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The week at Bethel
• The Bethel-Tate girls soccer team tied 1-1 with Goshen, Sept. 20. Bethel’s Ashley Lanigan scored her team’s goal. On Sept. 21, Bethel tied 11 with Felicity. Hayley Rose scored Bethel’s goal, and J. White scored for Felicity. • In girls tennis, BethelTate beat Blanchester 4-1, Sept. 20. Bethel’s Schaljo beat Fawley 6-2, 6-1; Daugherty beat Wisniewski 7-5, 6-4; Dameron-Adams beat WhittAllen 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; WallaceMcMullen beat J. Mudd-B. Mudd 6-3, 6-2. On Sept. 21, Bethel beat Goshen 5-0. Bethel’s Schaljo beat Martell 6-1, 6-1; Dougherty beat Hulsmeyer 61, 6-1; Rinehart beat Perkins 6-3, 6-0; Dammeron and Adams beat Musgrove and Robbins 6-4, 6-4; Wallace and McMullen beat Poff and Ekert 6-1, 6-0. • In boys golf, Bethel-Tate beat Goshen 172-201, Sept. 21. Bethel’s Jason Adams medaled with 1 over par 37 on the front nine of Losantiville Country Club. • In volleyball, Batavia beat Bethel-Tate 25-22, 2513, 17-25, 25-14, Sept. 22.
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The week at Felicity
• The Felicity-Franklin girls soccer team lost 3-2 to Western Brown, Sept. 20. Felicity’s Greiling and White scored their team’s goals. • In volleyball on Sept. 22, Goshen beat Felicity-Franklin 25-10, 23-25, 25-14, 25-11.
SIDELINES Girls’ basketball tryout
Midwest Lady Knights (formerly Kentucky Elite) has openings for fourthgrade girls who want to play on an AAU team. The Knights will play in fall and winter leagues to get ready for AAU spring season. The team teaches girls the fundamentals to take them to the next level. The coaches have coached basketball for more than 20 years in all levels. Call Dave Brock at 859-609-7111 or 513-460-2867.
Baseball tryouts
The Cincinnati Sharks baseball organization is preparing to conduct player evaluations for the multiple age groups for the 2009 season. The Sharks are recognized as a Program of Excellence and have teams in most age groups in the National and American divisions of the SWOL. Coaches are looking for a few highskill and character players with a passion for the game for the 2010 season. The organization has an emphasis on developing players for long-term success. Call 623-4171 for U16, AND 2567265 for U13.
Elite baseball tryouts
The 2011 9U Kentucky Hitmen Baseball club is looking for 2 to 3 skilled players to fill its roster for the upcoming season. E-mail kentuckyhitmen@gmail.com or call 640-6677 to schedule a private tryout. The team will compete in the nationally recognized Southwest Ohio League (SWOL).
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Lady Tiger soccer gears up for strong finish By Mark Chalifoux
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The Bethel-Tate High School girls’ soccer team is playing a tougher schedule this season and the Tigers have played well through the first half of the season, going 3-1-4. “We’re doing pretty good,” said head coach Brenda Woodward. “The defense is doing a really good job, but we need to work harder offensively. We’re getting shots on goal,
but we just need to finish and put it in the net.” Woodward has a young team this season so she said she’s happy with the progress the team has made through the first half of the season. She said the key to more success in the final group of games is offense. “We just need to put everything together and finish shots and avoid the small mistakes that are penalizing us,” she said. Bethel-Tate scored eight goals in a season-opening
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Bethel-Tate’s Taylor Atkins breaks away from the pack with the ball in a game against Felicity-Franklin Sept. 21.
The week at McNick
• In girls golf, St. Ursula beat McNicholas 165-200, Sept. 20. McNick’s Lucy Frey medaled with 4 over par 39 on the front nine at Royal Oak. On Sept. 21, McNick placed second with a score of 207 against Ursuline’s 157 and Mercy’s 208. • In boys soccer, McNick lost to Ryle 2-1, Sept. 21. McNick’s John Sandmann scored his team’s goal. • In boys golf, McNick placed first with a score of 167 against Taylor’s 167 and Madeira’s 178, Sept. 21. • The girls soccer team beat Alter 2-0, Sept. 22. McNick’s Alli Thul made six saves, and Tricia Walsh and Megan Simmons scored the goals.
Bethel Journal
September 30, 2010
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Bethel-Tate’s Hayley Rose takes a corner kick for the Tigers in a game against Felicity-Franklin.
win over Purcell Marian, but has scored more than one goal in a game only once since then. The team is led by Andi Lanigan, who has two goals and five assists to lead the Tigers in scoring. Hayley Rose is the team’s standout center-midfielder and Ashley Lanigan is a key defender, along with sweeper Blake Woodward. Taylor Atkins and Courtney Riley have been two standout sophomores for the Tigers. “They are definitely an integral part of connecting plays together,” Woodward said. “They are putting the pieces of the puzzle together to make it work from the defensive third to the attacking third.” Woodward said she expected the Tigers to be
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Bethel-Tate’s Brittney Fischer fends off Kelsey Arkenau from Felicity-Franklin in a game Sept. 21. able to hang with the tougher competition as well as they have. The only loss for Bethel-Tate was a 1-0
loss to CNE, who beat the Tigers on a penalty kick. Woodward said she expects the team to finish strong. “CNE and Amelia are the toughest teams in our division and we play them both again at the end of the season,” she said. “They definitely won’t let that mistake happen again against CNE and we have a lot of home games in the second half of the season, which is a big advantage as well. We should be pretty good in the second half of the season.” Woodward said the girls play with excitement on the field. “They are a strong squad with a deep bench and we have a lot of speed and depth,” Woodward said. “The girls give a good game every time out.”
Bethel-Tate 2000 football team honored By Adam Turer eastsports@communitypress.com
Bethel-Tate’s football program has won just two conference championships in its history. Last year, the 1968 team was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Friday, Sept. 24, the 2000 team was honored in a pre-game ceremony before the Tigers took on Western Brown. The school celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its Southern Buckeye Conference title. The 2000 team, led by head coach Don Sizer, finished 7-3. Quarterback/defensive back Andrew Hesketh earned all-conference, all-city, alldistrict and honorable mention all-state honors. “It was a great time, it was really good to see my old coaches,” said Hesketh of the pre-game event. Hesketh still holds the school record for career interceptions. He is currently a student at University of Cincinnati. The former Tiger star hopes the reunion Friday night will inspire current and future Tigers football players. “I hope that we set an example and set a standard,” said Hesketh. “I hope seeing us there pushes the players to be better.” Bringing back past champions is another way
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Bethel Quarterback Erik Shinkle rolls out and hits his man on the out route.
for the Tigers to engage the local community. Bringing in alum Wayne Stacy to be the head football coach and athletic director this year was another step. “Winning a league championship is a very huge accomplishment,” said assistant head coach and director of football operations Steve Daugherty. “It’s good to get school pride and community involvement back within the athletic department.” Stacy and Daugherty were instrumental in bringing in the program’s two championship teams to
campus to be recognized at Bethel-Tate. Reminders of past success should help the current staff as they aim to build a new winning tradition. “I hope seeing us inspires them to do the same thing, if not more,” said Sizer. Sizer, now the defensive line coach at Wilmington College, enjoyed returning to Bethel-Tate to see his former players and fellow coaches. The key to that team’s success, he said, went beyond their performance on the field. “My biggest memory is of the personalities of everybody connected to that team – the players, the coaches, the administration,” said Sizer. “Everybody really cared about each other. It was a joy to show up for work every day.” The celebration was dampened by the Tigers’ 43-7 loss to Western Brown. Bethel-Tate will try to regroup this week at East Clinton Friday, Oct. 1. Sizer hopes his 2000 championship team can help this year’s squad break out of it’s 1-4 slump. Although the Tigers have not had an above-.500 season since the 2000 team went 7-3, there is hope the program can get back to its winning ways soon. “It is important for the
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Bethel pulls out the trick play early in the first quarter as Wide Receiver Andy Courts throws the ball downfield to fellow receiver Garrett Lang resulting in a Bethel touchdown. current guys to see that we had success not too long ago,” said Sizer. “I think it
hits home for them to see fellow Bethel-Tate players who had success.”