3 seniors form CHS core

Written by John Giffin Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:34

The Centre Cougar volleyball team will be led by three seniors in 2010. They are (from left) Tori Marker, Allison Shields and Amanda Floyd. Starting in her 29th year at Centre, volleyball coach Yvonne Burhoop will return several key players with two years of varsity experience.

Returning four starters and six letter-winners from a 15-18 season, the Class 1A Cougars will be led by senior hitter Allison Shields. The 2008 and 2009 all-Eisenhower League selection, will be joined by returning starter and two-time letter-winner senior setter Tori Marler.

Senior libero Amanda Floyd and sophomores hitter Ellie Miller and Anna Weber also started for the Cougars in 2009.

Our strength will be the fact we have four returning starters,” said Burhoop.

Burhoop said she also may rely on three freshmen to play key roles. Bryanna Svodoba, Casey Simons and Amy Makovec could see...

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First-year coach faces challenges

Written by John Giffin Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:32

Canton-Galva’s football team will be dominated by juniors and seniors. Pictured are Tyler Miller (28), Nick Vogts (4), Kolby Moddelmog (41), Codey Peavey (3), Devon Stos (82) and Micah Schlicht (22). In his first year as head football coach at Canton-Galva, Darrin Fisher, former Tabor College player and 2009 student assistant offensive line coach, will face three challenges this season: adjusting to life as a head coach, moving to the high school level and coaching 8-man football.

Fisher takes over an Eagle team that finished 4-5 overall and 1-1 in the Heart of America 8-man division.

Wanting to take a more personal approach to coaching, Fisher has focused on setting goals in the field and in the classroom.

“I like having things more on a personal level,” he said. “We have different goals, a lot more (of them) academic.

“We don’t put too much emphasis on wins and losses. We have certain goals we’re going to try to...

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Eagles loaded for success

Written by John Giffin Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:31

John Giffin / Free Press<p>The Eagle volleyball team returns six starters this fall. Pictured are: back row (from left), Cayla Sommers, Darci Enns; front row, Destiney Hett, Brittany Lefler, Kimmy Voth and Aly Bressie. Valerie Stout enters the third season of her second tenure as Canton-Galva volleyball coach with six starters returning from last year’s team.

Stout also coached at Canton-Galva from 1981-1997.

Stout will be looking for seniors Cayla Sommers and Kimmy Voth to lead the Eagles past the first round of sub-state. The Eagles reached the sub-state second round in 2009 for the first time in several years.

Canton-Galva defeated Olpe in the opening round of sub-state and fell to Goessel, then a Heart of America League rival, in the following round to end the season.

Other returning starters are juniors Destiney Hett, Darci Enns, Brittany Leffler and Aly Bressie. Freshman Jennifer Likes will see varsity action as well.

The Eagles will...

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Two seniors will lead CGHS team

Written by John Giffin Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:30

Two seniors will lead the Eagle cross-country team. They are Nathan Bray (left) and Tad Wedel. The Canton-Galva Eagles will feature a young cross-country team this fall, but will have two seniors returning.

Seniors Nathan Bray and Tad Wedel likely will run in the top spots. Rounding out the varsity spots will be juniors Curtis Evans and Justin Miller and sophomore Eli Janzen.

In his sixth year as the Eagle coach, Lyle Silsby will see some changes in the Heart of America League. Goessel, Peabody-Burns and Little River have departed for the Wheat State League, and Marion has entered the HOA from the Mid-Central Activities Association.

With the change, the average school size will be significantly larger, but Silsby said running against big schools is nothing new.

“We run against them all the time anyway,” he said. “When...

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Bluebirds could soar in new Wheat State League

Written by John Giffin Tuesday, 31 August 2010 17:28

Returning to the Goessel football team are seniors (from left) Alex Ross, Neal Brubaker, John Berkholz and Jake Smucker. Coming off an 8-3 season, a Heart of America League title and a bi-district championship, the Goessel Bluebirds football team will operate against some new competition in the first year of the Wheat State League.

Joining with former HOA mates Peabody-Burns and Little River, plus six members of the defunct Dwight D. Eisenhower League—Centre, Hope, Solomon, Wakefield, White City and Elyria Christian—Goessel was one of three teams in the new league to reach the state playoffs last season. Centre and Hope were the other two.

In its sixth consecutive state playoff appearance, Goessel fell, 58-24, in the Division 2 quarterfinals to the eventual state runner-up, Baileyville B&B. In the first round, the Bluebirds beat Burden Central...

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