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FREE PRE ss Page 8 Colby Free Press Thursday, November 3, 2011 SSPORTPORT SS Rising to the occasion Trojan men win home opener 80-57 The Colby Community College Trojan men’s the way was Carson Konrade with 23 points, Hur- basketball team won its home opener 80-57 against ley Johnson had 13, and Kristan Rolle provided a Lamar Community College out of Colorado at the double-double performance with 11 points and 12 Community Building on Wednesday. rebounds. “We could tell there were some first game jitters “We felt very good about our play from our guards out of the gate last night, but we felt like once we and our bigs last night,” Pfeifer said. “There were got through that first stage our team energy was very a lot of guys who you could say sparked our run, good,” said Head Coach Dustin Pfeifer, who is in his but we felt like having Jamie Adams on the floor third season with the team. last night made a huge difference on both sides of The Trojans started slow, getting down by as many the floor. When we play Trojan-style basketball, we as 11 points in the first half and being down 36-39 at have the potential to be a very good team.” halftime. Colby will be holding the Western Sprinklers “We told the guys to stay confident, we felt like Classic on Friday and Saturday at the Community we were playing the right way, just stick to what we Building. On Friday, Garden City Community Col- do,” Pfeifer said. lege will play Sterling College (junior varsity) at 5 The Trojans did just that, limiting the Running p.m. and Colby will play Kansas Wesleyan Univer- Lopers to only 5 field goals in the second half, and sity (junior varsity) at 7 p.m. also scoring 44 points of their own. It was a team ef- On Saturday, the teams will switch opponents. fort scoring the ball with only one Trojan player not Garden City will face Kansas Wesleyan at 5 p.m. and scoring who played minutes in the game. Leading Colby will compete against Sterling at 7 p.m. Middle school team finishes season strong By Leea Juenemann of them. Having trouble return- biter, but towards the end there Golden Plains Middle School ing the Dighton Bulldogs’ tough was more trouble communicating serves allowed their opponents to and passing. Therefore, they lost On Oct. 25, the Golden Plains catch up quickly. the last set by four with an ending Middle School volleyball team When Golden Plains finally score of 11-15. traveled to Brewster for the Free- gained the ball back, they missed Not giving up, they still had dom League tournament where a serve, giving Dighton the ad- one more game to play for third or they would earn third place. vantage. Nevertheless, the Lady fourth place. They stepped on the They started off the tourna- Bulldogs continued to hustle, with floor ready to win that third-place ment with a win against Triplains- great digs from Kynndra Rush and medal. Brewster. Even though the first Maddy Walz. It was a close set from the be- set was very close, they pulled Even though they tried hard, ginning, but serves from all play- through, winning 25-22. Now that Golden Plains fell short two points ers were more consistent. There their “warm-up” match was over, on both sets, losing to Dighton 23- were even a few serving streaks KAYLA CORNETT/Colby Free Press they were ready to go. The Lady 25 on both sets. form Kynndra Rush and Tayler Colby Community College volleyball player Emily Torson spiked the ball in a game against Bulldogs easily won the second Advancing, they faced the Grin- Petersen, which helped them win Cloud County Community College on Tuesday in the Community Building. Colby won the match, with the help of Tayler nell-Wheatland Thunderhawks. the first set 26-24. The second set playoff game in three sets with scores of 25-22, 25-20 and 25-9. The Lady Trojans will play in Petersen’s spikes, by eight points The Lady Bulldogs came out they had from the start and with the Region VI Championships on Saturday at Newman University in Wichita. They will play with the ending score being 25- confident and ready to play, with good serves, talking, and hustle, it Seward County Community College at 2 p.m., and if they win, they will play again at 6 p.m. 17. many kills by Kami Miller, Bri- made it an easy 25-13 win for the The matches will be carried live on KWGB-FM, 97.9. Next they faced the Wallace anna Stoll, Gabrielle Schiltz and Bulldogs. County Wildcats. The first and Maddy Walz. All in all, the hustle paid off, second sets were very close, but That confidence grabbed them a taking home a third-place medal they played the net well, which win for the first set, 25-19. How- and finishing the season with an Chiefs riding four-game streak allowed them to win each set by ever, in the second set the con- 8-4 record. two, scoring 26-24 on the first and fidence still remained but their “Whenever we did lose, it was By Dave Skretta first two games by a combined 89- time, and the Chiefs’ Andy Stude- 25-23 on the second. passes weren’t always the best. never (by) more than six points,” AP Sports Writer 10, the Chiefs (4-3) showed some baker came away with it to keep “We lacked a little in talking, “In practice there was a lot of Maddy Walz, Kynndra Rush and resolve during a road loss to San San Diego from kicking a poten- moving our feet, and serves, but stressing on staying down and Tayler Petersen all commented. KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A couple Diego. They came back home and tial winning field goal. we made up for it with a lot of passing,” Tayler Petersen com- “We always fought hard and it of wins over division doormats. A squeaked out a win over Minne- That allowed the game to reach kills,” said Kami Miller. mented. “In some of the games we was a great way to end the sea- shutout of a Raiders team playing sota, rallied from a big deficit to overtime, and Ryan Succop ended The last game to play before did that, in others we could have son,” Kami Miller added. without its starting quarterback. beat Indianapolis, and then beat it with a 30-yard field goal. they advanced out of pool play done better.” “I’m proud of how hard every- An inexplicable fumble that even- the Jason Campbell-less Raiders The Chiefs are the first team was Dighton. They went on the Even though the second set was one worked, and I’m excited to tually led to an overtime victory. last weekend to give them tons of in NFL history to lose their first floor ready to play and before they close, they lost 18-25 and had to play in high school,” Brianna Stoll The Kansas City Chiefs realize momentum heading into a show- three games and then move into at knew it, they had an eight-point challenge the Thunderhawks once concluded. everything has been going their down with San Diego. least a tie for a division lead after lead. However, serves got the best again. The third set was a nail- way during a four-game winning Under the bright lights on Mon- the next four. The overtime win streak, one that has taken them day night, with a frenzied Hallow- forged a three-way tie with San from NFL laughingstock to a tie een crowd on hand at Arrowhead Diego and Oakland. Sporting KC headed to playoff finals atop the AFC West. That’s why Stadium, the Chiefs led the whole The Chiefs should have a pretty coach Todd Haley warned every- way against the division-leading good chance to keep it up, too. KANSAS CITY, Kansas (AP) – C.J. Sapong and net to open the scoring for Kansas City in the 28th one after a 23-20 overtime win Chargers. They host the Dolphins on Sun- Aurelien Collin gave Sporting Kansas City a 2-0 vic- minute. Sapong directed a header past Colorado over San Diego on Monday night Still, San Diego had a chance to day, one of two winless teams left tory over the defending Major League Soccer Cup goalkeeper Matt Pickens to get Sporting’s second to keep an even keel. win the game in regulation with in the NFL. Then they welcome champion Colorado Rapids on Wednesday to ad- goal in the 76th minute. What they’re going to accom- the ball at the 15-yard line and 48 the struggling Broncos, whose vance to the Eastern Conference playoff finals. Sporting had defeated Colorado 2-0 on Sunday to plish is anyone’s guess. seconds on the clock. Philip Riv- quarterback situation is just as un- Real Salt Lake also advanced to the Western Con- take the first game in their series. The side will play How could anyone have any ers dropped under center, called settled as the rest of the teams the ference finals for the second time in three years with either the Houston Dynamo or Philadelphia Union in clue after the dramatic turnaround for the snap – and never got the Chiefs have played lately. a 3-2 aggregate victory over the Seattle Sounders. the Eastern Conference finals starting on Sunday.

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