Silver State Post, October 12,2011 9 &apos; by Lyle illette and hard : times Wardens (that Homecoming score of 52-6 st stings), there have been much worse days in the Lodge. Of course, inversly, there have been brighter days upon the green carpet. The point is that while some people may look upgn this season as "the one that :got away," it hasn't produced nearly the lows that past teams have. Take the 1922 game against Anaconda, for instance. That ended in a 72-0 defeat. Or the '91 game against Frenchtown that found the Wardens staring at a scoboard of 63-0. The losses this year have- have been grim but nothing like those. And with two games left, place on the BIG WINS list. BIG LOSSES Anaconda 72, PCHS 0 Florence 65, PCHS 12 . Frenchtown 63, PCHS 0 Loyola 60, PCHS 6 Whitefish 58i PCHS 38 Loyola 56, PCHS 6 C'/J}:Bank51, PCHS 0 " Dillon 50, PCHS8 . • i ¸ <   ,:i i i ! iii BIG NS PCHS 131, St. Peter's 0 ; PCHS 84,Loyola0 PCHS 78, Philipsburg 0 PCHS 69, Salmon 0 PCHS 6! St, Ignatius 0. PCHS 561ThreeForks0 ' PCHS 52, Butte Central 0 PCHS 52i Hamilton 7 PCHS 51; Plains 6 PCHS 51, Philipsburg 6 . X-Country shines at 7of7meet by Patrick Duganz This last week found the Wardens' cross country squads hitting the ground at Helena's 7 of 7 Cross Country Meet. The meet brought plenty of teams from across the state " tothe Capital, many of which Wardens held their own agst the up, placed each - net in a different group as op- sed to having, for insce. all varsity run at the same te. s was the Wardens last to Pablo for Divisionals on Oct. 15, amd run strong. ?:iiii!i!i!!TiResults ....... Boys: tied for 38th overall Tristen Clark (13) missing a tackle against a Loyola Sacred Heart player speaks to the Wardens' season. It's not a lack of effort; just being a step behind other teams. SSP photo by Patrick Duganz. The Florence Falcons give Wardens a touch road, loss by Lyle Gillette If ever a Powell County High School football team had a run of bad luck it's the 2011 posse of Wardens! Bad luck - no, better described as a "disaster" - fell upon Coach A1 Cutler's team like never befo'inthpastvo"decade. Saturday afternoon on the muddy playing ground at Florence-Carlton High School the decimated, underclass- men laden group of gridders from Deer Lodge were de- feated by a not-so-nice score of 65-12 by the win hungry- maroon-colored Falcons. With a full complement of banged up starters watch- ing from the side line, PCHS' spirited youngsters took on the experience laden Falcons for four full quarters. The score was hum0ngous, but it didn't tell the whole story. The kids from Powell County High battled the Falcons throughout the 48-minute game. Florence, true to form, continued to use their starters in scoring 10 touchdowns and five extra points to subdue Deer Lodge's freshman-sophomore laden lineup. The Falcons had a score of 20-0 to end the first quarter. The score jumped to 27-0 early in the second period before the Wardens got a score with 7:02 remaining in the frame. The touchdown came on sophomore quarterback Tristen Clark's pass to junior wide receiver Brett Witt. The play was good for 26 yards. The extra point on a kick failed. Powell County's second touchdown of the game came in the third period with the Wardens trailing 40-6. At the 7:30 mark on the scoreboard, Clark located his tar- get, comet quick Brett Witt, who took the pass and sped into the end zone for the six points. A two point con- version pass fell to the turf leaving PCHS behind in the scored 40-12. Florence soared three additional touchdowns before the game ended and in the process continued using their starters against a predominantly freshman lineup on the Warden side of the football. Seven of Coach Cutler's charges were watching the game from the side lines because of various injuries pre- Venting them from playing. Concussions kept sophomore Justin Marshall, sophomore Levi Becker, junior Jacob Duerr, sophomor Logan Thomas, and freshman Logan Beck watching their teammates from the Warden side of the field. Senior quarterback Robert Stone was side lined earlier in the season with a shoulder injury and sopho- more offensive lineman Sutton Johnson was lost due to a knee injury. Deer Lodge played the final quarter of the game with freshmen and sophomores carrying the load. "We haven't put ourselves in the win column as yet," stated an upbeat Cutler, "but regardless of the losses the kids are still working hard and not missing practices. It's hard losing games and many times kids will lose any de- sire to take the field for another beating, but not this group. "These kids are amazing! They haven't quit compet- ing, they practice hard, and what more can a coach ask Tristen Clark and the other Wardens will get to finish their season with back-to-back home games. Oct. 14: St. Ignatius; Oct. 21: Plains. They'll be looking for their first wins this year. SSP photo by Patrick Duganz. of them?" Two games remain on the Warden schedule, a date with St. Ignatius on Ted Rule Memorial Field, Friday, October 14 at 7 p.m. After the battle with the Bulldogs, a herd of Horsemen from Plains invades Rule Field for PCHS' final contest of the season on October 21, which will be Senior/ Parent Night for Warden seniors. Mission gets revenge against the Lady Wardens in four by Patrick Duganz Tom Petty once sang that some days are diamonds and some days are rocks. For the Lady Wardens September was diamonds but so far October has been mostly rocks. Coming off their big win agsint the La- dies of Loyala the first night of this month, the Lady Wardens started their four- game-one-tourney road trip on Oct. 4 with a stop off in Anaconda to face the Lady Copperheads. The Copperheads had a tough year in Volleyball during the 2010 season, tak- ing fourth in their division. But many of the team's players were part of the Divi- sion A State Tournament runners-up. Powell County Senior Cassy Graveley put a target on the Heads, pounding five kills into the floor of Memorial Gym. Her teammates helped add six more. The other senior players also helped out with Marisa McKee sending three aces across the net and Natalie Glisson putting six blocks back against Anaconda. McKee has been a consistent force when serving. Her patented jump-serve helped give the Wardens a 4-0 run in the third game against the Heads, giving the local snakes a small scare before they came slithering back and cleared out the game. In the end the effort didn't matter as the Division A foe outmatch the Lady Wardens in three straight games: 15-25, 11-25, 17-25. On Oct. 8 the Lady Wardens made a trip out to St. Ignatius to take on Mis- sion, a team the easily toppled while playing here in September. In that game the Wardens took the Lady Tigers through a five-game mara- thon that ended with a big win for the Wardens. That was the Lady Wardens' first win and was a big inspiration for the team to push on as best they could. That loss may have been fresh in the Lady Tigers' minds as they entered the game last Saturday night. This time it was a relentless bat- tle from the Lady Tigers on their home court. Sophomore Michele Christnacht had a huge game. She put up 11 blocks and 10 kills with her teammates adding 28 other blocks and 16 more kills. Natalie Glisson led the Lady Wardens with two kills, the team added four more. And junior Ivy Duncan gave some help, get- ting credit for 12 of the Lady Wardens 26 assists. Impressive numbers indeed but not enough to stand against the onslaught of point scoring doled out by the Lady Tigers. The first two games were easy for the Lady Tigers, whom took each game: 17- 25, 18-25. But the Lady Wardens made a wrothy comeback in game 3, tak- ing a nail-biter to the end to eek out a 25-23 win. But game 4 went right back to the Lady Tigers who took the day with a 20- 25 win over the local ladies. For this season the Lady Wardens stand at 4-6. However several of those bouts were non-confer- € ence games that will not hurt their chances going into divisionals. The Lady War- dens won't be back in town until Oct. 22 against Ronan. Until then travel loving fans can see the ladies in Flor- .... ence (Oct. ,° 13), at the /" Butte Cen- tral Tourney / / (Oct. 15) and ,. in Missoula at / Loyola Sacred Heart on Oct. 18. The Lady Wardens • have a 2-1 record against those teams. With hopes of a strong finish, Division- als loom high and ever present for the la- dies. Those games start on Oct. 25 with a Play in Game at a TBA location. The real deal starts up at a seeding tourney at Loyola Oct. 29. Then it's on to Eureka for the deciding match-ups Nov. 3-5. /