Sports
South Platte Sentinel
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008 Page 23
Several members of Sterling football team receive post-season honors
Members of the Sterling Tiger
football squad were recognized at
the annual team awards banquet
Tuesday in the Sterling High School
Cafeteria.
Coach Mark Bauder announced
that seniors Patrick Mertens and
Colby Starkebaum were selected to
the 2008 All-Tri-Valley Conference
Team. Receiving Honorable Mention All-Conference were seniors
Jerry Kinzie, Cody Kloberdanz, Mark
Lieber and Jacob Richards.
Varsity letter winners were:
First year - Senior Robbie Helvie;
junior J.J. Gonzales; sophomores
Kevin Byczkowski, Andrew Holstein,
Dalton
Reinhardt,
Garrett
Schumacher, Josh Stieb and Jordan Suter and freshman Xavier
Talton.
Second year - Seniors Ethan
Fritzler and Weston Vorderberg; juniors Phillip Chavez and Juan Renteria
and sophomores Jake Baker, Alex
Beardsley, Morgan Lulf (manager),
Aaron Reyes, Jace Rhodes and
Ryan Wagner.
Third year - Seniors Kyle
Appelhans, Sean Fritzler, Tyler
Grauberger, Jerry Kinzie, Cody
Kloberdanz, Mark Lieber, Dustin
Mayhugh, Patrick Mertens, Cody
Myers, Jacob Richards, Derek
Schneider, Adam Schrimpscher and
Colby Starkebaum.
Certificates of Participation - Juniors Anthony Hansen, Jay Mullison,
Austin Richards, Lavon Salas, Andrew Shumaker, Bill WilliamsonLong, Joel Young; sophomores
Brady Barton, Sean Gayle, Kyle
Klinzmann, Cesar Mendez, Dylan
Nicholson, Joey Schneider and
freshmen Joseph Beltran, Travis
Brammer, Sean Daily, Luke
Engelhaupt, Michael Galvin, Chris
Gertie, Brayden Guenzi, Tim
Hansen, Alex Kirby, Erik McGee,
Wyatt Nelson, Larry Poncetta, William Richendifer, Joel Rieb, Cody
Roelle, Mason Roelle, Stanton
Skerjanec, Chris Sturgeon, Dylan
Veal, Kevin Vollomer and Reed
Wolfley.
David Spoon alaso received a
certificate as a manager oof the Tiger football team.
Team award winners included:
Best Practice Players - Ethan
Fritzler, Jacob Richard, J.J.
Gonzales and Kevin Byczkowski.
Captains - Jerry Kinzie, Patrick
Mertens and Colby Starkebaum.
Most Outstanding Player, Special Teams - Mark Lieber.
Most Outstanding Player, Defense - Patrick Mertens.
Most Outstanding Player, Offense - Colby Starkebaum.
Tiger Award - Cody Myers.
Most Improved - Juan Renteria.
Merino seniors close out great careers
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Merino coach said. “I would like to
thank all of our parents, fans, players and especially my coaches. What
a great job they did this year.
“We have had a lot of great seasons because of the hard work and
dedication of our assistant coaches.”
The Rams will graduate a senior
class that’s second to none, including Rinaldo, Smart, Scotty Shahid,
Mitchell Harryman, Brandon
Martinez, John Barker, Lance
Albrandt, Chase Carver and Kevin
Jones.
In their four years those seniors
were members of two state championship teams (2005 and 2007), runners-up this season and advanced
to the quarterfinal of the 8-man state
playoffs in 2006 while posing an
overall 48-3 mark.
“This is a great group of kids and
they should be proud of what they
accomplished,” Barber pointed out.
The Rams will return juniors Barber, DeSanti, Nathan Smock, Andrew Burton, D.J. Lindenthal, Evan
Albrandt, Ty Gibson, Tyson Urrutia,
Boston Hastings, Joel Trout and Austin Fritzler.
Sophomores are Tuff Gibson,
Mike Hart, Ty Lebsock, Kyle Kasper
and Cody Propst. Freshmen are Billy
Quint, Jaden Jole, Joey Rossen,
Russel Tappy, Davis Michel, Tucker
Carver, James Hastings, Logan
Ward, Zach Kirschbaum and Curran Kyle Appelhans and the rest of the Tiger football seniors presented Coach Mark Bauder with a picture plaque
Barnes.
of the 2008 seniors during Tuesday's team banquet. (SPS Photo By Ken McDowell.)
Since 1998 Merino has played in
eight 8-man state championship
games and have won five.