The Belleville Telescope from Belleville, Kansas • Page 7

Hillcrest's Waylon Lawson Wins Cross Country Meet THE BELLEVILLE TELESCOPE, Thursday, September 26.1996 7A Topping a field of 37 varsity runners at the Smith Center Redmen Cross Country meet was Hillcrest's Waylon Lawson, who completed the course in a time of 18.13. Coach Eugene Johnson commented the win was especially gratifying for Lawson considering he beat a rival Smith Center runner on his home territory. In addition, a strong headwind provided even more of a challenge. Among the junior varsity, Preston Trecek for Hillcrest placed 20th with a 24.17 time. In the girls division, Ashley Anderson completed the course in 15.03, placing 13th.

Pike Valley Overwhelms Southern Cloud, 68-20 A strong Pike Valley Panther team recorded their second win of the season, defeating Southern Cloud, 68-20, in last Friday's September 20 game. Scoring 30 points in the first quarter and another 20 in the second quarter, while holding their opponent to 8 points in the half, the Panthers were assured of a victory. Coach Melby could not be more proud of the team's drive and determination. "I think we were really focused and executed very well in the first quarter and jumped to a big early lead," he said. "We were also pretty focused on defense for most of the game.

Everyone played well and contributed to the win." "Southern Cloud is a young team and made some mistakes early in the game but they never quit and some of their young kids did some nice things later in the game," be added. Trevor Burgess was the first to score for Pike Valley, landing a touchdown on a 63-yard kickoff return, while Michael Gile ran the conversion play. Shane Langston scored a touchdown followed by Gile scoring on an 18-yard touchdown run with Kenny Sandell adding the extra points. Burgess ended the quarter as he started it, scoring another touchdown, this time on a 44-yard run, while teammate Sandell added die 3-points after the score. In the second quarter, J.

W. McNall scored a touchdown on a 13-yard run, then John Garman scored on a 10-yard run, and ending the second quarter, McNall scored again, on a 42-yard run with Sandell contributing the extra point after the touchdown. Two Pike Valley touchdowns were tallied in the third quarter, the first on Burgess 49-yard run and the second by Sandell. The Panthers completed the game, scoring their last touchdown in-the fourth, as Matt Swanson ran in lO-yards for the score. Rushing for a total of 393 yards, the leading carriers included; Burgess, 4 carries, 105 yards; McNall, 11 carries, 93 yards; Gile, 7 carries, 39 yards; Jeremy Fredrickson, 3 Carries, 73 yards; and Garman, 3 carries, 37 yards.

Passing for yardage gains were Kyle Heltne, 5-3-1, 33 yards; Kaleb Brzon, yards; and Gile, 1-1-0, 10 yards. Receivers included Langston, who had 1 catch for 22 yards, McNall, 2 catches for 21 yards; Brandon Melby, 1 catch for 12 yards, and Sandell, 1 catch for 10 yards. "We executed better on both sides of the ball this week. We had a lot of penalties which is a concern, but our blocking was better and we threw the ball better. We still have room for improvement but I am pleased with the progress so far," Coadh Melby commented.

Defensively, Langston led the tackles as he had 4 solos and 5 assists. Other Panthers contributing on the tackles were Brzon, 2 solo, 6 assists; Jeff Hammer, 4 solo, 2 assists; Fredrickson, 4 solo, 2 assists; Nick Thompson, 4 solo, 2 assists; and Gile, 3 solo, 3 assists. Pike Valley will face White Rock at Burr Oak in their next outing, this Friday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. "White Rock is down in numbers and has not won a game yet, but none of their 3 opponents so far has lost a game eidier. They have shown the ability to play well in spots and have improved as the year progresses," Melby said.

"We need to be focused and execute well on both sides of die ball and we should be OK." Coach Melby is also looking to the future as they face more challenges ahead. "We can't take a step backwards and make silly mistakes. We have to improve every week as we approach a tough (Ustrict season." Pike Valley vs. Southern Cloud Pike Valley Southern Cloud First Downs 14 14 Rushing Yards 393 109 Passes a-c-i 8-5-1 19-5-0 Passing Yards 65 57 Total Yards 458 166 Penalties-Yards 15-143 3-20 Fumbles-lost 1-0 2-1 Punts-avg. 1-24 Smith Tops Wakeeny Speedway Racing Results Delbert Smith won his heat and also the pole dash in the Late Model division at die Wakeeney Speedway on Friday night, September 20.

Darrick Klima, also in the late models, was 2nd in his heat race and 4th in die pole dash. In IMC A Modified action, Klima placed 2nd in die heat race and 5th in the pole dash, while Smith placed 5th in his heat. Saturday night, September 21, Smidi won the A-Feature Late Models and Klima placed 5di. Klima didn't finish the A- Feature IMCA Modifieds. Smidi placed 2nd in the heat race and 7di in die A-Feature.

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Belleville Buffs Undefeated, Edge Out Russell 14-8 The Belleville Buffaloes continued their winning ways as they traveled to Russell last Friday night, September 13, defeating them in a close contest 14-8. While shutting out Russell in the first half of the game, the Buffs scored two touchdowns for themselves, leading 14-0 at the half. Russell scored on a touchdown late in the fourdi quarter with less dian two minutes remaining but the Buffs would retain the lead. Corbin Navis first scored for die Buffs early in die second quarter on a quartback- er keeper, while Jeff Sells ran the conversion play. Vernon Wiley, on die receiving end of a 58-yard pass from Navis, boosted the Belleville score by 6 points, while the extra points were incomplete.

Coach Monty Bechard credited the team's continued success and another win to the offensive play in the first half, especially "a good mix of run and Navis passed a total of 124 yards for the Buffs, completing 7 of 8 passes attempted. Of the 132 rushing yards, Brad Couture accounted for 67 yards on 16 carries. Navis for 43 yards on 12 carries and Sells gained 31 yards on 7 carries. Coumre led BHS on tackles with 2 solo and 12 assists followed by Jeremy Weaver, 3 solo and 6 assisted, and Sells with 4 solo and 3 assists. The Buffs are on the road again this Friday traveling to Clyde for die 7:30 kick-off, September 27.

Belleville vs. Russell First Etowns Rushing Yards Passes a-c-i Passing Yards Total Yards Penalties-yards Fumbles-lost Punts-avg. Waterfowl Information Night On October 1 Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is sponsoring a Waterfowl hiforma- tion Night on Tuesday, October 1, at 8 pm. The meeting will be held at die American Legion Post 76 Concordia. Persons attending will learn about waterfowl populations, die new waterfowl zones and seasons, where to go and habitat conditions at Glen Elder, Jamestown and Lovewell.

State Waterfowl Stamps will be on sale at the meeting. For addidonal information, contact the Lovewell Public Lands Office at (913) 753-4971. NTV-Superior Switches To Fox Affiliate This week NTV Station KSNB-TV (Superior, Nebr.) changed from an ABC Affiliate to Fox and UPN. KSNB-TV (Channel 4) will join with Grand Island. Nebr.

Station KTVG (Channel 17) and will be called "The New Fox The new stations will also include translator channel 17 in Beatrice and channel 22 in Lincoln. Fox will still broadcast the local NTV newscasts at 6:30 a.m., 12 noon, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. NTV General Manager is George Singleton. Deer Causes Minor Damage Minor damage was reported September 18 at 10 p.m.

when a car driven by Barbara Hurley, Republic, struck a deer while westbound on the Republic road. Hurley was driving a 1988 Olds. Pike Valley Jr Varsity Edged Out By JeweU The Panther Junior Varsity football team traveled to Jewell last Monday, September 16, and came out on die short end of a 22-12 ballgame, evening dieir season record to 1-1. "We made several mistakes early and fell behind 14-0 in die first quarter. We were never able to catch back up to Jewell but did play considerably better after die first quarter," Coach Don Melby said.

The first score came on a long pass from Jacob Phillips to Brandon Barrett of about 68 yards. The second score came on a pass from Jacob Phillips to J.W. McNall to pull widiin 22- 12. Following a Monday, September 23 game versus North Central, die JV will be in action again, completing their season, at home against Mankato J.V., Monday, September 30th at 6 p.m. This date will also feature a junior varsity volleyball game at the high school gym.

Belleville Russell 13 8 132 60 7-8-0 6-19-1 124 102 256 162 3-29 5-35 2 0 BHS Boys Cross Country Take 3rd Place Spot At Smith Center Tins -S vKi The BHS Boys Cross Country team recorded a 3rd place finish in the Smith Center Redmen Cross Country meet held diis past Thursday, September 19. "This was die best finish by a Belleville team in a long time, a great team effort considering we missed the silver team medal by only 2 points," Boys Coach Gary Lapo said of die placing. Belleville scored 67 points following 2nd place TMP with 65 points, while Smith Center won die meet, scoring 29 points. medaled for die Buffs, placing 8di widi a time of 19:01. Odier individual times for the Boys included; Kelly Struebing, 16th, John Ketchum, 17th, Josh Lull, 19th, Brady Gerber, 21st, Luke Cuba Man Is Homecoming Nominee At Fort Hays Brad Claycamp, Cuba, has been nominated by the Student Alumni Association as a Homecoming candidate at Fort Hays State University.

Claycainp is a technology studies senior. Other area nominees include Melissa Nulty, Jewell, a speech- language padiol- ogy senior nominated by Mortar Board; and Lanae Elliott, a junior in political science, nominated by Student Government. Hallack, 24th, 21:33 and Scott Splichal, 30di, 23:15. Competing for the BHS Girls, Amy Craig was the highest placing, crossing the finish line in 15:24 for 19th place, while Sarah Ketchum, Liz Trzicky and Jamie Kramer finished in a pack, 29di dun 31st, widi times of 15:56, 15:58 and 16:03, respectively. Brian Hallack medaled in the Junior Varsity, placing 7th overall yet receiving die 5di place medal due to seniors in die competition who are ineligible to medal in JV.

His time was 22:28. Other JV times were Matt Walker, I5di, HeaUi Bowell, 18tii, Jesse Rhoades, 19th, Nathan Craig, 21st, Jeremy Snapp, 23rd, Sam Blad, 24th, and Landon Hinson, 26di, 26:52. KANSAS ATTENTION ENTREPRENEURS Do You Know Anyone Who Would Like to Earn MORE MONEY While Building A FUTURE With iHi State-oNhe-Art COMPENSATION PLAN EARN MONEY FAST! Call Joe Marsha Gerber 913-527-5146 2030 St. Belleville, KS 66935 Independent Sales Representative Wlm North Central Kansas South Central Nebraska Branson Toury "The Branson Christmas Spectacular" November 7 Featulinm "The Promise' A show that tells the real meaning of Christmas and Is a must to seel 5 shows, transportation, 3 nights lodging, 4 breakfasts, 3 dinners, plus more. Call ealry for reservations, l-BOO-SQZ-asSI All lines of insurance including Auto Home Life tor service call.

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