10 I The Lovell Chronicle I September 2, 2010
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Lady Bulldogs go 3-2 at home tourney
BY BRAD DEVEREAUX
After testing their met-
al at the North Big Horn
Invitational to start off the
2010 season Friday and
Saturday, the Lovell Lady
Bulldogs begin regular
season matches this week.
Coach Stormy Jameson
said she is confident that
the Lady Bulldogs will play
well, even with some tough
competitors on the week's
schedule.
The Lady Bulldogs
went 3-2 at the NBHH In-
vite, defeating Tongue Riv-
er, Wind River and Meetee-
tse, but falling to Shoshone
and Burlington.
The Lovell team start-
ed the tournament out with
a W, defeating the Tongue
River Lady Eagles in two
short games, 25-19 and 25-
21. Jameson said she was
nervous, but she felt more
comfortable after the Lady
Bulldogs got their first win
Friday.
The Lady Bulldogs did
well with serve receiving
against Tongue River and
throughout the tourney,
Jameson said. Jameson
said she was confident in
their serve receive even as
the Lady Eagles were call-
ing out "weak" Bulldogs to
serve to.
"Everybody was sol-
id. Everybody was passing
good," she said.
Tongue River was a
good team, but they made
more errors than the Lady
Bulldogs, Jameson said.
Next, the Lady Bull-
dogs crushed the Wind
River Lady Cougars in
two games, 25-11 and 25-
23. Jameson said the Lady
Bulldogs took advantage
of Wind River's short front
row and weak blocks to
hammer the ball onto the
Cougars' side of the court.
Erin Robertson did well
with about 12 kills against
WR and Leanne Winterhol-
ler led in digs with 17 in the
match.
The Lady Bulldogs won
their first game against
Shoshoni, 25-13, but lost
the next two, 25-21 and 15-
12 to lose the series. Jame-
son said the Lady Bulldogs
beat the Lady Blue easily
in the first game, but Sho-
shoni rallied in the second
game, causing Lovell men-
tal errors.
The Lady Bulldogs lost
two games to Burlington
in a hard-fought battle,
25-27 and 26-24. Jameson
said the team suffered from
more mental errors, which
made up most of the differ-
ence between the two teams
on the scoreboard. She said
the Lady Bulldogs made
seven or eight unforced er-
rors in one game.
"If we wouldn't have
made those errors, we
would've been right in the
game," Jameson said.
Ending the tournament
on a high note, the Lady
Bulldogs took down Mee-
teetse, 25-18 and 25-12.
Jameson said both set-
ters Megan McClure and
Brandi Abraham played
well and didn't help much
in determining a single set-
ter for the team. McClure
had 36 assists and Abra-
ham had 37. Jameson said
she might try having two
setters on the court against
Powell and possibly later in
the season if the configura-
tion works well.
Karen Koritnik led the
team in aces with 14. Ko-
ritnik had 28 kills, 18 digs
and 9 blocks. Jameson said
Koritnik has already been
hitting the ball with power
this season.
Robertson led the team
with 30 kills and had 6 digs
and 8 blocks; Ree'Dawn
Ohman had 7 kills and
three blocks; Jodi Walker
had 9 kills, 4 digs and 3
blocks; Miranda Griffis 2
kills, 3 digs and 2 blocks;
Chelsey Ellis 14 kills and
11 digs; McClure 11 digs
and 36 assists; Brandi
Abraham 7 digs and 37 as-
sists; Libero Winterholler
53 digs and Markay McIn-
tosh 4 digs.
Overall, coach Jame-
son said she was impressed
with how the Lady Bulldogs
played and said she expects
them to get better the more
they play together. In addi-
tion to live drills, the team
will work on serving a lot
during practice to improve
on the 25 serve errors re-
corded at the tourney, she
said.
"I didn't expect perfect
volleyball at the first tour-
nament, but I still think we
played well," she said.
The Lady Bulldogs
played Powell Tuesday on
the road, winning game one
and giving the Panthers a
fight, but Lovell eventually
fell 23-25, 25-14, 25-14 and
25-21.
RIVERSIDE AND
MONTANA TOURNEY
The Lady Bulldogs
open conference play this
week, hosting Riverside to-
day (Thursday) with games
at 4 p.m. (freshman), 5 (JV)
and 6 (varsity). Jameson
said she scouted Riverside
during the NBH Invite and
she thinks the Lady Bull-
BRAD DEVEREAtrx
Miranda Griffis sends a hit off the hands of a Shoshone blocker and over to
the Lady Blue side of the court while teammates Karen Koritnik (right) and
Leanne Winterholler look on during the North Big Horn Invitational Friday
and Saturday in Lovell.
dogs should be competitive
with the Lady Rebels.
The team will travel to
the Montana-Wyoming Du-
als Friday and Saturday in
Billings. The tournament
includes some challenging
teams from Montana and
Wyoming, Jameson said.
She said the Lady Bull-
dogs did well at the Bill-
ings tournament last year
and she hopes it will help
sharpen the team's skills
for the season.
Lady Grizz look strong at tourney, play Riverside Friday
BY BRAD DEVEREAUX
The Rocky Mountain
Lady Grizzlies began the
2010 season at the North
Big Horn Invitational this
weekend, showing that they
plan to be a force in the con-
ference this year, with a 5-1
tourney record.
Coach Carol McMillin
said the tournament provid-
ed them with a first look at
many teams they will play
during the conference sea-
son or at later tournaments.
While coach McMillin got a
chance to scout other teams,
she also identified a couple
Grizz weaknesses: serving
and serve receive.
The Lady Grizz started
out with a win in two games
to Shoshone, a team that
looks improved from the
2009 season, McMillin said.
The Grizz worked over the
Lady Blue, winning 25-18
and 25-23.
McMillin said the team
was getting used to new
middle hitters, senior Tati-
ana Sotomayor and sopho-
more Brianna Hocker.
McMillin said she ex-
pects that Shoshone will put
up a fight against the Grizz
later in the season.
Next up, the Grizz faced
the Burlington Lady Hus-
kies, who edged the Grizz
for a couple losses, 25-23
and 25-22.
McMillin said the Grizz
struggled with digging, cov-
ering the court and serve er-
rors.
The Grizz went three
games with Wind River, tak-
ing the first 25-17, dropping
the second 22-25 and taking
the third, 15-6, for the win.
McMillin said the Grizz
were able to come back and
take care of the series after
the second game loss but
the team continued to strug-
gle with service errors and
digs.
The Grizz handled Riv-
erside next, 25-22 and 25-
14. McMillin said the Grizz
started coming together in
the second game, sending
over nice attacks and cover-
ing every inch of the court.
Against Meeteetse, the
Grizz won in three games,
25-20, 17-25 and 15-6. Mc-
Millin said Meeteetse gave
the Grizz an unexpected
tough contest, but strong
hitting from Eliza Higgins
and good serves including
five aces by Leslie Black-
burn helped Rocky Moun-
tain seal the win.
The Grizz "finally put it
all together" against Tongue
River, McMillin said, win-
ning 25-19 and 25-12.
"It was exciting," the
coach said. "They were
pounding the points and not
letting down at all."
The Grizz outside hitters
added a lot to the attack and
the team also picked up on
digs, getting under would-be
kills from Tongue River to
set up attacks of their own,
the coach said.
Higgins led the team in
kills with 46 for the week-
end followed by Blackburn
with 33, Kallee Jo Wilson 29
and Miranda Wilson 10.
Many of the girls worked
hard in the summer, going
to camps, playing at open
gym and lifting weights, Mc-
Millin said, and that hard
work is paying off for the
team now.
"They're just a group
who comes in and takes care
of business," she said.
A strong group of se-
niors has been providing
great leadership for the
team, McMillin said, mak-
ing her job less complicated
and the coaching staff has
been enthusiastic, too. Sev-
eral volunteers including
Anna Beyer (formerly Hig-
gins), a former college vol-
leyball player who moved
back to the area, have been
helping out in practice, she
said.
McMillin said the JV
finished strong at the tour-
ney, winning five of the six
BRAD DEWRAUX
Leslie Blackburn hammers the ball through the Rebel defense at the NBHH
Invite this past weekend. The Grizz went 5-1 at the tourney and begin conference
play against Riverside on the raod.
games played.
RIVERSIDE
The Lady Grizz have
one game this week, against
the Riverside Lady Rebels
Friday at Riverside. Games
are at 2 (freshman), 3 (JV)
and 4 (varsity).
McMillin said the team
will have to work on their
defensive game to prepare
for Riverside and on placing
the ball strategically on hits.
She said the team would
spend a lot of time drilling
serves. "We shouldn't be
having that many serve er-
rors at this point," she said.
Slots filling up for foundation golf tourney;
one more team to be accepted
BY DAVID PECK
Spaces are filling up,
but there is still room for
one more team to play in
the North Big Horn Hospi-
tal Foundation's eighth an-
nual Friends of the Foun-
dation Golf Tournament to
be held Saturday, Sept. 11,
at the Foster Gulch Golf
Course.
Foundation Director Ja-
net Koritnik said 23 teams
have signed up for the 18-
hole, four-person scramble.
Sponsorships are $275 per
team of four, which includes
green fees, two carts and
four barbecue rib dinners,
or $175 per team of four,
which includes the barbe-
cue dinners but not green
fees and carts.
'%Ve still could accept
one more team, but we need
to know by September 6,"
Koritnik said.
The foundation is seek-
ing hole sponsors at $150
each, which includes two
barbecue dinners, as well as
flag sponsors at $25 each,
Koritnik said.
Teams are asked to
check in starting at 8 a.m.
Sept. 11, with a shotgun
start scheduled for 9 a.m.
The tournament in-
cludes numerous prizes and
drawings including four
hole-in-one prizes: a 2010
Yamaha 450 Grizzly ATV,
Nike golf clubs - a driver
or set of irons, a $500 VISA
gift card and a Bose Wave
music system.
Also awarded will be
numerous flag prizes, in-
cluding a cooler, Blue-ray
disc player, electronic dart
board, binoculars, digital
photo frame and a Cabela's
gift card. There are around
100 door prizes, as well,
and each player will receive
a coupon for $50 to Store 4
Golfers.com.
The winning team will
receive $50 per player, sec-
ond place $30 per player
and third place $10.
Complimentary bever-
ages will be provided on the
course.
Tournament partici-
pants and their families
are invited to a barbecue
rib dinner at the conclusion
of the tournament at ap-
proximately 4 p.m. at Fos-
ter Gulch. The public is also
invited to attend at $5 per
plate.
Call Koritnik at 548-
5240 for tickets or to spon-
sor a hole or flag prize or to
enter a team in the tourna-
ment.
All proceeds from the
tournament will go toward
the purchase of new reclin-
er chairs for the hospital.
The North Big Horn
Hospital Foundation is a
nonprofit organization seek-
ing financial support within
the community exclusively
for charitable educational
purposes to enhance qual-
ity healthcare for citizens of
Big Horn County and sur-
rounding communities.
Revill, Parmer top
golfers at Club Tourney
The Foster Gulch Golf Course Club Tourna-
ment was held Saturday, Aug. 28. Steve Revill
walked away with the men's A low gross score
(without handicap), while Pat Parmer took low
gross in the women category.
Results are as follows:
A - Low gross - Steve Revill, 1st. Net score
(with handicap) - Jared Cribbs 1st, Brock Frates
2nd.
B - Low gross - Randy Bowers 1st. Net score
- Brad Baxendale 1st, Jimmy Graham 2nd.
C - Low gross - Russell Wilkerson 1st. Net
score - Chase Tippetts 1st, Brandon Wolvington
2nd.
Women - Low gross - Pat Parmer 1st. Net
score - Vicky Asay lst; Julie Ann Frost 2nd.
Deuces - Brock Frates, Wes Schmidt.
Flag prizes were won by Kade Baxendale (2),
Brock Frates, Wes Schmidt (2), Brandon Wolving-
ton, Jared Cribbs, Todd Baxendale, Vicky Asay
(2) and Pat Parmer (2).
