October 18, 2012 I The Lovell Chronicle I 11
BY PATTI CARPENTER
The LHS volleyball team took down
Greybull at home on Friday, winning all
three sets played, 25-8, 25-14 and 25-23.
Chelsey Ellis had five kills, one block,
one assist, 17 digs, one ace and had 100
percent serving. Emilee Reasch had seven
kills, two blocks, one assist, nine digs, one
ace and also served 100 percent. Megan
McClure had four kills, 57 assists, 10 digs
and served 100 percent. Mercedes Haney
had three kills, seven digs and two aces.
Lauren Hinckley and Cheyanne Dickey
both had two kills. Maddie Baxendale and
Chayli McArthur both had one kill apiece.
"We came out really strong in the first
set and executed everything well," said
Coach Stormy Jameson. "Our side out per-
centage was 100 percent that set, which
means that every time Greybull served we
were able to break their serve on the first
opportunity. It was a good way to round
out our conference play. It was a good
chance to really spread out our offense
and a lot of girls were able to contribute."
SHOSHONI
The game against top-ranked Shosho-
ni brought opposite results on Saturday,
which was also Senior Day on the Lovell
courts.
Lovell lost in four sets 25-16, 22-25,
25-23 and 25-19.
Reasch had 22 kills, two blocks, 19
digs and one ace. Haney had 10 kills and
eight digs. Ellis had nine kills, 30 digs and
100 percent serving. Hinckley had five
kills. Bonnie Rodriguez and Baxendale
had two kills each.
Shyann Wilske had 35 digs and one
ace.
"We started out a little shaky in the
first set," said Jameson. "Since it was Se-
nior Day, we wanted to give all the se-
niors an opportunity to start. So, we had
a couple of girls playing in positions that
they are not really used to playing, which
kept us a little out of sync. Once we got
back into our normal rotation in the sec-
ond set, we were a little more on top of
our game.
"Shoshoni is a really solid team and
has several strong hitters. Their program
has continued to improve and we will
hopefully get a chance to see them at the
Regional Tournament and adjust the way
we need to in order to beat them. I am glad
that we had the chance to really highlight
our seniors and hope they help lead us to
the finish we are all striving for."
These two games completed the con-
ference play for the Lady Bulldogs and
there's no doubt they have one thing in
mind: to win the Regional Tournament
that will be held on Friday and Saturday
this week in Lander. The girls will take on
Wind River in their first game at 10 a.m.
on Friday. Jameson is hoping for a win
against the Lady Cougars, which will like-
ly put them up against the Southwest top
seed Shoshoni at 4:30 p.m. on the same
day.
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2A West Regional Volleyball Tournament
Lander Valley High School Oct. 19-20, 2012
#2 NW Lovell
10/19 10 am AUX 3
#3 SW Wind River
#1 sw Shoshoni
10/19.11:30 am. AUX 5
10/19 4:30 pm FH 12
#4 NW Greybull
#2 SW Kemmerer
10/19 10 am FH 4
#s NW Riverside
10/20 4 pm FH 25
#1 NW Thermopolis
10/19.11:30 am. FH6
#4 SW Big Piney
10/19 6 pm FH
PATTI CARPENTER
Lady Bulldogs Emilee Reasch and Mercedes Haney block a hit sent over by the
Greybull team at a game played at home on Friday night.
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BY PATTI CARPENTER
The Lady Grizz volley-
ball squad suffered disap-
pointment this week after
four hard-fought games, in-
cluding a loss to Greybull in
a pigtail game on Monday
night that took away their
chance to go to the Regional
Tournament in Lander.
THERMOPOLIS
The girls took Thermop-
olis to five games at home
on Thursday. Thermop won
the first two 25-17 and 25-
22. The Lady Grizz won the
next two 26-24 and 25-22,
but fell to Thermop in the
fifth game 15-7.
Mandee Leonhardt and
Shauna Loman had 100
percent serving. Mikaela
Hocker had six aces. Mad-
die Crawford had four aces.
Rachael Allred had 15 kills.
Brianna Hocker had seven
kills, Loman had nine, Hal-
ey Strom had three, Kallee
Jo Wilson had four and Mi-
kaela Hocker had six kills.
Leonhardt had 20 digs and
Allred had 17 digs.
"What was good about
this go around is that we
had some really good block-
ing," said Coach Carol Mc-
Millin. 'qvVe had quite a few
girls doing some blocking.
We put a lot more work into
the net and we did better
with that."
Allred had seven assist-
ed blocks and Strom had
six assisted blocks. Hannah
Winland, Loman, Wilson
and Mikaela Hocker each
had three assisted blocks.
BURLINGTON
The gifts played four
games with Burlington at
home on Friday. Burlington
won the first two games 28-
26 and 25-20, but not with-
out a good fight from the
Lady Grizz. The Grizz took
the next game 25-20, but
fell to Burlington 25-23 in
game four.
"They played well," said
McMillin. "This game was
the first game where we did
rotations with Kallee (Wil-
son), so we rotated her in
the middle position with
Haley Strom and then we
rotated her in an outside po-
sition with Shauna Loman.
It worked really well and it
was a good atmosphere for
the girls to have her back
playing on the team."
Wilson has been out
most of the season after ma-
jor back surgery. On doc-
tor's orders McMillin played
her in the front row to pro-
tect her from too much div-
ing during the game.
GREYBULL
The girls travelled to
Greybull on Saturday. The
Lady Grizz came out on top
after five games. They won
the first two games 25-22
and 25-15. Greybull surged
to win the next two 25-15
and 26-24, but fell to Rocky
in the fifth game 15-13.
By taking that win, the
Lady Grizz won the home
court advantage in the pig-
tail game that was played
with Greybull on Monday
night.
Winland, Brianna
Hocker and Wilson had
100 percent serving. Craw-
ford served a total of 12 in
a row in the second game
and served 24 times over-
all. Winland had two kills,
Allred had five, Brianna
Hocker had nine, Loman
two, Strom three. Mikaela
Hocker had five kills and
Wilson had 10.
"Kallee hits from way
up in the air and so her tra-
jectory is down more than
out and it makes it hard
to dig because it is power-
ful," said McMillin. "I can
only imagine how power-
ful it would be if she would
have been able to do the
PATti CARPENTER
Kallee Jo Wilson slams it over the net during a game with Burlington on Friday
in Cowley.
circuit training all season
with the rest of the girls.
All of the girls have done
circuit training all year and
I believe the circuit train-
ing has made them more
powerful."
"Again, our block-
ing was really good," said
McMillin.
Winland had two as-
sisted blocks, Allred four
assisted blocks, Brianna
Hocker had one solo block
and six assisted blocks,
Loman had two assisted
blocks, Strom had two solo
blocks and nine assisted
blocks, Mikaela Hocker had
two solo blocks and six as-
sisted blocks and Wilson
had one solo block and six
assisted blocks.
THE PIGTAIL GAME
The Rocky girls fell
to Greybull in the pigtail
game on Monday night, in
effect ending their season.
Greybull won the first two
games 25-18 and 26-24. The
Lady Grizz won the third
game 27-25, but lost the
hard-fought fourth game
25-21.
Winland and Leonhardt
had 100 percent serving.
Mikaela Hocker had four
aces, Wilson two aces and
Brianna Hocker and Strom
had one ace each. Allred had
eight kills, Brianna Hocker
seven, Loman four, Mikaela
Hocker six, Strom five and
Wilson seven.
Leonhardt had five digs,
Brianna Hocker five and
Wilson four.
Loman had one solo
block, Mikaela Hocker two,
Strom and Wilson one each.
Allred had five assisted
blocks, Brianna and Mikae-
la Hocker four apiece, Strom
eight and Wilson three.
The devastating loss
brought some to tears after
a season of hard work that
was just beginning to pay
off.
LMS netters
conclude
season at
tournaments
BY DAVID PECK
The 2012 season
for the Lovell Middle
School volleyball teams
wrapped up with con-
ference tournament
Saturday.
Coach Pat Wood-
ward's seventh-grade
squad traveled to
Greybull and won two of
three matches to place
third. The Lady Mus-
tangs defeated Worland
in the opening round
two games to one - 14-
21, 21-17, 21-19 -then
fell to host Greybull in
the semifinals 2-1, with
Greybull winning 17-21,
21-8, 21-10.
Playing for third,
Lovell stopped Ther-
mopolis in two straight,
21-16, 21-14.
Members of the
team are Mandi Bax-
endale, Sable Angell,
Delanee Miller, Bailey
Mitchell, Kincaid John-
son, Kelsie Mollett, Mik-
kel McIntosh, Larissa
Tippetts and Madison
Bryson. Assisting Wood-
ward was Aryn Tippetts.
The eighth-grade
squad, coached by Betsy
Sammons and Kim Ber-
nstein, played their con-
ference tournament in
Powell Saturday after
wrapping up the regular
season in Worland Oct.
6 with losses to Worland
and Thermopolis.
The Lady Mustangs
entered the tournament
as the fifth seed and fell
to Greybull in the first
round 21-14, 21-4, then
played Thermopolis for
fifth place. The Lady
Mustangs won the first
game 21-16 but lost the
next two 21-10, 21-19.
