Fr e e Pr e ss Page 10 Colby Free Press Thursday, September 11, 2008 SSpp o o r r t t ss True fans College volleyball team beats Barton

The Colby Community College after a slow start. strong said. “We are a good team Player stats Lady Trojan volleyball team de- “The first game we came out when everyone does their part. Juliana Motta da Silva -- 20 feated Barton County three games Wednesday night’s contest saw slow and tight,” Armstrong said. kills 1 ace to one last night at the Community “Once we passed and ran our the return of sophomore libero Building. Megan Dennis. Rexanne Schilowsky -- 13 kills, faster tempo, things came together 6 blocks, 5 aces The win moved the Lady Tro- and we played well.” Cassie Smatana occupied the jans overall record to 7-9, gave role of libero during her absence, Cassie Smatana -- 9 kills 15 Juliana Motta Da Silva led the digs 6 aces them their first conference win team with 20 kills and Rexanne but returned to an outside hitter and moved their home record to role. Megan Dennis -- 10 digs, 1 ace Schilowsky added 13 kills and a Lisa Faimon -- 6 kills 2 blocks 6-2 on the season. team-leading six blocks. “Cassie stepped up by playing Head Coach Valerie Armstrong defense and hitting well,” Arm- LeAnna Sheaffer -- 5 kills “Rex owned the net blocking Priscila Sena -- 40 assists 3 aces was pleased with her team’s effort and everyone played hard,” Arm- strong said. “It was nice to get our first conference win.” 10 digs Twins go past , 7-1 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The identified and self-corrected their “They’re a solid team. They middle,” Davies said. have stayed mistakes. Slowey was throwing have smart guys all around that Royals manager Trey Hillman in contention all season on the too hard at first, but he reported field,” Kansas City’s David DeJe- reorganized his lineup as a re- strength of a young, thriving ro- his problem in the dugout before sus said. “What do you do? That’s sponse to what he deemed a le- tation — and their tutelage from Anderson could get a word out. what they’ve been doing to us all thargic effort in Tuesday’s 7-2 de- pitching coach Rick Anderson. He figured it out and slowed his year.” Kyle Davies (6-7) gave up feat to Minnesota, after he vowed He’s taught them so well, it fastball back down to around 88 four runs and eight hits over 5 2-3 his team would not roll over for seems, they hardly need him now. mph in the subsequent innings. innings for Kansas City. Delmon the Twins or White Sox — who allowed four “They all feed off each other so Young, Nick Punto and Carlos account for seven of their final 18 hits over seven innings and kept well. That’s the neat thing,” An- Gomez also drove in runs for the matchups. Minnesota in step with the Chi- derson said. Twins, who had at least 12 hits for cago White Sox in the AL Central, “They talk about what they did the fourth straight game. pitching the Twins past the Kan- right and what they did wrong, Reliever Leo Nunez let the game NOW SHOWING sas City Royals 7-1 on Wednesday their experience and their thoughts. get out of hand in the seventh, night. That’s a good thing. I just stay out when Gomez singled, Denard Sept. 12th to Sept.18th The Twins, who are one game of the way and let ‘em pitch.” Span walked, and Casilla bunted DEBBIE SCHWANKE/Colby Community College behind Chicago in the division, Four of Minnesota’s five RBIs to the right of the mound. Nunez STAR WARS Colby Community College Lady Trojan basketball play- notched consecutive wins for the came with two outs, and the Twins threw the ball short of first base, THE CLONE ers and fans could always depend on Jim and Betty Fire- first time in nearly three weeks. (80-65) surpassed last year’s vic- and it skipped all the way to the stone to be in the stands near the front row cheering on They had three hits and two R