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42 | October 20, 2016 | The Lockport Legend Sports lockportlegend.com V-Ball From Page 47 a kill. Senior outside hitter Serene Jones (9 kills), senior setter Bella Cosentino (14 assists), and junior libero Emma Sweeney (18 digs) came up big for Lockport. The two teams met earlier in the season. That was on Friday, Aug. 26th in the opening match of the Plainfield North Invite. There, Sandburg won 25-16, 25- 19. “We need to get the mentality that no ball touches the ground,” Kovanda said. “The second game we had that mentality. We’ve come a long way. When they beat us in two, we got down on ourselves and kept making mistakes. We executed a lot more and dug a lot more here.” Lockport’s last victory over Sandburg was 25-23, 25-22 on Oct. 16, 2008 in Orland Park. That helped give the Porters their oneand-only SWSC Blue title. Before that, their last conference championship was in 2000 when they won the SICA West. Just 17 months before Lockport’s last win over the Eagles, current Porter volleyball coach Nick Mraz was a student at Sandburg, and the 2007 graduate was winding down his senior volleyball season. His coach when he played for the Eagles was none other than Vales. “Nick and I go way back to a boys’ team that was not supposed to accomplish much,” Vales said of Mraz helping to spur the 2007 Sandburg boys team. “Nick led us to a regional championship (25-15, 26-24 over Andrew), a sectional semifinal win (25-21, 20-25, 25-22) over Providence and within a couple of points of pulling another huge upset (23-25, 25-21, 25-15 loss to Lincoln-Way East) in the championship. He’s the ultimate competitor and he’s got his girls starting to believe his system.” In his second season as girls coach, Mraz has the Porters on track this fall. They are on pace to reach 20 victories after going 14- 23 the past two years. “Sandburg is a great team,” Mraz said. “They were putting the ball way against us, but I was very happy with how we bounced back. The girls knew how big [last weeks] match was and how big it would be to win, but we didn’t treat it different than any other match. “I don’t think it would have been stealing one if we had come in and pulled it out. We have the talent to do good things.” In the win over Stagg on Wednesday, Oct. 12, Lockport was led by Orlowski (5 Kills, 2.5 blocks) and senior middle hitter Jasmine Raudys (3 kills, 3 blocks). ELITE SPORTS TRAINING ATHLETES INSIDE-OUT 815.221.6000 • Oct 22 - Dec 10 • Saturdays - 8 Weeks • $150-$180 per player • Ages 5-6 & 7-9 www.bjesLockport.com FOOTBALL From Page 46 nior, plowed in from 2 yards out with 7:17 left in the first half. Sophomore Ryan Barth, who was brought up to the varsity for kicking duties, added the extra point, and Lockport led 7-0. Cooper, who has taken snaps all season during practice as the back-up, but was the starting quarterback on the sophomore team. He threw only one pass [incomplete] in the first half as Lockport ran the ball 29 times for 140 yards. “I felt good,” Cooper said of playing quarterback. “I was ready, I was prepared, my teammates were there to support me, and the offensive line did another great job.” One of those teammates was Moore (27 carries for 208 yards), who had another highlight-reel run as he dashed down the right sideline for a 58-yard TD run with 25 seconds left in the first half. On the jaunt, s B O o f J A C K S O N t b a l l Moore looked to be caught around the 15-yard-line. But, he stopped on a dime as defenders raced past him, and juked back toward the middle of the field to complete his touchdown run. “I think he took that off ‘Madden,’” Cooper said of Moore’s video game-type of move. “He stole the thunder, as he usually does.” In the second half, sophomore Jacob Karli came in at quarterback after playing the first half of and part of the third quarter at that position in the sophomore game, which also ended 35-0 in favor of the Porters. Already being praised for his performances on the sophomore level, Karli came in and was 4-of-6 passing for 38 yards and had a 20-yard touchdown pass to Austin Hoffman in the left corner of the end zone to make the score 21-0 with 3:03 left in the third quarter. He also rushed six times for 12 yards, and had a 42-yard TD run called back on a penalty. “Coach [Cory] Dillard was talking to us at the start of the third quarter and said ‘Karli, you’re in,” Karli said of entering a varsity game for the first time. “I tried to think of it as just another game, but it’s really a bigger game, with bigger boys and quicker speed. “But, as soon as the butterflies left, I settled in. To throw that touchdown pass felt really good.” After senior linebacker Michael Mata recovered a fumble at the Stagg 32, Moore added a 23-yard TD burst for a 28-0 with 8:31 to play in the game. Junior Nick Ganz (15 carriesfor-50 yards) nearly got in on the scoring action at the end, but fumbled near the goal line. The Porters, however, still scored when Stagg junior running back Jaylon Watson was dropped for a 5-yard loss and fumbled into the end zone. Junior defensive lineman Quinn Kelley pounced on it with 36 seconds to play for a defensive touchdown. There was some good news on the injury front for Lockport, which finished with 304 total yards on offense. Senior running back John Snidanko (3 carries for 18 yards) returned to the lineup for the first time since being injured in the seasonopening win at Downers Grove North. The Porters close out the regular season with a game this Friday, Oct. 21, against Lincoln-Way East in Frankfort. The Griffins (6-2, 4-2) have the same record as Lockport after losing to Bradley-Bourbonnais 38-21 at home last week.
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