Park Hill Soccer went 3-0 last week with wins against St. Joe Central, Ruskin, and Blue Springs. An 11-2 thumping of St. Joe started off the week followed by another convincing 9-1 victory against Ruskin with three goals from Cole Walker, two a piece from Ray Lee and Neal Sampson, and one from Nick Shepherd. They finished off the week with an exciting 2-1 victory over Blue Springs in overtime with goals from David Zdvorak and Quenton Noble. The Trojans are now 9-2-1 going into this week's competitions against Lee's Summit West and St. Joe Central.
Park Hill Girls Tennis
Park Hill Girls Tennis has had quite a streak of conference success of recent years, but it came to an end last week as they lost their first conference match in several years to a talented Lee's Summit West team 7-2 with both the top singles and doubles matches going to the Titans. The Trojans shook it off later in the week with a 9-0 shutout of Ruskin with Ashleigh Bos taking the top singles match 8-1.
Park Hill Volleyball
Park Hill only played one game last week, but it was for a special cause, as the Trojans took on the Liberty North Eagles in their inaugural Dig for a Cure game. Although having defeated them two times already this season, Park Hill got down early inthe first game, but battled to a 24-24 tie before Liberty finally broke it to take a 26-24 victory. The Trojans took the second game 25-18 before the Eagles defeated them 25-21 for the 2-1 victory. Park Hill is now 10-9-1 on the season.
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Coach Lindsey Hood was disappointed with the loss, but pointed out the significance of the game off the court with the $4,400 the two teams were able to raise for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and Camp Quality, both receiving $2,200.
"We continue to work the big picture of life and remind them that volleyball is not everything," Hood said of the event. "We were very proud of our girls and even though we lost the match, our focus was how accomplished the girls should feel.
Park Hill Girls and Boys Cross Country
They had it marked on their calendars since early August and this past weekend the Park Hill girls cross country team let area teams know they mean business at the Rim Rock Invitational in Lawrence. Their 84 points gave them a first place finish ahead of 23 other teams. The Trojans' top runner, Kim Rau, came in fourth place with a time of 16:03.9.
The Park Hill Boys came in fourth in their division at Rim Rock with a team score of 187.
They will compete in one more event this weekend, the KC Metro Classic, before the Conference race next weekend.
