Perhaps nobody is looking forward to the upcoming basketball season more than Sam Penny.The McCall-Donnelly junior eschews other sports and a lot of activities to play hoops year round, day and night, night and day.The Vandal boys basketball team opens the season Friday by hosting Orofino at 7:30 p.m.
No sooner had the final buzzer sounded on last season than Sam Huckaby and his Cascade boys basketball teammates started looking forward to this one.Who can blame them?
A trio of siblings have state championship aspirations as McCall-Donnelly wrestlers open the season this weekend at the Dick Griswold Invitational in Potlatch.Matthew Daniels made the championship round last season.
McCall-Donnelly boys soccer coach Brad Kindall is stepping down following an eight-year run that includes five district championships and six state tournament appearances.But his first year at the reins of the program, back in 2016, probably had the veteran skipper wondering what the heck he had gotten himself into.“That year we only had 13 players come out and we weren’t even sure we would have enough to have a season,” Kindall said, remembering a bench with no substitutes and having to play short of a full line up multiple games.
Kallyn Rodgers scored a game-high 13 points but the Cascade varsity dropped a non-conference game to the McCall-Donnelly girls basketball junior varsity “A” team, 50-25, last week at Novotny Gym.The Ramblers committed 39 turnovers while falling to 1-1 on the season.“McCall came to play and we came out flat,” Cascade coach Steve Yamamoto said.
McCall’s Ryan Ghelfi turned in the top overall time as more than a hundred runners – and some dogs – took part in The Aspen Club’s 12th Annual 6K Turkey Trot, held last week in McCall.Ghelfi’s time of 21 minutes, 52 seconds also placed him first in the male division.
Former McCall-Donnelly cross country runner Sophie McManus proved a clutch performer while snaring a couple of state championships while in high school.
It is a long road and the McCall-Donnelly girls basketball team found that out when it dropped a 48-23 non-conference game to Cole Valley on Saturday in Merdian.The Vandals opened the season with a win over Orofino, giving first year coach Lexi Onthank her first high school victory.
The McCall-Donnelly volleyball junior varsity “A” team avenged its only loss of the season by sweeping Weiser, 25-17, 25-23, to win a district championship this fall.The Vandals finished the season 15-1, a record that also included victories over two varsity squads, Ontario (Oregon) and Cascade.“This group put in a ton of hard work during the club season last spring and it shows,” M-D coach Heidi Wyman said.
Cascade coach Steve Yamamoto saw just what he hoped when his Ramblers opened the girls basketball season with a 40-32 victory over North Star Charter of Eagle last week at Novotny Gym.Senior Kallyn Rodgers scored 13 points and Lauren Davis announced her arrival on the high school basketball scene by scoring seven of Cascade’s nine points during the first quarter.Eight of the 11 Ramblers who suited up for the varsity scored a bucket.“They came together as a team, which is big for us to get that started,” Yamamoto said.Cascade also got strong games from posts Claire Pierce and Alison Bailey.