Three-person scramble from the white tees was the game played Tuesday by the Rolling Acres golfers.
Winning first was the team of Willis Larson, Steve Erickson and Mike Nieman with a score of 30.
Second with a 32 was the team of Harvey Boxberger, Travis McAllister and Richard Gregwire.
Third, with 33, was the team of Terry Reimann, George Edmonson and Morris Mills, who also won the award for longest putt.
A Couples Night has been planned at the golf course for 6 p.m. Sunday.
The annual McPherson High football pep rally is scheduled for 6:30 tonight at the Lakeside Park Bandshell.
On hand will be the Bullpup football team, cheerleaders and Hi-Steppers. The community is invited to attend and to wear red. You may want to bring your lawn chairs.
Hot dogs, chips and a drink will cost you only $2, which will be served after the pep rally.
MHS opens the season Friday hosting Andover. Kickoff is 7 p.m.
McPherson College’s soccer teams, coming off highly successful seasons, make their home debut tonight at McPherson Stadium.
The Bulldogs entertain Concordia University of Nebraska.
The women’s game starts at 5:30 p.m., with the men set to get under way at 8.
Both Mac teams are picked second in the KCAC preseason poll. The Bulldog men are the defending conference champion, running the table with a 9-0 record in 2009. They finished with a 15-2 overall record.
The Mac women were 6-1-2 in the KCAC, good for third place. The Bulldogs were 10-5-3 overall.
McPherson High’s No. 1 doubles team of Brooke Bate and Taylor Swartzendruber went 3-0 to capture first place here Tuesday in the Bullpups’ first JV invitational of the year.
Valley Center won the meet with 29. Other scores were MHS (24), Smoky Valley (22), Salina Central (12), Great Bend (11), Campus (4) and Hesston (2).
MHS’ other doubles team of Katherine Geist and Sherry Matthews went 2-1 to take second.
MHS also had a doubles team that filled in for Hesston. Dara Quastad and Casey Higgins went 1-2 for sixth place.
In singles, Julia Pfeiffer went 2-1 for second place at No. 1, while Channing Wall was 1-2 for fourth place at No. 2.
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The McPherson U-8 Striker girls started off the season with four lopsided victories this weekend in the Mid-Kansas United Soccer League.
Strikers 8, Salina Twisters 3
Goals -- Belle Alexander, 5; Sydney Johnson, 2; Kennedy Porter, 1.
Assists – Catalina Palacios, 2; Abby Scruton, 1; Johnson, 1; Porter, 1.
Strikers 15, Salina Lightning 1
Goals -- Johnson, 4; Lexi Kynaston, 3; Kassidy Beam, 3; Alexa Bell, 2; Palacios, 2; Lauren Labertew, 1.
Assists -- Johnson, 2; Bell, 1; Palacios, 1; Labertew, 1.
Strikers 12, Salina Her-ricanes 0
Goals -- Alexander, 3; Kynaston, 3; Scruton, 3; Bell, 1; Palacios, 1; Porter, 1.
Assists -- Alexander, 1; Palacios, 1; Porter, 1.
Strikers 7, Salina Twisters 3
Goals -- Kynaston, 3; Beam, 2; Alexander, 2.
Assists -- Johnson, 1; Alexander, 1; Natalia Mendez, 1.
McPherson High will be hosting the first of two invitational tennis tournaments Thursday.
Joining MHS in the field are Derby, El Dorado, Graet Bend, Newton and Valley Center.
The action starts at 3 p.m. at the high school. All spectators are welcomed.
Elyria Christian School lost its second game in as many days to a Class 4A school when Nickerson handed the Eagles a 4-2 setback Tuesday.
Nickerson led 2-0 at the half and pushed it out to 3-0 before the Eagles started to make a comeback.
Aaron Potter and Jared Stiebens responded with back-to-back goals to cut it to 3-2 before Nickerson scored a goal for insurance.
Coach Suhail Aroum said the team showed improvement as it could have folded when it fell behind by three goals.
The Eagles are off until Sept. 9 when they play at Mulvane.
McPherson High’s volleyball team, coming off a 5-1 weekend at the AVCTL Preseason Tournament, dropped both its matches in the Goddard triangular Tuesday.
Goddard outlasted the Bullpups 25-21, 25-18, while Derby was a 26-24, 25-21 winner.
“We played outstanding for the first 17 points against Goddard,” MHS coach Christy Doile said. “We had a breakdown in serve receive and we let Goddard take the momentum and we never got it back. Game two we put some runs together, but it wasn't consistent enough. Against Derby we get off to a slow start and we recaptured the momentum. Paige Regnier goes back and serves several in a row to tie the game 24-24. Derby finally sides out and wins 24-26. Another slow start in set two and we make another run toward the end of the set, but our hole was too big.”
The MHS JV team began its season going 1-1, defeating Derby and losing to Goddard. Scores were not available.
MHS plays Tuesday at Andover.
