EG Faces No. 12 Southern Cal in Regional VB Action
A win over Madrid in the second round of regional volleyball action last Wednesday has put EG into the quarterfinal round tonight in Lake City, where the Hawkettes will square off against Southern Cal, the 12th ranked team in Class 1A.
EG’s 25-17, 25-16, 25-16 regional win at Madrid on Wednesday was the its second straight win over the Tigerettes. EG had swept Madrid in three straight games the previous Thursday in Rippey in both teams’ final regular season match, 25-16, 25-16, 25-13. That capped off a busy week, as EG had downed Panorama in three straight on Tuesday, following a 2-2 showing in 4 matches at a tournament in Walnut on Saturday.
EG has now won 5 of its last 7 matches. The win over Madrid in Rippey moved the Hawkettes to 6-3 in the final West Central Conference standings, good for fourth place. Last week’s win over Madrid in the regionals upped EG’s overall season mark to 14-6.
Southern Cal brings a 21-0 record into tonight’s match. The Mustangs swept Paton-Churdan 25-16, 25-6, 26-24 in regional action at Lake City last Wednesday.
The winner of tonight’s EG-SoCal match will take on the winner of Ar-We-Va vs. West Harrison in the semifinal round Friday at Denison. The opposite side of the bracket has Exira, ranked seventh in the state, taking on Coon Rapids-Bayard in Coon Rapids. The winner of that match moves onto the other Region 3 semifinal on Friday in Woodbine against the winner of tonight’s Woodbine and St. Albert’s match in Council Bluffs.
The semifinal winners will face off next Tuesday in Denison in the regional final. The winner moves on to the State Tournament in Cedar Rapids.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: This is one of the best--if not the best--volleyball season in EG school history. Coach Carly Tiffany has the Hawkettes firing on all cylinders, as they beat 6 of 9 competitors in the West Central Conference in three-game sweeps (best-of-five game matches), and lost by just two points in the fifth game of a five-game match against league champion Guthrie Center, the closest any league team came to the Tigerettes. The Hawkettes also beat CRB--last year’s West Central champion and a 1A state qualifier--twice this season, the first win coming in the championship of a tournament hosted by CRB.
EG will meet a seasoned team in Southern Cal. Like the Hawkettes, SoCal plays in a league comprised of both 1A and 2A teams, where they finished second at 5-1, losing only to East Sac, a 2A team, but coming back to win the conference tournament. The Mustangs made it to State two years ago and just lost out on a trip last year, falling to Schaller-Crestland in the region finals.
Southern Cal and Exira (19-5), the Rolling Hills champion, are clearly the favorites in Region 3.
In addition to CRB in the opposite bracket in Region 3, the other top teams in the West Central are still in action heading into the quarterfinal round tonight. Each of the other top three teams is competing in different classes and regions, so conceivably the West Central could send four teams to the state tournament in 1A and 2A. Des Moines Christian (22-3), which finished third in the conference at 7-2, hosts Iowa Christian (14-10), the runner-up in the Rolling Hills Conference at 7-2 just behind Exira, with an unblemished 9-0 mark, in Region 4 in 1A. The winner advances to the semifinal round against either Twin Cedars or North Mahaska, also at Des Moines Christian. DMC had been ranked in Class 1A earlier this month, falling out of the Top 15 rankings, just before the final poll was released on Oct. 15.
In 2A, league champ Guthrie Center (17-6) and runner-up Woodward-Granger (19-7) are still in action, but both face tough opponents in the quarterfinal round tonight. Guthrie Center travels to Manning to take on 9th-ranked IKM-Manning (28-2) while Woodward-Granger also faces a state ranked opponent, No. 15, Gilbert (17-6), but has the home court advantage as the match will be played in Woodward. If Guthrie wins, it moves on to face either Nodaway Valley or Griswold in the Region 2 semifinal match, also at Manning. WG would advance to the next round in Eldora in Region 3 against the winner of a matchp between Grundy Center and Dike-New Hartford, a longtime state volleyball power and the No. 3 team in 2A with a 38-3 season record.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
EG FOOTBALL SEASON FINALE
Hawks Beat Walnut, ‘Go For 2’ Tonight @ Exira
East Greene rolled over Walnut 54-14 in Grand Junction last Friday night to pick up its third win of the season and avoid the District 7 cellar. EG moved its district record to 1-4 while Walnut fell to 0-4.
The Hawks end the season tonight in Exira against Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira. The EHK/E game does not count in the D7 standings, so EG’s win over Walnut was its final "official" game in district competition for 2009, while Walnut hosts Coon Rapids-Bayard tonight and CAM (Anita) travels to Adair-Casey in the season and district finales for those teams.
EG beat both Elk Horn-Kimballton and Exira last year, but getting a win over the combined EHK/E will be a much bigger challenge as the Wolverines are 5-3 this season while EG is 3-5. EHK/E has beaten D7 leader CAM, while its two of its three losses were by just 6 and 8 points to Adair-Casey and Glidden-Ralston.
But the Hawks will be riding the momentum from the Walnut game, which they totally dominated. EG got its ground game in gear, racking up 195 yards on 35 rushing attempts. Juniors Schyler Bardole and Nic Nicolaisen put the word out to the rest of the D7 teams that they are to be reckoned with next year, as Bardole lead the rushing attack with 72 years on 18 carries and a touchdown, and Nicolaisen was right behind with 70 yards on 5 carries (a solid 14 yards-per-carry average) and 2 touchdowns.
QB Tom Beger connected on 5 of his 13 passes for 110 yards and four touchdowns. He connected twice with Bardole for scoring strikes and once each with tight ends Aaron Lyons and Jesse Priest. Beger also scored a running touchdown, as he ground out 32 yards on six carries. His total yardage for the night was 142. Beger, Bardole and Priest each ran for a 2-point conversion to round out the Hawk scoring.
Overall, the Hawks had 305 total yards and 15 first downs while limiting Walnut to 212 total yards and 8 first downs.
Seniors Josh Neese, Tyler Gathercoal and Zach Beyerink anchored the Hawk defense. Neese had 5 solo tackles and 6 assists, Gathercoal had 5 solos and 3 assists, and Beyerink had 4 solos and 4 assists. Beyerink and Bardole each picked off a pass from Warrior QB Kyler McCarty, who was held to 81 yards and a single touchdown on 7-for-16 passing. McCarty also scored Walnut’s lone rushing touchdown.
McCarty was a real workhorse for the Warriors though, as he returned seven EG kickoffs for 119 yards total and three Hawk punts for 58 yards total, an average of 20 yards for each of his 10 kick returns.
DISTRICT 7 SHOWDOWN: Adair-Casey vs. CAM will be the spotlight game in D7 tonight as the winner will get the top seed in the 8-Man state playoffs, which get underway on Wednesday night. The game looks to be a toss-up. CAM was the hands-down favorite as the season began as it returned all but 2 of its starting lineup from 2008, when it won D7 with a perfect 7-0 record. This year’s league schedule was reduced to just 5 contests as the Elk Horn and Exira games were removed when those two schools agreed to form a combined football program and their combined enrollments made them ineligible for 8-Man competition, although EHK/E played a full nine-game schedule, including all of the other D7 teams.
EHK/E surprised the league two weeks ago when it notched a decisive 43-20 win over then unbeaten CAM on the Cougar’s home field in Anita. So clearly, CAM can be beaten. And AC will be riding the momentum of beating CRB last week in Coon Rapids, 36-29.
If CAM prevails they will be the undisputed champion at 5-0, but if they lose, then they end up tied with AC at 4-1 for the championship and AC will get the No. 1 seed in the playoffs because they won the head-to-head competition, which is the tie-breaker when two teams end the season tied and in contention for playoff seeding.
Despite last week’s loss, CRB still will qualify for the playoffs--even it should lose this week to Walnut. CRB would finish fourth in D7 at 2-3, behind AC, CAM and GR, which wrapped up district play two weeks ago, rolling over Walnut 46-6 to finish at 3-2. The more likely scenario will be CRB easily beating Walnut and finishing in a tie at 3-2 with GR and possibly AC, should the Bombers lose to CAM. That would leave a three-way tie for the runner-up spot in the district with all three teams at 3-2. As each of the three teams would end up 1-1 against the other two, the seeding for spots two, three and four in the district would then go the tie-breaker point system, which is based on the average margin of difference in each of the five district games.
Heading into tonight’s games, CRB has a slight advantage with a 4.00 tie-breaker score, just ahead of AC at 3.25 and GR at 3.00. GR’s score can’t move up or down as the Wildcats have completed district play, but if AC should lose, which must happen to create a three-way tie, the Bombers would be subtracting points from their current four-game point differential total (13), and if CRB should win, they would be adding to their existing total points (16) which would easily put them past AC and vault them into second place while AC and GR’s point total differential would determine the No. 3 and 4 seeds. And if AC loses, they can’t get anymore differential points, putting them behind GR, whose give-game point total differential is solid at 15. Thus, AC would drop down to fourth place and give GR the third seed.
So, this is a critical game for AC. If they win, they are the top dog for D7, hosting the No. 4 seed from District 8 next Wednesday. If they lose, they fall from [potentially] first place to fourth, and then face the long trip down to Stanton to take on the state-ranked and undefeated Vikings, a team that rolled over all three D7 opponents last year in reaching the 8-Man state playoff semifinal round in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. This would be a pretty substantial turnaround for the Bombers, considering their big win last week over CRB on the Crusaders’ home field. AC will also have the memory of last year’s 24-22 loss to CAM in Anita on the final night of the regular season, which gave the Cougars the 2008 District 7 championship and relegated AC to runner-up status. Both teams went on to win their opening round substate games, but were eliminated in first round action.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: The Hawks must contain EHK/E’s Carson Smith if they hope to prevail tonight over the Wolverines. In EHK/E’s win over CAM, Smith completed 14 of 22 passes for 186 yards and two passing touchdowns, and he ran for 137 yards on 22 carries and another three touchdowns. Eric Johnson added 104 yards and a rushing touchdown to the Wolverines’ total output of 455 yards.
Smith also kicked three extra points and ran for a two-point conversion to give him 35 points for the evening. Final tally: Smith outscored the entire CAM team, 35-20.
EHK/E rolled up 42 points against GR last week as Smith passed for 220 yards and five touchdowns and he ran for another 65, which was the entire EHK/E offensive production. GR however rushed for an amazing 458 yards and 8 rushing touchdowns and prevailed, 54-42.
Smith was intercepted three times by the CAM defense and once last week by GR, so the Hawks really need to hone in on their pass defense to shut down EHK/E.
A win at Exira would match last year’s win total for the Hawks, and would be a fine finish for the EG seniors, giving them a two-year won-loss record of 8-10, which is a big improvement over the 3-14 they suffered through during their freshman and sophomore years. This group of Hawks was responsible for ending a losing streak that stretched from the end of the 2004 season to the first game of the 2007 season, a win over CAL of Latimer in Grand Junction.
All told, EG’s record from 2002 through 2007 was a dismal 6 wins and 41 losses. So 8-10 over two years may not look like much to the small-school powers of Iowa high school football, but it means something to EG‘ers--near and fall. So, more than anything...Go Hawks!
East Greene rolled over Walnut 54-14 in Grand Junction last Friday night to pick up its third win of the season and avoid the District 7 cellar. EG moved its district record to 1-4 while Walnut fell to 0-4.
The Hawks end the season tonight in Exira against Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira. The EHK/E game does not count in the D7 standings, so EG’s win over Walnut was its final "official" game in district competition for 2009, while Walnut hosts Coon Rapids-Bayard tonight and CAM (Anita) travels to Adair-Casey in the season and district finales for those teams.
EG beat both Elk Horn-Kimballton and Exira last year, but getting a win over the combined EHK/E will be a much bigger challenge as the Wolverines are 5-3 this season while EG is 3-5. EHK/E has beaten D7 leader CAM, while its two of its three losses were by just 6 and 8 points to Adair-Casey and Glidden-Ralston.
But the Hawks will be riding the momentum from the Walnut game, which they totally dominated. EG got its ground game in gear, racking up 195 yards on 35 rushing attempts. Juniors Schyler Bardole and Nic Nicolaisen put the word out to the rest of the D7 teams that they are to be reckoned with next year, as Bardole lead the rushing attack with 72 years on 18 carries and a touchdown, and Nicolaisen was right behind with 70 yards on 5 carries (a solid 14 yards-per-carry average) and 2 touchdowns.
QB Tom Beger connected on 5 of his 13 passes for 110 yards and four touchdowns. He connected twice with Bardole for scoring strikes and once each with tight ends Aaron Lyons and Jesse Priest. Beger also scored a running touchdown, as he ground out 32 yards on six carries. His total yardage for the night was 142. Beger, Bardole and Priest each ran for a 2-point conversion to round out the Hawk scoring.
Overall, the Hawks had 305 total yards and 15 first downs while limiting Walnut to 212 total yards and 8 first downs.
Seniors Josh Neese, Tyler Gathercoal and Zach Beyerink anchored the Hawk defense. Neese had 5 solo tackles and 6 assists, Gathercoal had 5 solos and 3 assists, and Beyerink had 4 solos and 4 assists. Beyerink and Bardole each picked off a pass from Warrior QB Kyler McCarty, who was held to 81 yards and a single touchdown on 7-for-16 passing. McCarty also scored Walnut’s lone rushing touchdown.
McCarty was a real workhorse for the Warriors though, as he returned seven EG kickoffs for 119 yards total and three Hawk punts for 58 yards total, an average of 20 yards for each of his 10 kick returns.
DISTRICT 7 SHOWDOWN: Adair-Casey vs. CAM will be the spotlight game in D7 tonight as the winner will get the top seed in the 8-Man state playoffs, which get underway on Wednesday night. The game looks to be a toss-up. CAM was the hands-down favorite as the season began as it returned all but 2 of its starting lineup from 2008, when it won D7 with a perfect 7-0 record. This year’s league schedule was reduced to just 5 contests as the Elk Horn and Exira games were removed when those two schools agreed to form a combined football program and their combined enrollments made them ineligible for 8-Man competition, although EHK/E played a full nine-game schedule, including all of the other D7 teams.
EHK/E surprised the league two weeks ago when it notched a decisive 43-20 win over then unbeaten CAM on the Cougar’s home field in Anita. So clearly, CAM can be beaten. And AC will be riding the momentum of beating CRB last week in Coon Rapids, 36-29.
If CAM prevails they will be the undisputed champion at 5-0, but if they lose, then they end up tied with AC at 4-1 for the championship and AC will get the No. 1 seed in the playoffs because they won the head-to-head competition, which is the tie-breaker when two teams end the season tied and in contention for playoff seeding.
Despite last week’s loss, CRB still will qualify for the playoffs--even it should lose this week to Walnut. CRB would finish fourth in D7 at 2-3, behind AC, CAM and GR, which wrapped up district play two weeks ago, rolling over Walnut 46-6 to finish at 3-2. The more likely scenario will be CRB easily beating Walnut and finishing in a tie at 3-2 with GR and possibly AC, should the Bombers lose to CAM. That would leave a three-way tie for the runner-up spot in the district with all three teams at 3-2. As each of the three teams would end up 1-1 against the other two, the seeding for spots two, three and four in the district would then go the tie-breaker point system, which is based on the average margin of difference in each of the five district games.
Heading into tonight’s games, CRB has a slight advantage with a 4.00 tie-breaker score, just ahead of AC at 3.25 and GR at 3.00. GR’s score can’t move up or down as the Wildcats have completed district play, but if AC should lose, which must happen to create a three-way tie, the Bombers would be subtracting points from their current four-game point differential total (13), and if CRB should win, they would be adding to their existing total points (16) which would easily put them past AC and vault them into second place while AC and GR’s point total differential would determine the No. 3 and 4 seeds. And if AC loses, they can’t get anymore differential points, putting them behind GR, whose give-game point total differential is solid at 15. Thus, AC would drop down to fourth place and give GR the third seed.
So, this is a critical game for AC. If they win, they are the top dog for D7, hosting the No. 4 seed from District 8 next Wednesday. If they lose, they fall from [potentially] first place to fourth, and then face the long trip down to Stanton to take on the state-ranked and undefeated Vikings, a team that rolled over all three D7 opponents last year in reaching the 8-Man state playoff semifinal round in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. This would be a pretty substantial turnaround for the Bombers, considering their big win last week over CRB on the Crusaders’ home field. AC will also have the memory of last year’s 24-22 loss to CAM in Anita on the final night of the regular season, which gave the Cougars the 2008 District 7 championship and relegated AC to runner-up status. Both teams went on to win their opening round substate games, but were eliminated in first round action.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: The Hawks must contain EHK/E’s Carson Smith if they hope to prevail tonight over the Wolverines. In EHK/E’s win over CAM, Smith completed 14 of 22 passes for 186 yards and two passing touchdowns, and he ran for 137 yards on 22 carries and another three touchdowns. Eric Johnson added 104 yards and a rushing touchdown to the Wolverines’ total output of 455 yards.
Smith also kicked three extra points and ran for a two-point conversion to give him 35 points for the evening. Final tally: Smith outscored the entire CAM team, 35-20.
EHK/E rolled up 42 points against GR last week as Smith passed for 220 yards and five touchdowns and he ran for another 65, which was the entire EHK/E offensive production. GR however rushed for an amazing 458 yards and 8 rushing touchdowns and prevailed, 54-42.
Smith was intercepted three times by the CAM defense and once last week by GR, so the Hawks really need to hone in on their pass defense to shut down EHK/E.
A win at Exira would match last year’s win total for the Hawks, and would be a fine finish for the EG seniors, giving them a two-year won-loss record of 8-10, which is a big improvement over the 3-14 they suffered through during their freshman and sophomore years. This group of Hawks was responsible for ending a losing streak that stretched from the end of the 2004 season to the first game of the 2007 season, a win over CAL of Latimer in Grand Junction.
All told, EG’s record from 2002 through 2007 was a dismal 6 wins and 41 losses. So 8-10 over two years may not look like much to the small-school powers of Iowa high school football, but it means something to EG‘ers--near and fall. So, more than anything...Go Hawks!
Friday, October 16, 2009
FINAL HOME FOOTBALL GAME
Hawks Battle Walnut To Stay Out Of D7 Cellar
East Greene looks to get back on the winning track against Walnut tonight in the final home game of the 2009 season.
Both EG and Walnut are winless in District 7 football. EG takes an 0-4 district mark (2-5 overall) into the game while Walnut is 0-3 and 3-5 on the season.
The Hawks dropped another hard-fought contest in D7 last Friday night in Grand Junction to Coon Rapids-Bayard, 46-28, falling prey to the aerial assault of Crusader quarterback Michael Schwenk who scored five of his seven touchdowns through the air.
Schwenk connected on 24 of his 44 pass attempts for 261 yards. He was also the bulk of the CRB ground game, amassing 105 years on 18 carries and two TDs.
Hawk QB Tom Beger had a big night too, connecting on 14 of 33 passes for 290 yards and two touchdowns. Beger was intercepted twice, while the Hawk defense snared one of Schwenk’s passes.
CRB pretty much shut down the Hawk ground game, though, limiting Beger to a minus 22 yards in 15 carries and holding running back Schyler Bardole to 50 yards in 11 carries. Bardole had rolled up 148 yards and 6 touchdowns in just 13 carries in the Hawk’s homecoming win over Meskwaki Settlement School (Tama), 80-14, the week before.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: EG should have the advantage here as Walnut must travel all the way from Pottawattamie County to Grand Junction. Both teams have faced four common opponents--Meskwaki, CAM, Adair-Casey and Glidden Ralston--and EG has fared slightly better than the Warriors. EG fell to CAM by 24 points but the Walnut lost to the D7 leaders by just 8 points. On the flip side, GR rolled over Walnut by 40 points last week but beat East Greene by just 8, and the game was at Glidden in both teams’ D7 opener. AC beat the Warriors by 15 but the difference in the Bombers’ game with the Hawks was just six points. EG has the edge in head-to-head comparison with Meskwaki winning by 56 points to Walnut winning by 50.
Walnut’s other wins came against Hamburg (2-7) and Essex (0-7) while EG’s second win was against Charter Oak-Ute (2-7).
WALNUT TO PLAYOFFS? It would take some major upsets but Walnut, although 0-3 in district action, still has an outside shot of making the playoffs if the Warriors get by EG tonight and then beat CRB in their home finale next week. As it stands, both AC and CRB have played just 3 games in D7 and each is 2-1 and they face-off tonight. Next week, they close out D7 play with AC hosting CAM and CRB traveling to Walnut. So if AC upends CRB tonight to go 3-1 that drops CRB down to 2-2, and Walnut would head into the game next week at 1-3 if they beat the Hawks tonight. Then, next week, if Walnut were to beat CRB, both teams would end up tied in D7 at 2-3 and Walnut would get the nod for the fourth spot in the standings because of its head-to-head win over CRB.
A more likely scenario is that EG wins tonight as does CRB, and CRB dispenses with Walnut next week to finish as D7 runner-up to CAM at 4-1. CAM would get by AC next week to finish at 5-0 and AC drops to 2-3 behind GR (3-2) but still qualifies for the playoffs because 2-3 would put the Bombers in fourth place, giving them the fourth of four playoff spots. Even if AC upsets CAM and ends the season tied for third with GR at 3-2, they would still end up fourth as GR would get the edge in a tie-breaker, having beaten AC 42-6 on Oct. 2.
EG closes out the 2009 season with a road game in Exira against Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira in a D7 game that does not count in the standings. EHK/EX upset CAM last week 43-20 to hand the Cougars their first loss of the season.
D7 STANDINGS Through Oct. 9:
CAM (Anita) 4-0 6-1
Coon Rapids-Bayard 2-1 6-1
Adair-Casey 2-1 5-2
Glidden-Ralston 3-2 5-2
Elk Horn Kimballton/Exira 0-0* 5-2
Walnut 0-3 3-5
East Greene 0-4 2-5
Oct. 9 Games:
CRB 46, EG 28
GR 46, WAL 6
EHK/EX 43, CAM 20 (non-district)
AC 80, MESK 30 (non-district)
Oct. 16 Games:
AC @ CRB
GR @ EKH/EX
MESK @ CAM
WAL @ EG
Oct. 23 Games:
CAM @ AC
CRB @ WAL
EG @ EHK/EX
MESK @ GR
*EHK/EX not eligible for playoffs
East Greene looks to get back on the winning track against Walnut tonight in the final home game of the 2009 season.
Both EG and Walnut are winless in District 7 football. EG takes an 0-4 district mark (2-5 overall) into the game while Walnut is 0-3 and 3-5 on the season.
The Hawks dropped another hard-fought contest in D7 last Friday night in Grand Junction to Coon Rapids-Bayard, 46-28, falling prey to the aerial assault of Crusader quarterback Michael Schwenk who scored five of his seven touchdowns through the air.
Schwenk connected on 24 of his 44 pass attempts for 261 yards. He was also the bulk of the CRB ground game, amassing 105 years on 18 carries and two TDs.
Hawk QB Tom Beger had a big night too, connecting on 14 of 33 passes for 290 yards and two touchdowns. Beger was intercepted twice, while the Hawk defense snared one of Schwenk’s passes.
CRB pretty much shut down the Hawk ground game, though, limiting Beger to a minus 22 yards in 15 carries and holding running back Schyler Bardole to 50 yards in 11 carries. Bardole had rolled up 148 yards and 6 touchdowns in just 13 carries in the Hawk’s homecoming win over Meskwaki Settlement School (Tama), 80-14, the week before.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: EG should have the advantage here as Walnut must travel all the way from Pottawattamie County to Grand Junction. Both teams have faced four common opponents--Meskwaki, CAM, Adair-Casey and Glidden Ralston--and EG has fared slightly better than the Warriors. EG fell to CAM by 24 points but the Walnut lost to the D7 leaders by just 8 points. On the flip side, GR rolled over Walnut by 40 points last week but beat East Greene by just 8, and the game was at Glidden in both teams’ D7 opener. AC beat the Warriors by 15 but the difference in the Bombers’ game with the Hawks was just six points. EG has the edge in head-to-head comparison with Meskwaki winning by 56 points to Walnut winning by 50.
Walnut’s other wins came against Hamburg (2-7) and Essex (0-7) while EG’s second win was against Charter Oak-Ute (2-7).
WALNUT TO PLAYOFFS? It would take some major upsets but Walnut, although 0-3 in district action, still has an outside shot of making the playoffs if the Warriors get by EG tonight and then beat CRB in their home finale next week. As it stands, both AC and CRB have played just 3 games in D7 and each is 2-1 and they face-off tonight. Next week, they close out D7 play with AC hosting CAM and CRB traveling to Walnut. So if AC upends CRB tonight to go 3-1 that drops CRB down to 2-2, and Walnut would head into the game next week at 1-3 if they beat the Hawks tonight. Then, next week, if Walnut were to beat CRB, both teams would end up tied in D7 at 2-3 and Walnut would get the nod for the fourth spot in the standings because of its head-to-head win over CRB.
A more likely scenario is that EG wins tonight as does CRB, and CRB dispenses with Walnut next week to finish as D7 runner-up to CAM at 4-1. CAM would get by AC next week to finish at 5-0 and AC drops to 2-3 behind GR (3-2) but still qualifies for the playoffs because 2-3 would put the Bombers in fourth place, giving them the fourth of four playoff spots. Even if AC upsets CAM and ends the season tied for third with GR at 3-2, they would still end up fourth as GR would get the edge in a tie-breaker, having beaten AC 42-6 on Oct. 2.
EG closes out the 2009 season with a road game in Exira against Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira in a D7 game that does not count in the standings. EHK/EX upset CAM last week 43-20 to hand the Cougars their first loss of the season.
D7 STANDINGS Through Oct. 9:
CAM (Anita) 4-0 6-1
Coon Rapids-Bayard 2-1 6-1
Adair-Casey 2-1 5-2
Glidden-Ralston 3-2 5-2
Elk Horn Kimballton/Exira 0-0* 5-2
Walnut 0-3 3-5
East Greene 0-4 2-5
Oct. 9 Games:
CRB 46, EG 28
GR 46, WAL 6
EHK/EX 43, CAM 20 (non-district)
AC 80, MESK 30 (non-district)
Oct. 16 Games:
AC @ CRB
GR @ EKH/EX
MESK @ CAM
WAL @ EG
Oct. 23 Games:
CAM @ AC
CRB @ WAL
EG @ EHK/EX
MESK @ GR
*EHK/EX not eligible for playoffs
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
EG NETTERS FACE WG
Hawkettes Can Tie for Conference No. 2 Spot
East Greene heads to Woodward tonight for a key West Central Conference battle against Woodward-Granger. EG swept West Central Valley last Tuesday in a 3-zip match to move to 4-2 in the West Central, just one game behind Woodward-Granger at 5-1, after WG had disposed of Des Moines Christian 25-17, 32-30, 25-23.
WG’s win dropped DMC from second into a tie for third place with East Greene. Guthrie Center remains atop the league standings with a perfect 6-0 mark and has already beaten the other top 3 teams: WG, EG and DMC. Guthrie takes on Madrid tonight on the road, then closes its conference and regular season with home games against West Central Valley and Coon Rapids-Bayard (3-3), last year’s conference champion and state qualifier.
East Greene picked up a key win two weeks ago (Sept. 22) against CRB in Rippey, rolling over the Crusaders in a three-game match 25-23, 25-23, 26-24.
EG closes out the season with a tournament Saturday at Walnut and home matches against league foes Panorama (3-3) on Tuesday and Madrid (1-5) on Thursday. EG opens regional action the following Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Madrid against the winner of a first round tilt between Madrid and Glidden-Ralston on Monday, Oct. 19, in Madrid.
West Central Conference Volleyball Standings
Guthrie Center 6-0
Woodward-Granger 5-1
East Greene 4-2
Des Moines Christian 4-2
Coon Rapids-Bayard 3-3
Panorama 3-3
Earlham 2-4
Madrid 1-5
Van Meter 1-5
West Central Valley 1-5
EYE ON GJ SAYS: It’s a battle of the birds at Woodward tonight as the EG Hawkettes take on the WG Hawkettes. This is a good test for the EG team as they face a quality team in WG. They should see some good competition in the Walnut Tournament on Saturday and will need to prepared for a much improved Panorama team next week in Rippey. The regionals get underway next week and EG can’t overlook either GR or Madrid, their opponent in round two. State-ranked Southern Cal hosts Paton-Churdan in Lake City in the opposite bracket second round game and the SC-PC and EG-Madrid or GR winners face off in Lake City the following week in the quarterfinals. So if EG makes it to the quarters the likely opponent would be Southern Cal, and the Hawkettes would really need an all-out effort to upend the Mustangs, who made it all the way to the regional finals last year and are ranked 12th this year with a 16-7 record. The other favorite in the region is Exira (13-5) ranked 11th in the state and undefeated in the Rolling Hills Conference.
East Greene heads to Woodward tonight for a key West Central Conference battle against Woodward-Granger. EG swept West Central Valley last Tuesday in a 3-zip match to move to 4-2 in the West Central, just one game behind Woodward-Granger at 5-1, after WG had disposed of Des Moines Christian 25-17, 32-30, 25-23.
WG’s win dropped DMC from second into a tie for third place with East Greene. Guthrie Center remains atop the league standings with a perfect 6-0 mark and has already beaten the other top 3 teams: WG, EG and DMC. Guthrie takes on Madrid tonight on the road, then closes its conference and regular season with home games against West Central Valley and Coon Rapids-Bayard (3-3), last year’s conference champion and state qualifier.
East Greene picked up a key win two weeks ago (Sept. 22) against CRB in Rippey, rolling over the Crusaders in a three-game match 25-23, 25-23, 26-24.
EG closes out the season with a tournament Saturday at Walnut and home matches against league foes Panorama (3-3) on Tuesday and Madrid (1-5) on Thursday. EG opens regional action the following Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Madrid against the winner of a first round tilt between Madrid and Glidden-Ralston on Monday, Oct. 19, in Madrid.
West Central Conference Volleyball Standings
Guthrie Center 6-0
Woodward-Granger 5-1
East Greene 4-2
Des Moines Christian 4-2
Coon Rapids-Bayard 3-3
Panorama 3-3
Earlham 2-4
Madrid 1-5
Van Meter 1-5
West Central Valley 1-5
EYE ON GJ SAYS: It’s a battle of the birds at Woodward tonight as the EG Hawkettes take on the WG Hawkettes. This is a good test for the EG team as they face a quality team in WG. They should see some good competition in the Walnut Tournament on Saturday and will need to prepared for a much improved Panorama team next week in Rippey. The regionals get underway next week and EG can’t overlook either GR or Madrid, their opponent in round two. State-ranked Southern Cal hosts Paton-Churdan in Lake City in the opposite bracket second round game and the SC-PC and EG-Madrid or GR winners face off in Lake City the following week in the quarterfinals. So if EG makes it to the quarters the likely opponent would be Southern Cal, and the Hawkettes would really need an all-out effort to upend the Mustangs, who made it all the way to the regional finals last year and are ranked 12th this year with a 16-7 record. The other favorite in the region is Exira (13-5) ranked 11th in the state and undefeated in the Rolling Hills Conference.
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