September 26, 2008 Vol. 37 Issue 2
Ladies take two against
wildcats
By Crystal Crays, sr,
Advertising Editor
With only a few days of rest after their tournament Sept. 20,
the Lady Cubs were ready for action Tuesday night. They battled the Burlington
Wildcats and won two matches against them.
The Lady Cubs had a little trouble with their serving, but they were still
able to follow through in serving as a team with eight aces in the first match
and 10 in the second.
“We did have serving errors,” Lenzie Boring, sr., said, “but
the team did a great job talking, adjusting and staying ahead. Our communication
is weak but getting better with each match we play.”
The matches were slow starting out as the Lady Cubs dominated the court winning
the first match in two games, 25-10 and 25-19; however, things heated up in
the second match.
Photo by Lauren Habiger
Senior Kelci Owens tips the ball across the court to the opposing
Burlington Wildcat team. Kelci has been a setter for the Lady Cubs for
the past four years. The team went on to beat the Cats in two matches.
In the second match they lost the first game 18-25, but battled back to beat
Burlington in the second and third games with scores of 25-12 and 25-11.
“I wasn’t nervous after we lost the first match,” Melissa
Davidson, so., said. “I knew we could beat them; we just had to increase
our intensity and play hard like we do in practice.”
At the Iola tournament Saturday Sept. 13, the Lady Cubs were beaten by Burlington
after already playing five matches.
“I thought that because we lost to Burlington in the Iola tournament
they would be over-confident about the match,” Dillow said. “We
showed them what kind of team we really are.”
Up next for the Lady Cub volleyball team is the Burlington Tournament tomorrow,
and they will be back in action at home Tuesday night to take on Yates Center
and Frontenac.
Home tourney proves disappointing
By Bailey Myers, sr,
Editor-in-chief
Tournament season for volleyball is well underway as Humboldt
hosted their own tourney on Sept. 20, but the Lady Cubs were unable to defend
their championship title from last year as Lebo went undefeated in all of
their matches.
Humboldt played their first match of the day against Altoona and took them
easily in two games 25-10 and 25-6. Kelci Owens, sr., was the only player
to receive any assists, totaling 14 of them.
Kills were split up among the players, but Megan Dillow, sr., had the most
of everyone with six. Altogether the team served 10 aces.
Next, the Cubs faced the Yates Center Wildcats and won the match in two games,
both with scores of 25-17. Again Owens led in assists with 17 this time, while
Lenzie Boring, sr., slammed down nine kills. Owens also served three aces,
and Callie Umholtz, sr., got three blocks.
Photo by Tiffany Zimmerman
Senior Megan Dillow serves the ball
in the home tournament. The
Lady Cubs served ten aces against Altoona in the first match of the day.
In order to reach bracket play to make it to the championship game, Humboldt
needed to beat either Lebo or St. Mary’s Colgan. After some amazing
comebacks, long rallies, and three very intense and close games against Lebo,
the Lady Cubs fell, putting on the pressure to beat Colgan.
Umholtz made seven blocks against Lebo, and leading in digs was Myers with
17. Boring had 12 kills out of Owens’ 22 assists. The team had a total
of 13 aces.
Humboldt went into the Colgan game confident, but lost the first game 23-25.
Colgan took the next game and match easily 11-25, ending the tournament for
the Lady Cubs.
Owens had 12 assists, and Dillow got seven kills; Umholtz blocked seven hits.
“We played well against Lebo, but we struggled to get anything going
against Colgan,” head coach Staci Hudlin said.
Humboldt brings home fourth place from Iola tournament
Randi Barnett, sr,
News Editor
Eight teams participated in the annual Iola volleyball tournament.
The Lady Cubs brought home fourth place.
In pool play, they lost two close games to Anderson County to start off the
morning.
Lenzie Boring, sr., led the team in kills with eight. Senior Kelci Owens made
17 assists and had eight digs. Bailey Myers, sr., dug up 16 hits from the
Bulldogs.
Labette County has previously been a challenge for Humboldt, but not this
year, as they took the match in two games with scores of 25-19 and 25-21.
Owens led in assists with 17, Myers had six digs, and Boring made nine kills.
“Our team played very well together and our communication was great,”
Myers said. “We are always more successful when we communicate.”
The Lady Cubs defeated Cherryvale in their third match of pool play. The Chargers
did not go down easily, however, as the match went to three games. Humboldt
won the first and third, 26-24, and 25-20. Owens made 22 assists, and Boring
had 10 kills. Winning this match allowed the team to participate in bracket
play.
A three-game match against Pittsburg kicked off bracket play. The Lady Cubs
fought in the first game, winning 26-24. Game two of the match ended, 9-25,
in favor of the Dragons. Myers made 20 digs, and Dillow led in kills with
eight for the match. A close score of 23-25 ended the match and sent Humboldt
to play against Burlington for third place.
The Wildcats defeated them in two games, 24-26 and 18-25.
“We played well,” Owens said. “Hopefully we can keep up
our communication and do well this season.”
Volleyball team takes down Jets, Chargers
By Callie Umholtz, sr,
Sports Editor
Traveling to Altoona, Sept. 16, the Lady Cubs dominated by defeating
both the Altoona Jets and the Cherryvale Chargers.
The first game of the Cherryvale match ended in Humboldt’s favor with
a score of 25-13. However, Cherryvale came back in the second game defeating
Humboldt with a score of 18-25 taking the match to three games.
“I think that we were not communicating as well as the first game and
were a little overly confident the second,” Brandi Malloy, so., said.
It was a close competition in the third and final match, but Humboldt pulled
it out and finished with a 28-26 win against the Chargers.
Senior Bailey Myers led the team with 15 points. Megan Dillow, sr., followed
with 10.
Dillow led in aces with four. Senior Randi Barnett added two.
Dillow also led the team in kills with a total of eight, followed by Barnett
and Umholtz who each had six.
Leading the team with 20 assists was Kelci Owens, sr.
Senior Callie Umholtz led in blocks with five. Following her was Lenzie Boring,
sr., with three.
Myers and Boring both led in digs with 14 a piece.
The Lady Cubs came out with another win against Altoona in two games with
scores of 25-16 and 25-14.
“We hit very well and had some great passes during the matches,”
Melissa Davidson, so., said.
Barnett led the team in points with 11. Following her were Owens and Dillow
with six each.
Barnett also led in aces with a total of three. Dillow who added two, followed
her.
Leading in kills were Dillow and Boring with five each.
Owens led the team in assists with 13.
Boring had the only two blocks of the match.
Team earns first win of season
By Scott Sollars, sr,
Reporter
After suffering their first two losses of the season, the football
team bounced back with a 56-0 triumph over the visiting Eureka Tornadoes.
The Cubs started off the game slow scoring half way through the first quarter
when Andrew Whitaker, sr., lobbed a pass over the defense to Troy Davis, sr.,
for a 23-yard touchdown.
Later in the first quarter Devin Onnen, sr., ran the ball into the end zone
from two yards out to make the score 14-0.
Christian Hicks, jr., had the only score in the second quarter with a 55-yard
touchdown run, and Onnen added the two-point conversion ending the first half
22-0.
Scott Sollars, sr., opened up the third quarter by returning the opening kickoff
for an 83-yard touchdown and added another score a few minutes later with
a 65-yard punt return.
Photo by Megan Dillow
Senior Andrew Whitaker holds the ball for senior Thad Wells on an extra point
attempt. Wells was two for three on extra points against the Tornadoes.
Thad Wells, sr., got the offense rolling with consecutive touchdowns of 58
and 26-yards.
“The team stepped up a lot from last week,” Wells said. “The
line blocked really well; they blew Eureka off the ball and created holes
for the backs. The running backs and special teams looked good, but we can
get better.”
At the end of the third quarter the Cubs were up on the Tornadoes 50-0. Chris
Headley, so., capped off the scoring by running his first varsity touchdown
from two yards out.
“This was my first time to play varsity for offense,” Headley
said. “Scoring a touchdown was exciting and made me want to work even
harder to get more playing time.”
Up next for the Cubs will be the Fredonia Yellowjackets tonight at 7 p.m.
in Fredonia.
The team is looking forward to showing improvement while trying to add another
win to their record.
“It’s [Our improvement] going to show tonight because we are going
to shove their heads in the dirt,” Wells said.
Whitaker, who left the game in the second quarter of the Eureka game, will
be suiting up tonight against Fredonia.
Junior Varsity Sports
JV ladies earn first win during tough season
By Alexis Hosack, jr,
Feature Editor
While suffering five losses, the junior varsity Lady Cubs earned
their first win of the season against Marmaton Valley on Monday night.
The team played two matches on Monday night. The first, against Crest, ended
with scores of 13-25 and 20-25. In the first game against Moran, the Lady
Cubs dominated with a score of 25-18. Moran came back in the second game,
defeating Humboldt with a score of 14-25. In the decisive third match, the
Lady Cubs pulled through with a 25-18 win.
“It felt good to win our first match,” Amanda Maxton, so., said.
“Now we will work harder to be able to experience the feeling of winning
again.”
Photo by Megan Dewey
Freshman Kindahl Young passes the ball to the setter
as Michaela
Bartlett, fr., watches during the home junior varsity match against Burlington.
The team lost three matches to the Wildcats throughout the evening.
The girls’ match at Altoona, played on Sept. 16, ended in two games
with scores of 12-25 and 18-25.
Tuesday night brought three more losses as the Lady Cubs faced the Burlington
Wildcats. A C-team match ended in two games with scores of 15-25 and 14-25.
In the first junior varsity match, Humboldt was overpowered by the Wildcats
with scores of 9-25 and 10-25. The second match ended with Humboldt being
beaten 12-25 and 9-25.
Cubs fall short against Chargers
By Bailey Myers, sr,
Editoir-in-chief
Despite continuing rain, home football games started Sept. 12
against Cherryvale. The boys suffered their second loss of the season with
a final score of 14-26.
After an uneventful first quarter, the Chargers scored the first touchdown
of the game four minutes into the second quarter. They followed this with
another touchdown with only 30 seconds left in the half.
Cherryvale started out the second half with yet another touchdown, followed
by a two-point conversion. These points put them ahead by 20 with 7:27 left
in the third quarter.
Soon after, Senior quarterback Andrew Whitaker ran the ball 41 yards for the
Cubs first touchdown of the evening. Thad Wells, sr., kicked for the extra
point.
Photo by Kassidy Young
The offensive line prepares for the next play against
Cherryvale at their first home game of the
season. This was the team’s second loss as the Chargers took the game
with a score of 14-26.
“We came out pumped up in the second half, determined to come back,”
Wells said, “but we just made dumb errors.”
With less than two minutes left in the third quarter, Whitaker again ran the
ball in for a touchdown. Wells contributed another extra point bringing the
score to 14-20, Cherryvale.
In the fourth quarter, the Chargers earned another touchdown ending the game.
“We have to get better,” Travis Burk, head coach, said. “We
also need to work on kick-off returns and tackling.”
Cross Country team fares well at Parsons
By Tyler Gean, jr,
Reporter
Cross Country members ran at Parsons on Sept. 18 and had a successful meet.
In the boys varsity race, Andy Hill, sr., placed 19th, Cody Wright, jr., 22nd, Chris Coronado, jr., was 41st, Matt Smith, sr., was 54th, Chris Kolb and Malachi Melton, srs., were 66th and 67th.
" “I thought I finished pretty good for how tough the course was,”
Coronado said. “"I gave it everything I had so I was pleased about
that. This season I just hope to improve from last year and try to medal in
all the races I participate in."”
Photo by Alexis Hosack
Seniors Chris Kolb and Malachi Melton keep up their momentum
while running at the cross country meet at Parsons.
In the JV boys race, Jock Wilson, so., took 16th place, Tylar Heidrick, so., was 35th, and Jacob Jones, so., was 61st.
" “I thought for my first meet, I did well,"” Wilson
said. “"I know I can do better at the next meet."”
Raquel Hill, so., placed 9th in the girls varsity race while Alexis Hosack, jr., took 24th place in the JV race.
The team participated in a meet yesterday in Iola, but results were not available at press time.
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Rain affects runners' times
By Alexis Hosack, jr,
Feature Editor
Rain did not prevent Humboldt runners from participating in their second meet of the season. The cross country team traveled to Girard on Sept. 11 and returned with several medals.
Seniors Andy Hill and Matt Smith, along with Cody Wright, jr., competed in the 5K varsity boys race. Hill received a medal for 11th place. Wright also medaled, placing 13th. Smith placed 29th.
“It wasn’t the greatest day,” Hill said. “My time shows that. I hope to improve my times throughout the season.”
In the varsity girls race, Raquel Hill, so., placed 11th.
Malachi Melton, sr., Chris Coronado, jr., Jacob Jones, so., and Tylar Heidrick, fr., ran in the junior varsity boys competition. Coronado received a 7th place medal. Jones finished 22nd and was followed by Heidrick, who placed 27th. Melton finished 35th.
“It was harder than I expected,” Jones said, “but I like to test my limits and better myself by running faster.”
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