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rsÄWwöf.«*. i t t i i f i T T T — ~ \ > rr i n t i A S ports D ii i . on Turni m : - Wednesday, December 8. 2004 A-13 Western men split at La Grande Segeberg, Luedtke named all-tourney Walking the Sideline By J.P. Plutt OTBAL Griz host semi Saturday's game time is noon when the Griz take on Sam Houston State in a rematch. At Texas, the Bearkats knocked Montana off their top-ranked perch in the early sea son, 41-29. The game will be tele vised by ESPN2. The winner ad vances to the National title game at Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 17. This past Saturday, Montana knocked New Hampshire, 47-17, to earn the semifinal berth. New Hamp shire is one of four teams from the Atlantic 10 conference to earn a play off berth in the 16-team field. Two of the others, James Madison and William ft Mary, face each other in the other semifinal for the right to play the Montana/Sam Houston win ner for the title. The Thomas boys from Dillon did lheir part in Saturday's win over New Hampshire. Tyler, a junior, ended New Hampshire's drive just before the half with an interception. Tyler made one solo stop and three assisted tackles. Torrey, a true freshman, recovered one of New llampshires two lost fumbles. He also broke up a pass and mad two solo and one as sisted tackle. The Thomas boys and the rest of the Griz defense will be tested by Sam Houston quarterback Dustin Long, who has been named a top three finalist for the Walter Payton Award, which goes to NCAA Division 1-AA's top player. The other finalists in clude quarterback Lang Campbell of William ft Mary, and Appalachian State wide receiver DaVon Fowlkes. Montana quarterback Craig Ochs fin ished 11th in the balloting. Former Walter Payton Award win ners include Steve McNair of Alcorn State and Adrian Peterson of Geor gia Southern. Lady Griz It was a Dillon weekend in Missoula. I.ynscy Monaco, Montana's senior point guard from Dillon, played all 10 minutes in the Lady victory over Portland State Sunday afternoon. Montana won 75-68 as Monaco finished it career-high 14 assists with just one turnover. Mo naco added nine points and seven rebounds. She came within one as sist of tying the school record of 15 shared by Kelly Pilcher and Brooklynn Lorenzen. UM-Western in the spot light: 1’he first NA1A national poll since the preseason top 25 came out on Tues day. Durham's Dawgs (9-3) stepped up from \also receiving votes', to be ing the l()th-ranked team in men’s NA1A D-l. Kevin Kngellant's Lady Bulldogs (7-3) have made the top 25 a regular occurrence over the past six seasons and improved form 23rd in the preseason poll to 22nd in the first poll. From now to the end of the season, the NAIA will produce a weekly fitting. W RESTMNÍ Tag team partners Starting with Tuesday night's mat battle between Dillon and Deer Lodge, the Pelletier brothers, Roger and Lee, will give a play by play over KDBM/KBKV radio. The next home match with possible radio ramifica tions comes Dec. 13 when Frenchtown and Salmon, Idaho, in vade B.W. Lodge Gym for a triangu lar. And in other broadcast media: Wrangler NER on TV Round 5 -December 7, 9:59 p.m., ESPN2. Replay-December 8, 10 a m., ESPN2. Round 6 -December 8, 9:59 p.m., ESPN2. Replay-December 9, 10 a m., ESPN2. Round 7 -December 9, 9:59 p.m., ESPN2. Replay-December 10, 10 a m., ESPN2. Round 8 -December 10, 11 p.m., ESPN. Replay-December 11,5 p.m., ESPN2. Round 9--I)ecember 11, 7 p.m. (LIVE), ESP.N2. Replay-December 12, noon, ESPN2. Round 10-December 12.2:30 p.m. (LIVE). ESPN Replay-December 14. noon, ESPN2. The UM-Western men's basketball team battled perennial NAIA power Albertson College to the end before falling, 80-76, and then rebounded with a 74-68 victory over host Eastern Or egon at the 6th annual Quinn Classic at La Grande, Oregon. The loss to Albertson was Western's first to an NAIA squad as the Dawgs improved to 9-3 on the season. Seniors Bo Segeberg and Matt Luedtke paced Western through the event to earn All-Tourney notice. Segeberg scored 38 points and 16 re bounds, while Luedtke rattled home 44 points and snared 12 boards for the Dawgs. In the Friday night opener, West ern dominated the boards, 44-26, but gave the game away in the turnover department. Western led the game by seven in the first half and five in the second only to see the Coyotes rally for the win thanks in large part to 23 Bulldog turnovers. Albertson made just 12 turnovers. \We blew it on Friday,\ said UM-W coach Mark Durham. \The story was the turnovers. They played pressure defense and we made some bad deci sions. It was a heck of a game but we let one slip away there.\ Albertson scored 31 points off turnovers compared to 13 for West ern. Despite the errors, the game score was tied seven times and the lead changed hands 11 times. Brandon Day, a 6-7 senior, and Jeff Feenstra, a 6-6 junior, joined Luedtke and Segeberg in double figure scor ing with 12 and 11 points, respec tively. The pair snared seven re bounds each to help Western to the decisive board margin. Day swatted half of Western's four blocked shots. Point guard Derek Ilibbert dished a team-high five assists. Both teams shot well from the field. Albertson canned 50.8 percent of their shots from the field while Western hit on 4o.9 percent. The Coy otes improved to ~-2 on the season. Saturday in the kite game. West ern earned the mad split with the six- point win over the Mountaineers. With just three lead changes, West ern led from start to finish but struggled to put away the host team ( 1 - 6 ). \It was a conference-type atmo sphere,\ said Durham of the rowdy crowd. \They have a really good stu dent section and it was loud. We just gutted it out which gave us another road win.\ The Mountaineers played nearly the entire game in an extended zone defense. The Dawgs, noted for their outside shooting, rarely encounter anything but ntan-tn-man, but played patiently and exploited the flaws in the scheme. Segeberg, the 6-10 post, found plenty of room in the paint as Eastern Oregon scrambled to cover Western's shooters and cashed in for 16 points. Meanwhile, Luedtke drained 7-of-ll three-pointers to de moralize the defenders on the perim eter. W'estern limited their turnovers to 12, two fewer than Eastern Oregon. The difference in the score came at the free throw line where W’estern took an 11-point advantage with 17- of-21 successful charity shots to 6-of- 12 for Eastern Oregon. i*lh ; minuti «Juin» (. lassie m i;s,s UriiOrmion l M AVI S I I KN “ 1.1: \ s h kn (>IU:<,()N : 68 1U »tut \l! si.•tirimi lll t t ' l , I h l'ln | i s Mi amimi |j.,v ‘ ..li lt V Man l.mM ! !• e H*. m 1 vivi fit limT ID .ii*ri i ! votisi t.i Matt t ,,i Hi ■II I M l MU ri.rvv pulii dvrs I'MW 11 2^ H 102. (, i.Mi.-mi 1 S. 1 a riltl ■ ' 11 J’a h im 2 ' ! v I l 1 « > K It. Kvhuuiith • MU 2s tScpvbiTi; |)..\ .' S 1. 1 KO 2d 1 mils I'M W 12 I n r \ssists- I’MW 15 4 k .1.0 2) » liin io w r s I'MW 12 in l-i Blocks r MV ' M L.v.lV ilm n i. ! O 1 Meals l MU > r Sl-Rvl’n Ü i i M \ v i : s T i : u \ \ i . m ' i n so n < m sn llulU In\ si-nliiH! I>ru,k lliN o i ' |',i im lnii 1); i \ 12. L 1I ( ■ i .ih.iin >. M .iil I.m n liki ! “ l-i i'gi i 11 if 22, 'I y lt i I'd h tifi' .V ,lr! I lY r li-U a 11. 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Vezina had served on Nordalil's staff for over a decade so the transi tion hits been a smooth one. Joining Vezina are first-year as sistants T.J. Nelson and Gil Stoddard. Nelson is one of the most respected wrestling coaches in the stale. He guided the UM-Western wrestling team to the 1994 NAIA national cham pionship, and a pile of third and fourth place team trophies before the pro gram was discontinued at the school Stoddard has a close connection with the current lit IIS team mem bers. As head Dillon Middle School coach for the past five years and as a Dillon Little Guy wrestling coach for | a number of years before that. Stoddard has been involved in the wrestling careers of the team's par- l ticipants for the earliest stages. \I'm very fortunate to be working with two guys who. number one an great guys, and number two. lhe\ know wrestling.\ said Ve/ina. \T J i- probablv one of the most knowledge able guys in the state nl Montana as far as technique gee- and (id has worked with all om a rest lei s at the lower lev el I It does an t. wcllem job down there and I he kids nr i love him.\ The lie, 'IV m s ba> i ' • m a t im u in the in min at the p cl sen nun a num ber that could mric.t'e t'etore the -C.'l -till pri.'i rns- Ms \ Ml * tar due to V\ 111 ; i -■ upbeat 1 • e I'll it ' m: patter ill the hall- ■ m lu D s The m !t !, ,n!- i s t ' i ! 1 - 1 - , ¡gip i nil - wlcnng : u c h,r. t- : i ' m • ! eli! m l ps 111 11 cslmu ■n cnnmiij ‘ in - 1! \ ' una \I'd ■•av tiw ■ nl . la M2\‘ I ■'e , i ai ! \ to -tep in , in d be •> a M \ \\ ' rcsil, i - 1 1n - - pn 1 t i l l . » i a - Min r ’-. in ! n u b physical!', ili ic- iinlnn* ble ; 11 ( 1 ll ¡cue- -1 a t ■ 1 ! - 1 ■1'into 1 V\ cinl; in-, arc j mat, It In im . 1 1 > nap,, M-s-icm Re cete i :i! c clum p \ î 1. 1 ’ K alie. e,l Ibi' -•> , 1 ' c .,.1 c l . e s nini ■ \ ; \--‘ A a - appi nudi III, WCL. lit ill Is il'lt 1 it's: n| all a dnctnl ! Mils' OV'in ]!!*• ich w i e -tier I.V ! Ill 1 it ' n J1j ' 't ’ 1 1 M 1 if lealmn dale 11 , di ' e 1 mu ' t 'In ■(•- nnr.i nil inni pi 1 1 linn .' c i.'i ' 'i t■ \h h m 1 Sl Id's fit ‘ nntj.cU ■ ;M Mill 2. Hi'lt! ■ it d, i-.mnai. 'll,' U 1 > •Mr - -1 Mi (Í < - i ‘a V- vigili Til at 1, ! .1 11 «!‘ I ‘ 1 • M\.' h ms ¡hiring i lie sea- n'l U r ■ ■ll i » V . ■! ' ; n i - i g ! 11 issues In ili al - 2 ' ! ! 11 -1 1. t! ¡-M nplc getting to where lliev w ,il:i t\ hr, -aid Ve/ilUl of tin normal eai i\ -t .¡s,,ii stmt fling of vai sili mots hi v i ■■ telling me where tin v a -a 'og Ì in nm idling them Dillon '(ltd: 111 sl ihrer seniors to the mats w it Ii t he bulk of the w eights being filli d bv the ten juniors Five sophomores tom the sev en freshmen to give the roster a voung look \We are so voung,' said the Dillon coach \If 1 had to list strengthens and weaknesses and if you could list something as both. I d say it was our vmith It lust depends on how much Continued to page A-15 Baby steps Dillon coach Craig Finberg uses a break period during Saturday's Blue-Gold scrimmage to focus on fundamentals. Finberg opens the season with his youngest squad in almost two decades of coach Beaver basketball, j . p . Plutt photo Dillon boys to bank on speed By J.P. Plutt It's going to be a new experience for the entire BCHS boys hoop program. There are no returning starters, there is only one player suiting up who had any significant varsity playing time a year ago. and half the roster comes from the sophomore class. \The thing that we're lacking more than anything since I've been here is experience coming back,\ said Dillon coach Craig Finberg. \With us having to rely on five sophomores it's going to take time for them to mesh with the returning players. What we hick in game experience, we're going to have to make up with in hustle and hard work.\ There is a big, wild card on the table. Chris Dvk, a 6-8 all-state post, hits been sidelined so far this season after foot surgery. According to Finberg, a football injury resulted in three broken bones in Dyk s right foot. Tlie surgery included a bone graft to repair the damage. \We'll know more after he gels evaluated Decem ber 15,” said Finberg. If we get him back it's a bonus. We hope that vve gel him hackbut there's a chance we might not. We're not planning or him coining hack. That's icaiistic We can't put ab of our eggs in o n e basket \ Dvk's earliest possible return would ic m mm Januarv according to the coach u uh lite real pns-ibil ity existing thaï |v ) k s Ite.i'f i ba-l cibai I caí ceio ould be over Senior guard Joint t m mps tic espi ricuce Ir-t for Continued to page B-15 Rebuild or reload is question Lady Beavs will answer In three seasons as head Lady Bea ver basketball coach, Bernie Wasser's teams have played in two state title game, winning one, and have advanced to the state tourney all three years. It h;ts been an incredible run built around four All-State-type players who stepped up as sophomores and got the job done. Those stars are gone and Wasser and his staff are curently looking for the next group of champions willing to step up and get the job done in navy blue and Vegas gold. Two seniors and a junior have been handed the leadership roles by Wasser. Lizzy Castro at 6-1, and Jenna Nield at 5-8, are the teams only se niors and will have to lead on the court through productive example-partieu- larly with scoring in the paint and rebounding. Junior Theresa Bennett is also a team captain. Bennett will fill the 2/3 guard position and will need to bury the perimeter shots. Wasser is counting on Bennett to be the team's vocal leader. \We like to feel we have a very storng program but at the same time, Continued to page A-15 Up for grabs Playing time will be up for grabs in the early going for the Lady Beavers. With the loss of four play-'ts who were essentially the e year starters, the Lady Beavers will definitely have a new look !h:s season. Team members are shown during -Saturday's Blue Gc'ri scrimmage, j f pimt phots, Got info? sports 0 >dillontri
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