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Volleyball: LCHS vs. Mount Zion

[OCT. 27, 2000] Yesterday, here in Lincoln, Lincoln Community High School’s ladies volleyball team beat Mount Zion 15-8 and 15-4. Lincoln now has a record of 25-10-1, and Mount Zion’s record is evenly balanced at 19-18.

Kelli Gleason served 10 points and made 25 assists for Lincoln. Ashley Boyer had 10 kills. Danielle Peifer blocked five balls.

Holly Have of Mount Zion made six kills and one block.

Volleyball: Mount Pulaski vs. Greenview

[OCT. 27, 2000] Mount Pulaski High School’s ladies volleyball team blew away Greenview yesterday in Manito. The final score was 15-2 and 15-1.

Laura Reeter served up 10 points for Mount Pulaski. Mary Olson made five kills, Bethany Dulle blocked four balls, and Tiffany Conaway assisted 14 times.

For Greenview, Kristine Williams made two service points and two blocks. Andrea Virgil assisted her teammates three times.

Mount Pulaski’s volleyball record is now 28-8, and Greenview’s record is 5-22.

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LC men’s soccer season ends with regional

[OCT. 26, 2000] Lincoln College’s men’s soccer team played Lincoln Land in Springfield yesterday in regional soccer competition. Lincoln Land won 1-0.

"We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn’t put the ball in the net," Coach Howard said.

Lincoln College had 17 shots on the goal, while Lincoln Land had only nine shots. With 12 minutes left in the first half, Ryan Leach scored Lincoln Land’s goal from 30 yards.

Lincoln College’s final men’s soccer record is 11 wins, eight losses and one tie.

Lady Lynx conclude volleyball season

[OCT. 26, 2000] Lincoln College Lady Lynx participated in regional competition against John A. Logan yesterday. The final scores of the volleyball match were 15-7, 15-6 and 15-2 — a win for John A. Logan.

Candace Sheley of Lincoln made five kills and three aces. Christine Lott had three kills and two blocks. Bonnie Brown assisted seven times.

Coach Smith admitted, "We just played very poorly. We didn’t have any positives to report."

The final record for the Lady Lynx in volleyball this year is three wins and 33 losses.

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LCHS defeats Taylorville in VB regionals

[OCT. 25, 2000] Lincoln Community High School’s ladies volleyball team competed against Taylorville in the Class AA regionals. The game was here in Lincoln. The Lady Railsplitters beat Taylorville 15-7 and 15-2.

Darcy White of Lincoln served up nine points. Ashley Boyer made seven kills. Danielle Peifer blocked four balls, and Kelli Gleason assisted her teammates 22 times.

Lincoln now has 24 wins and 10 losses.

Wooden bat team splits weekend doubleheaders

[OCT. 24, 2000] Lincoln’s high school wooden bat team split two doubleheaders over the weekend to push its outstanding record to 11-3. After allowing five Quincy runs in the sixth inning and losing 7-6 in its first game Saturday, Lincoln retaliated by trouncing Quincy 10-0. In Sunday’s games, Lincoln defeated Dwight 4-2 but fell short in the second game 6-4.

Lincoln seemed in control of the opening game against Quincy, a team that Lincoln had twice beaten previously by just one run each game. Blake Schoonover pitched five innings, giving up only two runs on two hits, leaving the game with a 6-2 lead. Lincoln’s runs came from Andy Knopp (2), Chris Phillips (2), Jamison Sheley and Josh McDaniel. The RBI punch came from Phillips (2), John Peters (2), Matt Boyer and Schoonover.

[Ryan Williams holds his broken bat that gave him his last hit against Quincy.]

Hard-throwing senior reliever Jamison Sheley had difficulty finding the strike zone in the sixth inning, facing five batters — walking three, hitting one and giving up a bunt single. Chris Phillips relieved Sheley with the bases loaded, but coughed up two singles that contributed to Quincy’s huge five-run inning and its 7-6 lead. Lincoln’s hopes were still alive when Phillips smacked a two-out double in the seventh inning. But he was left stranded when the game ended on a strikeout. It was only the second loss of the season for Lincoln.

Lincoln’s defense played without error in the loss. Notable plays included a long throw from left field by Sheley to double up a runner at first after nabbing a line drive and a 4-6-3 double play turned by juniors Boyer and Knopp.

[Andrew Bartman awaits a pitch.]

The second Quincy game illustrated the claim, "Don’t mess with guys who don’t like to lose." Lincoln jumped on Quincy for four runs in the first inning, four more in the third and two more in the fifth. Four Lincoln players scored two runs apiece in the blowout — Peters, Justin Dedman, Phillips and Knopp. Dedman went 3 for 3 with a two-RBI double, while junior Ryan Williams wacked a two-out, bases-loaded double, ending up with four RBIs for the game.

Williams also stifled Quincy’s hitters from the mound. The starter allowed no runs and no hits through four innings and was effectively relieved by McDaniel in the last inning of the mercy-ended game.

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On Sunday, Lincoln faced a good 9-3 team from Dwight. Lincoln began with a 4-2 win, not allowing Dwight’s two runs until the last inning. Senior starter Chris Phillips struck out nine, walked one and surrendered only two hits through six innings. But Dwight greeted Phillips with hard-hit balls in the seventh inning. It began with a lined shot that outstretched shortstop Knopp was able to backhand for the first out. The next batter singled, followed by a long triple to right-center field by Dwight senior Jacob Norman. Sheley was then called upon to relieve Phillips. Though he allowed Norman to score on a wild pitch, he gave up no more runs and picked up the important save.

In the second game with Dwight, Lincoln encountered Jacob Norman again — this time on the mound. Norman struck out nine Lincoln batters in six innings. He allowed three runs on hits to Dedman (2), Phillips (2), Williams (2), Knopp and McDaniel. (Williams’s second hit sent the ball up the middle and the bigger part of his broken bat toward third base. Unlike Roger Clemens in the second game of the World Series, Dwight’s fielder did not attempt to throw the bat back toward the hitter.)

[Senior pitcher Chris Phillips forces Quincy’s Nathan Frese to ground out to first.]

Lincoln senior starter Justin Dedman spread out nine hits through five innings, but four of them were for extra bases, including a second-inning solo homer to Norman. Dedman and Lincoln’s defense came through in a major third-inning threat. With no one out and runners at first and second, Dwight’s Joel Steichen attempted a sacrifice bunt down the third-base line. Third baseman Phillips was forced to field the ball and heard Knopp, who was rotating to third from shortstop, calling for the throw. The ball reached Knopp in time to force out the runner. The play may have energized Dedman further, as he proceeded to strike out the next two hitters, holding Dwight scoreless in the inning.

When Dedman was relieved by McDaniel in the bottom of the sixth, Dwight led 5-2. Dwight scored one more after two walks and an error — Lincoln’s second error in the four-game weekend. Lincoln threatened in its last at-bat, scoring once on an RBI groundout by Schoonover that plated Boyer. But that was it. Lincoln suffered its third loss in its 14-game season.

Lincoln’s final doubleheader of the season will be next Sunday against Pekin at Lincoln Christian College at noon.

[Rich Knopp]

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Box scores for first game with Quincy

Box scores for second game with Quincy

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Season hitting stats

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LCC volleyball to retire four-time All-American’s No. 11

[OCT. 24, 2000] Lincoln Christian College will retire the No. 11 uniform of Stephanie Nangle-Farr, LCC volleyball middle hitter, 1996-1999.

The ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in the LCC gymnasium will take place before the LCC volleyball match against McMurray College.

Ms. Nangle-Farr was the first four-time all-American in the NCAA from LCC. She will be the first female from LCC to receive the honor of retiring her number.

Lynx take the cake in first round of VB playoffs

[OCT. 24, 2000] Playing against John Wood in the first round of regional playoffs, Lincoln won at home in a five-game match, with scores of 15-11, 10-15, 14-16, 15-4 and 15-7.

In personal performances:

Christine Lott had 19 kills, 3 blocks

Candace Sheley: 13 kills, 11 digs, 3 aces

Adie Harmon: 15 kills, 5 blocks, 11 digs, 8 aces

Amanda Pikert: 9 kills, 3 blocks

*Bonnie Brown: 55 assists.

Coach Smith says, "We fought hard and played pretty well. I think we will be competitive Wednesday. *Bonnie Brown set a personal best with 55 assists, a great effort."

With a record of 3-32, the Lynx play next at John A. Logan on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the second round of playoffs.

LC fights into double OT to win men’s soccer game

[OCT. 24, 2000] Playing against Lewis and Clark, the Lincoln College Lynx won in the first round of soccer regionals. Playing on home grounds, they battled into double overtime to win 3-2.

Goals were made by:

Leon Clark, assisted by Andre Perry

Ortez Davis, assisted by Ben Chavolla

Steve Gordon, assisted by Chavolla, finished with the winning game point

Matt Stoeff, 6 saves

Lincoln goes on to the second round of regionals Wednesday at Springfield against Lincoln Land with a record of 11-7-1.

Victory

By Rick Hobler

[OCT. 21, 2000] Tears fell at Handlin Field last night. Tears of joy, as the Railers came out with a 45-14 senior Night win over East Peoria. After playing their hearts out all year, without a victory, the Railers dominated the entire game in every way. The game began last Monday in practice when the seniors made up their minds to go out as winners…whatever it took. It was clear from looking in the eyes of the seniors, even before the game began, that they had no intention of losing this final game of their high school careers. They had come to play and win. And with the help of the entire Railer squad, they did both.

The Railers played like champions on both sides of the ball. The Railer defense repeatedly stuffed the run and stopped the pass. On passing downs they sacked the East Peoria quarterback and made some extraordinary plays in the defensive secondary to prevent long gains. On the ground, there was very little room for East Peoria to run. The Railer defensive line and its linebackers plugged up all the running lanes, caused a fumble and prevented any big plays from happening. Numerous plays found Adam Schonauer, Aaron Matson, Billy Barton, Chad Tungate, Quent Workman, Austin Charron, Max Letterly, Morgan Murphy, Matt Hobler and a host of others in the Raider backfield sacking their quarterback and tackling their running backs. Senior Matt Hobler caused the Raider fumble to end East Peoria's opening drive of the second half. Tommy-John Gallagher made a spectacular play in the defensive secondary to thwart what would have been a certain Raider score. East Peoria did not score on the Railer starting defense all night. East Peoria's scores came on a first quarter special team breakdown and a fourth quarter pass against the less experienced Railer substitutes.

The Railer offense was a scoring machine. They also committed no turnovers all night. Led by the excellent execution of quarterback Marty Ryan and with much better blocking at all positions, several Railer running backs found themselves standing in the end-zone in every quarter but one. As you would expect, Sam Moore led the way. The junior record-breaker carried the ball 23 times for 210 yards and three touchdowns. He also had a crucial 28-yard pass reception that put the Railers on the 3-yard line and led to a score just prior to the end of the first half. It appeared from the sidelines, that Moore could have scored almost at will. But "Sam the Man" wasn't the only story of the night. Chad Tungate broke loose on an exciting 64-yard run for a touchdown that put the Railers up 21-7. Tommy-John Gallagher ran the ball well and ended up in the end zone in the fourth quarter to put the Railers up 38-7. Jimmy Babbs ran in his usual tough style and set up the Gallagher score by dragging half the East Peoria defense to the 1-yard line before being stopped. To cap off the scoring, senior Chris Meyer out ran the Raider defense and put the Railers up 45-7.

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The Railer special teams, played exceptionally well, after the first quarter miscue that allowed East Peoria's star senior running back Jake Moody to run 82 yards to tie the score early in the first quarter. After that, the special teams shut down Raider kickoff returns the rest of the night. The extra point team, led by the foot of Todd Michalsen made every extra point kick. Rafael Mancini came on in the third quarter to successfully boot a 19-yard field goal that put the Railers up 31-7. Great hustle and determination, on special teams, led to some spectacular tackles by Jason Synder, Chad Tungate and Aaron Matson.

And then it was over. Over for the last time for the Railer seniors. The celebration began before the last play when head coach Ron Tomczak got the traditional dousing with the remaining water cooler contents. The exuberant celebration continued on the field with the final horn and went on for perhaps another hour. Players, coaches, fans and parents hugged, danced, laughed, cried, squirted shaken up pop cans and celebrated as if the Railers had just won the state championship. This celebration, not only for the victory tonight, but mostly for a team that played like champions all year and deserved to experience the sweet taste of victory.

As I looked back at the field from the parking lot, just as the lights were about to go out on this season at Handlin Field, I saw some of the seniors still out on the field quietly celebrating and not wanting to leave. I watched as they walked off together. I suspect they were laughing and reminiscing and letting a few final tears fall on the turf of their home field. They had gone out as winners. Who could ask for more. WAY TO GO RAILERS!

[Rick Hobler]

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