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Page 10 The INDEPENDENT, October 21,1998 Tough early season challenges Loggers to learn more while losing Vernonia’s Loggers faced the tough Warrenton Warriors on Greenman Field Oct. 16., and suffered a 41-14 loss. “We’ve played five of the top ten teams statewide and I’d say Warrenton’s the best of those,” said Logger head coach Bob Bruce. “I’d rank them first, or second behind Amity.” The Warriors dominated the first half, both offensively and on defense— effectively shut- ting down Vernonia’s passing conversion run, put the score at 34-14. “Rushing-wise we did better, 227 yards, and we met an offensive goal—we had only four ‘3 and outs’ [instances where the Loggers played three downs and were forced to punt],” said Bruce. “Our last three games are win-able.” Jesse Walters didn’t make his usual numbers against Warrenton due to a dislocated finger, but Bruce is optimistic about his chances of seeing (3 catches for 167 yards) for a touchdown. Don Benedict’s kick put the Loggers on the board with seven. Walters opened the fourth quarter in fine form, running a kickoff back 75 yards into the Royals’ end zone, bringing Vernonia within five points of P.C. The Royals stretched the scoring gap back to 11 points at the quarter’s halfway point. Aultman found Walters again, with a 61 yarder, and Vernonia Logger Don Benedict moving the ball in the W arrenton game, Oct. 16 on Greenman field. Working to clear the way for him are offensive linemen (I. to r.) Blaine Vandehey, Chad DeWitt, and Charlie Ray. game with heavy pressure on quarterback Ryan Aultman. Vernonia received the sec ond half kickoff. and steadily moved the ball from their own 30 yard line to Billy Church’s touchdown at the seven-minute mark. 34-6. The Loggers’ next series began late in the third quarter. Vernonia took possession on downs at their own 25 yard line. Church (99 total yards) and Justin Johnson (89 yards, 1TD) fought for every yard to advance the drive downfield, and into the fourth quarter. With 10:00 left to play, Brad Bricker caught a nice toss from Aultman for a first down on Warrenton’s 12 yard line. Thirty-five seconds later, Johnson punched into the end zone— breaking Warrior tack les every step of his eight yard run up the middle of the field. Johnson’s encore, a two point action at Neah-Kah-Nie on the 23rd. Chad DeWitt led Vernonia’s defense with seven tackles and two assists, followed by Josh Landers (6), and Charlie Ray (5 tackles, 2 assists). The Loggers lost at Portland Christian, Oct. 9, 25-20. “Neither team came out intense,” said Bruce. “The team’s practice attendance has affected execution, but I think the strength of our schedule will help in our final games.” The Royals scored on their opening drive and neither team reached an end zone again until the second half. Logger fans have come to expect big, exciting plays—in this game they weren’t disap pointed. With a minute left in the third quarter, Aultman (190 yards passing, 2TDs) shot an 86 yard pass to Jesse Walters Benedict kicked the PAT to put another seven on the board for the Loggers. Unfortuantely, Vernonia didn’t have time to make up the last five points. “We’ve set new goals, offen sive and defensive, for the rest of the season,” said Bruce. “This has been an emotionally exhausting season, but I’m hopeful about the rest of the season.” The Loggers have accumu lated some impressive sea- son-to-date stats, compiled after their first five games. Offensively, they are averag ing 21.4 points and 262 total yards per game. Aultman has completed 43 passes for 943 yards and 13 TDs, many of those to Walters, who is the leading receiver with 583 yards after 23 catches and 9 TDs. Landers leads in rush ing, 47 carries for 193 yards. 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Lady Braves show improvement The Banks High varsity vol leyball team handed Seaside a loss in two games Oct. 15, in Seaside, 15-9, 15-7. "We had excellent tip cover age, Seaside never had a suc cessful tip on us and they tried a lot,” said head coach Suzanne Alley. “Our hitting errors went way down also— something we’ve been working on all season.” late to pull off the win. “Val Duyck, Dasha Wake field, Carrie Bayless, Cait Van dehey and Sara Riggle, alter nately, make up our serve receive unit,” said Alley. “They had only five errors out of 120 service receptions against Scappoose and Seaside.” Alley is enthusiastic about her team’s performance, no tably middle blocker Riggle, who she describes as “doing a tremendous job”, and Adrianne Bent, who is credited with 10 solo blocks in the last two matches. Banks’ ladies are showing poise and maturity on the court in this second half of the ‘98 season. 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