8 The Lovell Chronicle I September 27, 2012
Bulldogs pound on Mountain View, 64.7
BY DAVID PECK
Hosting a school from
fhr-away Uinta County
was a heck of a lot bet-
ter for the Lovell Bulldogs
than traveling to one Fri-
day night. One week af-
ter suffering their first
defeat in two years at the
hands of the Lyman Ea-
gles, the Bulldogs host-
ed Lyman's neighboring
Mountain View Buffaloes
and crushed the Buffs 64-
7, with all but one touch-
down taking place in the
first half.,
"Being at home is a
big thing for us," coach
Doug Hazen said. "As
coaches we expect to win
home games. We protect
KPR (Kevin P. Robertson
Stadium).
"We played relatively
well Friday. I wasn't hap-
py we let them score on
their second possession."
Senior halfback Dino
Collins was a one-man
wrecking crew for the
Bulldogs, gaining 203
yards rushing on only
nine carries, a 22.5-yard
average per carry, plus
three touchdowns -- all in
the first half.
"He's amazing," Hazen
said. "His vision is better
this year. He gets outside
and goes. Last year he was
more comfortable running
[aside, but he's bigger,
faster and stronger. He's
gaining confidence."
Collins also caught a
screen pass that went for
30 yards and on defense
recorded a sack, recovered
a fumble and had four
tackles, all in one half of
football.
Mountain View gave
the Lovell defense some
problems due to the effec-
tiveness of quarterback
Austin Houskeeper, who
ran the spread offense well
for the visitors. He com-
pleted 12 of 30 passes for
202 yards. But the Buffs
also hurt themselves with
turnovers.
"He's a good quar-
terback, and he's only a
sophomore," Hazen said.
"There are good things to
come for Mountain View
with him back there."
A fumble on the first
play of the game following
the kickoff gave the Bull-
dogs a short field, and four
plays later Dylan Hult-
gren hit Austin Ellis for
an eight-yard touchdown
pass. Cody Savage's PAT
made it 7-0 Lovell.
Mountain View re-
sponded quickly, driv-
ing 75 yards in four
plays, two runs and a 50-
yard completion to Ca-
leb Flake that set up a
13-yard touchdown pass
from Houskeeper to Jacob
Drca. The game was tied
7-7, deceivingly close.
It was all Lovell after
that. The Bulldogs com-
pleted a 71-yard drive
with a slashing 29-yard
burst by Collins, drove 82
yards in five plays capped
by a five-yard quarterback
sneak by Hultgren and af-
ter a fumble by Moun-
tain View went 25 yards
in three plays including
a 12-yard sweep by Hult-
gren. Lovell led 28-7 at
the end of the first quar-
ter.
Mountain View drove
to midfield by the quarter
break, but on the second
play of the second quarter,
Ellis picked off Houskee-
per deep over the middle
and returned the inter-
ception about 65 yards for
a touchdown.
Continuing to move
the ball, Mountain View
drove to the Lovell 39 but
gave the ball up on downs.
On the first play of the en-
suing series Collins broke
free for a 61-yard touch-
down run and Lovell led
42-7.
The Bulldogs weren't
finished. Aaron Monterde
blocked a Mountain View
punt, and on the next
play fullback Nathan
Grant went untouched
up the middle for a 22-
yard touchdown run. The
PAT snap was bobbled,
and on the fire drill play
Savage hit Ryan Clark for
the two-point conversion.
Lovell led 50-7 with still
DAVID PECK
Lovell senior fullback Nathan Grant cuts upfield for a big gain during Lovell's
64-7 win over the Mountain View Buffaloes Friday night at Robertson Stadium.
7:33 remaining in the first
half.
Lovell added one
more first-half score. Col-
lins weaved and shred-
ded tackles for a 53-yard
touchdown run.
Mountain View drove
to the Lovell 1, but Clark
buried Houskeeper on a
fourth-and-goal keeper,
holding the Buffaloes out
of the end zone. Lovell led
57-7 at halftime.
Hazen used substi-
tutes in the second half,
and the Lovell junior var-
sity offense drove 38 yards
following a fumble early in
the fourth quarter, capped
by a four-yard bootleg for
a touchdown by backup
quarterback Seth Kite.
The Bulldogs finished
with 308 yards rushing.
Besides Collins' 203 yards,
Grant gained 78 yards on
five carries. Calin McAr-
thur gained 16 yards on
five carries, and Hultgren
carried twice for 12 yards
and completed four of sev-
en passes for 58 yards,
Kite two of three for 47.
Ellis caught two passes
for 26 yards, Drake Welch
one for 40 yards, Collins
one for 30, Daniel Strom
one for 7 and Grant one
for 2.
Clark led the team
with 20 defensive points
on six assisted tackles,
three solo tackles, a tackle
for a loss and a recovered
fumble. Collins added 14
defensive points, McAr-
thur 13, Monterde 12, Na-
than Ballard 11 and Jacob
Beck and Ellis 10 each.
HOMECOMING GAME
Now 3-1, the Bulldogs
will host the Greybull
Buffaloes in the annual
homecoming game Fri-
day at 7 p.m. Greybull is
0-4 in a rebuilding sea-
son, falling to Big Horn
49-6, Mountain View 13-
6, Thermopolis 50-21 and
Pinedale 26-20. Ham-
pered by a multitude of
injuries earlier, the Buffs
have played better late-
ly, getting starting quar-
terback Calder Forcella
back.
"That's helped them,"
Hazen said. "He's only a
sophomore and is a pret-
ty good player. We're go-
ing to have to stop him.
He does a lot of things
well.
"They run a shotgun
with a double tight (for-
mation), and they'll use a
good mix of run and pass.
The Stewart kid (Paul) is
a big back."
Hazen likes the fes-
tivities that come with
homecoming.
"Homecoming is a big
game," Hazen said. "We've
never lost a homecom-
ing game since I've been
here, and I never lost one
in high school or colleg e .
It's a special deal for me.
Everyone"comes home' t
watch and .celebrate. We
put special emphasis on
homecoming."
Lady Grizz fight hard, but fall to Lady Bulldogs
BY PATTI CARPENTER how the girls kept up their had six kills.
The Rocky Mountain
Grizz and the Lady Bull-
dogs had fans on the edge
of their seats on Sept. 20
for five rounds of non-stop
volleyball action. The Grizz
surprised the Bulldogs with
some of their best play of
the season, nearly causing
an upset to the Bulldogs
high-ranked performance
to date in the conference
season. The Lovell girls are
currently tied with Ther-
mopolis for first place in the
conference standings with
only one loss for each team.
"Rocky came out and
played some of the best vol-
leyball I've seen them play
this year," said Lady Bull-
dog coach Stormy Jame-
son. "We knew going into
this game that we needed
to be focused and ready and
we just didn't execute like
we wanted. They were. just
playing like they wanted it
more than we did."
Lovell won the first
game 25-19, but the Rocky
girls came back fighting
hard in the second game,
winning 25-13. The second
game was an eye-opener for
the Bulldog girls, who rose
up stronger in the third
game, winning 25-13. The
Grizz proved that the ex-
citement wasn't over yet
with a hard-fought win in
the fourth game, 26-24.
With a lot on the line, Lovell
answered in the fifth and fi-
nal game, winning 15-10.
"It was a good eye-open-
er for us and hopefully it will
help us to focus more in the
future," said Jameson. "We
are still streaky and need to
be able to play at a consis-
tant level at all times."
Lady Grizz coach Carol
McMillin said she couldn't
have been more pleased
with the performance of her
team as she saw so much
of what the girls had been
working on in practice fi-
nally come into play. She
was especially pleased with
intensity against the tough
Lady Bulldogs.
"We struggled on some
of our serves, but we spread
the net well with kills from
a lot of our players," said
McMillin. "We took outside
hits and I was pleased with
that."
Rachael Allred had sev-
en kills, Brianna Hocker
had four, Mikaela Hocker
four, Shauna Loman was
the kill leader with 10, and
Haley Strom had nine.
Hannah Winland, Bri-
anna Hocker and Strom
had one ace each and Allred
had four aces.
The team's libero Man-
dee Leonhardt had 24 digs.
"She was digging like
crazy," said McMillin.
McMillin noted that
girls have been working on
blocks and assists in prac-
tice and she was pleased
to see blocks by Winland,
Allred, the Hocker sisters,
Loman and Strom, includ-
ing both solo and assisted
blocks.
"Our blocking has defi-
nitely improved and we got
some good play out of it,"
said McMillin. "They fought
really hard, they kept their
intensity and basically we
had some silly errors that
come with us having to find
our confidence a little bit,
but in every game they be-
come a little more confident
and a little stronger and
more aggressive in their
plays. Lovell didn't beat us
because they are a better
team, they beat us because
we made some silly mis-
takes, like really bad passes
in that last game."
Editor's note: Due to
a computer error, coach
Jameson was not able to
supply stats for the Lovell
team in time for this arti-
cle.
ROCKY TRAVELS TO
THERMOP
The Lady Grizz trav-
elled to Thermopolis on Sat-
PATTi CARPENTER
Lady Grizz hitter Shauna Loman slams a ball over the net while Emilee Reasch
and Maddie Baxendale of the Lovell team prepare to block it.
urday for another intense
series of games against the
Lady Bobcats.
The Lady Bobcats won
the first game 25-14. The
Lady Grizz won the second
game 26-24. Thermop won
the third game 25-18 and
the fourth game 25-18.
"We found that Ther-
mop really didn't hit at us,
they sent us a lot of tips and
our defense had to make a
lot of adjustments for that,"
said McMillin. "We weren't
quite ready for as many tips
as they sent to us and we
struggled making our ad-
justments to that."
Winland, Leonhardt
and Loman served 100 per-
cent. Allred had three aces,
Mikaela Hocker had three
aces, Winland, Strom and
Brianna Hocker each had
one ace.
McMillin noted fairly
even stats again on kills.
Winland had two kills,
'Allred had eight kills, Lo-
man had six and Strom had
nine, Brianna Hocker had
nine and Mikaela Hocker
Once again Leonhardt
was the top digger with 22
digs.
"She's doing a great job
on the defense and the girls
are really using her in the
back," said McMillin. "Also,
she's so versatile that we
put in a rotation where she
gets to serve one rotation
now. Both times she's done
that for us, she has served
100 percent for us. It adds
another dimension for us."
Again, McMillin noted
some good blocks, especial-
ly from Strom and Mikaela
Hocker.
"This week we're go-
ing to work on covering up
our hitter a little bit more
and adjusting to the tip,"
said McMillin. "The girls
are very receptive. We come
back every week and try
some new things and they
seem to be able to take it
from practice to game situ-
ations and utilize it so we
are very pleased with that."
McMillin said the girls
came away from the games
this week not feeling like
they lost but feeling like
they made progress.
"I tell the girls that this
is one of those journeys
where we see progress each
time," said McMillin. "Let's
hope that we will peak at
the end of the season when
it counts."
Next up: The Rocky
girls will play at the
Greybull Tournament in
Greybull, which is a pool-
play tournament. The girls
will play Tongue River at
noon and Wyoming Indian
at 2 p.m on Friday. On Sat-
urday, the girls will play
Moorcroft at noon and Du-
bois at 2 p.m.
The Lovell girls will
host Thermopolis at home
on Saturday with game
times of 11, 12 and 1 p.m.
Lovell and Rocky will
face off again on Tuesday,
Oct. 2 in Lovell with game
times at 5 and 6 p.m.