Section B Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Sports The McLeod County Chronicle GSL volleyball 3rd at Rochester; takes 24-3 record into sections By Lee Ostrom North Subsection 2 At Rochester’s 16-team showcase, Sports Editor (Class AA) Volleyball the Panthers reached the semifinals The Glencoe-Silver Lake volley- with wins over Rochester Lourdes Matches Thursday, Oct. 25 (25-22, 25-8) and Northfield (25-20, ball team completed its regular-sea- 1ST ROUND son schedule with three wins and a 7 p.m. Starts 25-21); dropped their semifinal to third-place standing at last weekend’s UPPER BRACKET — Holy Family Catholic Cannon Falls (26-24, 25-19); but (Oct. 19-20) Exchange Club Invita- at (1) Belle Plaine. bounced back in the third-place NYA Central at (4) Jordan. tional in Rochester. LOWER BRACKET — Watertown-Mayer at match for a victory over Blue Earth As a result, the Panthers carry a (3) Mound-Westonka. Area (23-25, 25-10, 15-7). Sibley East at (2) GSL. “The girls played very well, even 24-3 overall mark into this year’s Matches Tuesday, Oct.30 Section 2 (Class AA) tournament, SEMIFINALS though we fell short (against) Cannon where they are second seeds in the at New Prague Falls,” GSL head coach “Murf” eight-team North subsection and play Upper Bracket, 6 p.m. Schwirtz said. Lower Bracket, 7:45 p.m. She tagged Cannon Falls a “well- host to No. 7 Sibley East in a first- Match Thursday, Nov. 1 round match Thursday evening in FINAL balanced team, front row and back.” Glencoe. at Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter “I believe we could have beat GSL is in the same semifinal Title Match, 7:45 p.m. — winner goes to them,” she added, “but woulda, bracket as fellow Wright County Section 2 title match, Nov. 3 at GAC. shoulda, coulda’s only get you so Conference member Mound-Weston- far.” ka, whose 23-3 record includes a 3-2 for their Rochester adventure with a Schwirtz said the tournament was loss to the Panthers back on Sept. 11. straight-games triumph over visiting great preparations for sections. Belle Plaine (21-7) is the North’s top- Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop on Thurs- Chronicle photo by Lee Ostrom seeded team. day, Oct, 18. Game scores were 25-7, Volleyball Last week, the Panthers tuned up 25-10, 25-21. Turn to page 3B GSL’s Clarissa Ober (13) and Courtney Lemke (5) wait for a GFW response to Emily Muetzel’s (2) serve. Panthers champs of the West By Lee Ostrom Section 2 (AAAA) Sports Editor eaton Anderson and Football Ryan Kuester impro- Games Tuesday, Oct. 23 vised for a go-ahead 1ST ROUND 7 p.m. Starts touchdown with 3:29 UPPER BRACKET — (1) Hutchinson gets a K bye. remaining, and Jake Stuedemann dashed host Dassel-Cokato’s last New Ulm at (4) Dassel-Cokato. LOWER BRACKET — (2) GSL gets a bye. hopes with a leaping pass intercep- Mankato East at (3) Marshall. tion, as the GSL Panthers topped Games Saturday, Oct.27 DC, 18-12, last Wednesday to stake SEMIFINALS an outright claim on the Wright 3 p.m. Starts Upper Bracket, at Hutchinson. County Conference’s first West Di- Lower Bracket, at GSL. vision title. Game Friday, Nov. 2 “We really wanted to get that FINAL (WCC West) title,” said fullback at Higher Seed Dalton Clouse, who rushed for 134 Title Game, 7 p.m. — winner goes to stripes, including 36 rugged ones on state tournament. GSL’s winning 67-yard march. shall lists 24 seniors on its varsity Glencoe-Silver Lake finished 4-0 roster. against West Division rivals, one “They’ve got a good football game better than 3-1 Annandale. DC team,” GSL head coach Scott was 1-3; the same as Litchfield and Tschimperle said, noting Marshall’s New London-Spicer. “big offensive line,” a “230-pound Now 7-1 overall, Glencoe-Silver fullback” and threats with speed to Lake does not play again until Satur- get outside, too. day, Oct. 27, when it plays host to He said Marshall reminds GSL one of the semifinals in the Section coaches of recent-vintage Delano 2 (Class AAAA) tournament. teams. On paper, the second-seeded Pan- *** thers figure to welcome the unde- At DC, the Panthers scored touch- feated No. 3 seeds from Marshall to downs on their first two possessions Stevens Seminary Stadium for a 3 for a 12-0 lead; then got Kuester five p.m. matinee that day. The Tigers, strides behind the Chargers defense champions of the Southwest Confer- on their third possession, only to ence, scored 40 points or more and have the usually sure-handed speed- Chronicle photo by Rich Glennie showed a winning margin of 22 ster drop what looked like another points or better in each assignment GSL’s Alex Foss sees to it DC punt returner Dal- an Oct. 17 clash at Dassel-Cokato. on their eight-game schedule. Mar- GSL Football ton Asplin (34) does not turn the corner during Turn to page 2B watched an episode of the TV series As requested: “Rat Busters-NYC.” And it has stuck. ‘Rats advance Listen to head coach Robb DeCorsey talk about Arnold and Boesche, and pretty soon a picture to state meet’ emerges of a couple of court rats who won’t stop. The first thing you might want to Won’t stop competing. know about GSL’s two qualifiers to Won’t stop developing their this year’s Class A state tennis tour- games. nament is what they call them- Lee Ostrom Won’t stop refusing to stop! selves. “These two,” DeCorsey says. “We call each other rats,” says “They’ve done so much. They’ve Kelly Arnold, who with doubles true-second qualifier (6-1, 6-1 over worked and worked and worked.” partner Michaela Boesche persisted Hannah Lisson and Kelly Mendel of After rotating as GSL’s first and after a heart-wrenching loss in the Annandale). second singles players for most of Section 5 semifinals Oct. 15 at St. Now, it’s off to state, where the regular season and two matches John’s University. Boesche and Arnold play Megan in the Section 5 team tournament, Arnold, a junior, and the year- Lahti and Michaela Nelson, a pair of Boesche and Arnold chose to team older Boesche dominated the third- St. James seniors, in a first-round as a first doubles for the individual place match (6-2, 6-1 over Mattea match, 10 a.m. Thursday (Oct. 25), tournament. That was fine with Eckstein and Daisha Meyer of Bel- at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis DeCorsey, who expected good re- grade-Brooten-Elrosa); then the Center in Minneapolis. If they win, Chronicle photo by Lee Ostrom the two rats play a 2 p.m. quarterfi- sults. nal later Thursday. The GSL doubles team of Kelly Arnold and Michaela Boesche is Arnold explained that the handle Ostrom headed for the Class A state tennis tournament in Minneapolis. Chronicle sports editor Lee Ostrom is at Turn to page 3B The pair’s first match is Thursday morning, Oct. 25. [email protected] took the first time she and Boesche The McLeod County Chronicle, Wednesday, October 24, 2012, page 2B GSL Panther Fall Sports FOOTBALL August 31....Holy Family Cath.. .W,46-21 September 07....at Hutchinson ......L,35-13 14....Annandale ..........W,43-33 21....at N.London-Spicer ..W,26-6 28....Litchfield .............W,28-20 October 05....Becker (HC) .........W,21-9 12....at Waconia .........W,36-22 17....at Dassel-Cok. ...W,18-12 Section 2(AAAA) Semifinal 27....vs.Marshall ...............3:00 VOLLEYBALL August 28....Watertown-Mayer. ..W,3-0 30....at HF Catholic ........W,3-1 September 04....at NYA Central........W,3-1 11....at Mound-Wtka.......W,3-2 13....Dassel-Cokato........W,3-1 15....Montevideo Inv. ...1st(4-0) 18....at Waconia...............L,3-0 20....Orono .....................W,3-1 22....Sibley East Inv.....1st(5-0) 24....at Sibley East .........W,3-0 27....at Delano .................L,3-0 Chronicle photo by Rich Glennie October GSL end Derek Bratsch (11) could not come up with a catch of this Dassel-Cokato. The Panthers scored late for an 18-12 victory and an 02....Hutchinson. ............W,3-0 pass during last Wednesday’s Wright County Conference clash at outright WCC West Division championship. 04....at Annandale ..........W,3-0 08....N. London-Spicer ...W,3-1 11....Litchfield .................W,3-2 18....GFW.......................W,3-0 GSL Football Yardstick GSL Football Continued from page 1B 19....Rochester Inv......3rd(3-1) Section 2(AA) Tourney TD. Kuester’s bouncing punt was 25....1st Round .................7:00 Panthers 18, ing in 2Q, the score: Panthers 12, INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Chargers 6. RUSHING — GSL: Dalton GSL did not score on that whistled down, DC had pos- Dassel-Cokato 12 *** Clouse 22-134, Keaton Anderson possession, and the three after session 86 yards from paydirt CROSS COUNTRY at DASSEL-COKATO (Oct.17) — 3RD QUARTER: 10-32, Ryan Kuester 7-32, Jake it. and with only 68 seconds re- GSL.....12.....0 ....0 ....6 — 18 none. Stuedemann 8-15. ... DC: Reid Finally, in answer to a 59- maining. DC ........0 ....6 ....0 ....6 — 12 *** Nelson 15-108, Dalton Asplin9-26. yard Dassel-Cokato scoring After Clouse, getting rare August *** 4TH QUARTER: PASSING — GSL: K.Anderson march, which knotted the action on the defensive line, SCORING PLAYS DC — Dane Anderson 1 run; 4-6-0 49. ... DC: Dane Anderson 25....NYA Alum.....B-1st/G-2nd score at 12-12 with 10:17 re- fired through on first down to 1ST QUARTER: kick failed.