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Continued from Page D5 in kills, Cline had a 0.261 hitting efficiency.

Allyse Cruise led Tech with 14 digs and Kirstin King was right behind with 12.

Rocky Mountain took less than one hour of play to defeat Montana Western in three sets, 25-7, 25-6, 25-13.

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Frontier Conference Volleyball Standings (Through Sept. 24)

The Carroll College Fighting Saints defeated Team Conf.

Overall the University of Montana Western Bulldogs in Rocky Mountain 4-1 16-3 4-1 10-3 three sets, 25-16, 25-14, 25-17 on Saturday night. Lewis-Clark State Carroll 4-1 11-4 Montana Western competed well in sets one Westminster 4-2 7-7 MSU-Northern 3-2 11-6 and three and the scores were close in the hard Great Falls 2-3 17-4 fought contests until the Saints pulled away Montana Tech 0-5 7-11 down the stretch to win both sets. Carroll UM Western 0-6 5-12 jumped out to an early 8-1 lead and was never seriously challenged in the second set.

Once again the Bulldogs had trouble winning the battle at the net. Carroll had 39 kills to Montana Western’s 23 and also led in blocks at the net 15 to 6. Even when Montana Western made strong attack hits, but the Saints defense was in top form recording 58 digs to keep play alive.

Montana Western It was a tough weekend for the Bulldogs, with three set losses to both Carroll and Rocky Mountain, and Coach Lisa Griffiths felt their play did not meet team expectations. Although disappointed with the outcome of the matches, Griffiths saw some positive aspects from the weekend.

“I was encouraged to see Emily Erickson’s strong performance,” the coach said.

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Lewis-Clark State The Lewis-Clark State Warriors’ solid serving and quick tempo attack was too much for Montana State University-Northern to handle at the Activity Center on Saturday afternoon. With a season-high 12 service aces, the Lewis-Clark State College volleyball team blew past MSU-Northern 25-12, 25-12, 28-26.

With two wins over solid teams last week, and both by way of sweep, all signs point to the fact that the Warriors are really heating up.

“This week we’ve been finding a flow in practice and in matches,” said LCSC

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Continued from Page D6 head coach LaToya Harris. “And if we play at our tempo, we will be hard to stop.”

MSU-Northern MSU-Northern, 11-6 overall and 3-2 in conference play, hit just .011 on the day.

Kelsey Williams, who played her freshman season with the Warriors last year, led the Skylights with seven kills. Rector’s 16 digs, a team season high for a three-set match, was one reason for Northern’s low hitting clip as was the Warriors’ pressure at the net. LCSC had four blocks overall including two from Graybeal.

Lewis-Clark State hit .364 and .478 in the first and second set, respectively, and quickly grabbed a 2-0 lead. Lineup switches and a .179 hitting percentage kept the Warriors from breaking away from Northern in the third set.

With the score knotted at 26, Graybeal and Brown came up with a block to take the lead, and Rector followed with a service ace for the win.

The victory lifts the Warriors to 10-3 overall and 4-1 in the conference. LewisClark State’s next match will be on Friday against Westminster College at 7 p.m. inside the LCSC Activity Center.

Westminster Westminster overcame deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 for the 24-26, 25-18, 26-28, 25-21, 15-10 victory and improve to 6-7 overall and 3-2 in the Frontier Conference.

Northern drops to 11-5 and 3-1.

Westminster finished the night with a season high 69 kills while hitting .199.

They also set a season high with 62 assists while also collecting 78 digs and five blocks. They held Northern to just .118 hitting efficiency which is a full 100 points below their season average. Katie Vance was the star of the night for the Griffins.

The sophomore middle blocker racked up a career high 17 kills while also hitting a career-best .481. Those 17 kills are the second-most by a Griffin this season as is the .481 efficiency. Vance also picked up four digs, one service aces and one block.

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Tech, Western meet in Dillon

BY BILL FOLEY of The Montana Standard

Something has to give when the Montana Tech and Montana Western football teams meet Saturday in Dillon.

Kickoff is at 1 p.m. at Vigilante for the Frontier Conference game.

The Orediggers (1-4, 0-4) and Bulldogs (0-4, 0-4) are both looking for their first conference win.

Tech won a 50-47 double overtime battle with Southern Oregon to open the season on a magical night at Alumni Coliseum.

Since then, the magic has eluded the Orediggers, who lost to Eastern Oregon, MSU-Northern, Rocky Mountain and Carroll College to fall to the cellar of the Frontier. Their roommates at the bottom are the Bulldogs, who lost to the same four teams.

The Bulldogs looked primed to win their first game last Saturday in La Grande, Ore. Eastern Oregon, though, scored 31 second half points to erase a 30-14 halftime deficit and win 45-39.

The Bulldogs also led 13-7 after one quarter at Carroll College the week before.

They ended up losing 35-14.

Saturday concludes the first half of the Frontier season.

After a week away from conference play, the teams will play each other one more time.

Tech has next week off, while Western will travel to Grand Forks, N.D., for a “money game” against the University of North Dakota.

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Ledgerwood has eyes on the end zone

BY BILL FOLEY of The Montana Standard

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ogan Ledgerwood isn’t quite sure what he’s going to do when he scores on a pick 6.

He’s just pretty sure that it’s going to happen.

Through five games, the Montana Tech senior cornerback leads the Frontier Conference with three interceptions.

He hasn’t taken one for a touchdown. Yet. “I plan on getting one,” he says.

Ledgerwood has been making these plans since he first met the new Oredigger coaches.

“The coaching staff expects us to score on defense,” Ledgerwood says. “That’s what the whole theme is on our defense.”

Ledgerwood, who started playing in the secondary as a young boy in the small town of Fort Benton, grew up idolizing Deion “Prime Time” Sanders.

“I’m thinking about doing the ‘Prime Time’ step,” Ledgerwood says of his planned pick 6. “I don’t know. It’s all going to be improv.”

For a split second last Saturday night, it looked like Ledgerwood would get his first collegiate touchdown when he made a how-did-he-do-that catch to pick off Carroll College quarterback Dane Broadhead in the first quarter.

Ledgerwood, though, slipped after a five-yard return. The Orediggers were also called for a clipping penalty on the play, so a score wouldn’t have counted.

“I told people before the game that we’re going to pick one, and it’s going to go to the shop,” Ledgerwood said. “‘So you can’t celebrate early and make sure our blocks are clean.’”

With his three picks as a senior — his first as a full-time starter — Ledgerwood has six on his career.

Ledgerwood, who has contributed as a fill-in starter and special teams player since his redshirt freshman season, wants to double that again in the final six games as an Oredigger.

“I’ve actually got a bet going with my coach to see if I can catch up to him, which is at 12,” Ledgerwood says of secondary coach Andrew Schoenfelder, who played at the University of Sioux Falls under new Tech coach Chuck Morrell. “I’ve got to get one more a game.”

That’s some pretty good confidence for a cornerback who he says he couldn’t catch a cold in spring drills.

“The coaches were all giving me (grief) all spring because I had (poor) hands,” Ledgerwood says. “I was always dropping picks in spring ball, just constantly. I must have dropped 15 or 20.

“I told them ‘come season I guarantee I’ll be picking them.’”

He was right.

Ledgerwood has interceptions against Eastern Oregon, MSU-Northern and Carroll.

The one against the Saints was flat-out ridiculous.

“The one against Carroll ... I’ve been told by a couple of people that I have no business picking it,” Ledgerwood says. “I just stuck out my arm. (The receiver) ran a deep curl end rout. The quarterback threw it outside, and I just stuck out my arm.

“I bought some new gloves before the game. I thought that might have helped out a little bit. It hit my forearm, hit my leg and just curled right up to me.”

Ledgerwood says the new 3-4 blitz-happy defense also came to him pretty fast.

He said he loves it.

“He mixes it up a lot. Coach likes to blitz,” Ledgerwood says of Morrell, who is also the defensive coordinator. “He’s usually manning us up when he’s bringing smoke.

“I like man-to-man. It’s pretty much just you and another guy. Lock him down, shut him out is pretty much the mind set you’ve got to have.”

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“Football was always a big thing growing up in Fort Benton,” Ledgerwood says. “Since like ’98 they started building a good football program. So I get really into sports and football in Fort Benton growing up.”

Ledgerwood also played basketball for the Longhorns.

“I had like a 36-inch vertical jump,” he says. “I was dunking it in high school.”

So, naturally, the track coaches wanted to take advantage of Ledgerwood’s jumping ability.

Instead, he wanted to take it easy after all-out seasons of football and basketball. So, Ledgerwood played golf at Fort Benton.

Class B schools in Montana still play golf in the spring.

“I hustled too much in football and basketball, so I didn’t want to do track after getting done with football and basketball,” he says. “They wanted me to do the jumps, not so much the running. I was like, ‘Nope, I got to hit some par threes.’”

Ledgerwood still likes to spend time on the course.

Ledgerwood, a civil engineering major who has an internship in Seattle lined up for next summer, said his dream job would be a club pro at a golf course.

He carries a 12 to 13 handicap.

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“It was a hectic summer,” he says.

He was used to the schedule, however, because he grew up working on farm land his parents own outside of Fort Benton.

“I think that’s a good base or structure for getting up early for football and school, not being lazy,” Ledgerwood says.

The Orediggers recruited Ledgerwood as a safety.

“Then I got moved to corner the first winter ball, and they pretty much kept me there since,” he says. “I played a little bit of safety last year due to injuries. I played a little bit this year due to injures.

“I played safety in high school. I’ve kind of been doing secondary my whole life.”

Playing running back in college wasn’t really an option. Ledgerwood is a defensive guy.

He partially credits his love of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the “Steel Curtain” for that love of defense.

“I think it started way back when I started seventh and eighth grade football. I used to love offense,” Ledgerwood says. “I had an older guy tell me ‘I’ll guarantee one day you’ll love defense because that’s where it’s at.”

That makes it sort of ironic that Ledgerwood is now so hellbent on scoring a touchdown.

“I’ve been looking for that,” he says.

“I’ve been thinking about ever since these coaches came in and made that key. Score when we’re on defense has been my mind set ever since.”

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Coaches Morrell, Nourse have met before

BY PAT RYAN of The Montana Standard

Both head coaches in Saturday’s Montana TechMontana Western matchup in Dillon are on roughly the same footing.

Both Western’s Ryan Nourse and Tech’s Chuck Morrell are in their first year in their respective programs.

Neither has won a Frontier Conference football game.

That will, of course, change for one of the coaches on Saturday when the Bulldogs host the Orediggers for homecoming.

It’s the first of two meetings this season for the teams, but it won’t be the first time the coaches have seen each other from across the field.

There was a six-year window between 2003 and 2008 Morrell when both were defensive coordinators for the top teams in the Great Plains Athletic Conference — Nourse at Morningside and Morrell at Sioux Falls.

“All those years at Morningside, we battled (Sioux Falls) for the conference championship,” Nourse recalled. “They got us most times, but as a coach you watch what other coaches do. This is a guy I respect, and you look at what coaches like that do. They play hard and physical. The hallmark of his defense is they don’t make mistakes.”

Morrell, along with his head coaching duties, is the defensive coordinator for the Orediggers. Nourse had planned to be the defensive coordinator at Western, but just days before fall drills began, offensive coordinator Nick Whitworth took another job

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and all bets were off in Dillon.

Nourse was forced to shuffle his coaching staff at the last minute. He took over as offensive coordinator and promoted Nick Thier to defensive coordinator.

It wasn’t too much of a stretch, however. Nourse had served as offensive coordinator in his last year at Morningside, and had some material to work with on the offensive side of the ball. Thier, though young, has a good football background and has his players at Western hitting hard.

“Jason played for me (at Truman State),” Nourse said.

“I knew if he ever went into coaching that I’d hire him.

He’s very intelligent and he’s got tons of energy.”

Nourse said Thier and D-line coach Sean McKinney Nourse are learning at break-neck pace, but it’s a tough way to pick it up.

“You know, we’re pretty close on defense,” Nourse said. “But a play here and a play there, and teams like Carroll and Eastern Oregon, you miss something and 30 yards later you’re chasing them down.”

As a former defensive coordinator, and from his knowledge of Coach Morrell, Nourse has a pretty solid idea what to look for this Saturday from Tech’s defense.

“We know they’ll be playing a physical 3-4 defense,” Nourse noted. “Chuck will have his team prepared to stop our best stuff.”

Some of Western’s best stuff has only recently been seen on the field, and that’s something Nourse said he’s excited about. The Bulldogs have a true homecoming

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Continued from Page D13 after a couple of weeks on the road against the top two teams in the Frontier Conference — Carroll and Eastern Oregon.

Western led early against the Saints before faltering late, and had the Mountaineers on the ropes more than once in a wild 45-39 loss last Saturday.

“It’s always nice to get back home, but they haven’t seen us play very well there yet,” Nourse said. “In our first home game against Rocky we probably couldn’t have played a worse game, but that’s a credit to Rocky.”

Nourse points to continual improvement in his team, and in himself as well.

“I hadn’t prepared myself to be calling an offense,” he said. “But I’ve never been a head coach before either. I’m getting better every week, and the kids have been great.”

The Bulldogs look to Dillon product Zach McRae, who recently won the starting quarterback job. Nourse said the senior signal caller has gained a good grasp of the offense.

“The thing I like about Zach is he has good decision-making skills,” Nourse said.

“He’s a football guy, and in the last couple of weeks people have seen some solid glimpses of how he can play. He’s done a nice job taking command.”

McRae completed 25 of 34 passes against the Mounties for 324 yards and a touchdown to Casey Lamping, who had five grabs for 70 yards. McRae also ran in from 6 yards out for the first touchdown of the game.

The Bulldogs have also seen good work of late from running backs Charlie Dotson and T.J. Leep, but that’s largely the by-product of an offensive line that has begun to gel, Nourse said.

“We had to fill some spots on the offensive line with guys who have never played

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there before,” Nourse said, pointing to Justin Garcia.

“Justin moved over from the defensive line and he’s really starting to flourish.

He’s been excellent.”

Nourse said his corps of receivers is the hardest-working bunch on the team, and that particular group has seen the emergence of Colton Woods.

“Colton’s come out and done a great job,” Nourse said. “(Deryk) Van Zee has been great as a punter, a wideout or anything you ask him to do.”

The defense radiates from senior noseguard Penisoni Tuifua.

“It’s not just that Peni’s performing,” Nourse said. “He brings such a positive energy to the team. He and (left offensive tackle) Justin Cossey have been a big help with teaching the others.”

Senior cornerback Donte Green had a big game against Eastern Oregon with 15 tackles, and drew high praise from his coach.

“Donte’s selling out every play,” he said.

“He’s playing physical and getting after the football; he’s been doing everything right. He comes to practice every day to work hard, but you know they’ve all been working hard.”

Many of the younger players Nourse was able to sign have also begun to make their presence felt at Western. Great Falls products Ryan Otto and Phil Selin join Helena’s Beau Berg and Jackson Lang as four young players who gaining experience while making an impact.

“We recruited a lot of those guys believing that they’ll be good players and play at a high level in the Frontier,” Nourse said.

The fact that Western has been competitive while playing very good teams doesn’t surprise Nourse.

“We’ve had good belief in this team all the way through,” he said. “Playing well just makes it more concrete. We know we have a good football team and that we can be competitive. If we take care of the details, we can play with anybody and we can beat anybody.

“Now, it’s a matter of getting over the hump.”

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