopia got off to a slow
start, then picked up steam. The play of the
night was an 85 yard kick off return by Dinsmore.
He also rushed 12 times for 66 yards. Arendt had a
good game with 125 yards on 11 carries as he scored
2 touchdowns and 2 extra points. Nordsiek rushed 7
times for 74 yards and a score. Chute had his best
night of the year with 101 yards on 7 caries and he
also scored a touchdown. Phelps rushed for 33 yards
and a score and threw for 2 touchdowns. Dinsmore
also had one interception on the evening. The
Trojans fumbled 3 times and lost them all. They were
also penalized 8 times for 85 yards. They had
450 yards of offense and White Hall North Greene
ended up with 216. Next up for Triopia is
Hardin-Calhoun on senior night at Don Kemp Field on
the 24th. Then it is off to the play offs as
they will host a first round game.
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10/16/08
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It was Volley for the
Cure night at Beardstown as the Tigers played host
to the Triopia Trojans. It wasn't much of a
fight tonight as the Trojans were not on top of
their game and were defeated 25-8, 25-14. The
Trojans didn't have Rachel Carls in the starting
line up due to a finger injury. Reither had 1 point
and 1 assist. Welch added 1 point, 1 kill, 1
block and 1 assist. Clayton started tonight and had
1 kill and 1 assist and Joehl recorded 2 points and
1 kill. Rahe blocked 2 at the net and had some nice
digs defensively. Meghan Carls contributed 1
point and 1 block. Triopia had 3 service errors in
the first game and 4 more in the 2nd game.
Beardstown was in charge from the beginning and the
only real negative part of their night was 8 service
errors. Kuhlman had a kill, Riddle 3 kills, Young 2
kills and a block. Thurman added 2 kills and a
block. Bottens served a point and had 1
assist. Paige Meyer had 4 points and 18
assists while Bennett had 1 point, 9 kills and 3
blocks as she owned the net. With the win, the
Tigers improved to 11-8. The Beardstown JV also won
25-21, 25-11.
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10/14/08
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AC/Virginia volleyball
was too strong tonight for the visiting Pleasant
Plains Cardinals. Plains was playing without one of
their senior leaders, Kelsie Dearing but the
fundamental play and lack of mistakes by the Knights
put a lot of pressure on the young cardinals and the
end result was 25-13, 25-11 as AC/Virginia improved
to 23-4 on the season. Maskey led the Cardinals with
3 points, 1 kill, 1 block and 1 assists.
Anderson had 2 kills, a block and an assist while
Yakel, Steindl and Bruce all added a kill. The
Cardinals had 2 service errors in the opener and 2
more in game two. Jacobs was strong tonight
with 10 points, 7 kills and a block. Bergerud added
3 points, 6 kills and a game high 6 blocks. Birdsell
counted 6 points, Allem 3 points and 5 kills and
Honkala contributed 2 kills and 4 blocks. This was
one of the better net games we have seen from the
Knights this year. Stribling was her usual good
setter with 21 assists, 3 points and 1 kill. Anna
Herzberger came off of the bench with a kill. Two
service errors in game 1 and one more in the second
game was all AC/Virginia committed tonight and that
is also an improvement. The Cardinals fell to 12-14
with he loss. The Plains JV won 20-25, 25-19, 25-13
in a very good match to watch. We will see Plains
again this week end as they play in the tough
Waverly Tournament.
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10/13/08
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Routt Catholic
volleyball improved to 17-4 with a 2 game match win
over Brown County 25-12, 25-14 this evening. The
Hornets fell to 6-13 with the loss and never did get
into the flow of the game this evening. They
had too many unforced errors and service errors and
never seriously challenged the Rockets. Babb led the
way with 2 points, 4 kills and 1 block. Sam Kassing
had 7 assists but she committed 3 service errors to
give points back. Bick recorded 2 service points and
Lipcaman had 2 kills. For the Rockets, they were led
by Lindsey with 9 points, 3 kills and 1 block.
Morgan Eilering had 5 points, 3 kills and 2 blocks
also while Bailey Eilering had 1 pont, 1 kill and 1
assist. Fry played well with 2 points, 2 kills
and 9 assists. Fitzgerald added 4 points, Drake 1,
Stice 2 and Erika White put in 2 points and 2
kills. We also saw Lonergan add a kill as well
as Meado. The only down side was 7 service
errors on the Rockets. The JV won 25-11, 25-10
for Routt as the continue to roll along. Our
next Rocket broadcast will be Wednesday at
Hardin-Calhoun.
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10/11/08
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Routt Catholic shocked
West Central with an 82 yard kick off return by Nick
Rossi to start the game. 7-0 Rockets with 14 seconds
gone. Ludvigsen intercepted a Hoots pass and
returned it to the 8 yard line and Tonry scored on
the next play to make it 13 to nothing. Kyle
Schone recovered a fumble and Denney hit from 1 yard
out to make it 19-0 at the end of the first quarter.
On the day, Denney had 119 yards and scoring runs of
1 yard, 11 yards and 18 yards. Tonry had an 8
yd, 56 yd, 32 yd score from scrimmage and a 75 yard
kick off return for a score. He had 207 all purpose
yards on the day. Cosgriff had several nice tackles
and intercepted a pass. Rossi accumulated 57
yards including a 21 yard touchdown run. Shade added
10, Pratt 9 and Doyle ended up with minus 2 yards
and a fumble as he filled in at the quarterback
position. Jefferson led the Cougars with 173 all
purpose yards including a 50 yard run from scrimmage
and a 54 yard pass completion for a score from
Hoots. He had one 2 point conversion and Hoots
had the other. Hoots finished with minus 16
yards, Buhlig 21 yards, Boehs 11 yards, Weder 5
yards and Crockett caught a pass for 11 yards.
Brandon Bettis recovered a fumble on the defensive
side of the ball. Heineman played as he is
recovering from shoulder surgery and he only threw a
short conversion attempt pass and he tossed one
about 30 yards, incomplete to Ludvigsen. Routt
is 6-1 with games with Carrollton and Bunker Hill
left on their regular season
schedule.
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10/10/08
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Tonight's high school
football game between Brown County and Virginia was
what we expected it to be. Hard fought
defensively, the two teams had a hard times moving
the ball on a regular basis except for one extended
drive by the Hornets. The final score was
24-17 as Brown County improved to 5-2 and the play
off hopes for the Redbirds came to an end. The
Redbirds scored first in the game with an
interception by Kilby and a scamper to the corner of
the end zone. The long drive by Brown County came on
the ensuing kick off as they went 53 yards in 11
plays and Ward ran it in from 2 yards out. The
half time ended on a 21 yard field goal by Henricks
and 10-7 score. Brown County fumbled early in
the third quarter on their own 7 yard line and Kilby
caught a 5 yard pass from Rupple to take the 14-10
lead as VanBrookers kick was good on both
touchdowns. The Redbirds recovered a Ward fumble
after a 51 yard reception, then had to punt the ball
from the end zone. The snap was low and Evin Lowe
had to run it out and only made it to the 4 yard
line. The Hornets punched it in on 3 plays was Ward
scored again. Then Stuber recovered another
Redbird fumble and a 6 play 28 yard drive resulted
in another Ward 4 yard touchdown. The final
score of the game came on a 22 yard VanBrooker field
goal, then the Hornets ran out the final 5:33 of the
game. The night belonged to Jacob Ward with 216
yards rushing and 3 score. Brown County ended the
game with 340 yards, 5 lost fumbles, 1-6 passing
with an interception and 6 penalties for 45
yards. Taylor carried for 13 yards, Cross for
87 and Bradbury 3. The Redbirds had 60 yards
of offense with 92 passing and minus 32 rushing.
They fumbled 5 times and lost 2 and were 5-14
through the air. They had 6 penalties for 65 yards.
Devlin led the way with 3 catches for 61
yards. It was a good defensive game with both
teams taking advantage of turnovers. It was a hard
hitting WIVC match up as we end the north division
play.
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10/9/08
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It wasn't surprising
that Greenfield came to Triopia and left with the
win as they improved to 16-3 (6-1) on the
year. The final score of the match was 25-11,
25-20 and the inconsistency of the Trojans didn't
help them. They had some good moments but the
Tigers just hit with too much consistency and
gradually pulled away in both games. Reither had 5
points, 1 kill and 2 assists. Welch added 5 points
and 3 kills and Joehl served 7 ponts with 3 aces.
Rahe had a block and 2 points and a block while
Meghan Carls was able to serve 2 points. 2 kills and
1 assists. Rachel Carls recorded 5 points with 2
kills and 4 assists. The Trojans also had 5
service errors. The winning Tigers got
contributions from several players. Leah Pembrook 4
points and 3 kills. Plogger 7 service points and 1
assist. Mansfield 7 points and 2 kills, Bailey
6 points and 2 kills, Williams 15 points and 6
assists, Emily Pembrook 3 points and 4 assist. M.
Plogger 4 assists, while Koehne 4 points and 1 kill
and Walker, with limited playing time, had 2 points
and 1 kill. The Tigers had 6 service errors.
They are the #1 seed at the Virden regional. Routt
is #1 at Meredosia Chambersurg and AC/Virginia is
the top seed at New Berlin. We will start at the
Meredosia-Chambersburg regional and go from there to
the AC/Virginia
sectional.
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10/7/08
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The Routt Rockets
volleyball team improved to 16-4 at the expense of
the Spartans of White Hall North Greene 25-10,
25-21. Morgan Eilering has been stepping up
her game recently and recorded 4 points, 8 kills
while Bailey had 3 points, 3 kills and 1 assists.
Fry put 17 assists on the books and Lindsey was on
top of her service game with 11 points (3 aces) and
2 kills. White had a well rounded game with 4
points, 1 kill, 1 block and 1 assist and Fitzgerald
added 3 kills with an ace. Cari Drake put 6
straight points with 1 ace into game #2 as she
served out. Redd has been steady with the digs and
passes but she was also able to serve up 3 points
and the Rockets are making strides toward getting
ready for the possible conference championship with
AC/Virginia and on to post season play. There
is a lot of good volleyball left in the area as the
races heat up. Knox had 4 points, 6 kills and 1
assist for the Spartans, Sarah Randall had 4 points,
2 kills and 6 assists. Crawford had 5 assists,
Kessinger 4 kills, 1 block and 1 assist while
Spencer served up a couple of points, Elliott had 3
kills and Hull and Price also got in the record
book. Two service errors on each team was
impressive as that is a sure way of giving away
points.
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10/6/08
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AC/Virginia Volleyball
dropped Beardstown tonight to improve to 21-4 on the
season. They just go about their business in work
man like fashion until they get the job done. It is
pretty basic when you watch them play and they don't
make a lot of mistakes to allow the momentum to
switch to their opponent. The Tigers are a good team
with some height and a lot of solid athletes, but
they (like Greenfield & West Central) don't
maintain their pressure and don't make the same good
plays time after time that keeps them in the match
and the Knights gradually build an insurmountable
lead and post the win. Unofficially, Rawlins
had 4 points, 2 kills, 1 block and 3 assists,
Thurman 1 block, Rohn 2 points and a block, Meyer3
points and 2 assists and Bennett 1 point, 6 kills
and 2 blocks . Beardstown only had 1 service error
but they had a lot of receiving errors. Jacobs
was strong with 5 points, 2 aces, 6 kills and 2
assists. Allen served 7 points had 2 kills and
Bergerud contributed 5 points, 4 kills and 2 blocks.
As usual, Stribling did a great job of setting and
distributing the ball with 8 points, 1 kill and 15
assists. Honkala recorded 2 kills and 1 block while
Herzberger came in with 2 kills and Jokisch had 5
points and 2 kills. There were only 4 service
errors for for the Knights and that is a nice
improvement. The AC/Virginia JV won 25-14,
25-17 also as they show the well isn't
dry.
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10/4/08
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Virginia/AC and West
Central went into today's game with 1-4 records and
there was very little scoring in the first half as
the Redbirds took a 7-0 lead to the locker
room. The 2nd half was an entirely different a
story as Virginia/AC went on to win 34-6. West
Central got it close at 14-6, but they just couldn't
get a sustained offense going and the Birds got away
from them. It didn't help that the Cougars threw 3
interceptions and lost 2 of their 3 fumbles.
West Central could only muster 97 yards of offense
and gave up 352, so that will get you a loss nearly
every time. Ryan Jefferson led the Cougars
with 93 yards on the ground. The Redbirds
changed their offense and it looked pretty
good. They went away from the spread offense
and their "I" formation with Young and
Jacob Robeson getting the bulk of the carries, they
moved the ball. Robeson is 6' 2" 220 lbs
and he has some speed so he is a load to stop.
It will interesting to see him work against the
strong line of Brown County next week. Ruppel
scrambled for 60 yards and was 10-12 passing for 115
yards to this is not the same team we saw in 2
previous losses. Kilby had 5 catches for 59 yards
and 2 TD's while Robeson rushed for 2 and Young
1. This may make, what we thought was going to
be a good game anyway, Friday's match up
intriguing.
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10/4/08
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It was a close game
and it went 8 innings before it was decided, but St.
Agnes defeated Bluffs Jr. High 5-4 in baseball and
the BlueJays eventually ended up 4th in the state
class 2-A division. That is some good stuff and
bodes well for the future for baseball for
Bluffs/Winchester. David Jacob was just more
than the Jays could handle as he ended up with a 3-3
day, 3 runs scored, a 2 run home run and 3 stolen
bases. It was hard to pitch around him and he scored
the winning run so he had quite a day. He had also
pitched the Aces to the 1-0 win over Beecher on
Friday. St. Agnes only had 5 hits in the game if
that will give you an idea as to how much they
counted on Jacob. Barnett started the game for
Bluffs and went 7 innings, so Berry came in and took
the loss. The Bluejays had 8 hits, 4 runs, 2
errors and they left 5 on base. They had the
lead at 2-0 on an Alex Berry home run and led again
at 4-2 when Cory Barnett drove in 2 runs, but
they just couldn't hit the relief pitcher, Mitch
Trees who was the game winner. It was a good run by
Bluffs and the first time they took home
trophy from state play so they shouldn't feel bad at
all. Barnett was 3-4 and Berry 2-4 while Boehs,
Devlin and Drew Barnett also picked up a hit.
Hickman had a single for the Aces and Vogel had the
winning RBI in a well played game by both teams. St.
Agnes went on to win the championship, so that is a
little consolation for the Jays. Our Saviour
School from Jacksonville won the 1-A title so it was
a very good year for our local teams.
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10/3/08
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For all practical
purposes, Triopia locked up the WIVC North Division
title for football tonight as they knocked off a
very good defensive minded Brown County Hornet team
12-3. The Trojans have put up a lot of points
this year but, they could only push across 2
touchdowns with no extra points. Arendt scored
on a 7 yard run off the right side and Phelps had a
quarterback sneak for 1 yard. The Trojans rushed 42
times for 191 yards and threw 1 time with an
interception (Ace Henricks). Arendt led the
way with 133 yards, Nordsiek had 36 tough yards,
Phelps 20, Kleinschmidt 12 and Chute caried 5 times
for 14 yards. Triopia fumbled 4 times and
didn't lose any of them. The Trojans also had 6
penalties for 65 yards. Brown County had 27
caries for 66 yards and they had 116 yards through
the air with a 9 for 17 effort from Yingling. He
threw 3 interceptions (1 for Williams, 2 for
Phelps). The Hornets fumbled 1 time and lost
it while they had 5 penalties for 55 yards.
Cross carried for 43 yards, Wared 6 times for 3
yards, Bradbury 7 for 28 yards and Yigling had 3
carries for minus 8 yards. Stuber had a carry
for 0 yards. Ward (45), Wilson (12), Bowen (50) and
Shoopman (8) all caught passes. Brown County's
lone score was an impressive 37 yard field goal by
Henricks. The Hornets had 3 excellent goal line
stands and nearly had 4th. The hit hard and
Triopia had a difficult time sustaining long, time
consuming drives. This was as good as you
could expect for a defensive high school football
game that you could hope to see. These two
teams are going to the play offs and they are not
teams anyone is going to want to face in the early
rounds. Both teams should feel good about themselves
for post season play.
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10/3/08
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Bluffs Junior High
went to East Peoria to play in the state baseball
tournament for the 2nd year in a row and this time
they are coming home with a trophy. With their
4-2 win over McNabb Putnam County they are assured
of at least 4th place and they are hoping to take it
all. Cody Ballerino had 2 of the 4 hits for the
Pumas, including a 2 run home run in the 4th.
That was all the Pumas could pus across in the
game. Warren had one of the hits and scored a
run. The other hit was a single in the 7th by Fay,
who was stranded at 3rd. Sam Lucas pitched good game
as he gave up 7 hits, 4 runs, striking out 9 and
walking 3. Mathews was the winning pitcher as
he threw 7 innings, faced 27 batters, struck out 11
and walked 1. He allowed 2 runs on 4 hits and
went 2 for 3 from the plate with a run scored.
Berry also had 2 hits with 2 RBI's and 1 run scored.
Corey Barnett was 1 for 3, Burke 1 for 2 with a run
scored and Drew Barnett was 1 for 3 with an
RBI. It was a solid win and the Blue Jays will
take on St. Agnes of Springfield tomorrow at 10:00
am.
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10/2/08
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Triopia volleyball had
their moments tonight but just couldn't sustain the
consistency to defeat Griggsville-Perry. They
were beaten 25-17, 25-20 as the Tornadoes improved
to 12-5 with the win. Freeman had a nice night
setting the ball (14) and Katie Sharrow led the way
with 6 kills while Despain and Emrick added 4 each.
Whitaker only had 2 kills tonight as she wasn't
quite as active as usual. Kelsey Sharrow contributed
9 service points but Hobson led the way with 10.
Griggsville-Perry had 6 service errors on the night.
Reither had 4 points, 2 kills and 4 assists for
Triopia. Rachel Carls had 3 points, 4 kills, 1
block and 6 assists as she covered a lot of court.
Welch counted 5 points, 6 kills and she also had a
block. Megan Carls scored 5 points and had 1
kill as well. The Trojans had 3 service errors in
the first game and 2 in the second. They weren't
able to hit the ball cleanly on several occasions
during the match and that helped lead to their down
fall. We will see them at home next week against a
good Tiger team from Greenfield, so they will need a
nice effort to stay in the match. The Triopia JV did
a nice job again tonight and won 25-20, 25-20.
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10/1/08
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It was a wonderful
night of high school volleyball at the Bowl in
Jacksonville as the Crimson won a squeaker 25-27,
25-17, 25-22 over a good Routt Catholic team. A lot
of money was raised for the Mia Ware Foundation and
breast cancer awareness and the crowd was treated to
quality volleyball. Heise was strong for
Jacksonville with 9 service points, 8 kills, 3
blocks and 14 assists. Beets had 9 points as Jackson
added 4 points and 10 assists. Fox had 4 kills and 4
blocks while Burgess served 5 points and put down 11
kills. Chatham contributed 7 points, 1 kill, 2
blocks and 2 assist and Grubb threw in 2 kills and 2
blocks. Lindsey led the Rockets with 3 points,
4 blocks and 22 kills. Fry had 29 assists, 1 kill
and 1 block. Morgan Eilering served 8 points,
had 5 kills and 6 blocks as she was strong at the
net. Fitzgerald had 7 points, 1 block and 1
kill. Drake had 4 points and White played well
with 2 points, 3 kills, 2 blocks and 4
assists. Bailey Eilering had 3 points and 2
kills and Redd was strong in the back court with
numerous digs and saves and was also able to serve 4
points. It was fun to watch the match as it
was played at a high level and will likely become an
annual event. I, for one, hope
so.
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9/30/08
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Routt Catholic High
School went about their business tonight and kept
their concentration as they knocked off the
Carrollton Hawks 25-8, 25-16 in volleyball.
They are now 15-3 (4-1) on the year. With the
loss the Hawks fell to 5-10 on the year.
Leseman had a couple of kills for Carrollton while
Newingham and Lake had a block each. Scnhelt led in
assists with 4 and Meza added 2. Fry did a nice job
of setting the ball tonight with 16 and White added
4. Lindsey led in kills with 10, Morgan Eilering 4
and Bailey Eilering 3. Fitzgerald, White and Meado
each put down 1 kill. Morgan and Fitzgerald
each had a block. Fitzgerald and Lindsey each had 8
service points. Alex Worrell came in the game
with 3 points late also as everyone contributed in
the win. Routt will face Jacksonville, for the
second time this year, as they play the Crimson at
the Bowl tomorrow night. In their first
meeting, Jacksonville won 26-24, 26-24 and we expect
a similar match as they play in a Volley for Cure
evening.
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9/29/08
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AC/Virginia volleyball
took another step toward the WIVC title tonight as
they defeated the visiting Tigers of Greenfield
26-16, 25-19. It was primarily a difference in
consistency and execution on the part of the Knights
who won the match. The combination of Jacobs,
Bergerud, Jokisch and Honkala with some great digs
by Allen, Birdsell and Williams pus the sets of
Stribling were just too much for the Tigers to
handle. Mansfield had a kill, Leah Pembrook 4 and
Walker 4 for Greenfield and Krotz had 5 service
points but the sets were inconsistent for the
hitters and the momentum of the games was on the
side of the Knights. Allen had 4 kills, Jacobs 5,
Bergerud 5, Jokisch 4 and Stribling 2 while
Stribling dished out 15 assists in the win. Birdsell
is quick and had numerous digs for AC/Virginia as
they play good team ball. Once again they had too
many service errors for my comfort, but this is the
still the most consistent team I have seen this year
and they are going to be hard to handle. They
still have West Central and Routt Catholic to get by
if they want solo ownership of the WIVC
Crown.
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9/26/08
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The #6 and #8 teams in
class 1A football for Illinois got together tonight
to play football in Jacksonville. You knew it
was going to be a game of big plays (Routt) vs clock
control and long drives (Triopia) and the Trojans
came away with a 26-7 win. Routt hit first with a 40
yard touchdown pass from Heineman to Ludvigsen, then
Denney kicked the extra point and the Rockets led
7-0 at the end of the 1st quarter. A 7 min, 13
second drive for Triopia in the 2nd quarter, (Arendt
touchdown and 2 point conversion) and a late
interception by Mark Williams gave the Trojans the
half time lead of 8-7. Triopia got the 2nd
half kick off and held the ball for 8 minues 40
seconds and scored a touchdown on a Phelps fumble
into the end zone. It was covered by either
Kerr or Fricke for the score. On the kick off,
the Rockets didn't cover the ball and Tim Wise
recovered it for Triopia and the Trojans put 6 more
points on the board on a Phelps 1 yard dive. The
score was set up by an 18 yard run by Chute.
The final score of the game came on a 6 yard run off
of the left side by Arendt and his 2 point
conversion. Routt had trouble on the ground
with 15 carries for minus 14 yards. That
forced them to pass and they did a pretty good job
of it. They completed 8 passes for 114 yards
as Ludvigsen had 2 for 56, Yording 4 for 39,
Hungerford 1 for 16 and Tonrey 1 for 13.
Fricke had 1 catch for Triopia for 18 yards and
Williams had 2 interceptions. Arendt rushed 35
times for 160 yards, Nordsiek 9 for 30, Kleinschmidt
7 for 14, Phelps 6 for 13 and Chute 3 for 16.
Triopia had 232 yards on the ground and 18 in the
air for 250 yards and Routt only had 10 plays in the
2nd half. The bad number for Triopia was 7
fumbles, which makes 10 in the last 2 games.
They had 8 penalties for 60 yards. Routt only
had 3 penalties for 15 yards as this was a clean
football game. Both teams are play off bound
and Triopia will have to get past Brown County in
the Trojan homecoming game next Friday and that will
give them the WIVC north title. If the Hornets win,
we will have a 3-way tie with 3 quality teams. It
was a big crowd and a real battle between two of the
better teams in Illinois
football.
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9/25/08
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West Central was home
and the favored team to knock off the winless
Trojans of Triopia and they got the job done. The
first game wasn't much of a contest as the Cougars
posted a 25-12 win. Game two was interesting
as West Central made a few mistakes and Triopia
played better to make it a25-21 final in favor of
the home team. Reither had a good match with 7
service points, 2 kills and 5 assists. For Welch,
she had 2 points, 2 kills, 2 blocks and 1 assists
and Joehl added 1 point, 4 kills and 1 block. Megan
Carls had 2 service errors but, she also had 3
points, 1 kill and 1 block while Rachel Carls
contributed 2 points and 3 assists. Three
service errors in the game one and 4 in game two
didn't help the Trojan cause. Fisher did a nice job
with 4 points, 1 kill and 21 assists tonight as she
spread the ball around. Todd had 2 points,
McLaughlin 10 points and 3 assists, Kirbach 4 points
and 8 kills, Anslyn 5 kills, Cox and Stone 2 kills
each and Vortman served 2 winners and had a
kill. Tomi White led the way with 9 points , 1
block and 13 kills. The Cougars had 1 service
error in the opener and 4 in the second game. The
West Central JV won 25-17, 19-25, 25-20. West
Central is still in the upper part of the conference
and are looking for some help as they hope
Greenfield, Routt and AC/Virginia all beat each
other.
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9/24/08
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Routt started slowly
tonight against Bunker Hill in volleyball and lost
the opener 25-22. They picked up some momentum
in game two and won 25-17 and closed it out with a
25-19 win. With the win they improved to 13-3 on the
year and the Minute Maids fell to 3-8 with the
loss. Brooklyn Hlafka had 8 points, 5 digs, 7 kills
and 3 blocks as she led Bunker Hill. Golike had 9
points, 4 digs and 7 assists. Hutson played well
with 5 points, 3 digs, 5 kills and 1 block and Smith
added 8 points, 1 dig and 1 kill, but the Minute
Maids looked like they ran out of steam in game 3.
They are an awfully nice team to be 3-8. For
Routt, Redd had 5 points, 6 digs and 1 kill, Morgan
Eilering 3 kills and 2 block, Bailey Eilering 4
points, 2 digs, 8 kills, Fry 2 points, 1 dig, 4
kills and 20 assists, while Fitzgerald contributed
16 points (4 aces), 3 digs and 1 assist.
Lindsey played well with 10 points (3 aces), 4 digs,
3 kills and 1 block. Drake added 5 points
while White had 7 kills, 2 blocks and 2
assists. We have seen Routt play better, but
this was a good outing after the slow start and they
will take it. This was a tall team they were facing
and the Rockets handled themselves well. They hit
some smart shots, had some quality digs and the sets
were basically pretty good. They are trying to round
into shape as they have West Central and AC/Virginia
ahead on their schedule. The Routt JV won 25-17,
13-25 and 25-14.
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9/23/08
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Tonight's high school
volleyball match between Routt Catholic and Triopia
was good for both teams. It was good for the
Rockets as they won 25-21, 25-11 to improve to 14-3
on the year. It was good for the Lady Trojans
as this was the best they have played all year and
good enough to beat a lesser team. They lead most of
the first game and were down badly in game
number two before coming back to make it
respectable. Joehl had a good night with 4 service
points, 1 kill and 2 assists. More importantly, she
had no service errors. Reither had 1 point, 1 kill
and 4 assists. Welch added 2 points and 4 kills and
did hit one serve out. Megan Carls had 4 kills
and 1 assist and Rachel Carls was very active
tonight with digs as she had 3 service points, 2
kills and 3 assists. Triopia fell to 0-14 on the
season but, if they play like they did tonight they
will win more than one match before the year is
done. Routt was steady and just too big and strong
for the Trojans to stay with. White had 2 points, 3
kills 1 block and 2 asists. Drake and Fitzgerald
each added 2 points. B. Eilering had a point and 3
kills while M. Eilering had 5 ponts, 5 kills and a
block. Fry had a good night with 7 points, 1
block and 20 assists. Lindsey led the way with some
solid kills (11) and 9 points. The 9 service errors
was the only blemish on a nice night of volleyball
for the Rockets. They will take on a tall and strong
Bunker Hill team, at home, tomorrow night and it
should be a fun match to watch and broadcast. The
Rockets still have an outside shot at a piece of the
conference title, but they will need a little luck
and some help from AC/Virginia, then a victory over
the Knights in the last week of the regular
season. It's a long shot, and all Routt can do
is their part by winning.
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9/22/08
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AC/Virginia had it on
cruise control in game one and then lost of their
concentration in game two but won rather easily
25-10, 25-21 over the Warriors of Hardin-Calhoun
this evening in volleyball. They are perfect
in conference play and have only one loss in the
season. Lorton led the Warriors with 2 service
points, 6 kills and 4 blocks while Rose added 4
points, Witt 6 points, 1 block and 1 assist.
Hardin-Calhoun just couldn't get on any sustained
runs and ended the match on a service error. The
only down side of the AC/Virginia match is their
service errors again. They had 9 tonight and about 8
against Triopia last Thursday, so they need to
improve on that area. Jacobs had 13 service points
with 5 kills. Allen contributed 4 service points and
4 kills while Bergerud had 7 kills, 1 block and 2
points. Stribling only had one noticeable bad set
tonight as she had 16 good ones and 1 point. This is
a good volleyball team and we will have some fun
with them on Monday as they host the Greenfield
Tigers in a "Volley for the Cure" night to
help with breast cancer awareness. It will still
come down to Routt, Greenfield and AC/Virginia for
the title and West Central could play the spoiler
for one or more of these teams
chances.
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9/20/08
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The Rushville Rockets
improved to 2-2 on the season with a 35-12 win over
the Mendon-Payson Mustangs today in a road
game. The Rockets started off well with a 1st
quarter drive that culminated in a 9 play, 68 yard
drive and a 1 yard TD by McKelvey. They hit
again at the .38 second mark of the first quarter
with a 57 yard cut back run for McKelvey. Then
he struck again with an 11 yard run for score in the
2nd quarter and kicked all three extra points for a
21-0 half time lead. Briney finished the
Rocket scoring with 2 touchdowns in the third
quarter and McKelvey stayed perfect with the kicks
to make it 35-0. The Mustangs scored a couple of
late touchdowns and missed both 2 point conversions.
Vandermaiden scored from 9 yards out and Graff hit
Miller for a 3 yard score to end the day. Unity
ended the day with only 55 net yards and had a tough
time running the ball. They were 10-24 in passing
for 106 yards but had minus 51 on the ground. Briney
rushed for 36 yards, Benninghoff 74, Smith 78 and
McKelvey led the way with 18 carries for 143 yards.
The Rockets were 1-3 passing for 5 yards and ended
with 342 yards rushing behind their big offensive
line. The only down side for Rushville-Industry was
the 2 interceptions and 100 yards in
penalties. It was a quality win and the
Rockets will face Illini West next week. They
are looking for 5 wins minimum and their 19th
straight post season appearance. Second year head
coach, Mike Bickerman seems to have this team headed
in the right direction.
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9/19/08
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