Cougar Beat -- Issue 5, Nov. 1, 2017

This Week in Cougar Athletics

COUGAR BEAT

Western Nebraska Community College

Nov. 1, 2017 Issue 5

WNCC ready for Region IX Volleyball Tourney

WNCC Athletes of the Week -- Female Athlete of the Week for week ending Oct. 29 -Syenna Masaki, a freshman from Hawaii, had a consistent week in the last five matches. Enna hit over .500 and tallied 16 kills, 174 set assists, 38 digs, and five blocks in the matches.

Enna had 15 digs and 50 set assists in a 5-set loss to San Jacinto.

Female Aug. 27........Brooke Kaawa, Vball Sept. 4...... Genesis Benitez, Vball Sept. 14... Jayme Commins, Vball Sept. 21.... Kadara Marshall, Vball Sept. 28......Syenna Masaki, Vball Oct. 1....... Joise Maldonado, Vball Oct. 8...........Sarena Bartley, Vball Oct. 16.......Morgan Smith, Soccer Oct. 22.........Brooke Kaawa, Vball Oct. 29........Syenna Masaki, Vball

-- Male Athlete of the Week for week ending Oct. 29 -Men’s Soccer Team, The Cougar soccer team finished the season with a heartbreaking loss against NJC at regionals in the semifinals, but the team had a record-setting season with the most wins in the season (12) and most goals scored.

Male Aug. 27....... Lawan Abary, Soccer Sept. 4....Thomas Franze, Soccer Sept. 14. Ramses Atahaulpa, Soccer Sept. 21...Andre Matzuda, Soccer Sept. 28.....Ade Oshikoya, Soccer Oct. 1........... Silvio Xavier, Soccer Oct. 8............Owen Parra, Soccer Oct. 16........ Lawan Abary, Soccer Oct. 22......... Silvio Xavier, Soccer Oct. 29........ Soccer Team, Soccer

Cougar Athletics Upcoming Events Thursday, November 2

l Volleyball HOME — Hosts Region IX South Volleyball Tournament

— Otero vs. Trinidad, 5 p.m. — Video: http://thecube.com/e/757803

— Lamar vs. McCook, 7 p.m. — Video: http://thecube.com/e/757805 Friday, November 3

l Men’s Basketball Away vs Little Big Horn College, Williston, N.D., 2 p.m.

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. Little Big Horn, Williston, N.D.

l Volleyball HOME — Hosts Region IX South Volleyball Tournament

— Otero/Trinidad winner vs. WNCC, 9 a.m.

Video: http://thecube.com/e/757806

— Lamar/McCook vs. Northeastern, 11 a.m.

Video: http://thecube.com/e/757807

— Other games at 1, 3, 5, and 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 4

l Men’s Basketball Away vs College of S. Idaho, Williston, N.D., 1 p.m.

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. College of S. Idaho, Williston, N.D., 11 a.m

l Volleyball HOME — Hosts Region IX South Volleyball Tournament

— Third place match at 10 a.m., championship at 1 p.m.

Sunday, November 5

l Softball — Incoming Freshman Signing Day, 8:30 a.m. Pioneer Hall.

Tuesday, November 7

l Women’s Basketball HOME vs. Nebraska All-stars, 6:30 p.m.

— Video: http://thecube.com/e/757808 Friday, November 10

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. Iowa Western C.C., Council Bluffs, 4 p.m.

l Men’s Basketball Away vs College of S. Idaho, Salt Lake City, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 11

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. Johnson County, Council Bluffs, 12 p.m.

l Men’s Basketball Away vs Salt Lake C.C., Salt Lake City, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 16

l Volleyball Away at National Tournament, Hutchinson, Kan. (if qualifies) Friday, November 17

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. Little Big Horn, Sheridan, Wyo.

l Men’s Basketball HOME vs Central Wyoming, 5:30 p.m.

l Volleyball Away at National Tournament, Hutchinson, Kan. (if qualifies) Saturday, November 18

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. Sheridan College, Sheridan, Wyo.

l Men’s Basketball HOME vs Western Wyoming, 4 p.m.

l Volleyball Away at National Tournament, Hutchinson, Kan. (if qualifies) Friday, November 24

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. Utah State Eastern, Salt Lake City,

l Men’s Basketball HOME vs Frank Phillips, 7:30 p.m.

— Trinidad plays Quakerdale Prep at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 25

l Women’s Basketball Away vs. Salt Lake C.C., Salt Lake City,

l Men’s Basketball HOME vs Quakerdale Prep, 4 p.m.

— Trinidad plays Frank Phillips at 2 p.m.

Monday, November 27

l Women’s Basketball HOME vs. Williston State, 5:30 p.m.

l Men’s Basketball HOME vs Williston State, 7:30 p.m.

WNCC ready for regional tourney

The Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team enters this weekend’s Region IX South volleyball tournament at Cougar Palace knowing what they have to do in order to capture a 19th straight regional title — play consistent.

The Cougars, who finished the regular season ranked fourth, struggled last week in five tough matches, going 2-3.

WNCC enters the regional tournament with a 29-6 record.

The good thing, though, is those losses to No. 17 Northeastern Junior College, No. 12 San Jacin-to, and No. 2 Iowa Western, helped refocus the team and should be a positive factor when WNCC hosts the South tournament beginning Thursday.

Tournament action begins Thursday with two matches. No. 3 Otero takes on No. 6 Trinidad State at 5 p.m. followed

by No. 4 McCook taking on No. 5 Lamar at 5 p.m.

The Cougars open play on Friday at 9 a.m. when they face the winner of the Otero and Trinidad contest. NJC, who earned the No. 1 seed in the tourney, will open at 11 a.m. on Friday against the winner of the Lamar/McCook contest.

WNCC head coach Binny Canales said his team will be ready come breakfast time Friday morning.

“We will have to be ready to go,” Canales said. “We have been practicing pretty hard. We are trying some new things and right now if we do the things that we are supposed to, we will be OK.” The tournament continues through Saturday with the championship. The winner qualifies for the national tournament Nov. 16-18 in Hutchinson, Kansas.

Canales said the tournament is up for grabs with any team capable of beating anyone.

“A lot of schools have beat each other,” Canales said. “We lost some games and we know we have to play better. We have to stay within system and I can’t say that enough. If we stay within system, we are really tough to beat.”

Canales said they just need to take care of business.

“We have to eliminate our errors,” Canales said. “We have to serve aggressively and stay in system.”

The Cougars have plenty of talent on the team. During the season, the Cou-

Kadara Marshall hits the ball over the net against Barton Community College on Saturday. The Cougars open Region IX tournament play Friday at 9 a.m. at Cougar Palace. gars were ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation and at one time had an 18-match winning streak and also won 35 straight sets.

During that winning stretch, the Cougars stayed in system, which is something that they have been doing for a good part of the season except for the few hiccups along the way.

“Staying in system is something we have been trying to do, but that always doesn’t happen that way,” Canales said.

“That is our goal to try to stay in system.

It is tough.”

Last week, the Cougars competed well in four of the five matches. After suffering the heart-wrenching, straightset loss to NJC on Wednesday, the Cougar team came back to battle well against No. 12 San Jacinto before falling in five sets and the same way to No. 2 Iowa Western.

Canales thinks the way they played last weekend in the WNCC Classic should be a plus for the team.

“I think the way we played at the end of the classic last week is giving the kids

Brooke Kaawa hits the ball over a block by Barton Community College. a little bit more confidence,” he said. “It is giving us comfortable in what we are doing. We are being aggressive and we are having success in being aggressive and that adds to their game. We know we can’t play tentatively and we can’t over think what we are doing. It is the end of the year and the kids just have to go out and perform.”

REGION IX SOUTH TOURNEY

2 — WNCC 3 — Otero

Game 3, 9 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 3

Game 1, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 2 Game 7, 5 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 3

6 — Trinidad 1 — NJC 4 — McCook

Game 4, 11 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 3

Game 2, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 2

5 — Lamar

Game 10, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 4

Loser Game 7 Loser Game 4 Game 5, 3 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 3

Game 9, 10 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 4

Loser Game 1 Game 8, 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 3

If Necessary Game 11, TBA Saturday, Nov. 4

Loser Game 3 Game 6, 1 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 3

Loser Game 2

Cougar Palace Scottsbluff, Nebraska Nov. 2-4, 2017

Loser Game 10 if first loss

Men’s basketball opens season this weekend Cougars return five players from a year ago The Western Nebraska Community College men’s basketball team is looking to improve on last year’s 21-11 record when they open the season this weekend at Williston, North Dakota.

The Cougars open against Little Big Horn College Friday afternoon before taking on the College of Southern Idaho Saturday.

Second-year coach Cory Fehringer said it will be a good opening weekend for his squad.

“I don’t have much on Little Big Horn, but being familiar with the territory you can expect high-paced basketball with a lot of shots taken. You just can’t get caught in the trap of taking bad shots because they are going to play a game of freedom of offense,” second-year coach Cory Fehringer said.

“Then against the College of Southern Idaho, you have a test against one of the better programs in the country with a team that is ranked No. 10. So, you better bring your best basketball or it might be a rough day.”

Fehringer said they can’t worry too much about results in November, the most important part is growing as a team.

“It is a great stretch for us in the early season,” he said. “We can’t get too caught up in the results, especially in November.

I think the most important part is growth.

We need to continue to grow together as a team, grow together strategically, grow together through adversity, but to stay the course with is to get better at Western Nebraska basketball.”

WNCC returns five players from a year ago with Vinnie Shahid, a 5-foot-10 guard from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Shahid already committed to play next year at the Division I level North Dakota State.

Other returners include Scottsbluff ’s Trent Harris, a 6-1 guard; Milos Popovic, a 6-3 guard from Serbia, Marlon Sierra, a 6-6 forward, and Djodje Dimitrijevic, a 6-1 guard from Serbia.

Fehringer said these sophomores have been good leaders.

“We have a group of sophomores returning that we believe will play good basketball together,” he said. “We have a handful of freshmen that we believe that can be in the rotation consistently. But the individual

WNCC sophomore Marlon Sierra dribbles the ball against a Chadron State defender during a scrimmage last month. The Cougars open the season this weekend when they face Little Big Horn and College of Southern Idaho. talent you can put aside because you have our bench will be.” to play a game with four other people. I am Fehringer said he has seen plenty of more concerned about their ability to be growth from this team from the first day talented together more than their ability to they stepped on campus in August to today. be talented as individuals.”

“The kids are amazing in how they learn WNCC also has the services of transfer to trust each other, play and learn about Austin Hoffman, a 6-2 guard from Gering, each other in the short amount of time,” who played last year at Nebraska Wesleyan. he said. “It speaks to the investment that The freshmen on the team include Peter has to be made of time and energy. Where Cherry, a 6-1 guard, and Bryce Sanchioius, we were during day one and to now can’t a 6-5 forward, both from Ft. Lauderdale, be measured, but we still have a long ways Florida; Rashad Gillion, a 5-10 guard from to go as far as those relationships are conOakland Park, Florida; Shaheem Speers, a cerned.”

6-2 guard, and Jervay Green, a 6-3 forward, WNCC will open the season the first two both of Denver, Colorado; TJ O’Connor, a weekends on the road and then have five 6-2 guard from Miami; Marko Rajanovic, a straight games at home, beginning Nov. 17 6-7 forward from Serbia; Dillon Waikle, a and 18 when they host Central Wyoming 6-11 center from San Clemente, California; and Western Wyoming. WNCC will also Zane Bender, a 6-5 forward from Hastings; have a Thanksgiving Classic when Frank and Martin Roub, a 6-10 center from the Phillips, Trinidad State, and Quakerdale Czech Republic.

Prep Academy come to Scottsbluff.

Depth shouldn’t be a problem for the Fehringer said this team has potential Cougars, either. and ready to get going.

“We have rotation in with guys fight- “It is always exciting to get going,” he ing for additional minutes,” Fehringer said. “It is a tough trip, a long trip, a cold said. “Our depth will determined by trip. It will not be easy, but that is where the consistent preparation. Some of the guys growth really starts to set in when you start that are fighting for more minutes, the to have some adversity and failure along the more reps they get to help us, the deeper way.”

Women’s basketball ranked No. 25 in nation Cougar women open season this weekend at Williston, North Dakota Chad Gibney begins a new era at Western Nebraska Community College after being named the head coach of the women’s basketball program in the spring.

Gibney, however, is now stranger to the Cougar women’s program, having served as the interim head coach during the second semester. Under Gibney’s leadership, the Cougars went 17-2, won a Region IX title, and earned a berth at the NJCAA national tournament.

So, what is on tab for this year?

Well, Gibney is excited with the potential of this year’s team.

“We are anxious to get out there and finally put the game uniforms on,” he said. “We are ready to compete for one another and represent western Nebraska and this institution.”

The Cougars, who are ranked 25th in the NJCAA pre-season polls, open the season Nov. 3-4 in Williston, North Dakota, when they face Little Big Horn College on Friday and then No. 24 College of Southern Idaho on Saturday.

Gibney said the team is ready to go.

“We open up with Little Big Horn, who is in Region IX. We are not as concerned about the op-posing team; we are more concerned about that we are going out and playing our style of basketball,” he said. “Then, on Saturday, we play College of Southern Idaho, who is pre-season ranked in the top 25. It will be good for us to play a top-ranked team and to be challenged early in the year.”

While Saturday’s contest will be a battle of ranked teams, Gibney said his team being ranked is because of the history of WNCC women’s basketball. He hopes his team can carry o that tradition.

“The ranking is a good indication of how good this program has been, especially in junior college because there is so much turnover that the roster changes from year-to-year,” Gibney said. “The pre-season ranking doesn’t necessarily indicate success going forward, but I think it shows how this program is looked at because of its past successes and the success of this past year’s team.”

The Cougars wrapped up their scrimmages on Sunday with a contest against Western State, and Gibney said they performed well.

“We played well,” Gibney said. “We played

WNCC sophomore Anastacia Johnson dribbles the ball and looks for an open player during a scrimmage against Metro State last month. The Cougars open the season ranked No. 25 in the pre-season poll.

Division II Western State from Gunnison, Colorado, and we did a nice job. We had a lot of people contribute and do some nice things.

That was very good to see.”

A lot of the focus on the season will be the seven sophomores, who all saw plenty of action a year ago. Leading the charge is Division I verbal commitment Jaleesa Avery, a 6-1 forward/center from Aurora, Colorado. Avery verbally committed with Morehead State in Kentucky in October.

The other returners include 5-7 guard Anastacia Johnson, of Aurora, Colorado; Melisa Kadic, a 5-9 guard from West Valley City, Utah; Olivia Wiberg, a 5-9 guard from Hyrum, Utah; Kellie Gaston, a 5-8 guard from Tampa, Florida; Sophie Agorakis, a 5-10 forward from Melbourne, Australia; and Giovanna Silva, a 5-10 center from Brasília, Brazil.

Gibney said the sophomores have plenty of talent.

“We have a good cohesive group that each person can bring a little different thing to the table for our team to be really successful,” he said. “We are trying to blend those personalities, blend those skill sets, and make sure we can put a group out there that can be competitive.”

The freshman class will also be depended on. The newcomers include Merle Wiehl, a 6-1 forward from Gottingen, Germany; Eva Langton, a 6-1 forward from Stratford, New Zea-

land; Karli Seay, a 5-7 guard from Rossmoor, Illinois; Fabi Alexandrino, a 6-0 guard from Sao Paulo, Brazil; and local recruit Josie Perez, a 5-7 guard from Gordon.

The Cougars have been bothered by injuries for the past month. Monday was the first time that the team had all 10 players practice together. Most of the pre-season, the team played and practiced with just seven players.

“Today [Monday] was the first day that we had 10 practice in quite a while,” he said. “To have 10 healthy bodies was exciting.”

Gibney said the outlook for the season is good, but they just need to worry about themselves.

“It will be a fun group for people that will go out there and compete, play hard, play smart, and play for one another,” he said.

After this weekend, the Cougars will have a home game on Tuesday, Nov. 7 when they host the Nebraska All-stars at 6:30 p.m. WNCC will then compete in three prestigious classics the next three weekends, Nov. 10-11 at Iowa Western Community College, Nov. 17-18 at Sheridan College, and Thanksgiving weekend at Salt Lake Community College.

“We wanted to have a difficult non-conference schedule and test ourselves early,” Gibney said. “At the end of the year we need to be playing our best basketball and to play really good teams early, can only benefit us.”

Men’s soccer fall in semis to NJC 1-0 The Western Nebraska Community College men’s soccer team ended its record-setting season in falling to Northeastern Junior College 1-0 in the semifinals of the Region IX soccer tournament in Denver on Friday.

The Cougar men, who set a record for most wins in a season with 12, entered the tournament as the No. 2 seed.

Unfortunately for the Cougars, they just couldn’t get a goal in the back of a net against a NJC squad that has won eight straight.

The Plainsmen will face Otero Junior College for the Region IX title Saturday afternoon. Otero upended Trinidad 4-3.

Despite the loss, WNCC coach Todd Rasnic said his team had a good season.

“Obviously I thought the season was fantastic,” Rasnic said. “The guys did an excellent job. They overcame a lot of adversity over the season which we dealt with really well. The team obviously was a good team as they set some new records with most goals and wins in a season. Overall I was pleased with their season.”

Despite the great season, Rasnic said they just couldn’t punch the ball into the back of the net.

“I thought we let ourselves down a little bit in this last game,” he said. “We had more quality opportunities to score than our opponent. But, it was just one of those days where we couldn’t find the back of the net. We found the back of the net 56 times during the regular season, got to the playoffs and found the net five times in our first-round game (against Northwest) and, for some reason for the second time this season, got shut out.”

Rasnic gave NJC plenty of credit in the way they shut the Cougar, high-scoring offense down.

“Give NJC some credit; they did a good job of figuring out our strengths,” he said. “They put some quality defense together to work against our top-scoring players and shut them down and made them less dangerous. Those players still got opportunities to shoot, we just didn’t have it in the tank to finish.”

The match was scoreless at halftime.

NJC netted the only goal of the game just seven minutes into the second half when Joseph Godoy scored to make it 1-0.

Despite the early second half goal,

WNCC had plenty of chances to score after that.

“We had a couple shots late,” Rasnic said. “Silvio hit a shot late where any other day or game would have been an easy goal but their goalkeeper swallowed it up.”

WNCC had 19 shots compared to 18 for NJC. Silvio Xavier had seven shots, three of which were on goal. Lawan Abary had three shots, two of which were on goal.

WNCC goalkeeper Juan Garfio, of Minatare, had 12 saves in net for WNCC. WNCC loses a lot of sophomores, but return plenty of freshmen talent. Rasnic said he is hoping to build on this year’s 12-7 season.

“We are looking to build on this freshmen group,” he said. “We had a number of starting freshmen this year so the outlook looks good for next year. Hopefully, we will bounce back strong next season and be as strong as we were this year.”

Year-by-Year Records 2017 — 12-7 ** 2016 — 5-9-2 2015 — 6-9 2014 — 10-4-3 2013 — 2-14-1 2012 — 4-13 2011 — 8-9-1 2010 — 5-12 2009 — 5-7-1 2008 — 7-8-1 2007 — 8-10 2006 — 5-9-1 2005 — 3-12-1 2004 — 4-12 2003 — 11-6-1

Cougars at the 4-year level 2014-15 Softball/Soccer Kelsey Bernhardt................................... Doane 2015-16 Softball Whitney Fields............................. Adams State Brittany Bigge........................... Ft. Lewis State Haille Weber.................................. Metro State Courtney Medina................. Lubbock Christian Kenzie Sawyer............................... Dixie State Christian Bobian.......... New Mexico Highlands Volleyball Fabiana Andrade................... CSU-Bakersfield Keala Kaio Perez................ Alaska-Anchorage Katy Ernest.........................Nebraska-Kearney Women’s Basketball Kalli Feddersen.........................Chadron State Hannah Sparks.......................... Montana Tech Brooke Zimmerman........................McPherson Men’s Basketball Phil Fayne.................................... Illinois State Soccer Jorge Ortega.........................Hastings College Omar Guzman................ Louisiana-Alexandria MIguel Enriquez............. Louisiana-Alexandria Blake Wills.............................Hastings College Rhiannon Castle....................Hastings College Corrie McDonald..........................York College Hannah Wilke...............................York College Isabel Hunter.................. Point Park University Baseball Bradley Brown....................Nebraska-Kearney Beau Lofink................................. Adams State Jack Pauley........................ Northern Colorado

2016-17 Volleyball Kaylee Spreier............................. Dakota State Alwaise Villa................................ Dakota State Lara Picht.................................... Oral Roberts Danika Daum.........................Henderson State Softball Jasmine Wessel............................ Metro State Lauren Oxford.................... West Virginia Tech Celyn Whitt.................................... Metro State Analace Apodaca...................Regis University Emily Selby............................... Ft. Lewis State Cassie Jones....................... Friends University Women’s Basketball Bree Paulson.......................... St. Bonaventure Zeynep Canbaz................... Middle Tennessee Sladjana Rakovic...............................Wyoming Deniz Dahligran................................ Tusculum Men’s Basketball Michael Connor.............. Point Park University Austin Payne...........................Dickinson State Baseball Brandon Bachar........................ Emporia State Alex Achermann...................Nebraka-Kearney Ryan Grasser............................ Ft. Hays State Stuart Eurich....................................... Bellevue Isaac Taylor...................... McPherson College Nate Giefer..............Colorado School of Mines Ian Fisher............................ University of Mary Lincoln Trujillo.................................Jamestown Soccer Matheus Campos................ Lady of the Lakes Matheus Ricardo... U. of Louisiana-Shreveport JP Santos.............. U. of Louisiana-Shreveport Billy Hoffman....................... Nebraska-Omaha Sierra Benavidez............... Benidictine College Janie McAmis.........................Black Hills State

COUGARS in the COMMUNITY Red Ribbon Week at Gering Junior High

WNCC athletes paid a visit to Gering Junior High on Oct. 26 to celebrate Red Ribbon Week. The players told the students what they focused on to stay in school. The students also played with the different sports with the athletes, including (above) Julia Suchan playing beach volleyball, (middle right) (Esai Hernandez playing one-on-one basketball, (far bottom right) Zane Bender dunks the ball; and (bottome right) soccer players playing soccer.

More Red Ribbon Week photos include (top left) Chelsea Gorman talks to the students while softball players Abbie O’Brien and Brooke Doumer watch; (top right) soccer player Eseah Ingram tells the students his choice while soccer players Sydney Heimbouch and Morgan Smith wait; (far left) Trent Harris plays knock out with a student, while (left) Olivia Wiberg shoots in a game of knockout with a student; (bottom left) Alyssa Guymon passes a beach volleyball, (bottom middle and right) are three of the four group photos of students with WNCC athletes.

$100 Club Monthly Winners

September Winners

$150 — Kimberly Belford, ..............Ft. Collins, Colorado $100 — Jeff Peck, .............................. Gering, Nebraska $50 — Shawn Hergenreder, ..............Scotsbluff, Nebraska

October Winners

$150 — Sabrina Kadic, .................. West Valley City, Utah $100 — Roxie Shaul, ................................. Gering, Nebraska $50 — Scott & Amy Winters, ................ Scottsbluff, Nebraska

November Winners

$150 — Joan Koehler.......................... Gering, Nebraska $100 — Lynn Wolworth..............................Mitchell, Nebraska $50 — Rudy & Angie Hernandez................ Gering, Nebraska

Each month the winners will be announced here as well on the WNCC athletic website at wnccathletics.com

Former Cougar Hunter earns offensive player of the week Point Park University and former WNCC Cougar midfielder Izzy Hunter scored some key goals in a pair of conference wins to earn River States Conference Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for Oct. 16-22.

A junior from London, England, Hunter totaled two goals, an assist and five points as the Pioneers went 2-0 on the week with RSC victories over WVU Tech

Softball holding hitting clinic

and Rio Grande. Both opponents entered the weekend unbeaten in conference play.

Hunter scored a big goal to stake a 2-0, first-half lead in a 2-0 victory over WVU Tech. In a 3-2 comeback win over Rio Grande, she scored on a PK for the first of three second-half goals for the Pioneers. The comeback was complete when Hunter assisted on the game-winner. Point Park trailed,

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2-0, at the half.

Point Park is 8-6-1 overall, 5-2-1 RSC and plays a conference quarterfinal contest against Ohio Christian University on Saturday.

So far this season, Hunter has scored six goals and dished off two assists for 14 points. She scored a goal in three straight matches against Ohio Christian, WVU, Tech, and Rio Grande (Ohio).

The WNCC softball team is holding a one-day hitting clinic on Sunday, Nov. 12 from 9-11:30 a.m. The clinic is for ages second through eighth grade and is limited to the first 30 players.

The camp costs $35 and will be held at the Field of Dreams hitting complex on West 20th. When coming to the camp, please bring a bat, helmet, and water bottle.

For a camp registration, co to the WNCC athletic website at www.wnccathletics.com and go to the camp tab. For more information, contact softball coach Katelyn Groves at grovesk@wncc.edu.

Softball holding hitting clinic for high school girls

The WNCC softball team is holding a one-day hitting clinic on Sunday, Nov. 12 from 12:30 - 3 p.m. The clinic is for girls in high school, 9th-12th grades and is limited to the first 30 players.

The camp costs $35 and will be held at the Field of Dreams hitting complex on West 20th. When coming to the camp, please bring a bat, helmet, and water bottle.

For a camp registration, co to the WNCC athletic website at www.wnccathletics.com and go to the camp tab. For more information, contact softball coach Katelyn Groves at grovesk@wncc.edu.

WNCC softball holding pitching clinic

The WNCC softball team will hold a pitching clinic for girls in grades second to eighth grade on Sunday, December 3 from 2-5 p.m.

The clinic will be held at WNCC’s Cougar Palace and will be conducted by WNCC softball coach Katelyn Groves and current players.

Getting Evaluated

WNCC baseball coach Mike Jones (center) shows the Baseball Evaluation Camp participants the proper stance when hitting. Nearly 30 participants from Nebraska and Colorado came to the evaluation camp on Oct. 29.

The clinic costs $35 and participants are asked to bring a glove and water bottle.

For a camp registration, co to the WNCC athletic website at www.wnccathletics.com and go to the camp tab. For more information, contact softball coach Katelyn Groves at grovesk@wncc.edu.

WNCC softball offering hitting league

The WNCC softball team will hold a four-week hitting league for ages kindergarten through 12th grade.

The hitting league will run from 5-6 p.m. and will be held on either Mondays (Oct. 30, Nov. 6, Nov. 13, Nov. 27), Tuesday (Oct. 31, Nov. 7, Nov. 14, Nov. 28), or Wednesdays (Nov. 2, Nov. 9, Nov. 16, Nov. 30).

The cost of the camp is $35. The age divisions are k-2nd, 3rd-5th, 6th-8th, 9th-10th, and 11-12th. Each player will get 50 swings a night.

For a league registration, co to the WNCC athletic website at www.wnccathletics.com and go to the camp tab. For more information, contact softball coach Katelyn Groves at grovesk@wncc.edu.

Special day for six volleyball sophomores

Parting Shot

The Western Nebraska Community College softball team during their morning practice on Halloween had a costume contest. So, can you identify all the players in these costumes. Oh, by the way, the Minions won the best costume.

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