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Railers
lose homecoming heartbreaker
[SEPT.
23, 2000] I rarely listen to
cheerleaders. It's not that our cheerleaders aren't good, because
they are and its not that they don't work hard and try, because they
do. I just don't usually listen to cheerleaders. I'm too involved in
watching the game (especially my own son). But last night, I
listened to one of the final cheers of the game and I'm glad I did.
It reminded me why I had just watched every excruciating minute of
the Railers 35-0 loss to Jacksonville. It was a simple cheer. It
went something like this: "We love the Railers, We love the
Railers, We love our Railers." Only someone who loved the
Railers could have watched what happened last night.
 The Jacksonsville
passing game was clicking on all cylinders. Even a pass missed by
one of the Jacksonville ends ended up in the hands of another
Jacksonville end for a huge gain. That's how it was all night.
Jacksonville's "Mr. Everything", T.J. Tobin
single-handedly dismantled the Railers secondary on the opening
drives and he made it look easy. No one (or even two) in the Railer
secondary could play with him. When the Railers doubled up on Tobin,
Jacksonville would go to secondary receivers or run the football
with equal success. The Railers were only rarely successful in
stopping Jacksonville offense. One of the only impressive
"stops" by the defense was a goal line stand in the late
fourth quarter. But it was too little, too late.
The Railer offense
didn't mount a successful drive until the last minutes of the fourth
quarter. The absence of Sam Moore during the first half was
devastating for the Railers. While Moore had his usual flashes of
speed and hard running when he returned in the second half, it never
resulted in a Railer score. The Railer passing game also had a few
highlights, but not enough of them were strung together to mount a
successful scoring drive. Jacksonville's defense won the battle on
the line of scrimmage on almost every series. Railer quarterbacks
were under constant pressure and forced to throw early. Josh
Gallagher played valiantly at quarterback, but was unable to get the
Railers in the end zone. Special teams were a bright spot, improving
greatly over last week's performance. Of special note was the play
of sophomore, Josh Carey with his excellent long snaps on punts.
Unfortunately by
halftime, the game was over. You could see it in our kid's eyes when
they left the field for the intermission. I saw it in our kid's body
language almost from the beginning. It was a heartbreaking feeling.
The Railers seemed to come out flat, lacking the emotion I had seen
from them every week so far this season. You can sometimes play
without high emotion, but you very rarely win without it. The
Railers didn't tonight. The Railers fall to 0-5. In spite of that,
"We still love the Railers." Thanks, cheerleaders for
reminding us. The Railers play at Springfield High next Friday
night. We can only hope the emotion returns.
[Rick
Hobler]
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 Mason
City will have a double celebration when native Victor Wonderle
returns from Olympics
[SEPT.
23, 2000] Wonderle
won men's individual archery silver metal earlier this week. Friday
he competed with the USA men's team archery to bring home more
Olympic metal. The men's three-man team archery is bringing home
Bronze metals.
The team was
challenged by gusty, strong Australian winds and good teams. In over
time in their final shoot off round, the team really showed what
they're made. In the most intense round Butch Johnson of Woodstock ,
Conn., and Wunderle, Mason City shot perfect 10's and Rod White of
Mount Pleasant, Iowa hit a 9 for an almost perfect score of 29.
After 9 rounds, final
results concluded with South Korea taking the gold at 255, silver
for Italy 347, and the bronze third place tie of 239 for USA and
Russia.
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Lady
Lynx play five-game match in close loss
[SEPT.
22, 2000] Lincoln
College and Carl Sandburg played a full five-game ladies volleyball
match yesterday at Lincoln College. Only a couple points decided
each of the games. All the Lady Lynx were in top condition, as shown
by their stats. Candace Sheley made 11 kills, six digs and four
aces! Christine Lott blocked 10 shots and had four kills. Adie
Harmon had two aces and 10 digs. Bonnie Brown assisted 29 times!
Carl Sandburg narrowly won with game scores of 13-15, 14-16, 15-12,
15-10 and 15-12.
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Four
games needed to decide LC volleyball match
 [SEPT.
21, 2000] The
Lady Lynx volleyball team of Lincoln College played four games in
their match against Springfield yesterday. Home team Springfield
won, but Lincoln College fought hard. Christine Lott had six kills
and two blocks. Candace Sheley made eight kills, 11 digs and nine
aces. Bonnie Brown assisted 13 times. Adie Harmon had eight digs and
11 aces. The scores of the four games were 12-15, 15-13, 5-15, 2-15.
Lincoln’s record is now 0-12. The Lady Lynx play Carl Sandburg at
home this afternoon.
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LC
places ninth at Rock Valley Golf Tournament
 [SEPT.
21, 2000] Earlier
this week, Lincoln College participated in the Rock Valley Golf
Tournament at Rockford. LC placed ninth out of 19 teams, with
two-day scores of 323 and 324, to equal 647. Rend Lake won the
tournament. Their scores were 304 and 303, for a total of 607. Two
of Rend Lake’s team members, Kyle Brennan and Hiles Stout, won
medals. They each shot 157. Lincoln’s top scorers were Tom
Peterson and Dustin Stephens, each with scores of 157.
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Local
college teams meet across the net
[SEPT.
20, 2000] Two
local women’s volleyball teams competed yesterday at Lincoln
College. Lincoln Christian College topped Lincoln College’s Lady
Lynx 15-8, 15-9 and 15-10. Lincoln College’s stats were as
follows: Christine Lott had nine kills; Stacy Schuler made four
kills; Bonnie Brown assisted 23 times and had nine aces; Adie Harmon
had five digs and seven aces; and Candace Sheley had eight digs and
six aces. Lincoln’s Lady Lynx volleyball record is now 0-11.
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 LCC
women’s soccer
brings home first win
[SEPT.
20, 2000] Lincoln
Christian College’s women’s soccer team, under the direction of
Coach Dan DeVilder, won their match against Kentucky Christian
College with a score of 4-0, Saturday, Sept. 16, in Grayson, Ky.
This is the first win of the season for the team, which is also in
its freshman season. The team of 18 women includes four Lincoln
natives: Emily Storm, Lindsey Jones, Brittany Robbins and Stephanie
Urton. The next home game will be at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26
against Springfield College.
Following
is a complete team roster:
Abbey
Flaherty, Juliet Grundhofer, Heather Narmore, Brittany Robbins,
Lindsey Jones, Lindsay Heston, Cassie Wertin, Stephanie Urton, Emily
Best, Abbie Wertin, Emily Storm, Ruth Spiering, Stephanie Keim,
Keturah Potter, Tonia Bruther, Brandi Baggett, Kris Unander, Emilie
Robb
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Football
Sept. 22:
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