10 The Lovell Chronicle September 30, 2021
Lady Grizz sur
BY RYAN FIZMAURICE
After dropping a tight—
ly—contested volleyball
match against Meeteetse,
the Lady Grizz won their
next six sets against Grey-
bull and Wind River last
weekend.
The 2—1 weekend gives
Lady Grizz volleyball a 3—2
record outside of tourna-
ment play and a 2-1 record
within their conference.
The Grizz went to war
against Meeteetse in a
Thursday away game.
The Grizz would strike
first, winning the first set
25—22, but Meeteetse would
gain the upper hand, win-
ning the next two sets 25—
23,25-19.
“We just couldn’t keep
hold of our momentum,”
head coach Jenny Christian-
sen said.
Rocky stayed alive, win—
ning a razor—tight fourth set,
28—26, but couldn’t maintain
their edge in another peril-
ously close fifth set, drop-
ping the set 19—17 and losing
the match.
Stasts were not avail—
able for the contest.
“I think the main thing is
that we have to try and push
those momentum points in
key situations,” Christian—
sen said. “Personally, I don’t
want to get into those five—
set situations. I’d rather get
it done in three. It’s far less
stressful. That’s not how
volleyball works, though.”
That is how volle ball
worked for the rest 0 the
weekend.
The Grizz returned
home Friday to square off
against Greybull and wast-
ed no time taking control of
the match.
Rocky jumped out with
a 25-18 first set and took
further command of the
second set, winning it 25-15.
The third set gave the team
troubles.
A slow start put the
Grizz in a 20-10 hole as
Greybull looked certain to
work their way back into the
match.
“We talked about how
that third set is the hardest
ge forwrd with 2-
RYAN FITZMAURICE
Kaitey Christensen outstretches her hand as she aims to spike the ball
between two
Greybull defenders Friday evening. '
set of the game,” Christian-
sen said. “Getting down by
10 points, that was not the
plan. We discussed different
things that were happening,
things that we needed to try
and take care of to cut that
10 point deficit down.”
The Grizz battled back
to win the set 28-24, sealing
their victory.
Lovell harriers show improvement at Cody meet
BY DAVID PECK
The Lovell High
School cross country
team was missing a few
runners for the Cody Fox—
es and Hounds meet on
Thursday, but coach Caleb
Sanders was pleased with
the improvement shown
by several of the runners
who did compete.
In the fox and hound
format, the runners who
have recorded the slowest
times during the season
so far start the race first,
and the other run’ner‘s'
with faster times gradual—
ly start the race in various
stages.
Sanders said the team
was missing four runners
due to injury, illness and a
family function.
The male runner of
the week was junior Quin
Carpenter, who ran a per-
sonal record time of 19:58
to place 36th. .
“He’s been working
harder this year than I’ve
seen,” Sanders said. “He
has a better mental ap—
proach to his running.
Those are the reasons he
was able to set a personal
record.”
The next finisher for
the Bulldogs was senior
Corbin Barry, who fin—
ished 46th in a time of
20:49. And junior Jor-
dan Allen finished 59th in
22:04. Freshman Stetson
Asay ran 25:05, junior Ru—
rik Olsen 30:37.
“Jordan ran a good
race,” ,Sanders said. “He’s
only gon'e-‘below 22 once,
and he~Was close this time.
This was Rurik’s best race
of this season.”
GIRLS RESULTS
The top runner for
the Lady Bulldogs, Anessa
Luna, was away at a family
function, Sanders said, so
the top runner and female
runner of the week was
sophomOre Hallie Cornia,
who ran a time of 25:48,
good for 39th place.
“She ran a personal
record. She had never run
that fast before,” Sand—
ers said. “She ran a really
good race; The first mile
was really fast, about 7:15.
“She has an awesome
approach. She’s only a
sophomore, but she has a
great work ethic and good
leadership. And she’s been
injury free. That’s why
she’s improving.”
The only other run—
ner for the Lady Bulldogs
Thursday was junior Isa-
belle McKay, who finished
43rd with a time of 28:45.
“She ran an outStaindF’
M
ing race, Sanders said.
“She’s come such a long
way. She hadn’t come
close to running under 30
minutes and ran 1:15 un-
der that. She’s been work—
ing really hard this sea-
son and has been super
focused.
“Improvements like
that by runners like Isa-
belle are the most gratify—
ing as a coach.”
Sanders said the con—
ditions were good on
Swimmers help Powell win Worland
BY SAM SMITH
The Lovell/ Rocky
swimming squad contin-
ued their winning ways
with the Powell Lady Pan-
thers swimming squad as
they competed at the Wor-
land Invitational Saturday.
The Lady Panthers won
the meet with a team score
of 515, 207 points ahead of
Cody.
In individual results,
Lovell High School junior
and the 100—yard'breast—
stroke, touching the wall in
1:14.06. Mitchell was on the
winning ZOO-yard med-
ley relay “A” team with LHS '
sophomore Paige Thomas
with a time of 2:01.46.
Thomas placed third
in the 100 butterfly, fin—
ishing the event in 1:13.74,
and fourth in the 100 back-
stroke, swimming in at
1:14.24. Thomas was on the
second—place 400 free re—
Sanders placed ninth in the
100 breaststroke, coming
in at 1:25.09, and 14th in the
200 individual medley, fin-
ishing the event in 2:56.21.
Rocky Mountain High
School junior Azurdey
Burton placed seventh» in
the 500 freestyle, finish-
ing the event in 7:12.31, and
ninth in the 100 butter-
fly, swimming in at 1:19.08.
Burton competed on the
200 medley “B” team that
Thursday.
“It’s a flat course, and
there was cloud cover to
some degree," the coach
said. “It was good condi-
tions with good weath—
er. There was no wind. It
was definitely a good day
to race and set a PR.”
WORLAND MEET
The Lovell harri—'
ers will travel to Wor-
land today (Thursday) for
the Worland Invitational.
The middle school races
_start at 3 (girls) and 3:30
V ’pfdlryfollowed by the high
school races at 4 and 4:30
pm. The meet is run at
the golf course near the
airport.
Sanders said the meet
will likely be a big one, be-
cause it’s a course that
runners like.
“It’s one of the most
popular meets,” he said.
“It’s a big meet because
the course is so. 00d. ‘It’s a
rolling course t at allows
spectators to see a good
amount (of the running).”
Invitational
placed 10th with a time of
2:25.48.
RMHS sophomore Sar—
ahgrace Miller placed 16th
in the 100 backstroke, fin-
ishing the event in 1:53.45.
LHS freshmen Augusti—
na Lembke placed 26th in
the 50 free, swimming in
at 39.83 seconds. Lembke
competed on the 200 free
relay “C” team that placed
10th with a time of 2:25.48.
The Lady Panthers are
“I want to say it was
pure grit and determina-
tion,” Christiansen said. “It
was just a battle, and we
were not going to let down.”
Victoria Arnold led the
team offensively with nine
kills. Josey Steed and Mac—
Kelle Moss had six kills, and
Kaitey Christensen scored
five.
Arnold and Steed also
led the team in serving, with
two ace serves each. V
Arnold and Moss led
the team in block, with two
blocks apiece.
Steed was the team
leader in digs, recording
10. Isabelle Christensen
had nine, Victoria Arnold
had eight and Anna Arnold
trailed just behind with.
seven.
Kaitey Christensen had
12 assists in the game, Steed
had nine.
Rocky was back on the
road Saturday, facing off
against Wind River.
The match was anoth-
er sweep for Rocky, taking
the first set 25—9, the sec—
ond set 25-10 and the third
set 25-19.
“We focused on coming
out strong and controlling
the tempo, and we were
able to beat them in three
sets,” Christiansen said. “We
didn’t let them have service
runs or give them a way to
get back into it. Our girls
were really strong and car—'
1 week of play
ried the momentum of those
sets.”
Victoria Arnold and
Kaitey Christiansen led the
offensive attack with seven
kills each.
Victoria 'Arnold scored
seven aces in the game, and
Moss had five.
Moss was a presence in
front of the net with four
blocks, Victoria Arnold had
two.
Kaitey Christensen had
nine digs, ReAnna Gutier—
rez, Steed, Moss and Anna
Arnold five each.
The Lady Grizz are
heading back into tourna-
ment play this weekend as
they head to Thermopo—
lis for the Bobcat Invita—
tional, squaring off against
Encampment, Wind Riv— '
er, Riverside and other re—
gional teams. The tourna-
ment will begin Friday at 1
pm. The Grizz will play En-
campment first before tak-
ing on Little Snake River on
Friday, ending the day with
a contest against Wind Riv-
er. Saturday’s games will
be determined y Friday’s
round-robin play.
“It’s great to play differ-
ent teams and to have op-
portunities to have your
team adjust to other playing
st les,” Christiansen said.
“I we can put it together
and control those momen-
tum plays, we’ll have a good
weekend.”
Lady Grizzly JVs fall
to Meeteetse, defeat
Greybulland Wind River
BY SAM SMITH
The Rocky Mountain
Lady Grizzlies junior varsi-
ty volleyball squad enjoyed
a busy week of volleyball by
facing Meeteetse Thurs-
day in Meeteetse, hosting
Greybull Friday and fac—
ing Wind River Saturday in
Pavillion. 33:11; tn“,
Thursday;
Grizz fell to Meeteetse two
games to one. Rocky won
the first game 25—21, then
fell to the Lady Longhorns
25—11 in both the second
and third games to drop
the match.
Friday, the Lady Grizz
JVs fell to Greybull 25-19,
25-23 at home.
Saturday, the Rocky
J Vs defeated the Wind Riv—
er Lady Cougars 25-17 and
25—11.
The wins over Grey—
bull and Wind River and
the loss to Meeteetse
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The Rocky
Greybull Saturday
27-25, 25—17.
The Rocky JVs will
compete in the JV portion
of the Bobcat Invitation-
al Friday and Saturday in
Thermopolis.
frosh fell to
16—25,
Bulldog JVs fall to Cody
The Lovell Bulldogs ju—
nior varsityfootball squad fell
to a tough Cody Broncs squad
60-0 Monday at Kevin P. Rob-
ertson Memorial Stadium.
The Bulldogs had a
chance to score in the final
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
HIGH SCHOOL
PIRIT OF THE
seconds in the game but fum-
bled the ball at the one-yard
line.
The Lovell JVs will trav-
el to Park County to face the
Powell Panthers Monday at 5
P'm-
placed eighth with a time
of 2:28.21, and on the 200
free relay “C” team that
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scheduled to compete in
the Douglas Invitational
Saturday at 10 am.
Emma Mitchell won the lay “A” team with a time of
50—yard freestyle, swim— 4:08.8
ming in at 26.09 seconds, LHS
Carsyn Weber
This week‘s Spirit of the Grizz goes to
Carsyn. He had a great game at QB
coming back from an injury. He ran for two
touchdowns, threw two touchdowns and had
an interception, as well. Good job, Carsyn!
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Gwyn is my choice for this week. She
works hard in every practice, is an example
to the middle school runners and always
has a positive attitude. I’m excited about the
improvement she keeps making.
senior Colette
LOVELL HIGH SCHOOL
OF THE
WEEK
Quin Carpenter
Quin finished the 5K at the Fox and Hound
meet with a new personal record of 19:58.
He ran a strong race from start to finish and
was our top placer. His mental approach to
running has taken a leap forward this year
and his strong work ethic has helped him
slash time.
Amee helped lead the Lady Bulldogs to
solid wins over Meeteetse and Greybull with
a strong offensive showing as she hit an
impressive total ,0f 24 kills at the net and
three aces from the serving line. She is also
one of our key back row players that we rely
on for passing and defense.
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