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TIGERS KEEP THINGS ROLLING

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NEW MIDDLETOWN OH- Another week, another dominating Springfield victory on the gridiron. This one came at the expense of the Lowellville Rockets with a final score of 62-18.

Springfield’s offense exploded with 419 yards, including the standout Junior QB, Beau Brungard throwing for over 250 yards, and five touchdowns in the victory.  Seandelle Gardner was a key receiver with 83 yards and a score.

On the ground, Clayton Nezbeth churned out five carries and a touchdown.

Lowellville was still able to put up numbers against Springfield’s defense though. Vinny Ballone went 21-45 with 260 yards, and he also caught a 29-yard touchdown pass. Brady Bunofsky has 13 receptions for 149 yards.

Springfield moves on to play Waterloo in Week 5. The Rockets will look to regroup as they’ll host a Sebring team coming off their first win of the season.

LINHART GETS 1,000 IN CLIPPERS WIN

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COLUMBIANA OH- Maci Linhart reaches a career milestone on Monday as she picked up her 1,000th career dig. Her team also picked up a big three set win over Lowellville (25-9 25-14 25-18).

Maddie Witherow led the Clippers in kills with 5, she also finished with 5 digs. Maci Linhart finished the night with 8 digs, and 2 kills. Grace Witmer set up 13 assists. Tori Long had3 kills, 3 aces, and 5 digs.

Columbiana travels to United on Tuesday in a big conference clash.

KC KILLS THE COMPETITION

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LOWELLVILLE OH- Lowellville volleyball comes in to the 2020 season with more leadership than most teams. With six seniors in their class of 2021 the Rockets are a team that wont be easily rattled through adversity. They’ve proven that this season bouncing back from a couple of tough losses to secure big wins. One of the keys to their team is their converted middle blocker Kennedy Kelly, better known as KC.

Kelly is driven to help her team succeed in any way she can, even if that means learning a new position. Because of team needs, this season KC has rotated to middle blocker instead of her normal position as am outside hitter It is not an easy transition, sets to the middle are different, responsibilities are not the same either. Kelly has handled the transition in stride though and pushed herself to become a pretty impressive middle blocker. Having her dad as the head coach, and her sister as a setter has definitely helped smooth the change.

KC sat down with YSN;s Anthony Hartwig to talk about her career at Lowellville. They discuss the family atmosphere of the team, her personal goals for the season, and much more. Get cleared for take off with this Rocket Volleyball player profile KC Kills The Competition.

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ROCKETS BLAST OFF TO FIRST VICTORY

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LOWELLVILLE OH- Lowellville Volleyball, like many area teams held their senior night early in the season. The Rockets honored their six seniors with their first win of the season. A sweep of Chaney (25-15 25-9 25-6).

The first set of the night was by far the most competitive. Lowellville couldn’t manage to pull away from Chaney until they rallied up 10-7 to take a 17-7 lead. That was all they needed as they took set one 25-15.

The Rockets rattled off an 11-0 rally to start off set two. Led by the fantastic serving of senior Alexis Mesaros the 11-0 run gave the Rockets complete control. Kennedy Kelly had her best set of the night with 6 kills in the frame.

Down 0-2 in set three Mesaros went to serve again, and served up another 11-0 rally. The Rockets made quick work of set three ending it on an ace from Sammie Kelly. Sending the six seniors off into the night with the lasting memory of a victory.

Kennedy Kelly finished with 12 kills to lead the Rockets offense. Sammie Kennedy has 11 assists, 7 aces, and a kill. The Rockets had 15 service aces as a team.

Lowellville will look to build on the momentum as they travel to Western Reserve on Thursday. Chaney will host Ursuline on Tuesday the 15th.

 

RIDGE HALTS ROCKETS LAUNCH

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MINERAL RIDGE OH- The Lady Rams improved to a season record of 4-0 and 2-0 in the conference with the victory tonight. The Lady Rams were led by Katelyn Lesko with 19 kills and 12 digs, Danielle Aulet with 27 assists and 12 digs and Morgan Sigley with 4 kills and 3 service aces. The Rockets were led by KC Kelly with 15 kills and Sammie Kelly with 33 assists and Callie Kester 7 digs. The Rockets are now 0-4 on the season and 0-3 in the conference.

*Contributed by Ron Lesko at rams athletics.org

STRUTHERS CANCELS ROCKETS TAKE OFF

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STRUTHERS OH- Struthers Girls Golf picked up a twelve stroke win over Lowellville on Friday. The final was 227-239. A couple girls from South Range golfed with Struthers for experience.

Struthers:
Taylor Susany 47
Samantha Day 54
Myla Vince 62
Ayla McGrath 64

South Range: (playing with Struthers for experience):
Bethany Witmer 56
Chloe Puhl 69

Lowellville:
Liv Laudermilt 55
Sophia Yon 54
Emily Wilaj 61
Angelina Marsh 69

MCKEEVER’S GOT THE KEYS TO VICTORY

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LOUISVILLE OH- Louisville Softball is coming off an incredible state championship season, where the last game they played was a perfect image of their whole season….crazy! A ten inning thriller with Lakota East ended with the Leopards on top. One of their keys to making the state run was Sydney McKeever.

Sydney has been playing softball for a long time, and she has her dad as a travel coach. The sport has brought the two of them even closer together. Through all the hard days this sport can bring Sydney’s work ethic shined through. It’s one of the reasons she has become a Division I talent. Highly recruited mainly for her speed, McKeever has signed to play at Toledo next season. Rockets head coach Joe Abraham had this to say on the press release about Sydney’s signing on utrockets.com. “She is incredibly fast, but more importantly she has that “it” factor on the field.”

Sydney led her team last season in steals with 24, and has collected 65. She also led her team in singles on the season with 46. In her career as a Leopard. She has 119 runs scored. Sydney promises to be a force at Toledo, and will surely be missed in coach Arney’s lineup in Louisville.

Anthony Hartwig has the chance to catch up with Sydney through video chat this week. They discussed being a state champion, her recruitment process, and much more. You won’t want to miss the debut of YSN’s Louisville Softball Player Profile with “McKevver’s Got the Keys to Victory.”

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LADY ROCKETS LIFTOFF AGAINST MOONEY

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BELOIT, OH-  The Cardinal Mooney Volleyball team’s season came to an end on Thursday night with a 4 set loss to Streetsboro in the West Branch sectional final (25-16 13-25 16-25 21-25)

In the first set, the Cardinals came out aggressive and efficient. Katie Hough showed right away that she’d be a force to be reckoned with rallying 5 kills in the set. Mooney only committed 2 attack errors in the set and hit .313 in the set.

The second and third sets were a completely different story as Mooney could not get any consistent offensive flow. They hit in the negative for both sets which is a big reason why they fell in those sets 13-25 and 16-25. Hough stayed strong however tallying 7 more kills in those two sets, even after briefly exiting the match with a bloody nose and switching jerseys.

In set 4 Mooney tried to get some rhythm back in their offense by letting Marissa Landers set and putting usual setter Sydney Reider in a defensive specialist position. And it worked. Mooney got their attack percentage back into the positives. They also were able to get middle blocker Megan Petty back involved who didn’t collect a kill in sets 2 or 3. She had a stretch of 3 consecutive kills and a block to put Mooney up 13-10. But Streetsboro at this point had too much momentum and was just clicking on offense. They played clean and collected through Mooney’s improved play and took set 4 21-25.

Katie Hough recorded a double-double with 16 kills and 10 digs. Sydney Reider closed out her career with a double-double with 20 assists and 11 digs. Marissa Landers also recorded a double-double with 11 assists and 10 digs. Megan Petty had 10 kills 5 blocks and 4 digs. Caitlyn Sapp had 10 digs.

Rockets Offense Explode Bears Hopes of Week 1 Win

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The three-headed monster of Rotz, Mince and Ballone helped the Lowellville Rockets soar past the Leetonia Bears 41-0 in week 1.  Behind the Rockets 3 running-back deep I-Stack formation, the Rockets ran all over the Bears defense for 4 scores.  Minch also returned a punt for a TD and Rotz threw for a 24 yard fade route to Hvisdak for his lone TD pass of the evening.

Leetonia just couldn’t get footing on offense and were held to under 100 yards of total offense.  Injuries to Roman Ferry, and teammates Brock Simpson and Derrick Grossen held 3 of the Bears primary offensive weapons out during separate points of the game to hinder the chances of scoring their first points of the 2017 campaign.