The Platte Perspective

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Fall Roundup: September 13-17

Park Hill Softball
Trojan Softball started the week off with a victory against North Kansas City by a score of 9-0, but fell to conference power Truman 4-0 before participating in the Platte County Tournament over the weekend.

Park Hill Girls Golf
Stephanie Atkinson's 85 and Anna Kloeppel's 86 led the Trojans to an eighth place finish at the Truman/Chrisman Invitational last week. Those scores were good enough for top 20 individual honors with 23 teams and over 100 golfers participating. As a team, Park Hill shot a 402. In a match against Staley last Thursday, Kloeppel and Atkinson led the team again with scores of 44 and 47 respectively on holes.

Park Hill Boys Soccer
Park Hill Boys Soccer improved to 6-2-1 last week with two weeks against Truman (4-0) and North Kansas City (4-0). Two goals from David Ddvorak along with goals from Neal Sampson and Cole Walker led the Trojans to victory against Truman. A hat trick of three goals from Matt Russell and another from Zdvorak helped Park Hill past NKC. Goalie Shane Van Hooser was credited with shutouts in both games. They'll play at Blue Springs this week in their only scheduled game.

Park Hill Volleyball
Park Hill Volleyball fell in two games to rival Park Hill South 25-19 and 25-13 early in last week, but came back to win two matches against Truman and North Kansas City to extend their record to 7-6. Over the weekend they played in the Lee's Summit North tournament where they 3-2-1 and lost in the finals of the consolation bracket. The Trojans are now 10-8-1.

Park Hill Girls Tennis
Park Hill Girls Tennis defeated Oak Park early last week 8-1 with top singles player Suzanne Barth winning 10-0 along with Kate Skorija and Sammy Young's victories. Barth teamed up with Brooke Barnard in the top doubles match to defeat their opposition 10-4. Against St. Joe Central, Barth, Skorija, Barnard, Anna Karsiewicz, Ashlei Bos, and Kelsey Midtbo sweep all six singles matches. After winning two doubles matches the final score was 8-1. They traveled back to St. Joe last Friday for Central's Invitational Tournament where they won two of the four flights and the team title. Barth and Bos won their singles flights while Skorija and Barnard finished third in their doubles flight. Park Hill is 6-1 in match play this season.