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B2 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Sheridan</strong> <strong>Press</strong>, Friday, November 11, 2005<br />
Lady Generals<br />
(Continued from Page B1)<br />
“We just decided that we wanted<br />
it, and the pressure was on their<br />
shoulders,” Koch said. “<strong>The</strong>y beat us<br />
in four when we played them here,<br />
and beat us in three when we played<br />
them (in Rock Springs), and they<br />
overlooked us and we came out and<br />
took advantage of it.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> three areas that carried the<br />
Lady Generals were the confidence<br />
they played with, their defense and<br />
the remarkable performances from<br />
every player who stepped on the<br />
court.<br />
“I think we really played intense<br />
on defense,” Cooper said. “(Western<br />
Wyoming is) a very good defensive<br />
team, but I really thought we matched<br />
their effort. For the most part we were<br />
aggressive and played with a lot of<br />
confidence.”<br />
Blake, who said her philosophy<br />
was to “just hit the ball as hard as I<br />
could,” led the way with 27 kills and<br />
27 digs. Heiner added 28 digs, 12<br />
kills and four blocks, while fellow<br />
sophomore Kaci Switzer had 13 digs<br />
and eight kills — nearly every one<br />
coming in a pressure-packed situation.<br />
While Lady General fans have<br />
come to expect big matches from the<br />
trio, it was the players who aren’t normally<br />
in the spotlight who shined on<br />
this night.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y stepped it up so much<br />
tonight, and I’m so proud of them —<br />
they played their hearts out,” Heiner<br />
said of teammates such as Chelsea<br />
Strong, Koch and Abby Stewart.<br />
“Most of the time they don’t get recognized,<br />
but tonight they really<br />
stepped up. <strong>The</strong>y worked and they<br />
worked and they didn’t give up.”<br />
Strong finished with 32 digs,<br />
Koch had nine blocks and eight kills,<br />
and Stewart finished with 20 digs.<br />
Setter Lindsey Stookey had 56 assists,<br />
eight kills and 12 digs, and Sterling<br />
added seven kills.<br />
Cooper said without those performances,<br />
the Lady Generals would<br />
have slipped into the losers’ bracket<br />
of the double-elimination tournament.<br />
“Jessica Koch had a couple of big<br />
hits and just blocked the heck out of<br />
the ball. She dominated the net at<br />
times,” he said. “Chelsea Strong just<br />
made some great digs for us. Abby<br />
Stewart had four or five outstanding<br />
plays that maybe she wasn’t making a<br />
few weeks ago, and my hat’s off to all<br />
those girls.”<br />
“I think what it is, is everybody<br />
wants it so bad. Everybody wants to<br />
go nationals,” Blake said of the contributions<br />
from all nine Lady<br />
Generals who played. “It feels awesome;<br />
there’s probably no way to<br />
describe it. It’s a great win for us, so<br />
we’ll take that intensity into<br />
(Friday).”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lady Generals brought the<br />
intensity and confidence into<br />
Thursday. Looking nothing like a<br />
team that had been prone to sluggish<br />
starts, mental lapses and letdowns at<br />
the end of games, <strong>Sheridan</strong> College<br />
played like a team that wouldn’t be<br />
denied no matter how strong the Lady<br />
Spartans were on the other side of the<br />
net.<br />
“This is the most intense that I can<br />
ever remember,” Heiner said. “We<br />
played intense the entire time and<br />
never let down. We just trusted each<br />
other, went for everything and played<br />
our hardest.”<br />
Generals<br />
(Continued from Page B1)<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y’re not very big, but<br />
they’re athletic<br />
and they<br />
like to get up<br />
and down the<br />
floor,”<br />
Davidson<br />
said. “It<br />
should be a<br />
fast-paced<br />
game.”<br />
Gus Chase<br />
And the<br />
coach said the<br />
Bronc Bronc Dogs Dogs<br />
Refreshments<br />
Refreshments<br />
“We’ve struggled with<br />
(intensity) all year,” Blake<br />
added. “I think it was really<br />
more mental than anything.<br />
We definitely showed confidence,<br />
and it felt so good<br />
tonight. It felt way good.<br />
We lost it for a minute, but<br />
we didn’t let down.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lady Generals rallied<br />
back from a nip-andtuck<br />
loss in Game 1 to win<br />
the second game that was<br />
just as tight as the first<br />
before the home team<br />
pulled away at the end.<br />
Switzer tied the third<br />
frame for the 11th time with<br />
a block at 24-24. <strong>The</strong> two<br />
teams traded points before a<br />
Lady Spartan return into the<br />
net and a Stewart shot<br />
caught the line to give the<br />
Lady Generals a 27-25 lead.<br />
Stookey added to the<br />
momentum when her shot<br />
found the floor, and two<br />
unsuccessful Western<br />
Wyoming volleys allowed the Lady<br />
Generals to even the match.<br />
“We just said to stay confident<br />
and good things would happen,”<br />
Cooper said. “Our kids kept their<br />
chins up and they were confident and<br />
they kept doing the things we’ve been<br />
practicing and things turned our way.<br />
“I think after getting that win in<br />
Game 2 they knew they could do it.”<br />
Up 6-5 early in the third game, an<br />
ace from Blake and a block by Koch<br />
spawned a 6-1 run that carried the<br />
Lady Generals to a Game 3 win.<br />
Western Wyoming also had a run<br />
of its own to win Game 4. With it tied<br />
at 17, the Lady Spartans ran off five<br />
straight points to distance themselves<br />
from the Lady Generals and even the<br />
match at 2-2.<br />
“Championship teams want to<br />
play Game 5,” Cooper said he told<br />
the team in the huddle before the<br />
final game. “<strong>The</strong>y want that to be<br />
under the pressure, they want the ball<br />
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Lady Generals Lindsey Stookey, left, and Jaime Heiner block a<br />
Golden Eagle shot Thursday.<br />
Jessica<br />
Koch<br />
Chelsea<br />
Strong<br />
Generals (1-2) needed to do a better<br />
job getting Chase the ball. He said<br />
the sophomore forward didn’t get<br />
enough touches in key moments<br />
against Indian Hills.<br />
Thursday was also the day the<br />
Baltimore product signed a national<br />
letter of intent to play at the<br />
University of Montana. Chase, who<br />
committed to the Griz in<br />
September, was an All-Region IX<br />
selection as a freshman after averaging<br />
19 points and 10 rebounds.<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Junior College<br />
Athletic Association put him on its<br />
in pressure situations and<br />
that should be fun.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y came out<br />
excited and went out and<br />
got the lead and we were<br />
able to hold it.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lady Generals<br />
will try to hold onto that<br />
momentum for another<br />
two days.<br />
Casper College<br />
clipped <strong>Sheridan</strong> College<br />
in the two regular season<br />
meetings, and only suffered<br />
one conference loss<br />
— a five-game defeat to<br />
Western Wyoming near<br />
the end of the season.<br />
Cooper said there<br />
was no chance of a letdown.<br />
“You don’t have a<br />
heartbeat if you have a<br />
letdown in the semifinals<br />
of the Region IX tournament,”<br />
he said. “<strong>The</strong>y’re<br />
the No. 1 seed and that’s<br />
who we’re going after, so<br />
we’ll be ready.”<br />
REGION IX TOURNAMENT<br />
At Bruce Hoffman Golden Dome<br />
Thursday<br />
• Match 1: Northwest College def. Eastern<br />
Wyoming 30-26, 30-25, 34-32<br />
• Match 2: <strong>Sheridan</strong> College def. LCCC 30-16,<br />
30-19, 30-18<br />
• Match 3: Western Wyoming def. Miles City<br />
30-25, 30-17, 30-16<br />
• Match 4: Casper College def. Northwest<br />
College 30-25, 30-19, 30-25<br />
• Match 5: <strong>Sheridan</strong> College def. Western<br />
Wyoming 29-31, 30-25, 30-23, 23-30, 15-12<br />
Friday<br />
• Match 6: LCCC (7-36) vs. Miles City (9-24),<br />
noon<br />
• Match 7: Western Wyoming (22-21) vs.<br />
Eastern Wyoming (13-27), 2 p.m.<br />
• Match 8: Northwest College (20-22) vs.<br />
Winner Match 6, 4 p.m.<br />
• Match 9: Casper College (25-24) vs. <strong>Sheridan</strong><br />
College (25-15), 6 p.m.<br />
• Match 10: Winner Match 7 vs. Winner Match<br />
8, 8 p.m.<br />
Saturday<br />
• Match 11: Loser Match 9 vs. Winner Match<br />
10, 1 p.m.<br />
• Match 12: Winner Match 9 vs. Winner Match<br />
11, 4 p.m.<br />
• Match 13: If Loser Match 12 only has one<br />
loss, 7 p.m.<br />
preseason All-American team.<br />
“I’m excited for Gus, and I’m<br />
excited for Montana,” Davidson<br />
said. “<strong>The</strong>y have a great coaching<br />
staff and it’s a great place to go to<br />
school. He’s a great kid and he’ll be<br />
a great fit up there. <strong>The</strong>re’s no question<br />
he’ll be successful up there.”<br />
Chase is the fourth General to<br />
sign with a Division-I program —<br />
Johnathan Chatman (Texas Pan-<br />
American), Eze Samuel (Western<br />
Illinois) and Fred Oguns (Western<br />
Illinois) are the others — under<br />
Davidson’s three-year tenure.<br />
Scoreboard<br />
BASKETBALL<br />
National Basketball Association<br />
At A Glance<br />
Thursday’s Games<br />
L.A. Clippers 102, Atlanta 95<br />
Miami 88, Houston 84<br />
Detroit 111, Phoenix 104<br />
BILLIARDS<br />
<strong>Sheridan</strong> Eight Ball Pool League<br />
Team Standings W L<br />
Eagles 186 4 2<br />
Eagles 4160 #1 4 2<br />
Rainbow Bar #1 3.5 2.5<br />
Bruce’s Caboose 3 3<br />
Eagles 4169 #2 3 3<br />
Elks Lodge #1 2.5 3.5<br />
Rainbow Bar #2 2 4<br />
Elks Lodge #2 2 4<br />
Individual Standings (no. of wins): Bruce<br />
Olson 5; Art Erickson 5; Bob Green 5; Dave<br />
Silla 5; Tom Lopez 4; Linda Erickson 4; John<br />
Miech4; Tammie George 4; Steve Melneck4;<br />
Mike Stephens 4.<br />
Results from Nov. 8<br />
Eagles 4169 #1 def. Rainbow #2 4-2<br />
Eagles 186 def. Elks #2 4-2<br />
Rainbow #1 def. Elks #1 3.5-2.5<br />
Burce’s Caboose tie Eagles 4169 #23-3<br />
BOWLING<br />
CLOUD PEAK LANES<br />
THURSDAY<br />
ALL-STAR LEAGUE W L<br />
George’s Barber Shop 28 12<br />
<strong>Sheridan</strong> Tent & Awning 27 13<br />
ERA Carroll Realty 25 15<br />
Coors Light 24 16<br />
MALE HIGH GAME: Dale Ring 276<br />
MALE HIGH SERIES: Tim Jensen 735<br />
HIGH TEAM GAME: Coors Light 1199<br />
HIGH TEAM SERIES: Coors Light 3349<br />
But she appreicated the unwavering<br />
support from family, friends,<br />
teammates and coaches, most of<br />
whom were at her signing Thursday.<br />
“I’m really lucky and blessed to<br />
have the people who surround me,”<br />
Stender said. “<strong>The</strong> mom and dad I<br />
have, the siblings I have, and the<br />
fans that support me and the team —<br />
it really means a lot. If I could say<br />
anything it would be, thank you for<br />
encouraging me.”<br />
Stender’s mother, Mila, herself a<br />
Division-I player at Utah, thanked<br />
Elliott and assistant coach Larry<br />
Martoglio in helping develop her<br />
daughter into a player worthy of a<br />
Division-I scholarship.<br />
But Elliott said Stender is the one<br />
who earned the opportunity.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first Lady Bronc Elliott<br />
coached to sign a Division-I scholarship,<br />
the 5-foot-11 Stender averaged<br />
13 points and seven rebounds during<br />
Kendrick K end ric k Golf Gol f Course C o u rse<br />
<strong>Sheridan</strong>, Sherid an, Wyo m ing<br />
Will be closing<br />
for the Season,<br />
Sunday Nov. 13 th .<br />
Thanks Again<br />
for a Great Season!<br />
EARLY BIRDS W L<br />
Rendezvous Lounge 30 10<br />
Wyoming Innovation 28 12<br />
Beauty Bar 25 15<br />
<strong>The</strong> Woods 24.5 15.5<br />
High Game: Pat Routh 200<br />
High Series: Pat Routh 555<br />
High Team Game: Cloud Peak Lanes 824<br />
High Team Series: Cloud Peak Lanes 2416<br />
GOLF<br />
Shanghai-HSBC Champions Scores<br />
Friday Second Round<br />
David Howell, England 65-67 —132<br />
Nick Dougherty, England 64-68 —132<br />
Nick O’Hern, Australia 67-67 —134<br />
Tiger Woods, United States 65-69 —134<br />
Kenneth Ferrie, England 66-69 —135<br />
Paul Casey, England 67-68 —135<br />
Thaworn Wiratchant, Thailand 67-68 —135<br />
Zhang Lianwei, China 67-68 —135<br />
Robert-Jan Derksen, Netherlands 65-70—135<br />
REC VOLLEYBALL<br />
WOMEN’S B VOLLEYBALL W L<br />
Big Horn Radiology 2 0<br />
Tape Worms 2 0<br />
<strong>Sheridan</strong> Memorial Hospital 1 0<br />
J’Dan Builders/Bank of <strong>Sheridan</strong> 1 1<br />
Malli LLC 0 1<br />
O’Dell Construction 0 2<br />
All Creatures/Mountain View 0 2<br />
Thursday’s matches<br />
Tape Worms d. J’Dan 25-18, 25-14<br />
Big Horn Radiology d. All Creatures 25-8, 25-17<br />
<strong>Sheridan</strong> Hospital d. O’Dell 25-20, 25-16<br />
WOMEN’S BB VOLLEYBALL W L<br />
Hospital Pharmacy 2 0<br />
ZZZ Broads 2 0<br />
Wild Ones 1 1<br />
Montana-Dakota Utilities 1 1<br />
Throne & Hurst 0 2<br />
Seven Cross Adventures 0 2<br />
Thursday’s matches<br />
Hospital Pharmacy d. Throne & Hurst 25-12, 25-12<br />
Wild Ones d. Montana Dakota Utilities 25-10, 25-11<br />
ZZZ Broads d. Seven Cross 25-13, 25-20<br />
Bailey, Moss hurting in marquee matchup<br />
DENVER (AP) — This is a<br />
matchup football fans should be<br />
excited about.<br />
This season, however, hasn’t quite<br />
gone the way Champ Bailey or<br />
Randy Moss were hoping it would.<br />
In the preseason, after the Oakland<br />
Raiders signed Moss, Bailey fielded<br />
questions about what it would be like<br />
to have one of the NFL’s most dangerous<br />
receivers in the AFC West,<br />
playing for the Raiders when they<br />
faced the Denver Broncos twice a<br />
year. It had the makings of a great<br />
rivalry within a great rivalry.<br />
When the teams play Sunday,<br />
though, Bailey and Moss will both be<br />
limping to the line — if they make it<br />
to the field at all.<br />
Moss is listed as questionable with<br />
injuries to his groin, ribs and pelvis.<br />
Bailey is listed as probable with a<br />
hamstring injury that has bothered<br />
him all season.<br />
‘‘He’s definitely one of the best in<br />
the game,’’ Bailey said of Moss.<br />
‘‘Has been for a while now. It’s going<br />
to be a challenge.’’<br />
It’ll be even more of one if Moss<br />
is healthy and Bailey hasn’t improved<br />
since the last time he took the field,<br />
two weeks ago against Philadelphia.<br />
In what could now be best known<br />
Stender<br />
(Continued from Page B1)<br />
as Terrell Owens’ final game with the<br />
Eagles, Bailey was put in one-on-one<br />
coverage against the All-Pro receiver<br />
and he gave up two big, embarrassing<br />
plays.<br />
One was a 91-yard run and catch<br />
for a touchdown in which Bailey got<br />
juked then looked to be running gingerly<br />
in an unsuccessful attempt to<br />
catch up. <strong>The</strong> other was on a 43-yard<br />
catch that set up another Eagles score.<br />
Both were largely written off to<br />
the eight- and nine-man pass rushes<br />
Denver called that game, which left<br />
Bailey on the island — ‘‘Ten out of<br />
10 cornerbacks don’t make that tackle,’’<br />
defensive lineman Trevor Pryce<br />
said — and to the injury, which has<br />
nagged Bailey since preseason and<br />
hampered his performance.<br />
Bailey has practiced this week and<br />
thinks he can go. As always, if he’s<br />
healthy enough to play, he won’t be<br />
making excuses.<br />
Meanwhile, Raiders coach Norv<br />
Turner said Moss’ return to the practice<br />
field Wednesday could be construed<br />
as a good sign.<br />
‘‘I think it is progress,’’ Turner<br />
said.<br />
Nonetheless, Moss missed all of<br />
last week’s practice and caught one<br />
pass Sunday in a loss to the Chiefs.<br />
a junior season that saw her earn All-<br />
State honors.<br />
“It’s about as exciting as when<br />
we found out Steph wanted to come<br />
to <strong>Sheridan</strong>,” Elliott said, noting she<br />
attended Big Horn through the<br />
eighth grade. “I think she would<br />
have had the same success regardless<br />
of where she played or who she<br />
would have played under. She’s an<br />
extremely self-motivated, hardworking<br />
athlete with a lot of talent.”<br />
Her energy and enthusiasm for<br />
the sport are the two traits that will<br />
most benefit the Lady Griz.<br />
“She’s just a very high-energy<br />
player who goes nonstop,” Elliott<br />
said. “She can play offense, defense,<br />
inside, outside — she’ll be a big<br />
boost to their program just in terms<br />
of the energy and the personality she<br />
brings.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lady Griz have made the<br />
NCAA tournament 16 times in the<br />
past 23 seasons. <strong>The</strong>y are coached<br />
by Robin Selvig, who has compiled<br />
HUSSKE<br />
CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC<br />
Carpenter wins<br />
NL Cy Young<br />
NEW YORK (AP) — Two years<br />
ago, when the pain in Chris<br />
Carpenter’s shoulder wouldn’t go<br />
away, he thought his career might be<br />
over.<br />
Patience, persistence and a nasty<br />
curveball earned him the NL Cy<br />
Young Award on Thursday.<br />
After going 21-5 with a 2.83 ERA<br />
for the St. Louis Cardinals, Carpenter<br />
received 19 of 32 first-place votes<br />
and finished with 132 points in balloting<br />
by the Baseball Writers’<br />
Association of America.<br />
He beat out Florida lefty<br />
Dontrelle Willis, becoming the first<br />
Cardinals pitcher to claim the honor<br />
since Hall of Famer Bob Gibson in<br />
1970.<br />
‘‘I can’t believe I won,’’<br />
Carpenter said. ‘‘It’s a great feeling.’’<br />
Willis, who was 22-10 with a 2.63<br />
ERA, was listed first on 11 ballots,<br />
second on 18 and third on three for<br />
112 points. Seven-time winner Roger<br />
Clemens got the other two first-place<br />
votes and came in a distant third at<br />
age 43.<br />
Willis was all class in shrugging<br />
off any disappointment.<br />
‘‘I can always tell my kids, even<br />
when they stop listening to their old<br />
dad, that I was in the running with<br />
Roger Clemens and Chris Carpenter<br />
to win a prestigious award,’’ Willis<br />
said. ‘‘It’s not that bad to be the second-best<br />
pitcher in the league.’’<br />
‘‘He’s not to the point where he<br />
can play, and he certainly wasn’t to<br />
the point on Sunday, where he can<br />
turn it loose for an entire game,’’<br />
Turner said.<br />
Moss hasn’t spoken to the media<br />
since Oakland’s season opener, so his<br />
thoughts about going against Bailey<br />
aren’t known.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last few weeks, however,<br />
have been rough.<br />
Since getting hurt in a game Oct.<br />
16 against San Diego, Moss has<br />
caught seven passes for 76 yards and<br />
two scores — not really invisible, but<br />
hardly the every play threat he normally<br />
is.<br />
‘‘I’m not sure if he’s 100 percent<br />
healthy or not, but at whatever, let’s<br />
say he’s 95 percent, he’s still a dangerous<br />
weapon,’’ Broncos defensive<br />
backs coach Bob Slowik told <strong>The</strong><br />
Gazette of Colorado Springs.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Broncos are preparing all<br />
their cornerbacks, not just Bailey, to<br />
try to stop Moss.<br />
‘‘I’ve already played against<br />
Terrell Owens and Deion Branch in<br />
the regular season and against Marvin<br />
Harrison in preseason,’’ rookie<br />
Domonique Foxworth said. ‘‘I’ve had<br />
some great players under my belt so<br />
I’m not intimidated.’’<br />
more than 600 wins in 29 seasons at<br />
the Lady Griz helm.<br />
So what does it say about Lady<br />
Bronc basketball that a program of<br />
Montana’s stature would recruit a<br />
player out of <strong>Sheridan</strong>?<br />
“I think the biggest thing it says<br />
is we’re pretty darn lucky to have<br />
kids like Steph in our program,”<br />
Elliott said. “<strong>The</strong> girls in our program<br />
are just great kids. <strong>The</strong>y’re<br />
good students, they’re good athletes<br />
and they’re nice people to be<br />
around.”<br />
Stender said her only goal is to be<br />
the hardest worker next season in<br />
Missoula.<br />
But as of now, her focus is<br />
squarely on the Lady Broncs.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> ultimate goal would be the<br />
team goal of winning a state championship,”<br />
Stender said. “<strong>The</strong> way I try<br />
to go into each game is, what is our<br />
team goal, and what are we going to<br />
try and accomplish as a team, not as<br />
an individual?”<br />
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