BLOCK PARTY: Experienced offensive line paves way for Friends
Thursday’s edition of The Eagle will have all the KCAC football info you’ll need for the year — I’ve got a feature in on the Friends University offensive line and capsules on all of the teams across our fair state.
I didn’t originally plan on doing the story on Friends offensive line, but the more I looked into the team the more I realized that was where they seemed to start and stop at. My main subjects — and the duo gracing the cover of our sports section tomorrow — were seniors Jacob Bruster and Chad Tormey.
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Butler Community College volleyball player Demetria Williams was nice enough to sit down and chat with me before the Grizzlies’ match against Neosho County on Wednesday in El Dorado, just hours after she learned her team had jumped from No. 19 all the way up to No. 3 in the latest NJCAA.
Williams, a 6-foot-2 freshman from Wichita Southeast, is 10th in the nation in blocks per game, and came to Butler to play for coach Rick Younger after originally making an oral commitment to the University of Alabama-Birmingham last season but deciding, along with her her parents, that she wasn’t ready to make the jump to a four-year school quite yet.
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