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in kills, Cline had a 0.261 hitting efficiency.Allyse Cruise led Tech with 14 digs and KirstinKing was right behind with 12.

Rocky Mountain took less than one hour ofplay to defeat Montana Western in three sets,25-7, 25-6, 25-13.Carroll College

The Carroll College Fighting Saints defeatedthe University of Montana Western Bulldogs inthree sets, 25-16, 25-14, 25-17 on Saturday night.

Montana Western competed well in sets oneand three and the scores were close in the hardfought contests until the Saints pulled awaydown the stretch to win both sets. Carrolljumped out to an early 8-1 lead and was neverseriously challenged in the second set.

Once again the Bulldogs had trouble winning the battle at the net. Carroll had 39kills to Montana Western’s 23 and also led in blocks at the net 15 to 6. Even whenMontana Western made strong attack hits, but the Saints defense was in top formrecording 58 digs to keep play alive.

Montana WesternIt was a tough weekend for the Bulldogs, with three set losses to both Carroll and

Rocky Mountain, and Coach Lisa Griffiths felt their play did not meet team expecta-tions. Although disappointed with the outcome of the matches, Griffiths saw somepositive aspects from the weekend.

“I was encouraged to see Emily Erickson’s strong performance,” the coach said.“She came in late in the match against Rocky and had a positive impact, getting six

kills on just nine swings. She followed that up with eight digs in the first set againstCarroll. Although we had some struggles this weekend it’s great to see the energyour young team brings into practice and matches each week. With the number offreshmen and sophomores providing valuable contributions this season, I’m excitedabout the potential for growth each week.”

Lewis-Clark StateThe Lewis-Clark State Warriors’ solid serving and quick tempo attack was too

much for Montana State University-Northern to handle at the Activity Center onSaturday afternoon. With a season-high 12 service aces, the Lewis-Clark StateCollege volleyball team blew past MSU-Northern 25-12, 25-12, 28-26.

With two wins over solid teams last week, and both by way of sweep, all signspoint to the fact that the Warriors are really heating up.

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MSU-Northern, 11-6 overall and 3-2 in conference play, hit just .011 on the day.Kelsey Williams, who played her freshman season with the Warriors last year, led theSkylights with seven kills. Rector’s 16 digs, a team season high for a three-set match,was one reason for Northern’s low hitting clip as was the Warriors’ pressure at thenet. LCSC had four blocks overall including two from Graybeal.

Lewis-Clark State hit .364 and .478 in the first and second set, respectively, andquickly grabbed a 2-0 lead. Lineup switches and a .179 hitting percentage kept theWarriors from breaking away from Northern in the third set.

With the score knotted at 26, Graybeal and Brown came up with a block to takethe lead, and Rector followed with a service ace for the win.

The victory lifts the Warriors to 10-3 overall and 4-1 in the conference. Lewis-Clark State’s next match will be on Friday against Westminster College at 7 p.m.inside the LCSC Activity Center.

WestminsterWestminster overcame deficits of 1-0 and 2-1 for the 24-26, 25-18, 26-28, 25-21,

15-10 victory and improve to 6-7 overall and 3-2 in the Frontier Conference.Northern drops to 11-5 and 3-1.

Westminster finished the night with a season high 69 kills while hitting .199.They also set a season high with 62 assists while also collecting 78 digs and fiveblocks. They held Northern to just .118 hitting efficiency which is a full 100 pointsbelow their season average. Katie Vance was the star of the night for the Griffins.

The sophomore middle blocker racked up a career high 17 kills while also hitting acareer-best .481. Those 17 kills are the second-most by a Griffin this season as is the.481 efficiency. Vance also picked up four digs, one service aces and one block.

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Something has to give when the Montana Tech and Montana Western footballteams meet Saturday in Dillon.

Kickoff is at 1 p.m. at Vigilante for the Frontier Conference game.The Orediggers (1-4, 0-4) and Bulldogs (0-4, 0-4) are both looking for their first

conference win.Tech won a 50-47 double overtime battle with Southern Oregon to open the sea-

son on a magical night at Alumni Coliseum.Since then, the magic has eluded the Orediggers, who lost to Eastern Oregon,

MSU-Northern, Rocky Mountain and Carroll College to fall to the cellar of theFrontier. Their roommates at the bottom are the Bulldogs, who lost to the same fourteams.

The Bulldogs looked primed to win their first game last Saturday in La Grande,Ore. Eastern Oregon, though, scored 31 second half points to erase a 30-14 halftimedeficit and win 45-39.

The Bulldogs also led 13-7 after one quarter at Carroll College the week before.They ended up losing 35-14.

Saturday concludes the first half of the Frontier season.After a week away from conference play, the teams will play each other one more

time.Tech has next week off, while Western will travel to Grand Forks, N.D., for a

“money game” against the University of North Dakota.For an in-depth preview of this game, see Saturday’s Montana Standard.

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TECH PLAYED EASTERN OREGON last Saturday in La Grande, above, and lost 45-39. Tech and Montana Western are both looking for their first conference win this weekend.


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Logan Ledgerwood isn’t quite sure what he’s going to dowhen he scores on a pick 6.He’s just pretty sure that it’s going to happen.

Through five games, the Montana Tech senior cornerbackleads the Frontier Conference with three interceptions.

He hasn’t taken one for a touchdown. Yet.“I plan on getting one,” he says.Ledgerwood has been making these plans since he first met

the new Oredigger coaches.“The coaching staff expects us to score on defense,”

Ledgerwood says. “That’s what the whole theme is on ourdefense.”

Ledgerwood, who started playing in the secondary as ayoung boy in the small town of Fort Benton, grew up idolizingDeion “Prime Time” Sanders.

“I’m thinking about doing the ‘Prime Time’ step,”Ledgerwood says of his planned pick 6. “I don’t know. It’s allgoing to be improv.”

For a split second last Saturday night, it looked likeLedgerwood would get his first collegiate touchdown when hemade a how-did-he-do-that catch to pick off Carroll Collegequarterback Dane Broadhead in the first quarter.

Ledgerwood, though, slipped after a five-yard return. TheOrediggers were also called for a clipping penalty on the play,so a score wouldn’t have counted.

“I told people before the game that we’re going to pick one,and it’s going to go to the shop,” Ledgerwood said. “‘So youcan’t celebrate early and make sure our blocks are clean.’”

With his three picks as a senior — his first as a full-timestarter — Ledgerwood has six on his career.

Ledgerwood, who has contributed as a fill-in starter andspecial teams player since his redshirt freshman season, wantsto double that again in the final six games as an Oredigger.

“I’ve actually got a bet going with my coach to see if I cancatch up to him, which is at 12,” Ledgerwood says of secondarycoach Andrew Schoenfelder, who played at the University ofSioux Falls under new Tech coach Chuck Morrell. “I’ve got toget one more a game.”

That’s some pretty good confidence for a cornerback who hesays he couldn’t catch a cold in spring drills.

“The coaches were all giving me (grief) all spring because Ihad (poor) hands,” Ledgerwood says. “I was always droppingpicks in spring ball, just constantly. I must have dropped 15 or 20.

“I told them ‘come season I guarantee I’ll be pickingthem.’”

He was right.Ledgerwood has interceptions against

Eastern Oregon, MSU-Northern andCarroll.

The one against the Saints was flat-out ridiculous.

“The one against Carroll ... I’ve beentold by a couple of people that I have nobusiness picking it,” Ledgerwood says. “Ijust stuck out my arm. (The receiver) ran adeep curl end rout. The quarterback threwit outside, and I just stuck out my arm.

“I bought some new gloves before thegame. I thought that might have helpedout a little bit. It hit my forearm, hit myleg and just curled right up to me.”

Ledgerwood says the new 3-4 blitz-happy defense also came tohim pretty fast.

He said he loves it.“He mixes it up a lot. Coach

likes to blitz,” Ledgerwood saysof Morrell, who is also thedefensive coordinator. “He’susually manning us up whenhe’s bringing smoke.

“I like man-to-man. It’spretty much just you andanother guy. Lock himdown, shut him out is prettymuch the mind set you’vegot to have.”

Ledgerwood went to Techafter a nice career at Fort Benton,where he started two seasons at safety andrunning back for the Longhorns.

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MONTANA TECH CORNERBACK Logan Ledgerwoodleads the Frontier Conference with three interceptions.

Ledgerwood has eyes on the end zone


Fort Benton made the playoffs all fouryears Ledgerwood was there. TheLonghorns made it to the Class B statechampionship game his first two years,and he saw some time on special teamsin the big game.

“Football was always a big thinggrowing up in Fort Benton,” Ledgerwoodsays. “Since like ’98 they started building a good football program. So I get really into sports and football in Fort Benton growing up.”

Ledgerwood also played basketballfor the Longhorns.

“I had like a 36-inch vertical jump,”he says. “I was dunking it in highschool.”

So, naturally, the track coaches wanted to take advantage ofLedgerwood’s jumping ability.

Instead, he wanted to take it easyafter all-out seasons of football and basketball. So, Ledgerwood played golfat Fort Benton.

Class B schools in Montana still playgolf in the spring.

“I hustled too much in football andbasketball, so I didn’t want to do trackafter getting done with football and basketball,” he says. “They wanted me todo the jumps, not so much the running. Iwas like, ‘Nope, I got to hit some parthrees.’”

Ledgerwood still likes to spend timeon the course.

Ledgerwood, a civil engineeringmajor who has an internship in Seattlelined up for next summer, said his dreamjob would be a club pro at a golf course.

He carries a 12 to 13 handicap.He spent the summer working on the

grounds crew at the Butte Country Club.Ledgerwood’s typical summer day

was working from 4 or 5 a.m. or so tonoon at the course. Then he went toclass from 2 to 4 p.m., lifted at 5 and ranconditioning at 7.

“It was a hectic summer,” he says.He was used to the schedule,

however, because he grew up working onfarm land his parents own outside ofFort Benton.

“I think that’s a good base or struc-ture for getting up early for football andschool, not being lazy,” Ledgerwoodsays.

The Orediggers recruited Ledgerwoodas a safety.

“Then I got moved to corner the firstwinter ball, and they pretty much keptme there since,” he says. “I played a littlebit of safety last year due to injuries. Iplayed a little bit this year due to injures.

“I played safety in high school. I’vekind of been doing secondary my wholelife.”

Playing running back in college wasn’t really an option. Ledgerwood is adefensive guy.

He partially credits his love of thePittsburgh Steelers and the “SteelCurtain” for that love of defense.

“I think it started way back when Istarted seventh and eighth grade foot-ball. I used to love offense,” Ledgerwoodsays. “I had an older guy tell me ‘I’llguarantee one day you’ll love defensebecause that’s where it’s at.”

That makes it sort of ironic thatLedgerwood is now so hellbent on scoring a touchdown.

“I’ve been looking for that,” he says.“I’ve been thinking about ever sincethese coaches came in and made thatkey. Score when we’re on defense hasbeen my mind set ever since.”

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Coaches Morrell, Nourse have met beforeBY PAT RYAN

of The Montana Standard

Both head coaches in Saturday’s Montana Tech-Montana Western matchup in Dillon are on roughly thesame footing.

Both Western’s Ryan Nourse and Tech’s Chuck Morrellare in their first year in their respective programs.Neither has won a Frontier Conference football game.

That will, of course, change for one of the coaches onSaturday when the Bulldogs host the Orediggers forhomecoming.

It’s the first of two meetings this season for the teams,but it won’t be the first time the coaches have seen eachother from across the field.

There was a six-year window between 2003 and 2008when both were defensive coordinators for the top teamsin the Great Plains Athletic Conference — Nourse at Morningside and Morrell atSioux Falls.

“All those years at Morningside, we battled (Sioux Falls) for the conferencechampionship,” Nourse recalled. “They got us most times, but as a coach you watchwhat other coaches do. This is a guy I respect, and you look at what coaches like thatdo. They play hard and physical. The hallmark of his defense is they don’t makemistakes.”

Morrell, along with his head coaching duties, is the defensive coordinator for theOrediggers. Nourse had planned to be the defensive coordinator at Western, but justdays before fall drills began, offensive coordinator Nick Whitworth took another job

and all bets were off in Dillon.Nourse was forced to shuffle his coaching staff at the

last minute. He took over as offensive coordinator andpromoted Nick Thier to defensive coordinator.

It wasn’t too much of a stretch, however. Nourse hadserved as offensive coordinator in his last year atMorningside, and had some material to work with on theoffensive side of the ball. Thier, though young, has a goodfootball background and has his players at Western hitting hard.

“Jason played for me (at Truman State),” Nourse said.“I knew if he ever went into coaching that I’d hire him.He’s very intelligent and he’s got tons of energy.”

Nourse said Thier and D-line coach Sean McKinneyare learning at break-neck pace, but it’s a tough way topick it up.

“You know, we’re pretty close on defense,” Nourse said. “But a play here and aplay there, and teams like Carroll and Eastern Oregon, you miss something and 30 yards later you’re chasing them down.”

As a former defensive coordinator, and from his knowledge of Coach Morrell,Nourse has a pretty solid idea what to look for this Saturday from Tech’s defense.

“We know they’ll be playing a physical 3-4 defense,” Nourse noted. “Chuck willhave his team prepared to stop our best stuff.”

Some of Western’s best stuff has only recently been seen on the field, and that’ssomething Nourse said he’s excited about. The Bulldogs have a true homecoming

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after a couple of weeks on the road against thetop two teams in the Frontier Conference — Carroll and Eastern Oregon.

Western led early against the Saintsbefore faltering late, and had theMountaineers on the ropes more than once in a wild 45-39 loss last Saturday.

“It’s always nice to get back home, but they haven’t seen us play very well thereyet,” Nourse said. “In our first home game against Rocky we probably couldn’t haveplayed a worse game, but that’s a credit to Rocky.”

Nourse points to continual improvement in his team, and in himself as well.“I hadn’t prepared myself to be calling an offense,” he said. “But I’ve never been a

head coach before either. I’m getting better every week, and the kids have beengreat.”

The Bulldogs look to Dillon product Zach McRae, who recently won the startingquarterback job. Nourse said the senior signal caller has gained a good grasp of theoffense.

“The thing I like about Zach is he has good decision-making skills,” Nourse said.“He’s a football guy, and in the last couple of weeks people have seen some solidglimpses of how he can play. He’s done a nice job taking command.”

McRae completed 25 of 34 passes against the Mounties for 324 yards and a touchdown to Casey Lamping, who had five grabs for 70 yards. McRae also ran infrom 6 yards out for the first touchdown of the game.

The Bulldogs have also seen good work of late from running backs Charlie Dotsonand T.J. Leep, but that’s largely the by-product of an offensive line that has begun togel, Nourse said.

“We had to fill some spots on the offensive line with guys who have never played

there before,” Nourse said, pointing to Justin Garcia.“Justin moved over from the defensive line and he’s really starting to flourish.

He’s been excellent.”Nourse said his corps of receivers is the hardest-working bunch on the team, and

that particular group has seen the emergence of Colton Woods.“Colton’s come out and done a great job,” Nourse said. “(Deryk) Van Zee has

been great as a punter, a wideout or anything you ask him to do.”The defense radiates from senior noseguard Penisoni Tuifua.“It’s not just that Peni’s performing,” Nourse said. “He brings such a positive

energy to the team. He and (left offensive tackle) Justin Cossey have been a big helpwith teaching the others.”

Senior cornerback Donte Green had a big game against Eastern Oregon with 15 tackles, and drew high praise from his coach.

“Donte’s selling out every play,” he said.“He’s playing physical and getting after the football; he’s been doing everything

right. He comes to practice every day to work hard, but you know they’ve all beenworking hard.”

Many of the younger players Nourse was able to sign have also begun to maketheir presence felt at Western. Great Falls products Ryan Otto and Phil Selin joinHelena’s Beau Berg and Jackson Lang as four young players who gaining experiencewhile making an impact.

“We recruited a lot of those guys believing that they’ll be good players and play ata high level in the Frontier,” Nourse said.

The fact that Western has been competitive while playing very good teams doesn’t surprise Nourse.

“We’ve had good belief in this team all the way through,” he said. “Playing welljust makes it more concrete. We know we have a good football team and that we canbe competitive. If we take care of the details, we can play with anybody and we canbeat anybody.

“Now, it’s a matter of getting over the hump.”

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