Olpe volleyball struggles at State tourney
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Monday, October 30, 2006
The Olpe volleyball team capped a stellar season with a disappointing finish in the 1A State tournament in Hays.
The Lady Eagles entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed with a sparkling 34-1 record, but ran into trouble on the first day of play on Friday.
In the opening match, eventual State champion Linn defeated Olpe, 25-23, 25-14, to immediately put the Lady Eagles in a hole. Olpe bounced back and defeated Sharon Springs 25-18, 25-19, but lost again, this time to South Haven, 25-19, 25-18, to give the Lady Eagles a 1-2 record in Pool I play, which was not good enough to advance to the championship round on Saturday.
Olpe finished the year 35-3.
Osage City volleyball finishes in 4th
The Osage City volleyball team advanced to Saturday’s championship round of the 3A State tournament with wins on Friday over Oberlin, 2-1 (17-25, 26-24, 25-17), and Frontenac, 2-0 (25-14, 25-19) while losing to Wellsville, 2-1 (18-25, 25-22, 25-19).
On Saturday, Osage City lost in the semifinals to eventual champion, Silver Lake, 2-0 (25-9, 25-22) and went on to lose to Hillsboro in the third-place game, 2-1 (25-27, 25-23, 25-8).
Osage City finished with a 25-13 record.
Olpe girls cross country places 3rd at State
Behind the fourth-place finish of Sharon Zeller, the Olpe girls cross country team finished third as a team at the 1A State meet in Wamego, collecting 71 points to finish three points ahead of Stafford, while Tribune won the title with 21 points and Goessel finished second with 65 points.
Zeller finished with a time of 15:58, while Shanon Robertson of Tribune took the title in a time of 15:44.
In the other races at Wamego, the Osage City boys came in 12th as a team (278 points) while the Northern Heights girls finished eighth as a team with 210 points in the Class 3A races.
Individually, in the Class 2A boys race, Jacob Ritter of Flinthills earned a State medal with his 19th-place finish in a time of 18:39, and on the girls Class 2A side, Julie Dorneker of Chase County came in 12th in a time of 16:05 while Renee Simon of Flinthills finished 13th (16:06).
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