Kat Chatter - Kokomo School

Kat Chatter
Monday, September 8, 2014
Thought for the day
“There is no glory in practice, but without practice,
there is no glory.”
Unknown
Today’s Athletic Events
SPORT
OPPONENT
LOCATION
TIME
Football (Boys Fr)
Football (Boys JV)
Mississinewa
Marion
Mississinewa
KHS
5:30 PM
6:30 PM
THE WILDKAT
Football
Kokomo 66, Marion 7
Girls Soccer
Bedford-North Lawrence 2, Kokomo 1
Kokomo 2, Evansville Harrison 1
Kokomo 4, Martinsville 1
Boys Cross Country
Kokomo placed 18th in the 26-team Marion Invitational
Girls Cross Country
Cinnamon Andrews placed 121st out of 182 at the Marion Invite.
Girls Golf
Kokomo placed 16th in the 18-team Lady Broncho Invitational
Boys Soccer
Kokomo 4, Center Grove 1
Lebanon 3, Kokomo 2
The Wildkat football team started NCC play with a 66-7 win over Marion this past
weekend. After a storm moved in Friday, we finished the game Saturday afternoon.
On offense we once again had a pair of 100-yard rushers. Jeron Grey 139 yards and three
TDs and Bo Baker had 117 yards and two TDs. Jordan Holloman rushed for 75 yards and
two TDs. Kyle Wade was 4-for-9 passing for 53 yards and one TD; Cory Shrock was on the
receiving end of the TD throw.
On defense the Kats were led in tackles by Brevin Beard. Noah Hurlock, DeShaun Barbary
and Beard all had quarterback sacks in the game. Jack Perkins had an interception, and
Keyon Washington recovered a fumble. The Wildkat defense was dominate all game, only
giving up one rushing yard. The second team was in and gave up the score in the fourth
quarter.
Jordan Rawlins had his second kickoff return for a touchdown in two weeks to round out the
scoring for Kokomo.
This week we take on McCutcheon for a huge NCC game. We play at 7:00 pm at Walter
Cross Field.
Coach Colby
Our Lady Wildkats (5-3) traveled to Bloomington for the Hoosier Cup to reflect their 2013
performance. A long bus ride, high heat, and perhaps some pre-tournament jitters seemed to
keep the Kats distracted from finding their play in the first game, but Day 2 provided double
wins to finish second in their bracket again for 2014.
FRIDAY
The Lady Wildkats’ first game yielded their only loss, to Bedford North Lawrence by a score
of 2-1. With Holly Stewart recording the Kats’ lone goal, Cathy Skaggs assisted the goal and
recorded nine saves. The Lady Kats trailed most the game only to tie it 1-1 with three
minutes left. Another BNL goal followed one minute later.
SATURDAY
Our Lady Wildkats started out very live and well in the first half of Game 1 taking a 2-0 lead
by half. However, the Lady Kats seemed to have really lost pace in the second half and
resorted to bad habits and brute force to tie the second half 0-0 for an overall 2-0 win over
Evansville Harrison. Juliana del Bosque and Aaryan Morrison recorded a goal each, while
Taylor Coram had one assist and Cathy Skaggs had four saves.
Game 2 gave a very easy pace for the Lady Kats to clear the bench and give all players some
varsity experience. In their 4-1 win over Martinsville, the Lady Kats led 4-0 by half. Cathy
Skaggs had four saves with another tournament assist. Taylor Sparling had two goals while
Taylor Coram and Katelyn Van Horn each had one. Aubrey Whiteman had an assist.
Though our Lady Kats scored more tournament goals than each of the other three teams,
jitters and the lack of choices proved to be the second team in the bracket again this
year. However, overall the ladies showed promising progress and growth while coming back
from a less desirable performance on Day 1.
With a hard week of games ahead of us our Ladies could use your support this week to help
keep their focus and press on!
Go Kats!
Coach Duggins
The Lady Kats headed over to
Lafayette on Saturday for the Lady
Broncho Invite. We didn't do as
well as we could have as a team,
but we did have some individual
accomplishments.
We finished with a 452, good
enough for 16th place.
Individually, Sydney Murphy led
the team with a 97, followed by
Lucy Mavrick with a 101. Kaila
Stiner shot a 109, Shiloh Mussial
shot a 145 for her first 18-hole
competition, and Sabrina McAmis
came in with a 164.
We have a busy week this week.
We have a match Wednesday
against Eastern and Western, travel
to Noblesville on Thursday, and
have the NCC tournament on
Saturday.
Until next tee time,
Coach Carpenter
Sophomore Cinnamon Andrews turned in a solid performance with
a 23:06.8 clocking for the 5K (3.1 miles) to pace the Lady Wildkats
at the Marion Invitational Saturday at Indiana Wesleyan
University. In her first outing for the 2014 season, Cinnamon
placed 121st among the 182 runners in the Varsity Purple (Big
Schools – over 1,000 enrollment) race.
Fort Wayne Carroll won the team championship, while freshman
Tyler Schwartz of DeKalb earned the individual championship in
18:38.9.
In the all-comers (both Gold and Purple divisions) jayvee girls race
at Indiana Wesleyan, the Kokomo ladies showed tremendous
improvement as all four Lady Wildkats finishers recorded seasonbest performances and three Kokomo runners shaved almost three
minutes off their season-best times.
Sophomore Abbie O’Keefe celebrated her 16th birthday by running
an all-time best performance with a clocking of 27:49.4 for the 5K
race, while freshman Natalie Hatt bettered the 30-minute barrier for
the first time in her running career by covering the 3.1 miles in
29:15.6.
Senior Claire Harbaugh lowered her previous season best by more
than three minutes with a 30:16.9 clocking, while sophomore
Jessica Estep improved her season best by almost three minutes
with a 30:40.6 clocking.
Lady Wildkat junior Elizabeth Curtis, who is on the injured reserve
list, supported the Kokomo team by timing 2-mile splits and
cheering for the Lady Wildkats.
Coach Barnes
Sixth-ranked Brebeuf edged # 4 Fort Wayne Carroll to win
Saturday's Marion Invitational. In 90 % humidity, six
ranked teams battled it out at Indiana Wesleyan University
on one of Indiana's fastest cross country courses.
Our Kokomo boys cut 78 seconds off their team time and
had all 15 runners set season bests.
Placing 18th of 26 teams at one of the best organized
invitationals, the Kat harriers were led by Ethan Sharp, who
placed 26th with a fine 16:28 personal best. Colten Pearce
ran 18:05, Justin Taflinger recorded an 18:09, Jadyn
Whitehead clocked an 18:33, Logan Hawk had an 18:35, and
Coy Brandon finished with an 18:54. Conner Wood ended
our scoring, running 19:06.
Our JVs finished 15th of 52 teams entered and had
tremendous improvement. Max McHaney was our first
finisher, placing 86th in 19:03. Corey Dea ran 19:59, Hanif
Burnett clocked a 20:35, and Nigel Lenoir recorded a
20:42. Andrew Pervez finished in 21:24, Kaleb Smith
crossed the line in 21:35, and Farod Knox had a 21:52. Zane
Padfield cut 73 seconds off his best and ran 24:12.
Everyone was focused and had superb efforts. We travel to
Maconaquah on Saturday for another big invitational.
Coach Stucker
The Kats defeated Center-Grove 4-1
to advance to the Lebanon
Tournament championship game.
Phillip Heilman scored two goals for
the Kats, with Keagan James and
Andrecus Eddington each adding a
goal.
In the championship game with the
host Tigers, Kokomo took the early 20 lead on a pair of goals by Robbie
Lambert that the Lebanon goalkeeper
couldn't stop. The Kats controlled the
entire first half with Lebanon
struggling to gain any momentum.
The Tigers scored two quick goal
after intermission to tie the game, and
the Kats lost in the championship on a
PK shoot out 5-6 (1-0).
It was a great defensive effort by S.A.
Dunn and Kensuke Oguri. Man of
the Match Oguri stated, "we should
have won the championship, but we
will do better next time because we
are a good team."
The Kats are now 5-4 and will play
Tuesday at home.
Coach Idukabo
Kokomo hosted the 1st annual VolleyKats JV Extravaganza on Saturday.
Covenant Christian (Indianapolis) won the tournament with a record of 3-1. Kokomo also
finished 3-1, but Covenant Christian won the head-to-head battle to win the five-team
tournament.
The remaining teams records:
Manchester 2-2, Northwestern 1-3, Tipton 1-3
Kokomo defeated Tipton 20-25,25-17,15-13
Manchester defeated Northwestern
Covenant Christian defeated Kokomo 25-19,25-10
Tipton defeated Northwestern
Northwestern defeated Covenant Christian
Manchester defeated Tipton
Kokomo defeated Northwestern 25-21,25-21
Covenant Christian defeated Manchester
Kokomo defeated Manchester 25-12,25-17
Courtland Cottle led Kokomo on the day with 34 kills and three aces, and Kylee Lauderbaugh
added 19 kills. Madison Wood scored at the net and at the service line with 15 kills and 10
aces. Paxtyn Bailey also served five aces.
Kokomo is now 5-1.
JV Coach Ostapa
The Kokomo football team led Marion 36-0 with 3:00 to go in the second quarter Friday night
before the game was postponed because of lightning.
This was Kokomo’s North Central Conference opener, and the Kats have now won seven of
their last 10 league openers.
The last time Kokomo scored 60 points in a football game before Saturday was in a 62-13 win
over Muncie Central on September 3, 2011.
The 66 points scored by Kokomo over the weekend against Marion was the second most ever
scored by a team in the series. Kokomo put up 70 points against the Giants on September 4,
2009.
The Wildkats have now won eight straight over the Giants.
Kokomo’s 59-point win over Marion was the most lopsided in the series history.
Although the Wildkats had the convincing victory, Marion actually had an advantage in time of
possession. The Giants had the pigskin for 24:40 compared to the Kats’ 23:20.
Kokomo scored on each of its first five possessions in the game.
The Wildkats had 396 yards of total offense to just 142 for the Giants.
Kokomo’s 343 yards rushing were the fewest by the Kats in their three games this season.
Marion’s touchdown came on a 67-yard run. The Giants’ 31 other carries netted them a total of
just one yard.
Kokomo had seven possessions inside the Marion Red Zone and scored on all seven.
The Wildkats had nine touchdowns – two in the first quarter, three in the second, and two
apiece in each of the last two quarters.
Marion had just four plays that gained 10 yards or more – two on rushing attempts and two on
passes.
Kokomo had 17 plays that gained double digits, 14 via the run.
6 – The number of first downs for Marion. Kokomo had 24.
41 – The total number of rushing attempts combined for Jeron Gray,
Bo Baker, and Jordan Hollman. Gray and Baker had 14 each, and
Holloman had 13.
2.1 – Marion’s average for their 32 rushing attempts against the
Wildkat defense.
7.3 – Kokomo’s average per rush.
55 – The number of negative rushing yards for Marion.
0 – The number of third down conversions for Marion in 11 tries.
0 – The number of plays Marion ran in Kokomo’s Red Zone.
24 – The Kokomo yard line where Marion started its deepest
penetration in Wildkat territory.
12 – The number of possessions for Kokomo in the Marion game.
Kokomo had nine touchdowns.
13 – The number of possessions for Marion. They had one
touchdown.
27 – The average field position for the Giants in their own territory.
47 – Kokomo’s average field position, also in Marion territory.
9 – The number of Kokomo players who had tackles for losses against
the Giants.
14 – The number of total tackles for loss by the Kats.
4 – The number of Kokomo’s nine passes that came on first down.
8 – The number of third down attempts by Kokomo. Four were
successful.
5 – The number of penalty flags against the Wildkats. Coming into the
game, Kokomo had a total of four penalties combined in their first two
games.
NCC FOOTBALL
CONFERENCE
W-L Pts OP STREAK
McCutcheon
KOKOMO
Harrison (West Lafayette)
Huntington North
Muncie Central
Logansport
Marion
Richmond
Anderson
Lafayette Jeff
W-L
ALL GAMES
Pts OP STREAK
1- 0 55 14 Won 1 3- 0 121 64 Won 3
1- 0 66 7 Won 4 2- 1 168 67 Won 1
1- 0 40 14 Won 1 1- 2 61 82 Won 1
1- 0 21 13 Won 2 1- 2 27 72 Won 1
1- 0 47 0 Won 4 1- 2 74 61 Won 1
0- 1 14 40 Lost 3 1- 2 64 99 Lost 1
0- 1 7 66 Lost 9 1- 2 41 130 Lost 2
0- 1 13 21 Lost 1 1- 2 46 77 Lost 2
0- 1 0 47 Lost 3 0- 3 14 119 Lost 4
0- 1 14 55 Lost 1 0- 3 28 121 Lost 11
Friday, Sep. 5
Muncie Central 47, Anderson 0‡
Saturday, Sep. 6
Harrison (West Lafayette) 40, Logansport 14‡
Huntington North 21, Richmond 13‡
Kokomo 66, Marion 7‡
McCutcheon 55, Lafayette Jeff 14‡
Friday, Sep. 12
Harrison (West Lafayette) at Lafayette Jeff‡, 7 pm
Huntington North at Logansport‡, 7 pm
Marion at Anderson‡, 7 pm
McCutcheon at Kokomo‡, 7 pm
Muncie Central at Richmond‡, 7:30 pm
VOLLEYBALL
September 10, 2013
Kokomo hosted Northwestern and it took five sets for the Lady Tigers to
claim the victory.
Northwestern won the second and third sets before escaping for a victory
in the fifth.
In that final set, Kokomo let 14-11, but the Tigers rallied to take a 17-15
win.
Senior Tori Lauderbaugh was the offensive leader for the VolleyKats with
14 kills. She also added a pair of blocks. Senior Alanis Jones added 12
kills and two blocks, and sophomore Kirsten Frey had 10 kills and four
blocks.
Junior Miranda Ogle had 22 assists as the Wildkat setter, and libero
Amanda Tran was credited with 28 digs and 40 serve receptions.
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
Will Stahl
Grade: 12
Sport: Tennis
My favorite subject area: Math
The NCC school I most enjoy playing against: Marion
My favorite Indiana-based professional team: Pacers
Which of your family members participated in sports?: Father, Mother, Sister(s), Aunt(s),
Uncle(s)
My choice of potato: French Fries
My choice of one-topping pizza: Pepperoni
The age I started this sport: 15-16
The state in which I would like to spend my adult life: California
My favorite brand of car: Chevrolet
The one sport I know I am not successful at is: Swimming
My favorite pro or collegiate athlete in this sport: Novak Djokovic
The best athlete in this sport that I have competed against: Shawn Flanary
One food I can’t live without: French Onion Soup
My most influential youth coach: Mike Sell
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
Dillon Graham
Grade: 12
Sport: Soccer
My favorite subject area: Physical Education
The NCC school I most enjoy playing against: Marion
My favorite Indiana-based professional team: Indians
Which of your family members participated in sports?: Father, Mother, Sister(s)
My choice of potato: Mashed
My choice of one-topping pizza: Chicken
The age I started this sport: 5-7
The state in which I would like to spend my adult life: Florida
My favorite brand of car: Dodge/Chrysler
The one sport I know I am not successful at is: Everything but soccer
My favorite pro or collegiate athlete in this sport: Lionel Messi
The best athlete in this sport that I have competed against: Phil Heilman
One food I can’t live without: Beef Jerky
My most influential youth coach: Daniel Graham
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
Jadyn Whitehead
Grade: 12
Sport: Cross Country
My favorite subject area: Science
The NCC school I most enjoy playing against: Huntington North
My favorite Indiana-based professional team: Pacers
Which of your family members participated in sports?: Father, Mother, Uncle(s)
My choice of potato: Hash Browns
My choice of one-topping pizza: Sausage
The age I started this sport: 15-16
The state in which I would like to spend my adult life: California
My favorite brand of car: Chevrolet
The one sport I know I am not successful at is: Hockey
My favorite pro or collegiate athlete in this sport: Mo Farrah
The best athlete in this sport that I have competed against: Jeremy Breedlove
One food I can’t live without: Mac & Cheese
My most influential youth coach: Mike Reed
How many sacks did Jacob Schick record against Huntington North in 2008?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
3.0
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7
7.5
Answer appears at the bottom of the page.
Who holds the KHS record for touchdown passes in a game?
Answer will appear in the next Kat Chatter.
Answer to the last Wildkat Trivia
Who holds the KHS record for sacks in a game?
Jacob Schick
This Week in Wildkat Country
SPORT
OPPONENT
LOCATION
TIME
Monday, September 08
Football (Boys Fr)
Football (Boys JV)
Mississinewa
Marion
Mississinewa
KHS
5:30 PM
6:30 PM
Tuesday, September 09
Tennis (Boys V)
Soccer (Girls V)
Soccer (Boys JV)
Volleyball (Girls JV)
Volleyball (Girls V)
Soccer (Girls JV)
Soccer (Boys V)
Maconaquah
McCutcheon
McCutcheon
Northwestern
Northwestern
McCutcheon
McCutcheon
KHS
McCutcheon
KHS
Northwestern
Northwestern
McCutcheon
KHS
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 10
Golf (Girls V)
Soccer (Girls JV)
Cross Country (Girls V)
Soccer (Girls V)
Western/Eastern
Hamilton Heights
Lafayette Jeff
Hamilton Heights
Chippendale
KHS
KHS
KHS
4:00 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Thursday, September 11
Golf (Girls V)
Tennis (Boys V)
Soccer (Boys JV)
Volleyball (Girls JV)
Volleyball (Girls V)
Volleyball (Girls Fr)
Soccer (Boys V)
Noblesville
Logansport
Fishers
Cass
Cass
Logansport
Fishers
Harbour Trees GC
Logansport
Fishers
KHS
KHS
KHS
Fishers
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
Friday, September 12
Football (Boys V)
McCutcheon
KHS
7:00 PM
Saturday, September 13
Cross Country (Girls V)
Golf (Girls V)
Cross Country (Boys V)
Tennis (Boys V)
Volleyball (Girls V)
Football (Boys Fr)
Football (Boys JV)
Maconaquah Invite
NCC Meet
Maconaquah Invite
KHS Invite
Chesterton Tourney
McCutcheon
McCutcheon
Maconaquah
Anderson
Maconaquah
KHS
Chesterton
KHS
KHS
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
12:00 PM
N.C.C. Student-Athlete of the Week
JERON GRAY
Jeron, a junior, led the Wildkats in rushing with 139 yards and scored three
touchdowns in Kokomo’s 66-7 win over Marion. Gray has led the Kats in rushing in
each of their three games, has 441 yards rushing, and has a team-leading seven
touchdowns this season.
KHS Web Favorites
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