Under clear skies Saturday, the Bozeman Men's Masters cross
country team won the 19th annual Montana Cup race on the Rim Rocks
in Billings. Bozeman accomplished this by placing it's top five
runners in the first 11 places to edge out a large squad from
Helena by a score of 35 to 39.
Montana Cup is a cross country meet that pits teams from seven
regions across the state. It's a once a year opportunity for local
runners to race as a team. In addition to the Men's Masters team
taking first, the Woman's Masters team from Bozeman placed
third.
In the Open Division, Bozeman placed fourth in both the Men's
and Women's.
Rob Walker, Steve Bruner, and Shaun Marshall-Pryde made the
All-Montana Men's Masters team by placing in the top seven
overall.
Christian Heck and Leigh Holleman of Bozeman also made the
All-Montana team in the Men's Open and Women's Masters,
respectively.
MSU LOSES TO PORTLAND STATE IN FOUR SETS: The Bobcats (10-14,
3-8) staved off a sweep for the second day in a row, but their
25-20 third-set win was the only victory in a 25-22, 25-21, 20-25,
25-15 loss to Portland State (15-8, 10-2) on Saturday night.
The Bobcats' hit .258 and collected 11 of 41 total kills in that
set. For the match, MSU hit .171 and was led by freshman outside
hitter Sarah Horton's 12 kills and .242 hitting percentage. Junior
outside Rachelle Allen served four of the Bobcats' 13 aces, while
Macy Page had three.
Freshman setter Mackenzi Campbell had 36 assists and senior
libero Meghan Albiston had 17 assists to give her 316 in the season
and 1,472 career digs.
BELGRADE, LIVINGSTON FINISH REGULAR SEASON IN HAVRE: The Rangers
and Panthers went up to Havre to play the Blue Ponies and Browning
Indians and came away with sweeps on Saturday.
The Rangers (12-6, 7-3) beat Browning, 25-19, 25-11, 25-7, and
Havre, 22-25, 25-15, 25-10, 25-13. Johanna Chapel collected 20
kills and Tory Njardvik slammed 15 in two matches. The duo combined
for nine blocks and Chapel added 21 digs and a half-dozen aces.
Alyssa Carnell (33) and Jordyn Yarborough (27) combined for 61
assists while Emmy Handl contributed 15 digs and nine aces.
Livingston had 36 aces total.
Belgrade (8-9, 5-5) smacked 70 total kills, with 22 apiece from
Lindsay Halgren and Jordan Porter, in topping Browning, 25-18,
22-25, 27-25, 25-15, and Havre, 25-23, 15-25, 25-22, 25-15. Katie
Kenison served seven of Belgrade's 15 aces while Halgren (26) and
Porter (27) contributed most of the Panthers' assists.
Halgren also had four of Belgrade's nine blocks.
Both teams will participate in the Central A tournament this
weekend in Livingston.