November 4, 2006 Vol. 35 Issue 4
November 4, 2006 Vol. 35 Issue 4
Moran, Oct. 21- The varsity volleyball team
played their final matches of the year in the Substate tournament against
Marmaton Valley and Uniontown. The Lady Cubs had one victory and one loss
that caused them to be knocked out of Substate.
To begin the day, Humboldt had a victory against Marmaton Valley with scores
of 25-10 and 25-23.
During those games the ladies had a total of seven aces. Terra Woods and Katie
Manbeck, jrs., both had two of the seven aces while Kelci Owens, so., had
the other three. Owens was the only player with assists. She had 12.
Three players who led in kills and blocks were Sarah Works, jr., with six
kills and one block, Michele Rickner, sr., with five kills and one block,
and Lenzie Boring, so., with five kills.
In the second round, the Lady Cubs lost a close match to the Uniontown Eagles
with scores of 21-25, 25-17, and 23-25.
Photo By Deron Owens
Get Ready
Callie Umholtz and Lenzie Boring, sos., get ready for
a serve
receive. The Lady Cubs ended the season with the record of 12-15
In this match, Owens had 27 assists, four digs and four blocks.
Callie Umholtz, so., had the most digs with seven, and she also had three
blocks and two kills. Additional scorers who also contributed kills were Woods
with 11, Works with 10, Rickner with seven, and Umholtz and Boring with two
each.
“I think our game against Uniontown was awesome. It was probably our
best match all year,” said Rickner. “Everyone on the team did
what they had to do. It would have been fun going to State, but that match
was a good match to end my senior volleyball career on. I would not have wished
it any different.”
Although the team’s season ended after their loss to Uniontown, Kim
Jones, head coach, was positive about the outcome of the tournament and season.
“Our girls walked off of the court today full of pride. We played without
question, the best volleyball we have played all season,” said Jones.
“Four out of five games we served above 90 percent as a team and multiple
girls broke their own records in stats for specific skills. The girls never
doubted they could beat the number one seed, Uniontown just earned two more
points than we did. Everything we have been working on all season fell into
place and we played an incredible match.”
The Lady Cubs volleyball team ended their season with a record of 12-15.
One win, two losses at varsity tournament
By Laura Watts, so.
Reporter
Neodesha, Oct 14- After playing Neodesha,
Baxter Springs, and Elk Valley, the Humboldt Lady Cubs ended the last tournament
of their regular season with a record of 1-2.
The Lady Cubs went up against Neodesha in their first match of the day. The
first game ended with an 18-25 loss for the team. They also struggled in the
second game, losing 8-25.
Junior Terra Woods led the team with five kills and 10 digs. Also helping
the team’s efforts were Bailey Myers, so., with nine digs, Sarah Works,
jr., with four kills, and Kelci Owens, so., with eight assists.
Baxter Springs also proved to be a difficult match-up for the Lady Cubs as
the team lost both games 10-25 and 13-25, respectively.
Photo By Emily Hauser
Set it high.
Sophomore Kelci Owens sets the ball during a tournament at Neodesha.
The Lady Cubs ended the tournament with a record of 1-2. Owens
completed a total of 26 assists throughout the entire tournament.
Offensively the team had eight kills, five by Woods and three
by Works. On the defensive side, Woods and Lenzie Boring, so., contributed
five digs each.
“I think Humboldt did well, but we could have put a stronger effort
against the first two teams. I think the game against Elk Valley is when we
finally showed up to play,” said Boring.
Humboldt finished the tournament with a victory over Elk Valley with final
scores of 25-21 and 25-21.
The Lady Cubs scored a total of 10 aces for the match; five by Woods, three
by Callie Umholtz, so., and two by Katie Manbeck, jr. Woods and Works each
completed four kills a piece. Umholtz added eight digs and Owens helped out
with 10 assists.
“I don’t think we played very well until the last game against
Elk Valley,” said Woods. “We could have done better, but we didn’t
play horribly. We improved as the tournament went on.”
JV loses to Yates Center
By Deron Owens, so.
Reporter
Yates Center, Oct. 17 - With the final scores
of 15-25 and 19-25, the Humboldt JV volleyball girls suffered a loss to Yates
Center.
“We were really hoping for a win tonight. We were short handed on the
court without Tessa [Coronado, jr.] and Hali [Dawson, jr.]. The girls fought
to stay in the game but couldn’t come out on top,” said Staci
Leavitt, JV volleyball coach.
Throughout the match, Shelley Herder, so., had five aces and three kills,
and following after her was Katie Manbeck, jr., with three aces and one kill.
Manbeck also had seven assists.
Photo By Emily Hauser
I got it.
Bailey Myers, so., passes the ball during the JV game at Yates Center.
Humboldt ended the match with the scores of 15-25 and 19-25.
The match was the JV's last of the season. The team ended the sesaon
with a record of 2-12
“I thought that we could have played better. We didn’t
communicate very well,” said Jenell Baker, jr.
The JV Lady Cubs volleyball team ended the season with a record of 2-12.
“Although we didn’t win lots of matches, every player improved
greatly,” said Leavitt.
Varsity ends regular season with two victories
at YC
By Christy Splechter, fr.
Reporter
Yates Center, Oct. 17 - Humboldt had two wins
against Yates Center, ending the first match with the scores of 25-14 and
25-7 and the second match with the scores of 25-19 and 25-22.
“We played very solid volleyball the first match; in the second we let
down and made too many mistakes,” said Kim Jones, head coach. “Some
of our girls individually made a lot of progress, so tonight was a great night.
Callie Umholtz, so., had five aces and six digs during the first match.
Lenzie Boring, so., had five digs and Terra Woods, jr., had six kills. Kelci
Owens, so., lead the first match with 11 assists.
In the second match, Boring had seven kills and five digs. Woods had eight
digs and three kills.
Umholtz had seven digs and two kills. Katie Manbeck, jr., had three digs.
Owens again led the team in assists with 13.
“I think we did a great job. We hit a few rough spots, but we did well
playing as a team,” said Michele Rickner, sr. “Yates Center wasn’t
really there for the first match so we pretty much creamed them. The second
match they gave us some competition, but they still couldn’t handle
our Lady Cub volleyball.”
Cubs
lose to Eagles
By Christy Splechter, fr.
Reporter
Humboldt, Oct. 20- In the second game of
district play, Uniontown beat Humboldt 7-34.
“[We played] flat,” said Josh Poovey, sr. “We had nothing
go right for us. From the beginning to the end, it was all Uniontown.”
Devin Onnen, so., had a seven yard touchdown at the end of the fourth quarter
for Humboldt’s only points.
Humboldt had 122 rushing yards with 41 attempts. Uniontown had 285 rushing
yards with 48 attempts.
“I think we could have played better, but nothing was going our way,”
said Casey Womelsdorf, sr.
The Cubs had 134 rushing yards while the Eagles had 285 rushing yards. Humboldt’s
total offense was 129 yards while Uniontown had 323 yards.
“I don’t think we played very well. I think we could have played
better, and we definitely didn’t play to our full advantage,”
said Devin Myers, jr.
The Cubs had a punting yardage of 128 yards while Uniontown had 112 punting
yardage. The Cubs also had a punting average of 32 yards and the Eagles
had a punting average of 28 yards.
“[It would have helped] if we would have came out with more fire,”
said Poovey. “Better special teams would have helped us at the beginning
of the game.”
The loss to the Uniontown Eagles will keep the Cubs from moving on to Bi-District.
“It was a hard loss for us seniors, but we are facing adversity now.
We know we can’t make the playoffs but we have one game left. It is
6-3 or 7-2. It is up to us,” said Poovey.
Humboldt, Oct. 26 - To wrap up their season,
the Humboldt Cubs beat the Pleasanton Blu-Jays with a score of 40-6. The
Cubs ended the season 7-2.
Humboldt was the first to score when Tory Thomas, sr., threw a pass to Andrew
Whitaker, so., for a 46 yard touchdown, making the score 6-0.
It was only 29 seconds later when Jason Kaufman, sr., had a one-yard run
for a touchdown. After the touchdown, Thomas ran the ball for a two point
conversion, making the score 14-0.
Sam Norris, jr., was the next to score on a two yard run. Drue Barton, sr.,
kicked for the extra point. The kick was good, making the score 21-0.
Photo By Chelsy Wright
Is anyone open?
Tory Thomas sr. looks for an open receiver. Humboldt completed
three of their five passing attempts and gained a total of 85 passing yards
against the Pleasanton Blu-Jays.
To end the first quarter, Thomas passed the ball to Trey Zartman,
sr., for a 33 yard touchdown. Barton picked up the extra point again to
make the score 28-0.
In the beginning of the second quarter, Norris scored again on a five-yard
run making the score 34-0. Pleasanton scored their first touchdown of the
night to end the first half.
Norris scored one more time in the third quarter on a two-yard
run to end the game, making the final score 40-6.
“I think it was awesome that we won by so much,” said Kaufman.
“We had many improvements from the week before. I’m glad we
could end our senior year in football with a bang.”
Photo By Laura Watts
Thursday night lights.
The Humboldt football team stands together for the coin toss against
Pleasanton. The Cubs won the game and ended their season
with a record of 7-2 and the title of TVL Champions.
The Cubs gained a total of 237 yards on the ground in 38
attempts while the Blu-Jays only gained 94 yards on the same amount of attempts.
The Cubs also gained 85 passing yards for a total of 316 total offensive
yards.
“I feel like our kids had a lot of fun,” said Travis Burk, head
coach. “It’s always hard when you know it’s the last game,
and you’re not going to the playoffs. In the last week of practice
we focused more on having fun for the senior’s last practices and
last game.”
This game was the last game of the 2006 football season and was also Parents’
Night. Nine seniors and their parents were recognized before the game.
“The team did very well this season,” said Jason Feeback, assistant
coach. “Our seniors provided great leadership. It was great to send
the seniors out on a winning note.”
Pittsburg, Oct. 3- In the first game of district
playoffs, the Humboldt Cubs went on the road and suffered their first loss
of the season to the Pittsburg-Colgan Panthers with a final score of 0-14.
“I think the game went really well,” said Justin Kaufman, sr.
“We just needed to take care of the ball when we have it. Defensively,
we did well.”
The first quarter ended with Colgan leading 0-7. Humboldt held Colgan to
the same score to end the first half.
“I think we played pretty well except for the times when we got burned
on defense,” said Sam Norris, jr.
Half way through the third quarter, Colgan scored again making the score
0-14. This was the final score of the game.
“We just didn’t get the job done,” said Norris. “That
is all there is to it.”
In 33 rushing attempts Humboldt gained 113 yards. They also completed six
passing attempts for a total of 56 yards. The Cubs gained 169 yards total
offensively.
“Our kids played well against Colgan,” said Jason Feeback, assistant
coach. “We had many chances to win the game but we did not capitalize
on our opportunities. I am proud of the way our kids played against a team
like Colgan.”
The Humboldt Cubs only allowed the Colgan Panthers to score 14 points, the
fewest points they have scored in a game so far this year.
“I felt we had them on their heels for most of the night,” said
Travis Burk, head coach. “I felt that it was a great opportunity to
play Colgan.”
