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Official Newspaper of Manchester and Delaware County, Iowa
Tuesday,
September 5, 2006 | |
Hawk girls sweep through Oelwein Quad meet
by Ken Boesenberg
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After pounding on each other for the past several weeks in the confines of their own gym it was time for the West Delaware Hawk volleyball team to face some outside competition.
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The Hawks Katie Wessels (#3) and Nicole Neverman (#16) go up for a block against Starmont during action at the Oelwein Quad Meet last Thursday night in Oelwein. The Hawks defeated the Stars 21-16 and 21-11. West Delaware junior, Emily Heffernen (#15) blocks the kill attempt by Emily Coffman of Independence. The Hawks defeated the Mustangs 21-6, 21-6 as they started the season out with three straight wins in Oelwein. |
The competition in the practice room is intense and on a very high scale and it shows when the Hawks start facing opposing teams.
On Thursday night the Hawks got the 2006-07 season underway at the Oelwein Quad Meet.
West Delaware’s first match of the season was against WaMaC Conference foe Independence.
The Hawks jumped out to an early 7-3 lead in game one as they cruised to a 21-6 victory. Game two saw the Hawks get out to another early lead, 10-3 before also winning by a final score of 21-6.
Coach Brett Mather rotated all 13 players through the line up against the Mustangs with no noticeable fall off in ability or intensity.
The Hawks second match of the night was against the host Huskies.
Again the Hawks got out to early leads in both games against Oelwein, 9-1 in game one and 10-2 in game two as they went on to defeat Oelwein, 21-9 and 21-13.
Senior Katie Wessels scored 10 offensive points for the Hawks with eight kills and two ace serves.
Her ace serves came on a very impressive “jump serve”, something that Katie has added for her senior season.
The Hawks third and final match of the night came against a very scrappy Starmont Star squad.
The Hawks were not quite as sharp against the Stars but took care of business, winning by scores of 21-16 and 21-11.
Lindsey McDowell, Katie Wessels, Emily Heffernen and Tessa Reinig combined for 21 kills in the two games against the Stars.
The Hawks competed at the Vinton Invite on Saturday and will have a busy week this week with matches at Western Dubuque on Tuesday, at home vs. Independence on Thursday and at the Applington Parkersburg Invite on Saturday, September 9th. |
Hawk cross country teams compete at Oelwein
by Ken Boesenberg |
| The West Delaware girls and boys cross country teams got the season off to a good start with |
Morgan Muller of West Delaware makes her way towards the finish line last Tuesday at the Oelwein Invite where she finished 14th overall. The Hawks Tyler Hutton stays ahead of some of the competition at the Oelwein Invitational Cross Country Meet last Tuesday. Vince Lilienthal of West Delaware holds off a runner from Independence during the Oelwein Invite. The Hawk boys placed 7th of 14 teams. |
the girls placing fourth and the boys seventh at the Oelwein Invitational Cross Country Meet last Tuesday afternoon at Lakeside Golf Course just west of Oelwein.
There were 16 varsity teams involved in the competition. Decorah swept the meet winning both the varsity girls and boys team titles.
For the Hawk girls they were led by freshman Morgan Muller who finished 14th overall in a time of 17:07 in her first varsity cross country race.
She was followed by Anna Schreck (19th), Renee Nurre (23rd), Holly Tjaden (29th) and Anna Reilly (30th). Alaina Davis also competed for the varsity.
The Hawk girls junior varsity team was one runner short of being able to score in the team competition as they entered just four runners.
Running for the junior varsity were MacKenzie Murphy (51st), Kelly Glanz (53rd), Mary Jo Welcher (54th) and Shelly O’Connell (67th).
There were no individual results available for the boys team at press time.
Final team standings
girls (top 8)
1. Decorah 49; 2. Denver 54; 3. Waukon 100; 4. West Delaware 114; 5. Western Dubuque 178; 6. Crestwood 224; 7. Dyersville Beckman 243; 8. Sumner Fredericksburg 276.
Final team standings
boys
1. Decorah 57; 2. Waterloo West 93; 3. Wapsie Valley 96; 4. Western Dubuque 111; 5. Waterloo Columbus 118; 6. Waukon 118; 7. West Delaware 224; 8. Denver 248; 9. Dyersville Beckman 253; 10. Independence 253; 11. Crestwood 305; 12. Oelwein 327; 13. Sumner Fredericksburg 363; 14. Clayton Ridge 443.
The next competition for the Hawks will be on Saturday, September 9th at West Union followed by the Starmont Invitational on Tuesday the the 12th and the Cascade Invitational on the 15th. |
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