College Report: Chinooks' Davenport shines for Corban VB
Monday, November 3, 2008 5:58 PM PST
By Rick McCorkle
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E-mail this articleRachelle Davenport has been carving up opposing defenses with consistent success as a senior outside hitter with the Corban College volleyball team.
Davenport, a Kalama grad, was recently named the Cascade Collegiate Conference Player of the Week after drilling a team-high 17 kills in a 3-1 victory over Concordia University and a match-high 10 kills in a 3-0 sweep of Northwest Christian University. She also notched three service aces and had a combined six blocks in the two matches.
In addition, Davenport also crushed a team-leading 14 kills in a recent 3-1 setback to NAIA 22nd-ranked College of Idaho.
Davenport, who has started 19 of 21 matches and appeared in 76 games for the Warriors, is second on the team in kills (191) and digs (235), third in assists with 61 and leads the team with 19 ace serves.
Another ex-Kalama High standout, Dani Nelson, is having a solid junior season as an outside hitter/defensive specialist at Humboldt State University. Nelson is ranked seventh in the California Collegiate Athletic Association in digs with 312, averaging 4.11 per game.
R.A. Long grad Alyssa Wistrick, a sophomore middle blocker/outside hitter at the College of Southern Idaho, is ranked 11th in the National Junior College Athletic Association in hitting efficiency at 45.9 percent and is 33rd in blocks at 1.05 per game. In the Scenic West Conference, she is tops in hitting percentage with 219 kills in 74 games, fourth in kills per game with 219 (2.96 per game) and fourth in blocks with 17 solo and 63 assists.
Four other ex-RAL players are also having success at the next level. Hillary Mussman, a senior libero at Pikeville College in Kentucky, is second-ranked in the Mid-South Conference in digs with 415, an average of 5.0 per game.
Freshman Amy Higginson, a freshman setter at Northwest Nazarene University, is sixth in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in assists with 373, an average of 7.46 per game. Ann Forman, a sophomore libero/defensive specialist at The Evergreen State College, is seventh in digs in the Cascade Collegiate Conference with 260, an average of 3.6 per game. She’s also made 12 kills and dished 15 assists.
Ellen Payne is a freshman middle blocker at Warner Pacific College with 12 kills in 25 games spanning 12 matches.
For Kara (VanZanten) Leach, the name may be different, but the results are the same. The former Mark Morris High standout is a senior outside hitter at Warner Pacific who is ranked second in the Cascade Collegiate Conference in kills at 3.4 per game with a team-high 197. She’s also ranked second on the team in digs with 183 (3.16 per game) and has 13 aces.
Woodland’s Jamie Richards, a senior outside hitter with the Concordia University, has played 88 games spanning 25 matches and is third on the team with 138 kills.
Rainier’s Chris Ware may have won the Frontier Conference Player of the Week honors for the second time this season after leading Eastern Oregon University to a 41-38 overtime victory over the University of Montana-Western, but it was the defensive heroics of Wahkiakum’s Jeff McNally that sealed the victory for the Mountaineers.
McNally, a junior free safety, picked off a pass in the end zone during overtime. Under the college football overtime system, that play gave Eastern the ball on the 25-yard line with a chance to score and end the game.
Ware picked up Player of the Week honors after completing 16-of-34 passes for 191 yards and three touchdowns, and rushing 21 times for 94 yards and another score. His third touchdown pass tied the game and sent it into overtime, and it’s the third time this season Ware has received the weekly award.
In Eastern Oregon’s recent 42-14 drubbing of 12th-ranked Montana State-Northern, Ware completed 24-34 passes for 344 yards and three touchdowns, and McNally and Wahkiakum’s Terrance Pharr were defensive stars with an interception apiece.
McNally also shined in Eastern Oregon’s 48-10 loss to Carroll College after leading the Mountaineers with 13 tackles, including nine unassisted, and a quarterback sack.
R.A. Long graduate Adam Perry continues to add to his football resume’ after earning honorable mention Player of the Week honors in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
Perry, who is ranked ninth among NCAA Division II quarterbacks nationally in total offense at 316.4 yards per game, received the honorable mention nod after he tied a Viking school record with five touchdown passes, including four in the first half, in a 56-20 home victory over Humboldt State University. Perry, who leads the GNAC in passing yards at 311.5 per outing, completed 22-of-29 passes for 319 yards and no interceptions.
In a recent 29-27 win over Dixie State College, Perry was successful on 24-of-38 passes for a GNAC season-high 423 yards, which included first-half touchdown tosses to receiver Pat McCann of 11, 40 and a GNAC-record 96 yards. The Vikings finished with 541 yards of total offense.
Mark Morris High graduate Corey Johnson tallied his third multi-goal match of the season for The Evergreen State College soccer team when he notched the hat trick in a recent 5-1 victory over Northwest Christian University.
Johnson, a freshman, drilled three goals in a row for the Geoducks including two in the first half and one to open the second half. He leads The Evergreen State with nine goals.
Another former MM player, junior David Maple, notched his first goal of the season on an insurance tally in the closing minutes against Northwest Christian.
Former Lower Columbia College men’s basketball standout Nick Moore is among 15 players listed on the Cascade Collegiate Conference preseason all-league team.
Moore, a senior forward at The Evergreen State College, earned all-CCC honorable mention honors and conference Newcomer of the Year honors after averaging 13.7 points and 5.9 rebounds last season.
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