Scott City sweeps Notre Dame to open season 2-0

Thursday, September 11, 2008

CHUCK WU ~ cwu@semissourian.com Scott City's Brooke Simpson celebrates with her teammates after her spike against Notre Dame during their match Wednesday. [Click to enlarge]

The Scott City volleyball team won its second straight match to start the season, beating host Notre Dame 25-15, 25-22 on Wednesday night.

Katie Diebold had a strong all-around match for the Rams with 12 assists, eight service aces, five kills and four digs.

Brooke Simpson led in kills with nine and added eight digs.

Stephanie Essner had eight digs and three kills; Katie Hogan had a team-high nine digs and three blocks; and Jordan McFall contributed 11 assists, two aces and two digs.

Meghan Dohogne paced Notre Dame (4-3-1) in kills with nine and Kelsey Bradshaw led in digs with 15. Shannon Brennan had nine assists and four digs.

JV — Notre Dame won in three games.

The Crusaders had no trouble picking up a road victory.

Taylor Krauss led Saxony Lutheran with 14 digs, Brooke Kasten had eight assists, Kara Versemann recorded five kills and Holly Schermann served five aces.

JV — Saxony Lutheran won in two games.

SOFTBALL

Kelly 11, Sikeston 1

Casey Kern had a triple among her three hits and delivered four RBIs to lead the Hawks' home romp.

Katee Moore and Londyn Backfisch each added two hits for Kelly (7-1).

Danielle Dock pitched the final five innings for the victory. She allowed no runs and one hit while striking out seven and walking none.

WP — Danielle Dock. LP — Hopson. 3B — Casey Kern (K). 2B — Dock (K), Katee Moore (K). Multiple hits — Kelly: Kern 3-4, Moore 2-3, Londyn Backfisch 2-3. Records — Kelly 7-1.

Scott City 7, Fredericktown 6

Melanie Lacey struck out five to pitch the Rams to their first win of the season.

Lindsey Hadley doubled in the road victory.

WP — Melanie Lacey. LP — Mascaro. 2B — Lindsey Hadley (SC). Records — Scott City 1-8.

BOYS SWIMMING

Clayton tri-meet

Notre Dame won a pair of relays to finish second.

Logan Bollinger and Sean Doyle were individual winners.

Team scores — Saint Louis University High 147, Notre Dame 114, Clayton 49

Top-three Notre Dame finishers

200 medley relay — 2. (Jacob Buckenmyer, Coleman Schott, Logan Bollinger, Ben Rockett), 2:02.59

200 individual medley — 2. Schott, 2:17.17

50 freestyle — 2. Sean Doyle, 24.78; 3. Buckenmyer 25.01

100 butterfly — 1. Bollinger, 59.28

100 freestyle — 1. Doyle 52.47

200 freestyle relay — 1. (Daniel Neff, Bollinger, Rockett, Doyle), 1:41.64

100 backstroke — 3. Aaron Tomaszewski, 1:06.86

100 breaststroke — 2. Schott, 1:08.56

400 freestyle relay — 1. (Bollinger, Buckenmyer, Rockett, Doyle), 3:39.53

GIRLS TENNIS

Central 8, Charleston 1

Neither Christen Edmonds nor Kristi Lazarova dropped a game in singles play, then teamed to win their doubles match to help the Tigers to victory Tuesday.

Singles

No. 1 — Christen Edmonds (Cent.) def. Jordan Duenne, 8-0

No. 2 — Kristi Lazarova (Cent.) def. Chelsea Stallings, 8-0

No. 3 — Sami Gross (Cent.) def. Maggie Fox, 8-1

No. 4 — Brooke Morris (Cent.) def. Morgan Collier, 8-0

No. 5 — Madeline Burke (Char.) def. Emma Segar, 8-3

No. 6 — Paige Kinder def. Taylor Duenne, 8-1

Doubles

No. 1 — Edmonds-Lazarova (Cent) def. J. Duenne-Stallings, 8-1

No. 2 — Gross-Morris (Cent.) def. Fox-Collier, 8-1

No. 3 — Segar-Kinder (Cent.) def. Burke-T. Duenne, 9-7

— From staff reports