Fall Roundup: August 24-28

Park Hill Softball
The Trojan softball team had a busy first week of the season with five games in the Greater Kansas City Tournament. They went 2-3 with wins against Smithville (5-3) and Oak Grove (7-3). One of the losses came at the hands of Staley (10-4) earlier in the week,

Park Hill Girls Tennis
The Park Hill girls tennis team got off to a hot start last week as they defeated Liberty 7-2 and Park Hill South 6-3 to start the season 2-0. Against Liberty, top singles player Suzanne Barth won 10-8, but the doubles team of Barth and Brooke Barnard fell 11-10 when they lost the tiebreaker 7-3. Later in the week, the Trojans hosted Park Hill South where the number two doubles team of Kate Skorija and Anna Karsiewicz came back from a 2-7 deficit to win 11-10 after they won the tie-breaker 7-1. They'll play St. Theresa's Thursday at the Country Club Plaza.

Park Hill Girls Golf
Anna Kloeppel helped the Park Hill girls golf team win their first match of the season last week against Winnetonka and Park Hill South at Hodge Park as her 44 gained her a medal in the nine hole match. As a team, the Trojans compiled a score of 193. Earlier in the week, they started the season at the Liberty Invitational with Bailey Warlan and Stephanie Atkinson placed in the top 20. They play Winnetonka again this week along with Oak Park.

Park Hill Girls Cross Country

Coach Jason Parr's voice could be heard across the Park Hill campus last Saturday when the team held their first ever time trial event on the two mile course Parr designed and created. With constant team messages of 'Run Strong' and 'It's not about you' filling the air, the time trial set the tone for next week's first race at Liberty.

"I've spent four years on this course, developing it so we can have some races hosted here. We hope to plan a quad meeting sometime next year. It's two miles and another lap could turn it into a 5k," Parr said.

Freshman Kim Rau took first place with a time of 12:10 with the top seven comprising of three freshmen and four sophomores.

"We're very experienced and talented, but young and we've got a lot to learn and work to do. We're excited," Parr said.

"A race like that will give girls an opportunity to have some fun. I think we'll do really well on our varsity and jv levels to build success," Parr said of the Saturday's upcoming Liberty race.