FREE PRESS Page 10 Colby Free Press Friday, September 6, 2002 SSSPORTSPORTS Ready to be Eagles go first, second in Goodland By DARREL PATTILLO A. Seemann 14 15:29 tarrred and Colby Free Press Jamie Quenzer 18 16:36 Talitha Nye 28 18:25 The Colby High School Cross Coun- Valerie Vanatta 30 18:57 try teams opened the season in FR./SOPH BOYS feathered Goodland Thursday. Coach Bob Matt Augustine 6 20:20 Mannebach said the teams had a good Derek Elliott 11 20:56 I have created a monster. I talk Jared Dinkel 12 21:09 about poor ole Jeff Gordon, and look performance for the first meet of the Jordan Cranston 26 22:56 what happened, he won at Darlington. year. Jared Simmering 38 25:04 As I’m writing this column I’m heat- “The girls easily placed first and the Pat Toth 42 27:19 boys placed second,” Mannebach said. Travis Powell 43 27:27 ing up the tar, and I have a big bag of Stuart Aiken 44 27:42 feathers. Man, one of these days I’m “Our medalists, Jessica Stephens, Alex Marshall 46 29:32 going to learn, not to go there. Erika Erickson, Jami Williams, Shane FR./SOPH GIRLS I’ve delayed writing this week Stover, Nathan Harter, Matt August- Jessica Stephens 1 13:50 ine, led the Eagles in the first meet of Lauren Kaiser 11 15:00 thinking that I would hear something Emily Sloan 12 15:03 on where the #28 and Havoline would the year.” Marcia Kaus 14 15:09 end up for the 2003 season, but no luck Coach Mannebach continued: “I Andrea Barker 25 16:29 so far. It was announced today that was pleased with the performance of Clarissa Unger 30 17:00 both the boys and girls team. They ran M. Dougherty 32 17:23 well on a very challenging course. We Shannon Oard 33 17:30 Don DARREL PATTILLO/Colby Free Press needed a meet to see what we needed GIRLS TEAM SCORES to improve on and what changes need Team Place Points Fosdick Trojan freshman Desiree Coleman recorded one of her seven kills Thurs- COLBY 1 45 day against Pratt Community College. to be made to make us a great team.” Lakin 2 90 Colby will take the whole squad to Ogallala, Neb 3 95 Life in Quinter on Thursday, Sept. 12, and the Goodland 4 104 the Fast varsity teams to Wamego on Sept. 14. Grant, Neb 5 126 Trojans dominate Pratt Ulysses 6 126 Lane 2002 GOODLAND CROSS Oberlin NS The Lady Trojans Volleyball squad Jenny Sramek led Colby with a pass COUNTRY RESULTS Quinter NS JR./SR. BOYS DOUG STEPHENS/Goodland Daily Imperial, Neb NS Paul Andrews, crew chief for the #1 looked impressive Thursday Night efficiency rating of 2.6. Sondy Frey NAME PLACE TIME News Oakley NS Pennzoil Monte Carlo owned by DEI, defeating Pratt three games to none in was also impressive as she had a rat- Shane Stover 5 19:05 BOYS TEAM SCORES Nathan Harter 7 19:29 Colby sophomore Clarissa Unger left the team and joined the #99 Citgo its conference opening victory. Colby ing of 2.3. ran the cross country course at Ogallala, Neb 1 52 was also hosting its first match of the Colby is now 3-4 overall and 1-0 in Carson McKee 12 20:16 COLBY 2 66 Ford owned by Roush Racing. It was Landon Stover 13 20:23 Sugar Hills golf course in 17:00, young season. Amy Nichols led the Jayhawk West Conference Action. Imperial, Neb 3 106 reported that Paul and DEI parted Eric Luedke 21 20:58 good for 30th overall. Lakin 4 142 under a friendly terms, but with Paul Lady Trojan attack recording 14 kills. They host their own tournament this Josh Houtz 24 21:14 Quinter 5 158 Rocky Baalman 31 22:10 landing at Roush with the #99 team Ashley Blickenstaff and Desiree Saturday with play beginning at 9:00 Todd Ohlrogge 49 30:34 Oberlin 6 167 Coleman added 12 and 7 kills, respec- am at the Community Building. Colby Brandon Williams37 24:21 Ulysses 7 172 immediately. It would be safe to say Chris Gordon 40 25:33 JR./SR. GIRLS Erika Erickson 2 14:02 Oakley NS that Paul was doing some looking, or tively. battles McCook at 9:00 am, Dodge Jason Schwindt 41 26:38 Goodland NS After a subpar pass efficiency per- City at 11:00 am and Pratt at 1:00 pm Zach Baird 42 27:28 Jami Williams 8 14:51 Jack Roush offered Paul a deal he Breann Hart 11 15:19 Grant, Neb NS couldn’t refuse. formance in their opening tournament in pool play action. The Semi-Finals I was waiting for something to in Hutchinson, Colby rebounded are set for 4:00 and 5:00 with the change with that team, since they had Thursday to have a much better outing. Championship to follow at 6:00 pm. resigned Steve Park for the 2003 sea- Eagle golfers finish third at WaKeeney son. As we all have seen that team By DARREL PATTILLO is at 3 p.m. 3rd Colby 223, 4th Garden City really struggled for a while. Now I Junior varsity tennis team Colby Free Press Individual results: Sara Nally 52, JV 239, 5th Scott City 240, 6th Dodge know most of you are thinking, what The Colby High School girl’s golf Kelsey Strickler 52, Lindsey Schafer City JV 255, 7th Ulysses JV 259 about Frank Stoddard? Well at the team started the season at Trego Thurs- 55. Regina Heier 64, Joanna Hawk 66. Top three medalists: (combined present moment, Frank is considering gains experience at Scott City day, and brougfht home a third place Team score: 223 small and large schools) several management options that By DARREL PATTILLO McKee (tournament record 2-2, place: finish. Team Results: Large School Divi- 1st K. Crone, Lakin 42, 2nd J. Roush Racing has offered him within Colby Free Press 4th of 8); match 1 win 6-4 Erinn “We played well,” coach Ray Higley sion Osborne, Goodland 43, 3rd M. the company. Don’t be surprised if The Lady Eagle JV tennis team com- Abernathy/Jenna McGinley said. “But have much room for im- 1st Goodland 197, 2nd Hays 213, Ridgeway, Lakin 44. Frank shows up at some other race peted in the Scott City JV tournament (Goodland); match 2 win 6-5 Baylee provement.” Sara Nally and Kelsey team in the near future. Thursday and placed fifth, out of eight Hess/Jaycie Wiechman (Scott City); Strickler led the Eagles with both I don’t know whether you heard or teams. match 3 loss 5-6 Kelly Erwin/Tiffany shooting a 52. not, but the deal between Andy Petree Coach Bill Weber pointed out that Jerviz (Garden City); match 4 loss 2-6 “This tournament gave us some in- SURPLUS ABSOLUTE Racing, and Jerry Jones, owner of the five of the six girls are new to the team. Stephanie Kough/Jillian VanCampen sight into what we need to work on as Dallas Cowboys, has fell through. “We gained valuable match play expe- (Scott City) the season unfolds,” Higley said. “I am REAL ESTATE From the information that I’ve come rience,” Weber said. “Now we know #2 Doubles Jamie Cox/Alisha confident that this group of girls can across, I guess Andy Petree was sell- what needs to be done to improve our- Talsma (tournament record 3-1, place AUCTION compete this year. With some hard ing the majority of his team to Jerry Former Auto Zone Store selves as a team.” 2nd of 8) match 1 win 6-0 Kali work, several players on this team Jones. And from that Jerry was going Friday, September 6 , 10:00am Weber also had a confidence booster Rietcheck/Megan Stefan (Goodland); could qualify for state competition.” to sponsor a second car using the Dal- for the team: “The girls may not rec- match 2 win 6-5 Danea Latham/ The Eagle’s next tournament will be 1525 South Range Ave. Colby, KS las Cowboys as the sponsor. Informa- ognize it, but they have improved tre- Nickole Vallejo (Scott City) match 3 Tuesady Sept 10 at Goodland. Tee-off tion hinted at the fact that since Andy win 6-5 Kayla Drake/Casey Johnson mendously from the beginning of the +/- couldn’t land a marquee driver like a year.” (Garden City); match 4 loss 2-6 Emily [email protected] 3,840 sf. Ricky Rudd or a Jeff Gordon that The junior varsity will play at Trego Howard/Jordan Miller (Tribune) Jerry didn’t go through with the deal. on Sept. 12 and Norton on Sept. 14. Preview: 11-3 pm, Friday, August. 30 As Andy had signed all the contracts #1 Singles Robyn Wilson (tourna- Building and agreements and had sent them to 9 Other Prime Locations in 5 States ment record 1-3, place: 7th of 8): match on 1.7 +/- acres Jerry Jones, well before last weekend. 1 loss 3-6 Shannon Johnson Iowa , Tennessee, Louisiana, 220 +/- ft. exposure on S. Range Ave. I’m pretty sure that race fans know (Goodland); match 2 loss 4-6 Lesli New York, Texas the amount of money that it takes to Taylor (Scott City); match 3 loss 4-6 To be sold ABSOLUTE to the last and highest bidder, regardless of price. race today on any level. But it really Julia Von Witzendorff (Garden City) NO MINIMUM! NO RESERVE! gets my skirt blown up; when deals match 4 win 6-4 Sherri Voeltz like the Petree and Jones try to come (Cimarron). For complete sale information call or visit our website together. This is due to the fact that #2 Singles Justine Kropp (tourna- 800-257-4161 very few of these deals ever last ment record 0-4, place 8th of 8): match longer than a few years. Racing is a www.higgenbotham.com 1 loss 1-6 May Davis (Goodland); AirTran Airways flies to the windy city every day. In Cooperation with Theurer Auction Realty EB00016528 M.E. Higgenbotham, CAI, FL. Lic # AU305/ AB158 passion, and sometimes it makes match 2 loss 0-6 Miranda Appel (Scott money, but most of the time it’s a way City); match 3 loss 0-6 Camille of life, period. McDermott (Garden City); match 4 These millionaires, and billionaires loss 0-6 Kim Burns (Cimarron). Low-cost air fares from Wichita to Chicago? Believe it. AirTran that have came into NASCAR over #I Doubles Rachel Funk/Shea Airways flies roundtrip to the windy city twice a day. And three times Over 100 Used the last fifty years, they never last, to Atlanta. From there, it’s on to Orlando, New York, Washington D.C., because after the new wears off and Trojan softball tourney you name it. AirTran Airways connects you to 151 low-cost daily flights they see what it really takes to keep a race team like DEI, RCR, Roush, and is this weekend to 38 cities. Well, well, well… Wichita’s looking better all the time. Vehicles in Robert Yates Racing at the top, they The Colby Trojan softball team So why are you making that drive to other airports? Good question. just see their money going out and hosts its first fall tournament this week- very little coming in, and THEY don’t end. Games get underway Saturday Fly Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. like that. These people have become morning at 10 with Colby taking on Stock accustomed to investing money in McCook. It’s Worth It. something and seeing double digit All games will be played at the soft- For air service information, see flywichita.com. profits coming back in, and that’s ball field at Colby Community Col- AirTran Airways 800-247-8726 • Frontier Jet Express 800-432-1359 what they think their investment in lege. racing should do. It seems that these Saturday, Sept. 7: 10 a.m., Colby vs. Visit us on the web people also think that they are going McCook; 2 p.m., Colby vs. Cloud; 4 to come in with all their money and p.m., Colby vs. Western Neb.; Sun day, at: control the sport and get the attention Sept. 8, 12 p.m., Colby vs. Lamar; 2 like they do in other avenues, such as p.m., Colby vs. Garden City. movie making, or sport teams, and such, if you catch my drift. www.frontierautoplex.com So after a few years and their race You are invited to attend the team is being beat by some mom & pop operation, or by some under- Dr. Max Pickerill Lecture Series with funded team on a regular basis, and that NASCAR rule makers won’t PONTIAC • CHEVROLET • bow down to them. They act like someone has licked all the red off of Dr. Robert Rook OLDSMOBILE • CADILLAC • their candy, and that to be on top in NASCAR, it’s going to take a whole Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History BUICK • CHRYSLER • DODGE different mindset, and years to build Fort Hays State University a winning team, along with tons of their money, and they decide to get out and to go back and play in a sandbox Topic: where they can be the big dog again, and they’re out of there faster than Too Much History, Too Little Time: America when they came in. Racing, to real racers, is a passion, a mindset; moneymaking profits are and the Middle East in a Global Context not their main priority. Racing to win is their priority, and as long as there’s Wednesday, September 11 ~ 7:00 p.m. enough money to get their car to the next race, and be competitive, and Northwest Kansas Cultural Arts Center enough to live on, they’re happy. As Colby Community College racing is all they want to do, period. Don Fosdick is a regular guy who 445 N. Lake ¥ Colby loves racing. E-mail him at [email protected]. * No Admission Charge 462-3317