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After a successful spring season, the Northwest golf team has the parts in place to repeat on the links.

“We were really dis-appointed that we came up three strokes short for the conference champion-ship,” McLaughlin said. “We were actually pleased with the overall outcome for the spring, but disappointed about the conference meet.”

The Bearcats return the MIAA Player of the Year, junior Cassie Lowell. Low-ell won the MIAA Cham-pionships last April, and McLaughlin sees more acco-lades in her future.

“Cassie has a tremen-dous work ethic and she works on her game constant-

ly,” McLaughlin said. “Even as good of a player as she is, it’s like most sports, you’re never pleased where you are. If you’re a good athlete you always want to get better, and that’s her mindset.”

Also returning to the greens is sophomore Steph Charteris. Charteris finished third at the MIAA Champi-onships and finished top-five four times.

“Like all golfers and ath-letes, there are certain skills you want to work on and she has had that opportu-nity working at Mozingo and staying in Maryville. I’m real-ly looking for great things out of her,” McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin was rec-ognized by his fellow MIAA coaches and was awarded the conference coach of the year last season.

“Being voted coach of the year by your peers is a tremendous honor, and it’s a great reflection on how far we’ve come in the last five years as a varsity team,” McLaughlin said.

The ’Cats tee off the sea-son on Sept. 6 at the Cardinal Hill Golf Course.

“I think we have a chance of not only being a contender in our conference, but pre-season-wise, I’m thinking of being a contender in our re-gion,” McLaughlin said.

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Women build off last year’s successCHRIS SCHOONOVERSports Editor | @NWMSports

Fresh off the third-best season in the pro-gram’s history, the Bearcat soccer team looks to repeat and build off last season’s turnaround.

In 2011 the ’Cats posted a 10-7-2 record and finished fourth in the MIAA at 5-3.

Northwest lost eight players due to gradua-tion, including first-team All-MIAA forward Tam-mie Eiberger.

Eiberger led the Bearcats with 30 points, eight assists and tied for the team-high in goals with 11.

Returning to the pitch for the ’Cats is junior for-ward Tori Von Mende

who tied with Eiberger for the team-high in goals.

Fellow junior for-ward Fiona Moloney also returns to the team after a second-team All-MIAA campaign.

“When someone scores a goal only one person can have the as-sist,” head coach Tracy Hoza said. “What you have to look at is the dominance of winning the head ball and getting the first tackle and being a motivator. That is what Fiona is.

The Bearcats have 10 freshmen new to the team this year, but Hoza will have to wait to see how they perform on the pitch.

“During the pre-season it’s hard to tell,”

Hoza said. “We have a number of them that are defense and have done well. A few are injured, but they are doing very well in practice.”

The offense scored a lot of goals and was ef-ficient all season, but the lapses on defense were a downfall for Hoza’s team.

“You look at last year and we allowed a lot of goals, but thankfully, we scored more,” Hoza said. “We have to limit the amount of goals we give up and take a different approach to defending and how we defend.”

Hoza believes this team, playing an all-around game, can experi-ence success.

“Success would be to finish up in the top and

to be very competitive,” Hoza said. “Success would be winning the conference, and success would be making the NCAA playoffs. Success is also more of what we do as a team and what the players do as a team

and bring to the game. Success is also the ex-citement we get out of it and our spectators as well.”

The ’Cats kick off the season at 2 p.m. on Aug. 21 against St. Cloud State at Bearcat Pitch.

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Rosewell, team get ready for short, month-long fall season CRAIG SIMSChief Reporter| @NWMSports

With 913 wins and counting, tennis head coach Mark Rosewell is preparing for his 29th year on the courts as he gets his men and wom-en’s teams ready for the fall season.

Having good, com-petitive practices is something Rosewell has stressed to his young teams.

“Winning the con-ference is always some-thing we try to achieve,” Rosewell said. “The other thing we try to achieve is to be ranked in the top 30 in the

country. With the fall season being individu-ally oriented, we will try to get as far in tourna-ments as we can.”

Key returners for the men are juniors Rafael Bugiga and Guilherme Narducci, along with sophomore Luis Alti-mires, who help make up a team that includes five freshmen.

The Bearcats will be without Calvin Pat-terson and Mario Jak-ovljevic, their No. 1 and 2 players from last sea-son.

“We have a pretty good nucleus to start off with, plus a good re-cruiting class coming in

too,” Rosewell said.The men’s season

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Last year’s No. 1 doubles team of juniors Camila Quesada and Alexis Bartek highlight a Bearcat roster of seven players.

Of the seven players, three are freshmen.

Both the men and women will play against Washburn, Rockhurst and Emporia at the Washburn Invitational. The Invitational starts at 8 p.m. Sept. 7 in To-peka, Kan.

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tational is a tournament that Rosewell knows is important, where he can see each player’s in-dividual progression.

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son, only being a month in September, so they should be in shape, and as hot as it’s been this summer, I know they will be,” Rosewell said.

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After second and fifth-place finishes in the MIAA meet last season, head coach Scott Lorek reloaded his roster and is expecting the new and old faces to contribute.

“We have some re-ally good guys coming in,” Lorek said. “We have three really, really solid freshmen, and the guys coming back are going to step right in. Overall I actually think our team is better.

On the men’s side, the Bearcats are without All-Region runner TR Pursell after losing him to graduation.

Returning to the team is senior Ryan Darling who finished 25th in the

NCAA South Central Re-gional Championships, giving him All-Region honors.

The men were se-lected to finish fifth by the MIAA Preseason Men’s Coaches Poll.

“I’m sure other coaches are looking at the people we lost, and we lost some signifi-cant people, but every year it’s guessing,” Lorek said. “Even me, looking at other teams, I wonder who are going to be their impact people.”

Lorek expects multi-ple young runners to pro-duce when they lace up their shoes this season.

“I think Drew Ke-ifer and Kenny Anderson are going to be real good for us,” Lorek said. “Jake Henry had a really good

year last year along with Ryan Darling.”

On the women’s side, the ’Cats are without MIAA champion and All-Region runner Angela Adams.

Returning for her se-nior season is Katti Carrol who was All-Region after her 12th-place finish in Wichita Falls, Texas at the regional meet.

Lorek sees the lack of separation down his women’s roster as a good thing for the team.

“Our people that are our four, five and six run-ners are moving in tighter to the top,” Lorek said.

Using his mix of track runners and cross coun-try runners, Lorek has a lot of legs to choose from to compete for the ’Cats, including senior All-

American steeplechase runner Brittany Poole.

“Brittany Poole is coming back and based off track season, she should be our No. 1 run-ner,” Lorek said. “I think that’s going to be a sur-prise for people because she really hasn’t really been significant, but this year will be different.”

Like the men, the women are predicted to

finish fifth in the confer-ence by the coaches’ poll.

“We didn’t have a good conference meet last season,” Lorek said. “Our main goal is to be one of the teams to make it to the national meet, both men and women. That’s where we want to go.”

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Nine months lat-er the scoreboard at Bearcat Stadium reads Pitt State-41 Northwest-16 after their playoff de-feat to the eventual na-tional champions.

“It’s always motiva-tion,” senior offensive tackle Rod Williams said. “Especially with the guys we have returning this year that still have the bad taste in their mouths, and it’s a re-minder to the new guys who are filling in the old positions that last year we didn’t achieve what we wanted to achieve.”

The No. 3 Bearcats finished their 2011 cam-paign at 11-3 overall and 7-2 in the MIAA after losing to Pittsburg State twice and to Missouri Western in the last game of the regular season.

Northwest has holes to fill because of gradu-ation, losing All-Amer-ican linebacker and current Oakland Raider Chad Kilgore, wide re-ceivers Jake Soy and Da-vid Mosley and offensive guard Cody Johnson.

Kilgore led the team with 123 tackles and 11 tackles for loss in 2011. Soy and Mosley com-bined for 1,050 receiving yards and seven touch-downs.

The ’Cats finished second in the MIAA along with Washburn and Missouri Western, but expect nothing less than a championship this season and believe they have the roster to do it.

“It’s on our goal board every year to win

the MIAA and the na-tional championship,” head coach Adam Dorrel said. “That’s the expec-tation we have this year, and that’s the expecta-tion our kids have every year.”

In the trenches the Bearcats return senior All-American Williams and junior lineman CJ Keeney.

“It’s so integral to having a good team by having a good offen-sive line,” Williams said. “This program has done such a good job bringing in talent and cultivating, it and by the time we put it on the field, it’s a good product. I don’t see us falling off anytime soon.

“I’m sure that the five guys we have going out on game day will be the best five lineman. One thing we have this year that we didn’t have last year is depth. It makes it a lot easier being a starter knowing that if it comes down to it, that I have to be out, I don’t have to worry about how quickly I can get back out there. I can fully trust my backups to be more than adequate.”

Junior quarterback Trevor Adams goes into the season as the starter after playing significant minutes and appearing in every game as a back-up to Blake Christopher. Adams threw for 2,202 yards and 21 touchdowns in his first year of action.

Adams’ No. 1 target last season, senior wide receiver Tyler Shaw, re-turns after leading the ‘Cats with 815 receiving yards and nine touch-downs.

Northwest turns

to a mix of new targets for Adams to throw, to including senior John Hinchey, junior Clint Utter and sophomore Jason Jozaites.

The backfield for the Bearcats will be led again by junior running back James Franklin and senior running back Jor-dan Simmons.

Franklin rushed for a team-high 1,247 yards and 24 touchdowns in his first season after transferring from Ne-braska-Omaha.

Simmons ran for 957 yards and 14 touch-downs while still pull-ing in 35 catches for 456 yards and four touch-downs.

While Simmons and Franklin remain reliable on the ground, Simmons expects the wideouts to receive just as much at-tention.

“We definitely have more experience in the backfield, but we have a

group of wide receivers who did a tremendous job this offseason and are ready to step up and make plays,” Simmons said.

On defense North-west will feature soph-omore linebacker D.J. Gnader who was second on the team in tackles with 100 tackles and seven tackles for loss.

Sophomore defen-sive tackle Matt Longa-cre led the Bearcats in sacks with 4.5 in addi-tion to 46 tackles.

The defensive backs will be led by sophomore cornerback Travis Man-ning and senior safety Nate DeJong. Manning had two interceptions last season, while De-Jong collected 32 tack-les.

“I feel good about where we are at right now,” Dorrel said. “I feel like we have a little bet-ter continuity and con-sistency in the back than

we did last year, and I also feel like we played pretty well back there last year.”

The ’Cats will face four new conference foes this upcoming season with Nebraska-Kearney, Lindenwood, Northeastern State and Central Oklahoma join-ing the MIAA.

“The way the MIAA is set up, I expect noth-ing less than colle-giate competition even though I know there are schools out there with less than stellar com-petition. But you never take anyone lightly,” Williams said.

Players and coaches always have the same goal: Go win in Flor-ence, Ala.

“What we built this program on is champi-onships,” Simmons said. “Right now we aren’t on top of the mountain, but we are fighting to get back up there.”

Junior running back James Franklin prepares to spin past a Pitt State defender on his way to the endzone last season.


CRAIG SIMSChief Reporter | @NWMSports

The Northwest volleyball team has a new face on the bench in interim head coach Amy Phelps as the season gets underway this week.

Phelps was an assistant last sea-son under former coach Jessica Rine-hart, who resigned in July. Phelps says she is excited about her opportunity.

“It took a couple days for the team to understand what I was after as far as leadership and some of the differ-ences from last year, but I feel like they have really bought into it,” Phelps said. “I came up with things we wanted to go after and achieve (this season) and I’ve stuck with that, and now things are starting to fall in place where they should.”

Though there is a new coach, a lot of the faces remain the same from a team that went 14-17 and finished fifth in the conference a year ago.

The returning Bearcats feature a strong class of sophomores, including right hitter Brooke Bartosh and out-side hitter Abby Graves.

“They both had a huge role as freshmen,” Phelps said. “Being a year older, I think they’ll be a lot more comfortable, so I envision their play to continue going up. I think it will be fun to watch them.”

Senior libero Tori Beckman, a Division I transfer from Buffalo Uni-versity who is in her third year with Northwest, is expected to play a key role in how far the team goes this sea-son.

“She will be one of the bigger leaders on our team,” Phelps said. “She says the right things in the sense of knowing what needs to happen. Ev-eryone on the court for us has the po-tential to lead, but Tori understands the system very well.”

The ’Cats will be without setter Laira Akin and outside hitter Alex Hanna, who they lost to graduation.

In West Palm Beach, Fla., North-west will get their season started as they play against Barry, Palm Beach Atlantic, Saginaw Valley State, and Lewis in the Hyatt Place Sunshine Classic.

Northwest faces Barry at 3 p.m.,

followed up with a game against Palm Beach Atlantic at 4 p.m., starting on Aug. 31 to kick off the start of their season.

When the Bearcats finish playing the classic in Florida, they will head back to the midmest to Rolla. where they will play in the Missouri S&T Middle of Everywhere Classic from Sept. 7-8.

The first home game for the ’Cats is Sept. 14 when they face Linden-wood in conference action.

With the foundation for a new season set for the Bearcats, who were picked to finish seventh in the Pre-season MIAA Coaches Poll, Phelps believes taking care of the control-lables is one of the most important things for a younger team.

“Winning and having success is a by-product of the hard work you put into the gym every day,” Phelps said. “That’s where your money is earned.”

Sophomore outside hitter Abby Graves spikes the ball past Rockhurts defense last season at Bearcat Arena.


Sophomore right hitter Brooke Bartosh prepares to spike the ball over to Missouri Western defender last season.


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Sophomore Bearcat running back Denver Lohnes breaks a powerful run for a touchdown last season against Fort Hays State University.


Senior Spoofhound running back Derek Stiens jukes past a Law-son defender in last seasons opener.


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In the inaugural season for a new era in Spoofhound football, ex-pectations are lofty due to a highly experienced team.

First-year head coach Matt Webb inherited a seasoned group that fea-tures 20 seniors, includ-ing quarterback Jonathan Baker.

“(Experienced play-ers) know how to win and uphold expectations on Friday nights because they’ve done it before,” Webb said.

Even with all of the experience and tal-ent, Baker is most ex-cited about his new head coach.

“I’m just excited about coach Webb,” Baker said. “He’s came in here and, you know, it’s differ-ent having different head coaches, but the way he’s come about it made it an easy transition for us.”

Most of Webb’s coaching experience is from the college level, but he said it has been the players who have had to make the biggest adjust-ments so far.

“I didn’t lower my ex-pectations because it’s a high school compared to a college,” Webb said. “I came down and expected them to practice at a cer-tain tempo and to con-duct themselves a certain way on the field with our mentality and our effort and our intensity and our focus.”

Baker will be a major cog in the wheel for Webb in his first season, said it has been a great experi-ence for the team so far.

“(He’s) a nice guy,

down to earth,” Baker said. “Since he grew up here, he just knows every-thing about being here, everything about what you’re going through. He can really relate to you, and that’s great having one-on-one time with him like that.”

On Aug. 17, the ’Hounds played in the an-nual Jamboree game.

“I felt like we operat-ed the way we expected to from an offensive stand-point and a defensive standpoint,” Webb said. “We have a process that we talk about to win every week, and that process involves running the ball efficiently offensively, be-ing physical on defense and tackling.”

Webb also had high praise for his assistant coaches and their abil-ity to get the players pre-pared for the scrimmage.

There is no one game on the Spoofhounds’ schedule that is more important than another, Webb said.

“I’m not a believer that we’re going to save things for people down the schedule from a scheme standpoint,” Webb said. “We’re go-ing to throw everything we’ve got out on the field every Friday night, and at the end of the year we’ll find out where that puts us…If we do that, I think we have the talent, we have the coaches and we have the experience that we’ll be fine every Friday night.”

Webb and Baker both said the team will go as far as the offensive and defensive lines will take them. Both lines are led by junior Division-I pros-pect Jackson Morrison.

“We’ve got big line-men, and we’re going to use them this year,” Baker said. “They’re excited, of course, to block for us.”

Baker had great things to say about Maryville’s running game, but being a senior quarterback, has a few more hopes for the offense this season.

“I’m hoping (to pass more), but you’ll never know until Friday,” Baker said. “The game plan is looking pretty balanced, but like I said, if we ever have troubles, we’re going

to go back to running the ball. Any pass opportuni-ty we get, we better con-vert on it because we’re a good running football team.”

Everyone in and around the Spoofhound program has high hopes, starting with Baker.

“Win every game,” Baker said. “Take it a week at a time. The big thing we’re focusing on this year is to not ever look ahead. Right now we haven’t lost anything and that’s what our main fo-

cus is every Friday.”Webb believes his

team is fully prepared for the high expectations around the community.

“When you live in Maryville, Mo., you have high expectations in this community from a foot-ball standpoint. Wheth-er that’s the Maryville Spoofhounds or the Northwest Bearcats. Both have had successful foot-ball programs here in the past and will continue to have successful football programs here.”

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Webb, Baker usher in new era of ’Hound football

Senior tight end Tyler Tripp returns the interceped ball to the endzone last season against Van Horn at Maryville High School.


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After a 14-8 season, head softball coach Tom Scarbrough has a rebuild-ing project on his hands in his second year.

The Spoofhounds lost five starters to gradu-ation, including All-State outfielder Amanda Nally, who is now playing at Central Missouri.

Maryville will be without first-team All-MEC infielder Holly Wil-marth and infielder Hai-ley Roush.

The ’Hounds do re-turn some power with second-team All-State first baseman Baylee Scarbrough returning for her senior year.

Baylee batted .602 to go along with four home

runs and 27 RBIs in her junior campaign.

Scarbrough believes second-team All-MEC senior pitcher Mikaila Wallace and junior catcher McKenzie Wallace will be the keys to success after a solid season last year.

“They were as good and solid as anyone in our league,” Scarbrough said. “I think pitching and catching we will be fine.”

With so many new faces at the plate for the ’Hounds they have no choice but to hit the ground running.

“A lot of young girls are going to have to step up,” Scarbrough said. “We have four with a lot of playing time and the oth-er five are going to have to step in there and will have to circle the learning curve

a lot faster.”Scarbrough believes

the mix of youth and ex-perience should mesh to-gether well and may lead to a run in the MEC.

“We lost a lot of very experienced and talented girls to graduation,” Scar-brough said. “We have five girls coming back with some experience and played a lot of summer ball. We should be com-petitive in our league.”

The Spoofhounds dropped their first game of the season to Falls City 9-4 Thursday night.

Baylee Scarbrough went 3-for-4 at the plate and added two RBIs in the losing effort.

The ’Hounds will be back in action at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 30 Lafayette at Maryville High School.

Girls rely on combination of experience, youth

Senior catcher Mikaila Wallace swings at a pitch last season against Chillicothe at home. Wallace returns to the Spoofhounds as one of four remaining starters.

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Junior pitcher McKenzie Wallace pitches the ball to Chilli-cothe batter during a game last season.


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Heading into the 2012 boys soccer sea-son, the Spoofhounds will encounter what can be a back-breaking problem or a blessing on any given day: youth.

Maryville head coach Stuart Collins’ worries revolve around how young the team is, but he said all the energy that comes with inexpe-rienced players could be a good thing.

“We’re very enthusi-astic and we have a lot of motors,” Collins said.

Collins believes Maryville’s seven se-niors could offset some of the inexperience.

“They know what I want,” Collins said. “They’re able to com-municate down on the field without me hav-ing to tell them. They can help other guys get where they need to be and do what they need to do.”

Those seniors con-sist of forward Lane Hermelink, midfielder/defender Zach Miller, m i d f i e l d e r /d e f e n d e r Ryan James, defender Jeremy Troshynski, de-fender Andrew Wieder-holt and defenders Da-kota and Derek Luke.

Although this group of seniors will play a major role in Maryville’s success, Collins be-lieves the younger play-ers will determine just how many games the ’Hounds are able to win.

The rest of the Spoofhound roster con-sists of five juniors, five sophomores and 10 freshmen.

One of the ’Hounds’ challenges, just like any other team, will be to overcome losing the past season’s seniors.

“I think you just move on,” Collins said. “We’ve got to worry about who we have and just move on.”

Collins said he is ready and willing to play anyone who will help the team win games.

“When (the fresh-men) become eligible, I’m not going to be afraid to put them in,” Collins said.

Maryville finished last season with a record

of 9-14-1. Collins is hop-ing his team can improve from 2011 and end 2012 with a winning record.

“I just hope we can finish above 50 percent,” Collins said.

The ’Hounds were inconsistent on both ends of the pitch last year, allowing them-selves to be shut out four times.

Collins does not have a set game plan, but in-stead will change his strategy throughout the season.

“It’s a game-by-game thing…(The players) will let me know by how they all react,” Collins said. “That will be a matter of our opponent and our competition.”

The Spoofhounds kicked their season off Tuesday and Thursday in the Barstow Tournament, but results were unavail-able as of press time.

Youth, energy fuel boys on pitch

Senior defender Derek Luke collects a pass in a game last season against Benton.

Senior defender Jeremy Troshynski prepares to kick the ball during a game last season against Benton.

“They’re able to communicate

down on the field without me having

to tell them.” Coach Collins



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MHS girls’ golf head coach Brenda Ricks be-lieves her team can see the same success from a year ago where they won districts, sectionals and finished second in the state tournament.

Something Ricks stressed to her team in gearing up for this sea-son was the player’s short game.

“We noticed the girls don’t seem to hit the greens in regulation as

much, so we are working on 20 yards and in,” she said. “In really focusing and working on the short game, I think that’s going to improve our scores im-mensely.”

This year’s No. 1 and 2 players, Jessica Pfost and Megan Shell, along with No. 3 Meghan Klass, are all coming back for their senior season.

With three seniors in the top three spots, and another senior in second year player Molly McVi-nua, Ricks is excited for a team filled with senior

leaders. “With the number

of seniors on this team, we’ve got strength,” Ricks said. “Of course, this doesn’t help us for next year, but I believe the se-nior leadership can help us for the future.”

Other players for the ’Hounds include fresh-men Mollie Holtman, sophomore Hannah Brod, and juniors Ali Throm and Cassie Holtman.

Besides losing Brooke Byland and Taylor Maughan, the core of the team remains in tact.

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Maryville High School volleyball head coach Lori Klaus be-lieves her team can reach the same high standards set last sea-son where they made it to the district champi-onship game.

“We want to make it back to the district championship game and win conference,” Klaus said. “We think we can do both of those, but our main goal in practice right now is to work hard and get bet-ter.”

Klaus says that a major key to the team’s success in reaching those goals will rest on defense and ball con-trol.

“We aren’t a very big team, so we have to work our butts off on defense,” she said. “We think we can win a lot of games from doing

that. Right now things like ball control, serve and receive, and tran-sitioning quick off and on the net are things we are working on.”

The Spoofhounds have six returning varsity players from the 24-8 team; senior libero Jessica Stiens, senior setter Alyssa Stiens, senior outside hitter Sara Knowles, junior middle blocker Anny Van de Ven, and junior hitters Chelsea Byland and Aubrey Kimble.

Junior Gabby Church will play mid-dle blocker alongside Van de Ven.

Junior defensive specialists Lindsey Suchan and Kristen Shipps round out the nine varsity players for the ’Hounds.

The Spoofhound’s first action of the sea-son was on Tuesday against East Buch-anan, but results were not available at press

time. “I want to see us

take control of the game early and be aggressive against East Buchanan, along with good ball control,” Klaus said. “It feels like we have been practicing forever, so I want to see us put ev-erything together for that first game.”

Girls shoot for repeat

Hard work ahead for girls “We aren’t a

very big team, so we have to work our butts off on

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The word “improve-ment” is something that Maryville High School tennis head coach Ni-cole McGinness has stressed to her team early as they look to re-build from a 4-6 record from a year ago.

“We hope to have a better record this sea-son, and improving on our serves and doubles work is our focus right now, so they are getting used to playing against somebody else,” McGin-ness said.

One thing that could stem some of McGin-ness’ improvement goals rests with the fact that there are four re-

turning seniors: Mara Veasey, Emily Schreck, Shannon Johnson and Abi Shipley.

Doubles partners Veasey and Schreck made it to sectionals last season, something that McGinness hopes more of her players can ac-complish in advancing.

Juniors Dalane Goodall and Sam Auffert round out the six varsity players for the ’Hounds.

Two key losses for the ’Hounds are Morgan Shipps and Elena Bel-lamy who graduated.

Maryville’s tennis season began Mon-day where they took on Chillicothe at home. Re-sults were not available at press time.

Last year they went 0-9 against the Hor-nets.

“We want to get further in districts and get to sectionals this year,” McGinness said. “Chillicothe is a tough team to start off with, but I think our girls will be prepared.”

The Spoofhounds play Lafayette at 4 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the High Rise courts on the Northwest campus.

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