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 LC
volleyball team meets Vincennes
[SEPT.
25, 2000] On
Saturday, the Lincoln College ladies’ volleyball team lost to
Vincennes 1-15, 3-15, 12-15. Molly Owens, Christine Lott and Adie
Harmon each made four kills. In addition to kills, Adie Harmon
blocked one shot and Christine Lott blocked three shots. Bonnie
Brown assisted eleven times, made three digs and one ace. Amanda
Pikert had six digs.
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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 it's 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 kids' eyes when
they left the field for the intermission. I saw it in our kids' 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 Wunderle
returns from Olympics
[SEPT.
23, 2000] Wunderle
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 medals.
The team was
challenged by gusty, strong Australian winds and good teams. In overtime in their final shoot-off round, the team really showed what
they're made of. In the most intense round, Butch Johnson of Woodstock,
Conn., and Wunderle of Mason City shot perfect 10s, and Rod White of
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, hit a nine for an almost-perfect score of 29.
After nine 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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