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BY BRAD DEVEREAUX
The Lovell Lady Bull-
dogs beat three out of the
four teams they played at
the Greybull/Riverside Du-
als this weekend. While the
winning record boosted the
team's confidence, coach
Stormy Jameson said the
team could be even better if
they can get in sync before
the Regionals.
The Lady Bulldogs
started with a win against
Dubois, but it was a bit of
luck that saved them from
losing to the Lady Rams in
two games, Jameson said.
Dubois took game one 25-23,
and the Rams were about
to score another point to
take the second game when
the referee called a replay.
Jameson said a Lovell play-
er bumped the ball and it
struck a basketball net in
the gym before the replay
was called. Lovell capital-
ized on their second chance
and won the second and
third games, 29-27 and 15-
9.
Jameson said she was
surprised to see the Bull-
dogs nearly lose the match,
noting that most of the
team wasn't playing their
best against Dubois.
"We should have beat-
en them no problem," the
coach said, noting that Kar-
en Koritnik led by example
and hustled to keep the
team in the game.
She said the Bulldogs
played a lot better in the
third game and beat the
Rams pretty easily.
Next, the Bulldogs
faced the Burlington Lady
Huskies, a team the Lady
Bulldogs have traded wins
and losses with throughout
the season. Jameson said
the Lady Bulldogs started
all right, but once the Hus-
kies got on a scoring run
Lovell lost their momen-
tum and let the match slip,
25-18 and 25-23.
"The intensity factor
just wasn't there like it was
the last time we beat Bur-
lington at the Thermopo-
lis tournament," Jameson
said. "When we beat them,
it was like we wanted to
prove we could. The inten-
sity just wasn't there this
time."
The Lady Bulldogs
faced Wyoming Indian
next on Saturday morning,
Jameson said. It was a good
warm-up game for the Bull-
dogs, the coach said. Wyo-
ming Indian plays with a
sporadic style, hitting the
ball over oftentimes with-
out setting up their offense
first, making it an easy win
for Lovell, 25-10 and 25-15,
Jameson said.
Koritnik had 8 kills,
Erin Robertson 7 and Me-
gan McClure 8 assists.
Jameson said the Bulldogs
played solid, but still not
up to their full potential.
She said the team needs to
push itself to play hard no
matter the opponent.
"I kept telling them
that Regionals is just a
couple of weeks away," she
said. "We're bad about just
playing to the level of com-
petition of the team we are
against. We have been play-
ing just good enough to get
by in a lot of games instead
of playing our own game."
Wind River was the fi-
nal game on the Bulldog
schedule Saturday. Jame-
son said Wind River is 5-0
in the 2A Southwest Con-
ference, which includes all
the teams the 2A North-
west will see at Regionals.
It was good to get a win
against the top Southwest
seed and to estimate how
the Bulldogs would match
up against other teams in
the region, Jameson said.
Wind River was an
all-around good team, the
coach said. She compared
the Cougars to Burlington,
with solid players in every
position, especially on de-
fense. The Bulldogs won
25-20 and 25-20.
Koritnik led the charge
with 11 kills, and Robert-
son added 5 and Miranda
Griffis 4.
Jameson said Griffis
came in cold off the bench
to sustain the Bulldogs' mo-
mentum and help secure
the victory.
"She had a lot of big
kills in .the third game that
really made the difference
in keeping the momentum,"
Jameson said. "She's been
my go to player to come in
off the bench and help the
team out in any position."
McClure had 16 as-
sists, Leanne Winterholler
16 digs, Koritnik 9 digs and
Chelsey Ellis 8 digs. The
team played better defense
against Wind River, the
coach said.
Jameson said the tour-
nament was the first time
she found a rotation that
worked well and Said she
would probably stick with
it for the rest of the season.
RIVERSIDE ON THE
ROAD
The Lady Bulldogs will
travel to Basin to play the
Riverside Lady Rebels Fri-
day with games at 2 p.m.
(freshman), 3 (JV) and 4
(varsity). Jameson said the
BRAD Dm~ux
Members of the Lovell Lady Bulldogs throw their hands in the air to celebrate
a hard-fought victory over Riverside in Lovell on Sept. 3. Lovell will play
Riverside for the second time this season Friday in Basin.
Bulldogs nearly lost the
match the last time the two
teams met in Lovell. After
Lovell won the first two
games easily, Jameson put
in subs for the third game
and started the team on a
slippery slide, taking the
match to five games before
clinching the win.
Jameson said she
wouldn't make the same
mistake again and said the
Bulldogs are prepared to do
what it takes to get anoth-
er conference win with the
Rebels.
"We're definitely not
that team anymore," Jame-
son said about the way the
Bulldogs played in the pre-
vious match on Sept. 2.
Jameson said the team
is in good health and good
spirits as they approach the
end of the season. She said
if most of the Lady Bulldogs
can bring solid performanc-
es to Regionals, the team
should do well.
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BY DAVID PECK
The Rocky Mountain
Grizzlies wrapped up the
2010 middle school football
season with a busy sched-
ule over the last three
weeks, coach Rod Winland
reported.
After both the eighth-
grade and seventh-grade
squads lost at Burlington
on Sept. 14 and at Cloud
Peak on Sept. 16, the
squads split on Sept. 21 at
home against Burlington,
with the eighth-grade fall-
ing 44-22 and the seventh
grade winning 12-6.
In the seventh-grade
win, Winland said, Cole
Wambeke returned an in-
terception 70 yards for a
touchdown and caught a
40-yard pass from Cole
Simmons that set up a
five-yard touchdown run
by Travis Banks.
Burlington was driving
for the tying or go-ahead
score as time was running
out and a Husky player
broke loose on a long pass
play, but Win]and said he
was run down by "a host of
Grizzlies" to preserve the
win.
The team suffered two
more losses at Powell on
Sept. 25, Winland said.
"The eighth-grade
schedule is always a tough
schedule because the teams
we play field straight
eighth-grade teams, but
we play with some sev-
enth-grade players who
then turn around and play
an entire seventh-grade
game," Winland said, add-
ing that the team has 10
eighth-graders and fills in
with seven seventh-grad-
ers.
BATTLE AT LOVELL
At Lovell on Sept. 28,
the Grizz scored first on
a long pass from Bill De-
spain to Kirby Winland
and made it 8-0 when De-
spain ran in the two-point
conversion.
Lovell took a 14-8 lead,
but the Grizz tied the score
just before halftime on a
one-yard run by Despain
then converted the extra
two-pointer to lead 16-14
at the half. Lovell rallied
in the second half to win
28-16, then captured the
seventh.grade game 8-6.
The Grizz hosted the
Greybull Buffs Saturday
for the final game of the
season, a seventh-grade
only game. Greybull won
22-0, but Cole Wambeke
gave the Grizz a chance to
score late in the game by
picking off a Greybull pass
and returning it deep into
Buffalo territory.
"I was pleased with
the kids' competitiveness
this season," Winland
said. "They never did quit
playing. They were always
competitive, right to the
end.
"The eighth-grade class
has some good, skilled kids,
but they're missing some
size and don't have any
real speedsters. That hurt
us against bigger schools
when you need speed to
get a key tackle."
The Grizz were "three
catches away" from beat-
ing Lovell, Win]and said,
noting that Despain threw
three balls that could have
been touchdowns had the
receiver hung on.
"They battled well," he
said. "They ran out of gas
near the end of the game."
Winland said he was
very pleased with the de-
fensive improvement John
Higgins made at defensive
end this season, noting
that Higgins "caught on to
his position" this season.
He also noted the play of
skill players Bill Despain
(wide receiver then quar-
terback), Cannon Sire-
mons (running back) and
Kirby Winland (quarter-
back then wide receiv-
er). Despain and Winland
traded places this season
after Winland injured his
arnl.
"Kirby, Cannon and
Bill have carried a lot of
the load for us this year,"
Winland said. "Bill is a
very versatile player. He
didn't get any reps in prac-
tice (before the switch to
quarterback) but picked it
up pretty easily."
He also said Anthony
Estes was strong on the
line for the Grizzlies on
both offense and defense,
providing the team with
"some solid blocking and
tackling," Winland said.
Winland said this was
his fourth season coaching
with Mike Higgins, and he
said Ryan Boettcher joined
the staff this season.
"We're all of the same
mind when it comes to
DAVID PECK
Rocky Mountain Middle School seventh grader
Cole Wambeke picks off a Greybull pass Saturday
morning in Byron.
football and having fun on
the field," Winland said.
A planned six-man
game against Meeteetse
today (Thursday) has been
cancelled, Winland said.
Busy Lady Grizzlies
head to conferen
tourney
rday
BY CHERYL JOLLEY
The RMMS Lady Griz-
zlies met up again with
Cloud Peak last Monday in
Manderson, dropping all of
their matches. The eighth-
grade fell 21-12, 15-21, 17-
21, seventh-grade 21-13,
9-21, 13-21, sixth-grade
12-21, 14-21. Traveling to
Burlington on Thursday,
the eighth-grade fell 19-
21, 21-14, 1721, as did the
seventh-grade 18:21, 15-21.
The sixth-grade won 21-16,
21-16.
Hosting TenSleep at
home on Saturday, the
eighth-grade bested them
21-19, 25-23 followed by the
seventh-grade 21-12, 21-14.
There were no sixth-grade
games played.
The Grizz have one
more regular season game
in Cody, today (Thursday) at
4:15 pro, before tournament
action begins in Burlington
Saturday, with matches be-
ginning at 10 a.m.
LADY MUSTANGS
The eighth-grade Lovell
Lady Mustangs traveled to
Greybull last Tuesday for
their matches of the week.
The A squad bested the
Buffs 21-13, 21-10,15-12,
and the B team won 21-9,
19-21, 21-11. The seventh-
graders hosted Greybull
in Lovell, also besting the
Buffs. A squad scores were
21-17, 21-17, 13-15, fol-
lowed by the B squad 19-21,
21-10, 21-6.
The eighth-grade trav-
els to Worland for matches
against Thermopolis and
Worland this Saturday, Oct.
9. Seventh-grade games will
be played in Greybull, also
against Thermopolis and
Worland with games begin-
ning at 9"30 a.m.
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thur 11 apiece and Darren
Ballard 10.
"This game was huge
for playoff implications,"
Hazen said. "We control our
own destiny. If we win out
we're going to host (a play-
off game)."
The Lovell JVs traveled
to Powell Monday and fell to
the Panthers 30-0.
Next up for the Bulldogs
is a trip to Ethete to face
the winless Wyoming Indi-
an Chiefs. Kickoff is set for
6 p.m. Friday. The Chiefs
are 0-5 but have put some
points on the scoreboard,
falling 47-32 at Wind River
and 49-32 at home last Fri-
day to Lyman.
"They have some very
good athletes," Hazen said.
"They have guys who can
run, jump and catch, and
they run a ton of different
formations. They'll run,
pass and spread it out on
you. They're not a smash-
mouth team. They're a mis-
direction type of team.
"I hope we go down and
make sure we don't let our-
selves slack off on this one.
We'll challenge the defense.
They've done well and
we want to continue that
trend."
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