Colby High Fall Sports Getting Ready to Begin by Andy Heintz Kayla Hockersmith Is Another Se- Last Season’S Team
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FREE PRE ss Page 8 Colby Free Press Thursday, August 26, 2010 SSPORTPORT SS Right back at you Colby High fall sports getting ready to begin By Andy Heintz Kayla Hockersmith is another se- last season’s team. Colby Free Press nior who will be playing a lead- The junior varsity and varsity [email protected] ership role on this year’s squad. squads will both compete at 3 p.m. Hockersmith and No. 1 doubles next Thursday in a tournament at The Colby High varsity football partner Barbara Bickner took fifth Hugoton. team will try to build off its 7-3 at state last season. The Lady Eagles’ volleyball record last year when it kicks off The Lady Eagles’ junior varsity team will head into this season season at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, at team begins its season at 8:30 a.m. without a lot more experience St. Francis. Saturday at WaKeeney. than they had last year. Last sea- The junior varsity squad takes The Colby boys and girls cross son’s youthful squad is now a on St. Francis in its season opener country teams start their seasons at more mature team with one year at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 6, at 5 p.m. next Thursday at Goodland. of experience under its belt. Coach Dennen Field. The C team’s sea- The junior varsity squads will start Leslie Wagoner said the team has son starts at 5 p.m. next Thursday at the same time and place. had some really good practices so at McCook, Neb. The Lady Eagles’ squad will be far and she could tell some of the Several key players from last led by the Kaus sisters, Katrina girls had been in the gym over the year’s team will be returning in- and Katherine. The two seniors summer. cluding senior linebacker and have combined for five state ap- The varsity and junior varsity running back Andrew Flanagin, pearances in their three seasons. squads open their seasons in a tri- senior defensive end Rocque Rus- Katherine will be looking to return angular at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday sell, senior wide receiver Corbin to state after not qualifying for the with Osborne and Norton at Nor- Stephens, senior quarterback Kale first time last season. Katrina said ton. The C team’s season begins at Arnberger and senior linebacker she wanted to finish in the top 15 4 p.m. Thursday at the high school Ryan Carter. or 20 at state because the top 20 gym in a quad with Thomas More The Eagles’ seventh grade foot- runners get a medal. Prep-Marian from Hays, Norton ball team starts its season against The cross country boys team and Heartland. Kennedy Middle School from has its top three runners – junior The Lady Eagles’ eighth grade Hays at 4:30 p.m. next Thursday Jared Nally and sophomores John volleyball team starts its season in at Dennen Field. The eighth grade Faber and Dustin Reed – from last a triangular against Goodland and squad will play Kennedy right af- season returning. Reed took 15th Scott City at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, ter them at 6:30 p.m. at regionals last year and Nally Sept. 9, at Colby High School. The Lady Eagles varsity tennis took third in the league meet. The seventh grade teams will play team, led by two-time Class 4A The Colby High girls golf team at the same time, but its matches State Champion (No. 1 doubles begins its season with a tourna- will take place in the Colby Grade and No. 1 singles) Caitlyn Wark, ment on Monday at Garden City School gymnasium. Only the A will start its season at 3 p.m. next with Sublette. This year’s team teams of Scott City and Goodland Thursday at Hays. Wark, a senior, will be led by junior Kaylee Keck will be playing in the matches. went 36-0 last season without los- and sophomore Karly Kriss, the ing a set. Two-time state qualifier team’s two state qualifiers from ANDY HEINTZ/Colby Free Press Colby High senior Megan Dougherty slammed a return to senior Kayla Hockersmith (not pic- tured) during warm-ups before practice Tuesday afternoon at Dennen Field. Son and father share moment NEW YORK (AP) – Logan him to see that in person,” Logan living his dream,” Tom Morrison Morrison’s father remembers ex- Morrison said. said before the game. “He’s a actly what he said when the doc- Doctor’s orders prevent Tom good kid. He deserves it.” Texas works on running game tor told him he had inoperable Morrison from flying, but that Logan Morrison said it’s not lung cancer. didn’t stop him from making it to hard to concentrate on the field, AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Run, run, run. That’s all stands as the fifth best in school history. “Am I going to be around long the Big Apple this week. And after but he often thinks of his dad Texas coach Mack Brown wants to talk about. For But no Longhorns rusher has come even close to enough to see my son get his first all the radiation and chemothera- during batting practice and when a program that won 25 games the past two seasons 1,000 yards the past two seasons. McCoy led Texas big league hit?” py he’s been through, sitting in the he’s away from the ballpark. He throwing the ball behind one of the most accurate rushers in 2008. Tre’ Newton led the Longhorns in Oh, he’s seen that and much, left-field stands watching his boy said his all-out style of play and quarterbacks in NCAA history, an iron-fisted com- 2009 with 552 yards. much more. play was quite a treat. perfectionist personality comes mitment to building a punishing running game seems Texas averaged 4.0 yards per rush last season, a Morrison and his dad, both “It’s probably the best recreation directly from his father, still ac- a bit drastic. solid mark. But in the last two games against Ne- choking back tears, sat side by I have,” Tom Morrison said, smil- tive as a Chief Petty Officer in the Texas will still throw the ball. But what Brown braska in the Big 12 championship game and Ala- side in the Florida Marlins’ dug- ing. “I made him wave at me.” Coast Guard. wants is a blood-and-guts running game that will get bama, the Longhorns totaled just 99 yards on 66 car- out Wednesday trying to describe Logan Morrison was in the line- “Now you know why when I the tough yards and first downs “when we need it.” ries, an average of 1½ yards. their emotions during a cherished up again Wednesday on his 23rd get three hits and I get out once Texas couldn’t get those against Alabama in a 37- The overall drop-off in recent years appears to reunion at Citi Field. birthday. His dad was back at the I’m mad,” the kid said. “I’m never 21 loss in the BCS championship game last season. have hurt Texas on the recruiting trail. Brown, who Words, in this case, could never ballpark, too, purple-tinted sun- satisfied.” When quarterback Colt McCoy got hurt early in the can usually charm top recruits to Austin with the snap be enough. glasses sitting upside down on the Tom Morrison, who said he first quarter, Texas’ first drive fizzled at the goal line of a finger, has struggled lately to land the traditional Not for a proud father who trav- bill of a black Marlins cap, with played college football at Kan- and the Longhorns settled for a field goal instead of big, game-breaking running backs of Texas lore. eled 29 hours on a train to see his about 20 other family members sas, watches Logan’s games on a touchdown. That could soon change. Malcolm Brown of San son play big league ballgames in and friends in attendance. A birth- his computer at home and plans to And when Texas needed to control the ball and re- Antonio, one of the top running back recruits in the person for the first time. day cake awaited after the game. go to Florida in early October for organize behind backup quarterback Garrett Gilbert, nation, has verbally committed to sign with Texas Not for a boy who knows all too “Baseball has kind of brought the Marlins’ final series of the sea- six possessions went three plays or fewer before in 2011. well it could be their last chance to the family together,” Logan Mor- son. The weather should be cooler Texas limped into halftime trailing 24-6. Texas started four tailbacks at different times last celebrate his birthday together. rison said. then, which is important for the Since then, Texas has spent many days in spring season and entered training camp with Newton and Tom Morrison, 51, was diag- The rookie outfielder, selected elder Morrison because he gets drills and fall training camp working on building a Fozzy Whittaker battling for the No. 1 role. Whittaker nosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in to the Futures Game for top pros- dehydrated easily. bulldozing rushing attack, pushing the offensive line has seen sporadic action the past two seasons while April and spent much of the sum- pects during All-Star festivities Next year, he wants to buy a to be more physical. Four years of pass blocking for battling injuries.