18th Sertoma All-Star Volleyball Classic Saturday at McCook HS gym

Friday, June 19, 2009

John J. Mesh, McCook (Neb.) Daily Gazette Sports Editor

The 18th Annual Sertoma All-Star Volleyball Classic gets underway at 7 p.m. on Saturday when 21 of the area's recently graduated volleyball stars meet at McCook High School.

Three players who were selected -- Cambridge's Traci Keyser and Maxwell's Audrey Feeney for the East Team and Hitchcock County's Ashley Garner -- will not play because they underwent knee surgery recently.

McCook's Joanna Bryant and Ashley Palic will be joined on the East team by Tiffany Hoaglund, Brady; Bailey Soucie, Cambridge; Jacey Schultheiss, Eustis-Farnam; Hilary Messersmith, Gothenburg; Kadee Arensdorf and Susan Koester, Maywood; Aleisha Thomas, North Platte-St. Pat's; Megan Conway and Abby Houghtelling, Southwest; and Cassie Brooks, Southern Valley.

The West team features Nichole Dickey and Morgan Strand, Chase County; Page Stute and Hilary Wilson, Dundy County-Stratton; Marla Munsen and Josey Schoup, Hershey; Kristin Craw, Hitchcock County; Brandi Dye and Kylee Moore, North Platte; Audrey Frary and Katie Sutherland, Sutherland; Blair Dixon and Sheila Reiner, Wauneta-Palisade.

Lindsay Jorgensen of Hayes Center and Laura Miller of North Platte will coach the West Team. Shauna Donohoe of Maywood and Lori Mau of North Platte will coach the East Team.

Admission to the Classic is $6 for ages 13 and up, $4 for ages 5-12; and children 5 and under are free.

The West leads the series 10-7.

The East team dominated the West squad last year in the Sertoma Classic (25-15, 25-10, 30-28, 17-25, 15-9).

The West swept the five-game match in 2007 (25-18, 25-13, 25-20, 25-15, 15-7).

Proceeds from this event are used by the McCook Area Sertoma Club to help with speech and hearing sponsorships and community projects.

For further information on this year's event, contact Cathy Carman at (308) 345-6482 (work) or Rose Chancellor at 800-576-3655.

WP's Geier to coach West Team at Sertoma Eight-Man game; four area athletes to play -- Wauneta-Palisade's Randy Geier will be the head coach for the West Team at the 32nd Annual Sertoma Eight-Man Classic football game, which kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Hastings College's Lloyd Wilson Field.

Area players on the West team are Cody Fanning, Wauneta-Palisade; Clint Bryant, Medicine Valley; Matt Gohl, Hayes Center; and Dillon Breinig, Arapahoe.

Sertoma Eight-Man

Classic Rosters

WEST TEAM

Cody Fanning, Wauneta-Palisade; Kayle Barnes, Elwood; Drew Carr, Overton; Cody Gurney, Burwell; Dustin Jasnoch, Garden County; Anthony Adamson, Hemingford; Rob Keeney, Callaway; Beau Fry, Ewing; Clint Bryant, Medicine Valley; Tyler Bartak, Anselmo-Merna; Brett Kaczor, Ewing; Cole Stoltenberg, Stuart; Luke Thiele, Clearwater-Orchard; Andrew Bauer, Elgin; Tad Henkenius, Elgin; Cory Frerichs, Leyton; Lance Juelfs, Potter-Dix; Russell Walton, Franklin; Matt Gohl, Hayes Center; Jacob Morten, Loomis; Dillon Breinig, Arapahoe; Matt Helms, Maxwell; Austin Schleusener, Clearwater-Orchard.

Head coach--Randy Geier, Wauneta-Palisade.

Assistant coaches--Glen Lipska, Leyton; Brock Eichelberger, Ewing. 

EAST TEAM

Jordan Moline, Mead; Jordan Nelson, Newman Grove; Elliott Mencl, Freeman; Jameson Werner, Humphrey St. Francis; Scott Wilmes, Allen; Tyler Hefner, Coleridge; Derek Classen, Humphrey St. Francis; Ryan Heimes, Wynot; Dwayne Wall, Hampton; Garrett Hoines, Bruning-Davenport; Michael Konicek, Clarkson; Seth Houdersheldt, Shelby; Dustin Sindelar, Howells; Presto Ranslen, Cedar Bluffs; Adam Ortmeier, Dodge; Brendon Jorgensen, Cedar Bluffs; Brandon Burha, Dorchester; Ross Eickhoff, Hartington; Caleb Lammers, Hartington; Jimmie Bunting, Johnson-Brock; Holliday Quezada, Bloomfield; Blake Reil, Bancroft-Rosalie; Dalton Brandt, Exeter-Milligan.