Abundance Of Excellence
Multiple compelling stories mark area athletes', teams' state track showings
Sindy Chavez 1st girl from Southwest to win at state; Hamilton girls repeat in Class 2 behind freshman triple-winner; Sargent wins twice, Meadville girls take close second
Published: Monday, May 19, 2008,
By PAUL STURM, C-T Sports Editor
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In the lead and starting to pull away, Sindy Chavez, a Southwest R-1 junior, prepares to go over a hurdle during Saturday's finals in the Class 1 state track and field meet at Jefferson City. Chavez became Southwest's first girl ever to win an event at the state meet.
JEFFERSON CITY - An historic moment for one school, the continuation of a possibly-unprecedented run of state-level success by another, a near-miss of a state title by another, the end of a recent state reign, and the finale of remarkably-successful high school careers for three individual area standouts while another dynamic one debuted were the main threads of the fabric of the story for C-T-area schools in the 2008 Missouri State High School Activities Association Championships for Class 1 and 2 track and field teams Friday and Saturday.
Three area individuals - Ludlow: Southwest junior Sindy Chavez, Meadville senior Kaci Sargent, and Hamilton freshman Lindsay Vollmer, each with a compelling personal and team/school storyline - became state champions in six different events.
Hamilton's Lady Hornets easily repeated as Class 2 state champions with 77 points - 34 more than runnerup Bonne Terre: North County, making it four-straight sports seasons in which a Lady Hornets team has earned the state crown.
Meadville's Lady Eagles were tied for the Class 1 standings going into the 2nd-to-last event, but Rock Port outscored them by a point in the 3,200-meter run to move in front and then placed fourth for five points in the last race - the 1,600-meter relay in which Meadville had not qualified - and wrested away the 1st-place trophy, 58-52. It still was the Lady Eagles' highest finish in the current stretch.
"The girls did really a good job," MHS coach Jana Holcer praised. "We knew Rock Port was going to be tough. They brought a lot of girls down that finished well (at sectional). It was close in the end, but we couldn't quite get them."
Polo's Panthers, having graduated last May the core of the team which had earned 3-consecutive Class 1 boys' state titles, scored 18 points, tying them for a still-respectable 12th place, but relinquished the crown to Jackson: Saxony Lutheran, which shaded Worth County 52-49.
Hamilton's Jordan Esry, Bosworth's Andrea "Andie" Young, and Sargent completed splendid, all-around high school athletics careers which saw them medal at state in track and field multiple years each by combining for eight individual-event medals and one relay-team medal this past weekend.
At the same time, Vollmer stepped front and center into the state spotlight as a ninth grader, not only winning three individual events in four tries and being second in her other event, but punctuating her stirring 3-event, head-to-head duel with junior Precious Selmon of Crystal City with a stunning final-attempt, state-record leap of 18'71/4" in the long jump after Selmon, jumping right before her, had bettered the 26-year-old Class 2 state meet record with each of her last two jumps, the last one covering 18'53/4". That Vollmer win early Saturday afternoon followed her Friday victory in the high jump, in which she cleared 5'4", and set up a personal "shootout" with Selmon for supremacy in their own cordial duel in the 300-meter low hurdles as the meet wound down Saturday afternoon. Virtually even coming out of the curve on the final straightaway, the duo had approximately 80 meters to decide it and the lanky, 5'10" Vollmer used that distance to draw a couple of strides ahead of her shorter foe and break the tape in yet another Class 2 state-meet record time of 44.07 seconds, virtually a half-second ahead of Selmon, whose time was a scant .01 seconds off the previous state mark set in 2004.
While those were the headliners of the smaller schools' state meets, held in gorgeous weather after athletes statewide had contended with miserable training and competition conditions virtually all season, many other area students did themselves proud with strong efforts.
Many of those efforts were rewarded with state medals (the top eight in each finals event medal), while others had to content themselves with the noteworthy distinction of being state-meet
participants.
Something
For Everyone in Class 1 Sectional
Area schools represented at Marshall meet sending someone at state track
Published: Monday, May 12, 2008,
By PAUL STURM, C-T Sports Editor
MARSHALL - Every C-T-area school with someone competing in Saturday's rain-interrupted Class 1 sectional track and field meet at Marshall High School had reason to feel happy and proud when all was said and done as each advanced one or more athletes in at least two events to this week's state meet.
Area competitors racked up victories in eight of the 18 events in both the boys' and girls' competitions. Of the 18 girls' events, area athletes will be in 16, while there will be area boys in 12 of 18 this Friday and/or Saturday.
Every area school except Stet which had advanced someone from district to sectional had multiple state qualifiers (top-4 sectional finish). Stet had only two boys at the sectional meet with only Chris Desselle heading to state in both the long and triple jumps.
Ludlow: Southwest had a big showing in both gender divisions. The Wildcats had three individual wins (100- and 200-meter dashes and long jump) by senior Cruz Chavez and a victory in the 400-meter relay run by Zach Thompson, Robby Howe, Quinn Roberts, and Chavez, who made up about a 5-yard deficit in the anchor leg. The Lady Wildcats had a triumph in the 300-meter low hurdles by Sindy Chavez, Cruz's junior sister, and from their 400-meter relay squad of Alex Black, Lauren Upton, Hannah Stilwell, and Sindy Chavez.
While no other Southwest boys other than the winners will go to state, the Lady Wildcats also will be represented by Koda DeWeese in the discus throw, Black in the 100, Stilwell in the 400, S. Chavez in the 100-meter high hurdles, and the 800-meter relay unit of Meredith Jones, Upton, Stilwell, and Chavez.
Meadville's girls were, as usual, led by senior Kaci Sargent, who swept her four events (100-, 200-, and 400-meter dashes and triple jump). The Lady Eagles also have a pair of double individual-event qualifiers in hurdler Courtney Cooper and distance runner Kendra Holcer and will run at state in the 1,600-meter relay with Haylee Zell, Brittni Palmer, Fallon Howe, and Cooper.
None of Meadville's three boys' entrants in sectional advanced.
Joining Sargent and Cruz Chavez in top-drawer individual showings was another senior perennial standout, Bosworth's Andie Young.
BHS' only participant, she won the long jump, was second to Sargent in the triple jump, and placed third in the 200-meter dash.
Braymer swept the boys' and girls' pole vault titles with Trent Utt and Faith Mattis, respectively, with teammates Caden Shonk and Morgan Adkison also in the top four.
Mattis also earned a state spot in the high hurdles, while Madi Owen (shot put), Curt Rennison (1,600), and James Schrier (shot put) go on, too.
Southwest
Girls, Meadville Boys Claim CLAA Junior-High Track Championships
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2008,
C-T
 MENDON - Southwest's Lady Wildcats steamrolled their Carroll-Livingston Athletics Association competition and Meadville's boys outdistanced CLAA newcomer Hardin Central in their division of the April 9 CLAA junior-high track and field meet.
Southwest's girls more than doubled the points total of their nearest challenger - Meadville - with 180 points. Meadville had 77, nosing out Mendon: Northwestern (65).
Southwest's Lady Wildcats were paced by freshman Alex Black's sweep of her four events - the 100-meter dash and 400-meter run, the 75-meter hurdles, and the long jump. The Lady Wildcats had 1-2-3 sweeps of the high jump (won by Quincy BeVelle) and 400.
On the boys' side, Meadville was led by two wins (800-meter run and 100-meter hurdles), a second and a fifth from Rick Tate. Tina-Avalon freshman Logan Holmer won all four of his events (high and long jumps, 400- and 1,600-meter runs).
Track
News Summary:
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Girls
JH Track Team Wins CLAA Championship Title April 9 in Mendon (see above)
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Boys
JH Track Team Takes 5th in CLAA meet April 9
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Girls
Varsity Track Team Places 3rd in CLAA Track Meet April 24 in Chillicothe
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Boys
Varsity Track Team Places 3rd in CLAA Track Meet April 24 in Chillicothe
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Hedrick Foundation
Gives Boost to Southwest R-1 School
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008,
C-T
Starting next school year, Southwest R-1 students and faculty won't be sweating the heat thanks to a generous donation from the Hedrick Foundation which has agreed to provide 75 percent of the funds necessary to completely air condition the school.
According to John Locker, superintendent, the project will likely begin at the end of the school year and be completed before classes resume this fall. Once complete, he said, the entire school will have air conditioning instead of just about 15 percent of it.
The only portion of the school with air conditioning includes the school's newer additions - built in the 1970s and in 2000. These areas house the library, the computer lab, the preschool. the Interactive Television classroom, the art and music rooms, and administrative offices.
Bids are currently being accepted for the project and a pre-bid conference will be held on Monday, March 10, at 3:15 p.m. Actual bids are due by 4 p.m. on Monday, March 17, and the R-1 board will approve a bid during the regular March meeting held later that evening at the school.
Southwest
officials formally approached the Hedrick Foundation last fall about the
possibility of financial assistance for the project, to the tune of
$500,000. The Hedrick Foundation later contacted the district and gave its
assent to provide 75% of the total project cost to completely air condition
the building. The remaining 25% will come from Southwest.
Jim
Staton, Hedrick Foundation vice president, said that the board was happy to
provide financial assistance to Southwest for the HVAC project because the
history of the foundation has close ties to that area of the county. He also
noted that the foundation was happy to provide the majority of the funds to
provide new HVAC systems in the elementary and middle schools in the Chillicothe
R-2 School District over the past few years. "We thought that it
has been such a benefit to Chillicothe schools to have air conditioning, so
we wanted to see what we could for for Southwest," Staton said.
Locker
said the students and staff at SW are looking forward to a cooler fall next
year. "It will be fantastic," he said. "We missed up to six
half-days for heat last fall - those add up quickly." He added that the
learning and working environment for both students and faculty will be
greatly improved following the completion of the project. "This is
going to make a big difference," he said.
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Wildcats
Go Around the Bend
Southwest boys earn third triumph of season to cap sweep of Malta Bend
Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2008,
C-T
A very busy night on the final Tuesday of the regular season for Class 1, 2, and 3 high school basketball teams in the C-T area saw the Southwest Wildcats of Ludlow gain only their third win of the campaign to wrap up a sweep of visiting Malta Bend, another victory for the undefeated Hamilton Lady Hornets, and the Linn County Lady Mustangs position themselves for a 20-win regular season.
Hamilton's boys joined their distaff counterparts in defeating East Buchan-an in non-league action, while Linn County's girls beat Mendon: Northwestern before the Eagles beat LCHS' boys.
Jamesport: Tri-County swept visiting Bosworth, Hale split at Macon County R-4 - taking the girls' action, Breckenridge captured the boys' game in a split with Osborn, Polo dropped two to Lathrop, and Norborne's boys were beaten by Concordia: St. Paul.
(G) Ludlow: SW 70, Malta Bend 19
(B) Ludlow: SW 78, Malta Bend 61
LUDLOW - Quinn Roberts double-doubled, Cruz Chavez rang up 28 points, and Kyle Larson netted 20 as the Wildcats (3-20) topped the Tigers.
Chavez had six rebounds and four steals to go with his career-high points total, while Roberts grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds to pair with 11 tallies. Larson added six boards to his scoring and Seth Roberts had 12 points, seven caroms, and five swipes for Aaron Miller's squad.
Southwest's boys led 59-37 after three periods following a 31-point third stanza in which Chavez had 14 and S. Roberts nine.
Malta Bend had 25 points from standout Ryan Armstrong.
Three SHS Lady Wildcats had either 18 or 19 points in their romp. Brittany Tutt had the 19 with Lauren Upton and Sindy Chavez each netting 18.
Upton also had seven assists and six steals, while Tutt snagged seven rebounds with six thefts. S. Chavez collected nine rebounds and Kristen Swartz dished out five helpers as Brian Upton's Lady 'Cats clinched a winning season at 13-10.
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Science
Fair 2008
Southwest
School recently sponsored a science fair in the school gym. The coordinator of the event was Dawn Black, and the
PTO president is Shana Hutchinson.
Grand prize winners are
(front from left): Sarah Mason, 3rd grade for Yeast Busters; Emma Rademacher,
4th grade for Do Bulbs Need Light to Grow?; Braina Lewis, 5th grade for 'My
Popcorn Test'; (back from left): Cole Upton, 6th grade for the Naked Egg;
Aaron Moore, 7th grade for 'Which is Healthier, Table Salt or Sea Salt?';
Zach Stark, 8th grade for 'Nothing But Net'; and Alex Black, freshman, for
'Get Your Fill of Your Pills'. The science fair was open for students
preschool to 9th grade.
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Lady Wildcats
Beat Stewartsville
Published: Friday, February 15, 2008,
C-T
LUDLOW - Last (Thursday) night, Southwest hosted Stewartsville at Ludlow. In the girl's game, Brittany Tutt was the high scorer for southwest putting up 17 points. Following close behind her was Sindy Chavez with 16 points. Stewartsville high scorers were Katie Roach, with 12 points and Reid Brown with eight points. The Southwest ladies would go on to win the game with a final score of 46-33.
In boy's action, Southwest number 12 scored 11 points for his team with Quinn Roberts, number 16, sinking eight points for the team. Duke Jacobs, number 44 for Stewartsville, contributed an impressive 17 points with Nick Rouse, number 11, close behind with 12 additional points. Stewartsville played an outstanding game, with each player on the team adding at least two points each this high scoring game. The final score for the boy's game was Stewartsville, 74-32.
(G) Southwest 46-33
(B) Stewartsville
74-32
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 Front-Running Pays
Grabbing early lead is common theme for CLAA winners
By Paul Sturm, C-T Sports Editor,
Friday, February 8, 2008
C-T
Photo, Paul Sturm
(G) #1 Meadville 35, Ludlow: SW 26
Southwest's girls had lost to Meadville recently, but took heart from a sub-par start by the Lady Eagles and gained
confidence with each passing minute until the tourney's defending champs and the league's regular-season champs looked a lot like Muhammad Ali in a lot of the late successful heavy-weight boxing title defenses he had in the 1970s - laying on the ropes, parrying, pushing a determined challenger away, then pulling them into a clench while waiting for the final bell to ring.
Riding its defense, Meadville (20-0) led by seven points after one quarter, 10 at halftime, and 11 entering the last stanza.
However, allowing the Lady Eagles only basket in the closing eight minutes, Southwest found some offensive energy from a tactical switch made by coach Brian Upton and got to as close as five points at one stage before falling just a bit short of a startling upset.
Kaci Sargent's 17 points and Kailee Cowan's nine led the winners.
Southwest (11-8) dressed out only six players and got scoring from only four, but it was very balanced. Lauren Upton and Sindy Chavez each netted seven points and Merideth Jones and Brittany Tutt six apiece.
Chavez had six steals, Tutt five rebounds and three shot blocks, and Upton three assists.
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Seven For No. 1
Area teams could claim as many as five tournament championships Saturday
Undefeated T-A teams will challenge hosts for Braymer crowns
Published: Friday, January 11, 2008
File Photo / Marj Locker
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Southwest Lady Wildcats sophomore guard Lauren Upton, seen going up for a close-in shot against Jamesport: Tri-County in November, scored 16 points, had six assists, and five steals Thursday night as the Lady 'Cats were stunting Stet 68-4 in the Braymer Invitational tournament to improve to 6-3 on the season. Tri-County, meanwhile, was advancing to the championship contest of the Osborn Invitational with a 49-27 comeback victory over Stewartsville.
Like a dice game, it was “seven come 11” for area high school basketball teams chasing tournament championships Thursday night.
Seven participants in area title-games Saturday night came out of 11 possibilities as a result of semifinal contests played at Braymer, Milan, Lawson, and Osborn Thursday night. In the case of the round-robin Braymer event, area finalists were assured ahead of time because all of the squads entered in that event are C-T-area teams.
Making the trip to championship games tomorrow will be three unbeaten area squads - the Tina-Avalon girls and boys and Hamilton girls, along with Braymer's boys and girls and the Linn County and Jamesport: Tri-County girls.
Both first-place games at Braymer will have T-A meeting the host teams. Hamilton's state-ranked girls will take on the No. 2-seeded hosts at Lawson. At Osborn, the second-seeded Tri-County Lady Mustangs will meet the top-ranked Class 1 team in the state, DeKalb. Linn County's second-seeded Lady Mustangs will square off with No. 1 seed Schuyler County at Milan.
Defeated in championship semifinals (or the equivalent, in the case of the round-robin format of this year's Braymer tourney) Thursday were the Hamilton, Stet, and Tri-County boys and Norborne girls and boys.
Polo's boys won their consolation semifinal contest in the “Bill Burns Classic” at Lathrop Thursday to earn a crack at a trophy
Friday.
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Lucky In Ludlow
Southwest boys come back, win at :00 to complete openers sweep
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 C-T
Photo Supplied / Marj Locker
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Southwest's Kyle Larson exults as Tri-County coach Terry McCollum (background at left) looks on in disbelief after the Southwest sophomore's second free throw with time having expired gives the SHS' Wildcats a 49-48 victory Tuesday night. It was the only time in the game Southwest led.
Even though the high school basketball season is only two nights old, it will be hard for Southwest R-1 School fans to find a more-exciting night over the next three months than their teams' home opener last (Tuesday) night.
After the Lady Wildcats, continuing to show solid progress as a squad which has been playing together since junior-high school, came back to defeat a Tri-County Lady Mustangs team which still has three starters from a club that has been to the district tournament finals each of the past two years and the state tournament two years ago, the Wildcats upstaged them.
Kyle Larson capped a frenetic 25-point fourth quarter for Aaron Miller's club by hitting two free throws with time expired to give the Southwest boys a 49-48 victory in their 2007-08 debut.
Southwest had never led in the game until Larson's charity tosses. The sophomore forward won a struggle for a rebound with his club down by a point as the clock ran out. With the home crowd, his teammates, and the visiting Mustangs waiting with bated breath, he first tied the game and then won it, setting off a jubilant response at the Ludlow gym.
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CHILLICOTHE
HOLIDAY PARADE WINNERS
Published:
Monday, November 19, 2007 C-T
Photos by Megan Neis, C-T
Third
Place Band Category
Third
Place Vehicle Category
1969 Chevy Pickup, John & Marj Locker
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on photos to see a closer view.
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JUNIOR-HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
Bishop Hogan teams get first wins; Southwest teams to play for
titles
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
C-T
Chillicothe's
Bishop Hogan Memorial School Eagles and Lady Eagles gained their first victories of the 2007 season last night with close home wins over Livingston R-3 of Chula.
Hunter Keller's basket with less than 30 seconds remaining capped an Eagles comeback as the BHMS boys (1-1) shaded the Bobcats 32-31. Jake Mathew scored 15 points and Keller and Nathan Laidler six each for Bishop Hogan.
The Lady Eagles also won a competitive tilt, 21-13. Addie Stottlemyre topped the Bishop Hogan girls' scoring with 10 points. Jessi White had seven for the Lady Bobcats.
At Norborne Tuesday night, the
Southwest Lady Wildcats of Ludlow advanced to Friday's championship game of
Norborne's tournament with an 18-14 victory over Orrick. Caitlin Cramer had five steals, five points, and two assists, Alex Black six points, and Cori Locker six steals and three assists to lead the Lady Wildcats to the low-scoring triumph.
The Southwest boys also won to earn their way to the tourney's title game, according to a Southwest school source. No game details were reported.
Both Southwest teams will face Hardin Central for the championships.
Champ
Cats
Southwest
School's girls' and boys' junior high basketball teams brought home the 1st
place trophies from the Norborne Tournament Friday night. After Brian
Upton's Lady Wildcats swamped Hardin Central 43-8, Aaron Miller's Wildcats
outgunned Hardin Central 49-36.
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on photos to see a closer view.
Photos
by Marj Locker
Southwest's
girls had balanced scoring from a trio of players. Cori Locker had 11
points, Caitlin Cramer 10, and Maresa Sykes 9. Locker also made nine steals
and grabbed four rebounds while Alex Black had seven steals, Quincy BeVelle
six boards, and Cramer four assists. Balance also marked the Wildcats'
attack with both Kole Anderson and Brock Larson tallying 12 points, Justin
Lewis hitting for eight, Justin Jones seven, and Zach Stark six.
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CLAA
Junior High Basketball Tournament
Bosworth boys stun T-A in tourney quarterfinals
Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2007,
C-T
HALE - The
Ludlow: Southwest and Hale girls and Hale and surprising Bosworth boys advanced to the championship semifinals of the annual Carroll-Livingston Athletics Association tournament Tuesday night.
Bosworth's seventh-seeded Bulldogs smoked No. 2 seed Tina-Avalon 39-23 in the evening's finale after Hale's boys had turned back Mendon: Northwestern 49-32, Hale's girls had crushed Breckenridge 62-16 and Southwest's girls had topped Northwestern 37-9.
Thursday's championship semifinal pairings will be: 5:00 p.m. - Meadville vs. Hardin Central; 6:15 - Meadville vs. Hale boys; 7:30 -
Southwest vs. Hale girls; 8:45 - Bosworth vs. Hardin Central boys.
The tournament's consolation semifinals will be played tonight (Wednesday) at Hale (5:00 - Tina-Avalon vs. Nor-borne girls; 6:15 - Breckenridge vs. Northwestern girls; 7:30 - Breckenridge vs. Northwestern boys; 8:45 -
Southwest vs. Tina-Avalon boys). The first- and third-place games will take place Saturday.
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Football
Camp 2007
During
warm-up drills at the Southwest Football Camp, Brett Dawkins, Travis Donoho,
and Zach Thompson do cross over steps under the direction of Coach Tyler
Anderson. Softball and football practices begin August 6 at high school. All
student athletes must have a physical on file to participate, and it is very
important that they attend all practices.
(Photo / Marj Locker, C-T July 26, 2007)
(Photo / Marj Locker, July, 2007)
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Basketball
Camp 2007
A number
of SW Lady Wildcats traveled to Trenton to participate in the Trenton Shoot-Out
which had teams on the junior varsity and varsity levels. The short-handled
varsity dropped their first two games, while the junior high socked it to
Trenton. Saturday, the varsity girls were again short-handed as only four
players were able to make it with Lauren Upton, Brittany Tutt, Meredith Jones,
and Kristen Swartz hitting the hard wood. With junior high players filling in,
the girls played well and had two close games. The junior high began their first
game Saturday on a cold streak and ended the first half with no points against a
Chillicothe junior varsity team, but made a courageous comeback in the second
half to lose 15-24. In the second game, they easily handled Trenton #2 and
recorded a 34-8 win. Participants were Quincy BeVelle, Maresa Sykes, Haley
Thompson, Caitlin Cramer, Cori Locker, and Alex Black.
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Southwest's
Cruz Chavez has something going every direction on his way to a second-place finish
in the Class 1 District 6 long jump at Brookfield Saturday, May 5, 2007.
Click on photo for a
closer view.
(C-T photo / Paul Sturm)
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CLAA
Cheerleading Awards 06-07
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The Southwest Junior High cheerleading squad received 1st place in the
CLAA Conference. Pictured are Katie Myers, Haley Thompson, Cori Locker,
Alexis Sykes, Samantha Daley, Quincy BeVelle, and Caitlin Cramer. In front
is Coach Suzi Nagel.
The Varsity
cheerleading squad received 3rd place in the CLAA Conference. The squad
includes Koda DeWeese, Carly Wheeler, Hannah Hughes, Logan Konopasek,
Samantha Peirce, Sarah Wohlgemuth, and Coach Suzi Nagel. DeWeese and
Konopasek also made all-conference.
School photo.
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Southwest Girls
Knock Off Tina-Avalon in CLAA Opener
A loud shot went off in the Carroll-Livingston Athletic Association Tuesday night.
C-T article, Thursday, November 30, 2006
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Sindy Chavez (on knees) and Brittany Tutt of Southwest battle a Tina-Avalon player for a loose ball in the lane Tuesday. Chavez and Tutt scored a combined 31 points and Chavez double-doubled with 18 points and 19 rebounds in Southwest's 44-37 win.
Photo supplied / Marj
Locker
It came courtesy of the young Southwest Lady Wildcats of Ludlow, who dominated the second half of their 2006-07 conference opener and posted a 44-37 home victory over the Tina-Avalon Lady Dragons, last year's conference tournament champs and regular-season
runners up to Meadville. Tina-Avalon's boys got off on the right foot in league action with a 58-26 waltz past Southwest.
In other area action reported by press time Wednesday, Braymer's girls clouted Stet 62-39 and Braymer's boys won a rematch of last year's Class 1 district title game, 77-30.
(G) Ludlow: Southwest 44, Tina-Avalon 37; (B) Tina-Avalon 58, Ludlow: Southwest 26
LUDLOW - Southwest's girls showed growing maturity by bouncing back from a poor second quarter defensively to hold Tina-Avalon to only two third-stanza points and take command.
Up 5-4 after eight minutes, Southwest (1-1, 1-0 CLAA) fell behind 21-17 at halftime, but didn't fold.
Keith Berger's young team - only one senior played for the Lady Wildcats - came storming out of the halftime locker room to not only take the lead, but move in front by double digits going into the last quarter.
With junior forward Sindy Chavez, who ripped down 19 rebounds on the night, netting four baskets, Brittany Tutt scoring five points, and Lauren Upton four points, Southwest outscored the Lady Dragons 17-2 in the third segment for a 34-23 lead. They kept the margin at a fairly comfortable level in the last quarter to walk off the floor victors.
Chavez's 18 points led all scorers and Tutt put up another 13, 11 after halftime.
T-A (0-1, 0-1) was topped offensively by 10 points from Briana Holmer.
Rebecca Hutchinson had double digits in rebounds with 11 and Holmer
snagged nine.
Tina-Avalon star forward Mat Kissick was too much for the Wildcats to handle, scoring 16 first-half tallies in the T-A season opener and finishing with a game-high 20, as well as 10 rebounds.
Dragons 6'2” sophomore Joey Silvey also double-doubled with 10 points and 14 boards, and Drew Sheetz had nine points.
For Southwest (0-2, 0-1), Seth Roberts scored 10 points.
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