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A publication of The Livingston Enterprise and The Big Timber Pioneer

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2014
FALL SPORTS
SCHEDULE
Shields Valley

REBELS
FOOTBALL
AUG. 30
Sept. 5
Sept. 8
Sept. 12
Sept. 15
Sept. 19
Sept. 22
Sept 22
Oct. 3
Oct. 6
Oct. 11
Oct. 13
Oct. 18
Oct. 25
Nov. 1
Nov. 8
Nov. 15
Nov. 22

Harlowton - V
Ennis - JH/V
Ennis/Twin - JV
Twin Bridge(VB @ Home)
Homecoming - JH/V
Harlowton/Park City - JV
Broadview/Lavina - V
Livingston 7th - JH
Absarokee/White Sulphur - JV
Park City (VB @ Home) - JH/V
Ennis/Harlo - JV
Gardiner (VB @ Gardiner) - JH/V
Gardiner - JV
Absarokee - V
White Sulphur Spring (FB @ WSS) - V
State Playoffs Opening Round - V
State Playoffs Quarterfinals - V
State Playoff Semifinals - V
State Playoff Championship - V

FALL SPORTS Preview • Monday, august 25, 2014

Park High

RANGERS

Gardiner

BRUINS

VOLLEYBALL

FOOTBALL

Aug. 30
Sept 5
Sept 5
Sept. 6
Sept. 8
Sept. 8
Sept. 12

Aug. 30
Sept. 6
Sept. 13
Sept. 19
Sept. 27
Oct. 3
Oct. 11
Oct. 17

Drummond/Granite Tournament - V
Ennis - JH
Lone Peak - JV/V
Lima - JV/V
Big Timber - JH
Big Timber - C/JV/C
Twin Bridges (FB @ Home)
Homecoming - C/JV/V
Sept. 13
Belgrade Tournament - JH
Sept. 13
Manhattan Christian - JV/V
Sept. 15
Bozeman - C
Sept. 16
Livingston - JH
Sept. 19
Harrison/Willow Creek - JH/JV/V
Sept. 20
Park High - C/C
Sept. 20
Reed Point/Rapelje - JH/JV/V
Sept. 23
Manhattan Christian - JV/V
Sept. 26
White Sulphur Springs - JH/JV/V
Sept. 27
Shields Valley Tournament - JH
Sept. 27
Belgrade Tournament - C/JV
Sept. 30
Big Timber - JH
Oct. 2
Ennisn - JH/C/JV/V
Oct. 3
Park City (FB @ Home) - C/JV/V
Oct. 4
Manhattan Tournament - JV
Oct. 4
Manhattan Christian Tournament - V
Oct. 4
Gardiner - JH
Oct. 6
Bozeman - C
Oct. 7
Livingston - JH
Oct. 9
Sheridann - JV/V
Oct. 10
West Yellowstone - JV/V
Oct. 11
Livingston Tournament - JH
Oct. 11
Gardiner (FB @ Gard) - C/JV/V
Oct. 18
Twin Bridges - C/JV/V
Oct. 23
Harrison/Willow Creek
(Senior Night) - JV/V
Oct. 25
White Sulphur Spring (FB @ WSS) - C/JV/V
Sept. 30 - Nov.1 District Volleyball
Nov. 6-8
Divisional Volleyball
Nov. 13-15
State Volleyball

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Aug. 29
Aug. 30
Sept. 5
Sept. 6
Sept. 9
FOOTBALL
Sept. 12
Aug. 30
at Sidney
Sept. 13
Sept. 5
vs. Butte Central
Sept. 19
Sept. 13
vs. Miles City
Sept. 20
Sept. 19
at Laurel
Sept. 25
Sept. 27
Sept. 26
vs. Havre (Homecoming)
Oct. 2
Oct. 3
at Browning
Oct. 4
Oct. 10
at Whitefish
Oct. 7
Oct. 17
vs. Belgrade (Sr. Night)
Oct. 9
Oct. 24
at Fergus
Oct. 11
VOLLEYBALL
Oct. 18
Oct. 25
Aug.
Frosh/JV @ Manhattan Invite 9:00
Sept. 5
Browning/Havre -4:00/6:00 (v. Only) Nov. 1
Sept. 6
Windy City Invite (V Only) - 9:00 CROSS
Sept. 13 Anaconda Tournament (All Levels)
Aug. 29
Sept. 16 Butte Central
Sept. 2
Sept. 18 Butte Central
Sept. 6
Sept. 20 Frosh @ Shields Valley
Sept. 14
Sept. 23 Dillon
Sept. 20
Sept. 27 Frosh/JV @ Belgrade Invite
Sept. 26
Oct. 3
Gardiner
Oct. 4
Oct. 9
Oct. 4
Fergus
Oct. 11
Oct. 7
Frosh/JV @ Anaconda
Oct. 18
Oct. 9
Belgrade
Oct. 18
Butte Central Tournament (V Only) Sept. 24-25
Oct. 21 Butte Central
GOLF
Oct. 23 Fergus
Aug. 25
Oct. 25
Havre/Browning
Oct. 30
Belgrade
Aug. 28
Nov. 1
Laurel - 3:00 (Senior Night)
Sept. 5
Nov. 7-8 Divisionals
Sept. 9
Nov. 13-15 State - Bozeman
Sept. 12
Sept. 15
Sept. 19
Sept. 22
Sept. 26-27
Oct. 2-4

Absarokee
WSS
Harlowton
Ennis
Twin Bridges
Broadview
Shields Valley
Park City

CROSS COUNTRY
Aug. 29
Sept. 6
Sept. 13
Sept. 20
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 9
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Oct. 25

Livingston
Harrison/Pony
Twin Bridges
Manhattan
Mtn. West
Butte
Helena 7/7
Big Timber
Townsend
Helena State

LIVINGSTON
1203 Park St.
222-9010

Corvallis
Loyola
Polson
Columbia Falls
JV @ Belgrade
Whitefish
Bigfork
Belgrade
Laurel
Billings Central
JV @ Billings Central
JV vs. Billings Central
Belgrade
JV vs. Belgrade
Billings Central
Laurel
First Round of Playoffs - TBA
Semi-Finals - TBA
State Championship - TBA

COUNTRY
PHS Invite
Butte
Belgrade
Twin Bridges
Mountain West Invite
Lewistown
Billings
Helena
Big Timber
Divisionals - Fergus
State - Helena
Belgrade
JV @ Fergus
Butte Central
Dillon
Fergus
Fergus
JV@ Dillon
Laurel
PHS JV Invite
Divisionals
State - Hamilton

VOLLEYBALL
Aug. 30
Sept. 4
Sept. 5
Sept. 6
Sept. 12
Sept. 13
Sept. 19
Sept. 20
Sept. 26
Sept. 27
Oct. 3
Oct. 4
Oct. 4
Oct. 7
Oct. 10
Oct. 11
Oct. 23
Oct. 24
Oct. 30-Nov. 1
Nov. 6-8
Nov. 13-15

Drummond T
West Yell.
WSS
Livingston T
Belgrade (C,JV,V)
Harrison
M. Christian (C,JV, V)
Ennis (C,JV,V)
Sheridan
Lone Peak
Livingston (C,JV,V)
Laurel (Park City T)
Manhattan (JV T)
Red Lodge (C, JV, V)
Tri-Twin/Lima(V,C,JV,V)
Shields Valley
Manhattan (C,JV,V)
M. Christian (C,JV,V)
District - M. Christian
Divisional - Butte
State - MSU

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FOOTBALL
Aug. 29
Sept. 5
Sept. 12
Sept. 19
Sept. 26
Oct. 3
Oct. 10
Oct. 15

Three Forks
at Harlem
Deer Lodge
Manhattan
Columbus (Homecoming)
Joliet
Roundup (Senior Night)
Red Lodge

VOLLEYBALL
Aug. 30
Sept. 4
Sept. 6
Sept. 11
Sept. 13
Sept. 16
Sept. 18
Sept. 25
Sept. 27
Sept. 30
Oct. 2
Oct. 4
Oct. 7
Oct. 11
Oct. 14
Oct. 21
Oct. 25
Oct. 31-Nov. 1
Nov. 6-8
Nov. 13-15

Columbus Tournament
Red Lodge
Columbus
Three Forks
Jefferson
Joliet
Manhattan
Townsend
Whitehall
Manhattan
Red Lodge
Manhattan Tournament
Three Forks
Jefferson
Whitehall (Senior night)
Joliet
Townsend
District Tournament (Belgrade)
Divisional Tournament
(Red Lodge)
State Tournament (Bozeman)

CROSS COUNTRY
Aug. 29
Sept. 6
Sept. 13
Sept. 20
Sept. 23
Sept. 30
Oct. 4
Oct. 9
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Oct. 25

Livingston
Belgrade
Twin Bridges
Manhattan
Red Lodge
Huntley Project
Big Timber
Helena
Joliet
Townsend
State Meet (Helena)

*Home games listed in bold face

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FALL SPORTS Preview • Monday, august 25, 2014

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Veteran Ranger
volleyball team
ready to win
By Thomas Watson

C

Enterprise Staff Writer

oming off of a season that ended with a loss in the divisional
tournament and saw them win
nearly the same amount of
games they lost, the Park Ranger volleyball team returns all but three players from last year’s team as they look
to improve behind a deep senior class.
“We have a lot of incoming seniors
this year, which should be good,” said
head coach Joey Lane. “A lot of them
have been playing varsity for a few
years. This will be Meadow Ingram’s
third year on varsity. Several others
this will be their second year playing
on varsity.
“We have quite a few veterans, so we
have a pretty experienced team.”
The Rangers will have to fill the
voids left by the departed seniors, such
as the defense from Tegan Lane, the
setting Shayla Pryor or the outside hitting from Meghan Hawkins.
“Tegan was first-team All-Conference labero,” said Lane. “We’re going
to miss that. Shayla was one of our
main setters, and Meghan Hawkins
was a strong outside hitter that played
varsity all four years of her high
school career. We have some girls coming in that it should be a seamless transition in all three positions.”
Lane believes the fact that Park’s

three departed seniors all played different positions is a benefit, rather
than having to replace a large group
from the same position.
“We’re lucky enough that in those
areas, the girls replacing them have
played with the other girls so much
that I think in this case it shouldn’t be
much of an issue,” Lane said. “For the
last couple of years, we’ve been pretty
deep in each position, and that should
benefit us.”
“If you can pass well, you’re going to
be good no matter who you are, so that
is really important,” said Lane. “For
this group of girls, our success will
depend on how they work together and
how hard they work. Their determination level will be important because
the talent is certainly there. The mixture of strengths and weaknesses will
be helpful. It could be a really, really
good year, or it could be an average
year. It depends on the determination
level of these girls.
“Also, every year you look at everyone else in the conference and who
they lost. Again, it could be a really
good year for us if things work well,
but I’ve been doing this long enough to
know you never know.”
The Rangers hit the court for the
first time this season Friday, Sept. 5
for a pair of matches against Browning
and Havre in Belgrade at 4 and 6 p.m.,
respectively.

Park High School Ranger Meadow
Ingram is pictured during a match
in the Park High gym last season.
Enterprise file photo by Shawn Raecke

Ranger Volleyball 2014 Schedule
9/5


vs. Browning
vs. Havre

9/6

at Windy City Invitational

9/9

at Laurel

9/13

at Anaconda Tournament

9/16

at Butte Central

9/18

vs. Billings Central (4:15 p.m.)

9/23

vs. Dillon (3:30 p.m.)

10/25 at Browning/Havre

10/3

vs. Gardiner (4:15 p.m.)

10/30 at Belgrade

10/4

at Fergus

11/7-8 Central A Divisionals at Browning

10/9

vs. Belgrade (4:15 p.m.)

11/13-15 State A at Bozeman

10/18

at Butte Central Tournament

10/21 vs. Butte Central (4:15 p.m.)
10/23 vs. Fergus (4:15 p.m.)

• Home matches in bold

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Enterprise file photo by Shawn Raecke

Park High School Rangers running back Cade McCumber carries the ball against Belgrade last season in Belgrade.

Rangers reloaded, look for return to playoffs
By Thomas Watson

C

Enterprise Staff Writer

oming off of an appearance in the semifinals of the Class A playoffs in 2012, there
were high expectations for last year’s
Park Ranger football team, and after losing nearly all of their starters from that semifinal
team, an inexperienced group fell short of those
expectations last year. However, head coach Bryan
Beitel has another experienced group heading into
the 2014 season looking to get back into the playoffs.
The 2012 season was Beitel’s first after serving
as Park’s defensive coordinator, and he is looking
for his third season to be as good as his first.
“We started with a one-point loss to Sidney last
year, and you wouldn’t think a one-point loss would
snowball, but it did,” said Beitel. “Plus, we had a lot
of injuries, but you never want to blame it on injuries. We had a lot of young kids that I thought we
could just put into the mix with the same offensive
and defensive systems we’ve run. It just didn’t
work. We struggled turning over the ball at times.”
The Rangers have employed a two-tight-end,
double-wing offense that has focused on running
the ball during Beitel’s tenure, though there might

be some changes to the offense this year.
“We’re going to adapt to our talent,” Beitel said
of the offensive changes.
Despite any changes to the offense, Beitel will
not get away from the running offense that racked
up over 600 yards on the ground in one game
against Havre in 2012, a state record.
“What happened last year is that we took people
by storm in 2012. It was the first time we had run
that offense,” said Beitel. “Teams had a year to
study what we were doing, which I’m sure didn’t
help us.”
Having all three starting running backs returning to this year’s team should help get the ground
game back to where it was.
The Rangers will, however, have to replace two
big offensive linemen from last year. Colton
Gavne and Chris Emter each played in the EastWest Shrine Game over the summer, and the Rangers will have to find a way to replace them this
year.
“We went to a couple of camps in June, so we
had a chance to work with the line,” said Beitel.
“There were a few kids that weren’t starters last
year that we can get to step into those roles.
“We’ll probably be a little younger on the line
this year. We’ll have a couple of underclassmen

Ranger Football
2014 Schedule

with only one or two seniors, so that will be one of
our focuses.”
Defensively, the Rangers run a 4-2-5 with four
down linemen, two linebackers and five defensive
backs.
“Again, it is the defensive line where we are
going to have to focus, because we lost some big
defensive linemen,” said Beitel. “We’ve got guys
back at linebacker and we feel comfortable with
our secondary.”
This will be the fourth year running this
defense. Beitel introduced it in 2011 as the defensive coordinator and has continued to use it the
last two years.
“We try to bring pressure on every play,” Beitel
said of his defensive philosophies. “Very rarely
are we only rushing four. We just don’t want them
to know where we are coming from, but we like to
bring the pressure to help the defensive backs
with their coverage and not let quarterbacks just
sit back there.”
Park’s first chance to erase last season will be
accompanied with a chance at revenge when the
Rangers travel to Sidney for the season-opening
game at 4 p.m. Sidney won last year’s contest 7-6
when a Ranger two-point conversion failed in the
fourth quarter.

Aug. 30 Sidney

Oct. 3

at Browning

Sept. 5 Butte Central (7 p.m.)

Oct. 10 at Whitefish

Sept. 13 Miles City (4 p.m.)

Oct. 17 Belgrade (Senior night)

Sept. 19 at Laurel

Oct. 24 Fergus

Sept. 26 Havre (Homecoming; 7 p.m.)

Oct. 30 Class A playoffs begin
• Home matches in bold

FALL SPORTS Preview • thursday, august 29, 2013

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FALL SPORTS Preview • Monday, august 25, 2014

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Ranger girls soccer

Park hopes to build team culture in 2014
By Thomas Watson

T

Enterprise Staff Writer

he Park Rangers girls’ soccer team officially begins its season on Aug. 29 in Corvallis, but the team has already played in a
tournament in Portland, Oregon, as a club
team for a team-building trip as head
coach Matt Dettori tries to build a strong team culture during his second year as head coach of the
team.
Park had to compete in the tournament as a club
team because there is no coaching allowed in the two
weeks before the start of the season, meaning Dettori could not be their coach at the tournament.
Dettori felt that his team having to get through
games without him helped them learn to lean more
on each other.
With a strong core of returning players after only
losing three seniors from last year’s team, the Rangers plan to go about things slightly differently this
year.
“Last year was interesting,” said Dettori. “We had
varsity and we had JV, but we also had a group of
swing players that would do both. This year we are
going to steer away from that. We are going to have a
varsity and a JV. We have numbers; we have
strength. I think we have 14 girls back that saw varsity playing time last year.”
This year, Park has four seniors and an even deeper junior class.
Along with reorganizing how he will use his players between varsity and JV, Dettori is also reshuffling some of the tactics his team will use this year.
“I thought we’d have to work on it all season,” said
Dettori of the new strategies. “We’re already there.
They already understand the concepts and the
design. They’re enjoying it. They feel like it is powerful enough to use for the rest of the season after
using it in the trip to Portland.”
A lot of the focus for this year will be on finishing
goals. The Rangers were concerned with possession
last year, which was a strong point for them — they
just couldn’t finish.
“Last year, I focused our training on possession,
and it showed because we out-possessed every team
we played,” said Dettori. “This year we need to possess to finish. We need to build the attack. We have a
whole squad of forwards and bench personnel that
can attack. Attacking is going to be our key to success this year.”
Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Ranger mid-fielder Ariona Brown, right, controls the ball against Billings Central during a regular season game at Park High last season.

Ranger Girls Soccer
2014 Schedule

8-29 at Corvalis

9-13 Bigfork (11 a.m.)

10-9 at Billings Central

8-30 at Loyola

9-19 at Belgrade

10-11 Laurel (Senior night)

9-5 Polson (4 p.m.)

9-20 at Laurel

10-18 State A playoffs

9-6 Columbia Falls (1 p.m.)

9-25 Billings Central (6 p.m.)

10-25 State A semifinals

9-12 Whitefish (4 p.m.)

10-4 Belgrade (3 p.m.)

11-1 State A championship
• Home matches in bold

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Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Shields Valley Rebel Kylie Kerkaert (7) celebrates a point with her team during the Class C divisional volleyball tournament in Butte last season.

Rebels ready for big year
By Thomas Watson

T

Enterprise Staff Writer

he Shields Valley Rebel volleyball team
will have an interesting mix of upperand underclassmen this season as they
replace some departed seniors with
younger players.
“We’re looking to fill a couple of key spots,”
said head coach Callee Peebles, who is entering
her sixth season as head coach and seventh
overall with Shields Valley. “We lost two pretty
solid seniors, both All-State and All-Conference
players. It’s hard to say (who will fill the holes)
so far because practice (is just beginning).”
One of those players gone is Casey McInerney, who was All-State and played outside hitter
last year.

“She was very pivotal in our offense,” said
Peebles. “She attacked and was a strong player.
She went on and is playing at Sheridan College
this season.”
The other senior lost to graduation is Jessica
Gagen, a three-time All-Conference player.
“She worked hard for everything,” said Peebles. “She was the heart of the team. She was
our middle hitter, so that will be a spot we have
to fill this year.”
With just a few practices in the books, Breanne Peterson is already showing that she is
ready to step up into a bigger role for this
year’s team as a senior setter.
“She’s a great leader,” said Peebles. “That will
really help with the consistency for us. I think
that her leadership will help.”
Those upperclassmen will be augmented with

an unusually large underclass for Shields Valley.
“We have a lot of very talented freshmen
coming in, which is very exciting for a small
school to have a big underclassmen group coming in,” said Peebles. “We have eight freshmen.”
“Making it out of our district is a huge challenge,” said Peebles. “We have a very talented
district. We play some tough teams. Definitely
our goal is to make it to divisionals and look on
to state. I have a talented group, athletic group
of girls. They made it to state in basketball last
year, so they know what it takes to get to the
next level.”
The Rebels’ first match of the season will be
at the Drummond Tournament on Saturday,
Aug. 30.

Rebels volleyball 2014 Schedule
8-30

at Drummond Tournament

9-20

at Reed Point

10-10 at West Yellowstone

9-5

at Lone Peak

9-23

Manhattan Christian

10-11 at Gardiner

9-6

Lima

9-26

White Sulphur Springs

10-18 at Twin Bridges

9-8

Big Timber

9-27

Shields Valley Tournament

10-23

Harrison (Senior night)

9-12

Twin Bridges

10-2

at Ennis

10-25

at White Sulphur Springs

9-15

Bozeman

10-3

Park City

9-16

Livingston

10-4

Manhattan Christian Tournament

9-19

at Harrison

10-9

Sheridan

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Shields Valley quarterback Thad Ferguson (8) tries to evade a few Absarokee tacklers in Wilsall last season.

Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Rebs look to move up in Class C ranks
By Thomas Watson

T

Enterprise Staff Writer

he Shields Valley Rebels are under new
direction in 2014. After serving as an
assistant coach last year, Jon Crofton
takes over for the Rebels.
With a strong group of returning players, Crofton doesn’t plan to make too drastic of changes.
In all, the team returns six starters.
“Last year I did the defense, and I think we’re
going to keep that the same,”said Crofton.
“Offensively, we’re going to try some new
things, but we want to try to build off of what we
had success with last year. It’s nothing huge, not
like we’re completely throwing things out. We’re
just trying to incorporate some new things.”

Part of the problem last year was an over complication of the offense.
“We like to run balanced formations and not a
lot of sets,” Crofton said. “That’s one of the
things that we’re going to change. We’re going to
simplify things and get better at a few things
instead of throwing a lot of things at the kids.”
The new head coach hopes to be able to run the
ball, and knows that a lack of size will have to be
overcome.
“Fundamentals and technique is a big focus for
us,” Crofton said. “We don’t have the biggest line
in the world, so we really have to focus on those
two things.”
Crofton knows the Rebels play in a deep conference, and said the defense is going to have
quite a challenge this year.

“We were in a pretty tough conference last
year,” he said. “The state champs came out of
our conference and a few other good, playoff
teams that made some decent runs. We had some
teams score big on us, so we’re trying to eliminate some big plays.”
As far as goals for this year’s team, Crofton
isn’t focused as much on the field as he is off it.
“We need to fix quite a few of the things we
had going on last year off the field,” said Crofton. “Academics are going to be a big goal for us
this year. We battled eligibility issues for a lot of
last year, and we want to fix that this year. I
think if we are successful off the field, it will
translate onto the field.”
That translation begins at home on Saturday,
Aug. 30 against Harlowton at 7 p.m.

Rebels football 2014 Schedule
8- 30

Harlowton

10-18

Absarokee

9-5

at Ennis

10-25

at White Sulphur Springs

9-12

Twin Bridges

11-1

Class C first round

9-19

at Broadview

11-8

Class C quarterfinals

10-3

vs Park City

11-15

Class C semifinals

10-11

at Gardiner

11-22




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Gardiner Bruins look
to extend win streak
Bruins riding 66-match winning streak,
haven’t lost a game in two straight years
By Thomas Watson

T

Enterprise Staff Writer

o describe the Gardiner Bruin volleyball team as a dynasty might be an
understatement. Currently riding a 66-match win streak, the Bruins have
gone undefeated each of the last two season’s on their way to consecutive
Class C state championships.
With two titles in the bag, the Bruins lose three seniors from last year’s team, but
head coach Carmen Harbach expects to have three or four freshmen out this year to
replenish their ranks with 20-25 girls on the team.
“Kelly Harbach is playing at Montana Tech as a defensive specialist,” said Carmen
Harbach. “She was a good defensive player and passer. We also lost our labero in
Ashley Gilwine, so we lost a lot of ball control. Ball control is really going to be what
we focus on. Taylor Perius was our other senior. She put up a big block on the backside, so we’re going to have to find someone with a knack for blocking.”
The Bruins’ head coach already sees a lot of girls that are ready to step up and take
on some of the open roles on the team.
“I thought we had a lot of talent on the bench last year with some girls just waiting
for their chance,” said Carmen Harbach. “It’ll be fun (during the beginning of the
season) just to see who is ready to take those spots. It is all up for grabs now.”
“If we can eliminate our mistakes and ride out a rally, (we will be successful),” said
Carmen Harbach. “If we don’t get a kill, we need to ride it out and try to make our
opponents make a mistake. That’s going to be key. A lot of it is everyone just doing
their job. It’s getting the first ball to the setter, the setter making a good set, getting
the hitters the ball and playing some defense. It’s all intertwined and it all works
together.”
Despite all the success this team has had over the last two years, Carmen Harbach
doesn’t want her team to lose focus on the little things.
“Our goal always to play our best volleyball, then to improve a little with each
practice and each match and hopefully it will come to a head at state,” said Carmen
Harbach. “But it’s all the little things of enjoying the journey, getting through the
season, enjoying it and cherishing every moment because it goes really fast. Hopefully we’ll have some good memories to look back on when it’s all over.”
Keeping her team focused is about continuing to remind them that they can still be
better, according to Carmen Harbach.
“We can always get better,” she said. “Whether its adding a new play or playing
better defense. We can always get better. Even after state last year, we weren’t the
best team we could be. We probably could have used a few more weeks. So it’s really
about focusing on each week and getting better so we can add more plays and more
dynamics to our game.”
The Bruins’ first test in their trek for a third straight title will come against Drummond, on the road, Saturday Aug. 30. Their first home match will be that Thursday,
Sept. 4 against West Yellowstone at 5 p.m.

Bruin Volleyball
2014 Schedule

Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Gardiner’s PJ Thomas makes a kill during the Class C state championship game
in Bozeman last season.

Aug. 30 at Drummond Tournament
Sept. 4 West Yellowstone
Sept. 5 at White Sulphur Springs
Sept. 6 at Windy City Classic (Livingston)
Sept. 12 at Belgrade
Sept. 13 Harrison

Oct. 4 at Laurel
Oct. 4

at Manhattan

Oct. 7 Red Lodge
Oct. 10 at Lima
Oct. 11 Shields Valley

Sept. 19 at Manhattan Christian

Oct. 23 Manhattan

Sept. 20 Ennis

Oct. 24 Manhattan Christian

Sept. 26 at Sheridan

Oct. 30-Nov. 1 District tournament

Sept. 27 Lone Peak

Nov. 6-8 Western C at Butte

Oct. 3 at Livingston

Nov. 13-15 State C at Bozeman
• Home matches in bold

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Gardiner Bruin running back Eddie Rodarte carries the ball last season in a game against Shields Valley.

Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Bruins keep it simple under new head coach
By Thomas Watson

T

Enterprise Staff

he Gardiner Bruin Football team will
have a new head coach at the helm for
the 2014 campaign with Mike Baer
taking over for Jordan Featherman.
Baer’s number one goal for the team this
year is just to keep things simple and the few
things they do, he wants to do them well.
“They ran a pretty complicated offense last
year. There were a lot of formations and
calls,” Baer said. “We’re going to keep it simple. We’re just going to try to perfect a few
plays. We’ll keep the playbook thin until we
run our base plays as close to perfection as
we’re going to get.”

Baer inherits a number of returning starters
with eight players returning that saw meaningful playing time on either side of the ball.
The Bruins have 21 players in all on the roster.
“I think last year they were a young team,”
said Baer. “They will be pretty experienced.
They lost three pretty good seniors, but the
core is young.”
In Class C 8-man football, Gardiner wants to
keep the ball on the ground in their power-run
offense.
“We’re going to line up and try to run the
football,” Baer said. “We’re going to establish
the run and hopefully get teams to stack the
box (to open up the passing game). But we’re
going to lean very heavily on the run. We’ve

got some big kids up front and a couple of
running backs coming back from last year.”
Up front, senior Seth Tyson and junior
Jarred Hurst will be a big part of the offensive
line trying to open lanes for running backs
Eddie Rodarte and Nick Sabo. All four players
are returning starters from a year ago.
Defensively, the Bruins plan to attack.
“We’re going to try to put pressure on the
offense,” Baer said of his defense. “We want
to make them make mistakes and give them
some different looks.”
Gardiner’s first test of the season will be on
Saturday, Aug. 30. A 1 p.m. home game
against Absorakee will start a season that
sees the Bruins alternate home and road
games throughout the season.

Bruins football 2014 Schedule
8- 30

Absarokee

9-27

vs Twin Bridges

9-6

at White Sulphur Springs

10-3

at Broadview

9-13

Harlowton

10-11

Shields Valley

9-19

at Ennis

10-17

at Park City
• Home matches in bold

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Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Park High Ranger cross country team at the start of last year’s Class A Divisional meet in Bozeman.

Ranger cross country runners ready for season
By Thomas Watson

K

Enterprise Staff Writer

irk Lentz is back at the helm of the
Park High School cross country team,
and he is excited to get the season
started.
“Cross country is one of those dynamic
sports, especially this last year,” Lentz said,
referring to the revolving door-like nature of
runners who join and leave the team from year
to year. “We have some students who might go
back to the sport they started out in, essentially, or they don’t know if they are going to run

or not. We have a few kids who are going back
and forth.”
Lentz roughly expects at least five returning
boys in both the high school and middle school
level with four returning girls, though until the
season starts, he said he won’t know for sure.
“There are going to be a couple of returning
runners on both the boys and girls side that
have been running in this program since middle school,” said Lentz. “Then there are going
to be some that this will be their second year
or even their first year (running).”
WIth that mix, it will be up to the returning
runners to help the newcomers out.

“The returning runners have been with it so
long that they know what my expectations are,
they know how we conduct practices and they
know what the expectations for our workouts
are,” Lentz said. “What I’ve seen over the
years that I’ve been coaching is that often
times it is just leading by example. When a
new runner comes in, you learn the playground
rules, so to speak. You learn how to do the
sport (the way we do it).”
The Park cross country team’s first meet of
the season will be at home. They begin their
year Friday, Aug. 29 at 10 a.m. with the PHS
Invite.

Rangers Cross Country 2014 Schedule
8- 29

PHS Invite

10-4

at Billings

9-2

at Butte

10-9

at Helena

9-6

at Belgrade

10-11

at Big Timber

9-14

at Twin Bridges

10-18

Divisionals - Fergus

9-20

at Mountain West Invite

10-24,25

9-26

at Lewistown



State - Helena
• Home matches in bold

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Young Herders squad
welcomes new coach in 2014
By Thomas Watson

H

Enterprise Staff Writer

ead coach Liz Day is taking over the
Sweet Grass Herder volleyball team
this year and inherits a very young
team with only three players returning with varsity experience.
Day was a coach at the middle school level last
season at Big Timber, and that experience
should help ease the transition, since she knows
a handful of the players.
“They know me,” Day said of the familiarity.
“I coached five of the girls last year, and one of
them will be a backup setter on the varsity
team.”
Day has only 20 girls to fill the three teams:
varsity, junior varsity and freshmen.
Along with being inexperienced, the Herders
also lack height, which is why they are focusing
on playing solid defense this season.
“We’re really trying to focus on our defensive
play,” said Day. “Our district is going to be pretty tough this year.”
In order to help out with that defense, Day is
having her team work on improving with blocking.
Each of the three returning players will have a
huge role to fill on this team, and Day is already
happy with what she’s seen.
“We’ve got Leichelle Woods — she’s a good allaround player. She’ll be able to hold us on our
hitting. Jessica Johnston is going to be our middle blocker. They both have a lot of experience
in our front row.
“Then we have a labero that is a senior, Jocelin
Holman, who has been doing very well.”
This year Day is just hoping the team can
learn to work together to develop their skills.
“We need to build that relationship to work as
a team and to grow as a team,” she said.
Day’s squad will kick things off at a tournament in Columbus on Saturday, Aug. 30.

Big Timber Pioneer staff photo

The Sweet Grass Herder volleyball team makes a play during a game last season.

“We need to build that relationship to
work as a team and to grow as a team.”
– Head Coach Liz Day

Herders volleyball 2014 Schedule
8-30 at Columbus tournament

9-27 at Whitehall

10-21 at Joliet

9-4 Red Lodge

9-30 Manhattan

10-25 at Townsend

9-6 at Columbus

10-2 at Red Lodge

10-31 /11-1 District tournament at Belgrade

9-11 at Three Forks

10-4 at Manhattan/MCHS tournament

11-6/11-8 Divisional tournament at Red Lodge

9-13 Jefferson

10-7 Columbus

11-13 /11-16 State B at Bozeman

9-16 Joliet

10-9 Three Forks

9-18 at Manhattan

10-11 at Jefferson

9-25 Townsend

10-14 Whitehall (Senior night)

• Home matches in bold

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Sweet Grass County High School football players line up for a play during a game last season.

Big Timber Pioneer staff photo

Herders have high hopes in 2014
By Thomas Watson

T

Enterprise Staff

he Sweet Grass Herders improved from
year one to year two under head coach
Bruce Bell, and will look to do the same
again this fall. The Herders were 1-7 in
Bell’s initial campaign and improved to 3-5 last
year, missing the playoffs by just one game.
“We’re certainly looking to improve on that,” said
Bell. “Our goal is to win the conference and try to
make as good of a run as we can in the playoffs.”
Bell hopes to be able to use the Herders’ speed
to make up for a lack of size in their spread
offense.
“We run it out of the pistol most of the time,” he

said. “We’re pretty wide open and like to get people out in space because we’re not very big. We
also like to get some deception going on and some
option going on so people have to stay at home and
respect how spread out we are.”
Always an important position, the quarterback
in the Herders’ spread offense has a lot of decision making responsibilities, and Sweet Grass
returns second-team All-Conference quarterback
from last year, Walker LaVoy.
LaVoy will be a senior this year.
“It’s a wide-open offense, so the reads are a lot
more varied,” said Bell. “He has to be very intelligent and smart on the field. It’s like having an
assistant coach out there running things. With as
many possibilities as we have, play wise, it takes a

Herder football
2014 Schedule

bit of time to get used to.”
Sweet Grass returns six returners on defense
and seven on offense from last year’s team that
narrowly missed the postseason.
Four of the five missing starters on offense
depart from an offensive line that will have to
undergo a near-complete overhaul.
“The best candidate (on the offensive line) right
now is senior Brycen Lehman,” said Bell. “He is
the only starter we have left from last year.”
On defense, their leading tackler is gone. Free
safety Mitch Arlian was the leader of last year’s
defense and will leave the biggest hole to fill.
The Herders will begin their season Friday,
Aug. 29 against Three Forks on the road.
That game will be at 7 p.m.

8-29

Three Forks/Willow Creek

9-5

Harlem

9-12

at Deer Lodge

9-19

at Manhattan

9-26

Columbus (homecoming)

10-3

at Joliet

10-10 Roundup (Senior night)
10-15 at Red Lodge
Home games in bold

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Plenty of action at final Bobcat scrimmage Bobcat Football
By Bill Lamberty

MSU Sports Information

There was no puff of white smoke
from Bobcat Stadium, but in the hours
after Montana State’s final full football scrimmage of fall camp the fire
was ready for stoking.
“In terms of my gut reaction I think
we got some separation today,” MSU
head coach Rob Ash said of the positions still up for grabs in advance of
the Bobcats’ season opener at Arkansas State on August 30.
“I’m not going to be able to (make
any announcements) right now
because I still have a lot of factors to
consider. But I thought it was a good
go today.”
Montana State’s most noteworthy
position battle, at quarterback, took
center stage on Saturday in both perception and production.
The team’s three signal callers completed 29 of their 32 passes for 335
yards and four touchdowns. None of
the three threw an interception, and
the day’s only turnover was a fumble
by a receiver after a short gain.
If a favorite emerged in the quarterback derby Saturday, Ash was mum.
“I think we’ve got three really good
(quarterbacks),” he said. “That’s what

I’ve said since last spring, we’ve got
three really good quarterbacks, all of
them can play. It’s going to be a very,
very tough decision.”
Redshirt freshman Quinn McQueary
was injured last spring, but he led the
way on Saturday.
He finished the afternoon 13-for-13
passing for 171 yards and two touchdown passes. He also scored on a nineyard run.
Sophomore Dakota Prukop was
8-for-9 passing for 92 yards with a
touchdown, and junior Jake Bleskin
finished 8-for-10 passing for 72 yards
and a touchdown.
Increased explosiveness on offense
has remained a priority through the
off-season, spring and summer, and
Ash continues to believe this year’s
Bobcat team has added that dimension, particularly at receiver.
“I thought the receivers caught the
ball extremely well today and made
some plays after the catch. They were
physical. We did have the one turnover by a young receiver, we’ve got to
get that fixed, but other than that I
thought those guys played very well.”
Big plays came almost from the
scrimmage’s beginning. Senior running back Shawn Johnson took a handoff on the day’s second play, dashed

around left end, and sprinted 62 yards
to the 12-yard line.
Bleskin found Tanner Roderick in
the end zone from eight yards out on
the drive’s fifth play, and Chad Newell’s run made the conversion successful.
Saturday’s scrimmage featured
three other plays of 20 yards or
more. McQueary found Gates behind
the secondary on the 68-yard touchdown pass, while Prukop and Justin
Paige connected on a 33-yarder, and
Bleskin hit Jacob Stanton for 21
yards. Prukop also showed off his
speed and agility, scrambling for a
pair of 14-yard gains.
While the ground game didn’t produce statistics as dazzling as the
pass game – Bobcat running backs
carried 27 times for 152 yards – Ash
was pleased with the work. “I
thought the running game was probably the most pleasing aspect of
today’s scrimmage for me,” he said.
“We hadn’t run the ball very well all
camp, but we got some going today.”
Johnson’s big run caught Ash’s eye,
but he was most pleased with the
steady production, particularly by
junior transfer Anthony Knight, who
gained 57 yards on a dozen carries. It
started off with Shawn’s big run, that’s

Griz have experience where it counts
By UM News Service

It is common knowledge that one of
the primary keys to having a good
defense is to have talented players in
the middle of that defense.
The University of Montana Grizzly
football team has exactly that man in
the middle of its defense - veteran
free safety Matt Hermanson. He is the
leader at that position, and there are
four other players who will see action
at the free safety and strong safety
spots.
With the graduation of three year
starter Bo Tully, there are big shoes to
fill at the strong safety position.
Hermanson, a 6-1, 202-pounder from
Sioux Falls, S.D., who begins his
senior season ranked 29th in school
history with 239 career tackles, said
he sees daily improvement at the safety spot.
“We look pretty good right now and
we are getting better day-by-day,”
said Hermanson, who has 23 career
starts. “That’s what we need to keep
doing - just try to get better every day.
“That was a long time ago,” said a
laughing Hermanson when asked if he
missed playing offense, as he was an
all-state selection at quarterback and
defensive back when his head coach
was his dad, Brian Hermanson, at
Washington High School in Sioux

Falls. “Playing quarterback was
always fun, but playing defense was a
lot better to me than playing quarterback, so I decided to go to defense.”
Junior Justin Whitted, a 6-1,
195-pounder from Los Angeles, was
vying for the spot vacated by Tully at
strong safety, but he has been sidelined with an injury.
Following spring drills Griz head
coach Mick Delaney said one of the
most improved players on defense
was Jake Dallaserra in the secondary,
and with Whitted out due to an injury,
Dallaserra has seized his opportunity
and worked his way up to the number
one slot at strong safety.
“It feels good to be out here,” said
Dallaserra, a 5-11, 190-pound junior
from Butte, who excelled on special
teams at UM last season. “I can only
control what I can control, and try to
be coach-able and learn the defense
and play to the best of my ability.”
“Jake’s doing a great job out there,”
Hermanson said. “He’s holding his
own, doing a great job, and making
plays for us. Hopefully we can get
Whitted back - he’s a little banged up
right now. Eric (Johnson) is doing a
great job and he’s learning the
defense.”
“He’s just a physical kid,” Dallaserra said when asked to describe the
play of Hermanson. “He hits harder

than anyone on the team. He’s the
smartest player on the defense. He’s a
great guy to play with, and he communicates across the field with me and
lets me know when to check this and
check that. He’s awesome to play with
out there.”
A new player in the program, Eric
Johnson, has shown signs of being a
major contributor this season, and
Jamaal Anderson has also turned a
few heads at his new position.
A transfer from Laney Junior College, Johnson, a junior from San Francisco, is a physical presence at strong
safety at 6-2, 190 and will vie for playing time, if not a starting job. He was
a key player on defense and on special
teams last season for the Eagles, who
defeated Diablo Valley College 29-14
in the EastBay Bowl en route to an 8-3
record.
Anderson was moved from cornerback to safety last spring, and the
5-11, 195-pound senior from Fontana,
Calif., has adapted to his new position
well.
Two other very promising players at
safety are true freshman Manu Rasmussen (6-0, 180), from Tigard, Ore.,
and Evan Epperly (5-10, 180, from
Kalispell), although they will morethan-likely redshirt in 2014.
“I am pretty excited about the competition,” said safeties coach Jake

2014

8/30

at Arkansas State (6:00 p.m.)

9/6

vs. Black Hills State (7:05 p.m.)

9/13

vs. Central Arkansas (3:35 p.m.)

9/20

vs. Eastern Washington (1:10 p.m.)

9/27

vs. North Dakota (2:05 p.m.)

10/4

at Sacramento State (6:05 p.m.)

10/11

at UC Davis (4:10 p.m.)

10/18 vs. Weber State (3:35 p.m.)
11/2

at Northern Colorado (1:35 p.m.)

11/8

vs. Portland State (2:05 p.m.)

11/15

vs. Idaho State (1:40 p.m.)

11/22

at Montana (3:10 p.m.)
• Home matches in bold

what we need from him, and then during the course of the game we got
some good, steady four- and five-yard
gains. The hard work that we put in
this week in trying to get the vertical
run game going showed up today, and
that was really important.”
Ash also found reasons to be pleased
with the Bobcat defense.

Grizzly Football
2014
8/30

at Wyoming

9/6

vs. Central Washington

9/13

vs. South Dakota

9/20

at North Dakota State

9/27

vs. Northern Colorado

10/4

at North Dakota

10/18 vs. UC Davis
10/25 at Cal Poly
11/1

vs. Sacramento State

11/8

at Eastern Washington

11/15 at Southern Utah
11/22

vs. Montana State
• Home matches in bold

Cookus, who was a four-year letterman at Oregon State, and a team captain on defense and an honorable mention All-Pac10 pick as a senior in 2001.
“We’ve got Matt back who has played
a lot of football. We also have three
underclassmen who haven’t played a
lot of football, but they are really good
players. We’ve been rotating them
around and they are pushing each other each day, making themselves better.

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22

Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Park High Rangers’ first practices at Sacajawea Park in Livingston in mid-August.

Defending state champs not focused on repeat
By Thomas Watson

T

Enterprise Staff Writer

he 2013 Park Ranger boys’ soccer team
was the most successful in the program’s
history, bringing home the Class A state
championship with an improbable run as a
No. 3 seed in the state tournament. This year, head
coach Jeff Dickerson doesn’t want his team thinking about repeating as champions.
“We’re here to coach soccer and make studentathletes better citizens,” said Dickerson. “We coach
one game at a time. We can use last year’s success
to build on, but it is not a measurement of this
team. We’ve already worked out with some team
meetings last May that we are not here to defend or
repeat the championship. We’re here to learn how
to play good soccer, just like we did last year.”
Despite that approach, there are things about last
year’s championship that Dickerson knows will
help this year.
“Any time you can show young students how to
succeed, and they have that success, they contain

Ranger boys soccer
2014 Schedule

those tools in their tool chest from that point on,”
Dickerson said. “We have several players coming
back that have several tools in their tool chest that
are nothing but positive experiences. You couldn’t
ask for us to be in a better position to grow.”
The 2014 Rangers return 12 of the 18 players
from the state championship team.
“We lost seniors at both ends of the field,” said
Dickerson. “Kyler Cain graduated and was our
keeper. I think we will have that position filled. We
have two keepers coming back who have good
experience. I think that spot will be filled.
“The second challenge is up front. We had the
loss of a very good assist player in Hayden CodyJensen and Daniel Newhouse finished seventh or
eighth in the state in scoring last year. He was an
All-State player. He scored the winning goal for the
state championship and assisted for the tying goal.
He led our team in scoring. We had several of those
seniors up front, but I also feel like we have some
good young attackers that played well for us and
got time last year.”
“We are very lucky that we get quality players in

our program,” Dickerson said. “It is a matter of the
coaching staff being able to decide how we can
make that player grow as an individual and within
the team.
“The biggest factor of all in my opinion is the
mental game,” said Dickerson. “We ask our players
to make 3,000 decisions during an 80-minute game
without any help and no breaks. We don’t have huddles; we don’t have free throws. We don’t have
breaks in the action. They have to make those decisions, and we have to train them and help them with
that. We have to be able to remove all the outside
factors and focus to make quality 3,000 decisions.
The mental game is by far the biggest part about
becoming a team that finishes well.
“To me there is very little difference in players
technically and tactically once you get to the state
tournament. There is a difference on how they
approach the game mentally.”
The season begins for the Rangers on Friday,
Aug. 29 with a 6 p.m. game in Corvallis. Their first
home game is not until Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. against Polson.

8-29 at Corvalis

9-13 Bigfork (1 p.m.)

10-9 at Billings Central

8-30 at Loyola

9-19 at Belgrade

10-11 Laurel (Senior night)

9-5 Polson (2 p.m.)

9-20 at Laurel

10-18 State A playoffs

9-6 Columbia Falls (11 a.m.)

9-25 Billinngs Central (6 p.m.)

10-25 State A semifinals

9-12 Whitefish (6 p.m.)

10-4 Belgrade (5 p.m.)

11-1 State A championship
• Home matches in bold

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23

Enterprise photo by Shawn Raecke

Park High Ranger Gunner Bergsing checks his scorecard during a tournament in Livingston last year..

Park girls, boys look for improvement
By Thomas Watson

J

Enterprise Staff Writer

im Halberg has been the PGA
Head Professional at the Livingston Golf Course for four
years. He’s also been a high
school golf, volleyball and boy’s ice
hockey coach in the past in Minnesota. This year he is taking over the
Park Ranger golf team.
Halberg has 12 kids that have
signed up for the team this year
with three or four others that he
said still might join the team.

The team started their season on
Friday, Aug. 15 with a two-day tryout to determine which golfers
would play in varsity tournaments
and which would play on junior varsity.
“We played 18 holes on Friday
and nine holes on Saturday,” said
Halberg. “That is three nine-hole
rounds, and we will take their two
best nine-hole rounds. That will
determine who plays in our first
varsity tournament.”
The golf team had a much earlier
start to the season than the other

Park girls and boys golf
2014 Schedule

fall sports. They played their first
tournament of the season on Monday, Aug. 18 at Old Works Golf
Course in Anaconda.
Following that tournament on
Monday, the Park Rangers hosted
their only tournament of the year
on Friday, Aug. 22 at the Livingston
Golf Course. The tournament was
scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
Throughout the year, Halberg will
judge how well his team is performing by how they improve their
scores.
“What I’m looking for is just con-

Aug. 18
Aug. 22
Aug. 25
Aug.28
Sept. 5
Sept. 9
Sept. 12
Sept. 19
Sept.. 26-27
Oct. 2-Oct. 4

tinual improvement throughout the
year, as individuals and as a team,”
he said. “It’s an individual sport, but
it is also a team sport at the high
school level. We’ll see where we’re
at after tryouts, then our goals will
be to improve individually. If we do
that, we’ll improve as a team as
well.
“We have a fairly young team. We
don’t have any seniors out this year,
but we have some really talented
players, so our hopes and expectations for this season are pretty
high.”

at Anaconda
PHS Invite
at Belgrade
at Butte Central
at Dillon
at Fergus
at Fergus
at Laurel
Divisionals
State A at Hamilton
• Home matches in bold

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