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Eastland Volleyball's Road to State

Lady Cougars Eliminate Lady Panthers

By Craig Lang

Prairie Advocate Sports

Players, coaches, and fans celebrate the Cougar victory, claiming their own Sectional tournament by defeating Le-Win. (PA photo/Craig Lang)

After splitting two regular season meetings, the Eastland Lady Cougars made fairly easy work of Le-Win in the Tuesday night (11/3) semifinals of the Eastland Sectional. The Lady Cougars won in two games, 25-16 and 25-19 to improve their season record to 36-2 while dropping Le-Win to a final record of 30-8.

Eastland built early leads in both games and didn't allow the Lady Panthers to make any big runs to come back on them. The Eastland squad took on the Orion Lady Chargers on Thursday night to decide the Sectional champion. Orion eliminated the Orangeville Lady Broncos in Tuesday's night's first semifinal match up, 25-20 and 25-22.

Lady Cougars Roll Into Super Sectional

By Craig Lang

Prairie Advocate Sports

The Eastland Lady Cougars proved Tuesday night why they are the defending state champions, handily dispatching an Orion Lady Charger team that looked overmatched from the start. Eastland rolled to the easy two game victory, 25-8 and 25-14 to advance to Saturday nights South Beloit Super Sectional, where they face Newark at 7 pm.

Looking every bit the champs in game 1, the Lady Cougars jumped out to a decisive 11-1 lead before rolling to the easy win. The Lady Chargers made things a little tighter in game two before Eastland went on a 13-3 run to take a 20-10 lead. Katelyn Hasken led Eastland with five aces and five kills, while Megan Bunyer chipped in with eight kills.

Eastland Lady Cougars Advance Back To State

By Craig Lang

Prairie Advocate Sports

Hope Linker (12) sets a kill for Courtney Blair (33) in the second game of the South Beloit Super-Sectional. Blair led the Cougar attack with nine kills. (PA photo/Mark Hagen)

On to State, the Lady Cougars jump for joy with their IHSA Class 1A Championship plaque in the foreground. (L to r) Carissa Gruhn, Courtney Blair, Ashley Larak, Taylor Heeren, Logan Feltmeyer, Hope Linker, Karissa Pierce, Sidney Kane, Kerby Kniss, Katelyn Dickman, Megan Bunyer, Katelyn Hasken, and Kaitlyn Bissell. (PA photo/Mark Hagen)

The Eastland Lady Cougars punched their tickets back to the state semifinals with a convincing two game victory in the South Beloit Super Sectional played Saturday night. Eastland took game one 25-9 and game two 25-11 to advance back to Redbird Arena in Normal, where they take on Toledo Cumberland in the 10:30 am match up. Toledo Cumberland is the same school that the Lady Cougars swept in the semis last year.

Courtney Blair led Eastland with nine kills, Katelyn Hasken had four and Megan Bunyer added three. Tickets for the general public go on sale Monday through Thursday this week at EHS. The times are listed in the following article.

IHSA Class 1A State Volleyball Tournament

Redbird Arena, Normal, IL

Nov. 13

Mt. Pulaski vs Payson (Seymour) - 9:30 am

Eastland vs Toledo (Cumberland) - 10:30 am

Nov. 14

3rd Place

Loser game #1 vs loser game #2 - 9:30 am

Championship

Winner game #1 vs. winner game #2 - 10:30 am

Ticket Info For the 2009 Volleyball State Tourney

Eastland's volleyball team will play Friday, November 13th at 10:30 at Redbird Arena in Normal.. Tickets for the general public for Friday's session 1 will be available at EHS on the following dates and times: Monday 11:00-1:00 and 3:00-5:00; Tuesday 11:00-1:00 and 3:00-5:00; Wednesday 11:00-1:00 and Thursday 11:00-1:00. Call EHS for fan bus availability at 815-493-6341.

WCCI Broadcasting Times

WCCI 100.3 FM in Savanna will be broadcasting the IHSA Class 1A State Semi-Final Volleyball match between Eastland and Toledo (Cumberland) on Friday, November 13th from Redbird Arena on the campus of ISU. Airtime will be at 10 am with the first serve scheduled for 10:30 am. We will also broadcast Saturday's match at either 9:30 am (3rd Place) or 10:30 am (Championship). Both matches will be available online at www.wcciradio.com.

Lady Thunder Top Mendota

By Craig Lang

Prairie Advocate Sports

As Harvard celebrates in the background, (l to r) Ashlyn Miller (2), Katy Cook (floor) Emily Mills (26) and Chelsey Sipe (9) are disheartened by the loss. The young West Carroll Thunder volleyball team made a great late-season run, advancing to the finals of the Oregon Sectional. But state-qualifying Harvard was too much for the Thunder ladies, as they lost in 2 games. (PA photo/Tom Kocal)

West Carroll kept rolling on Tuesday night at the Oregon Sectional, taking a three game win from Mendota, 25-22, 14-25 and 25-23 to advance to Thursday nights championship against Harvard. Rebecca Fritz led the Lady Thunder with twenty-one kills, as the West Carroll team was more than up to the task of keeping their run going.

Both the first and third games were close and the only momentum from Mendota came in game two as the Spikers took a big lead early and won game two with ease. But, the lady Thunder came out strong in game three and proved they have no quit in them. They faced a very good Harvard team on Thursday for the opportunity to advance to Super sectional play on Saturday night in Spring Valley, but lost in 2 games.

FOOTBALL

Mustangs Roll Over Wildcats

By Craig Lang

Prairie Advocate Sports

Morrison Mustang Kyle Janssen (#44) is wrapped up by Trevor Bookman (#55) as more Wildcats close in to help make the stop. Janssen and the rest of the Mustangs were pretty much unstoppable as Morrison rolled to the 42-0 victory. Kyle ran the ball three times for one hundred fifteen yards and two touchdowns. (PA photo/Craig Lang)

The undefeated and #1 ranked Morrison Mustangs took little time establishing who would be the dominant team on Saturday afternoon in Lanark. After taking the opening kickoff, EPC QB Drake Walker threw a first pass interception that was picked off by Mustang Kyle Janssen. On fourth and eleven, Morrison QB Andrew Cook found Will Bird in the front corner of the end zone for a 29 yard score.

Morrison was already up 14-0 when Janssen broke off a 56 yard run for another score. The Mustangs kept up the pressure in the third quarter, with another Janssen TD run, this one from 57 yards out to make the score 28-0.

The Mustang defense shut down EPC's offense, holding rusher Alex Maurer to just 4 yards on 16 carries. Morrison would tack on two more scores to make the final 42-0 and advance to the next round. Janssen led the Morrison ground game, carrying the ball 3 times for 115 yards and 2 scores, while Josh Vos carried 14 times for 46 yards and 1 TD.

Area Football Playoff Scores

1A

Le-Win 20 Dakota 7

East Dubuque 20 Galena 9

2A

Kewanee Wethersfield 33 Amboy 21

3A

Stillman Valley 35 Winnebago 0

Sterling Newman 9 Oregon 0

4A

Geneseo 26 Kankakee McNamara 24

Mendota 35 Morris 0

5A

Washington 28 Sterling 21

IHSA Football Pairings

1A: 10-1 Le-Win at 10-1 East Dubuque - Sat. Nov. 14 @ 1 pm

2A: 10-1 Orion at 11-0 Morrison - Sat. Nov. 14 @ 1 pm

3A: 11-0 Stillman Valley at 8-3 Sterling Newman - Sat. Nov. 14 @ 1pm

4A: 9-2 Geneseo at 9-2 Mendota - Sat. Nov. 14 @ 1 pm

NFL Schedule

Thurs. Nov. 12

Chicago at San Francisco

Sun. Nov. 15

Buffalo at Tennessee

New Orleans at St. Louis

Tampa Bay at Miami

Detroit at Minnesota

Jacksonville at NY Jets

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh

Denver at Washington

Atlanta at Carolina

Kansas City at Oakland

Dallas at Green Bay

Seattle at Arizona

Philadelphia at San Diego

New England at Indianapolis

Mon. Nov. 16

Baltimore at Cleveland

Bye: NY Giants, Houston

 

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