ACT Comets spinner Shane Devoy (left) has joined Easts in the Sydney grade competition. Photo: Jeffrey Chan

ACT Comets spinner Shane Devoy couldn't pass up the opportunity to play in the Sydney grade competition to put himself in front of NSW state selectors.

Tuggeranong will be without Devoy for the rest of the summer after his move to Easts under the guidance of Canberra product and former Australian batsman Michael Bevan.

The 25-year-old has been one of the leading slow bowlers in the Canberra first-grade competition for the past few seasons.

Devoy took nine wickets in an innings in a Futures League game against South Australia last year, leading to his selection as 12th man for the Prime Minister's XI.

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"The advice I got was if you want to have a chance for higher honours, then you've got a better chance of showing your wares up in Sydney with the deeper talent pool," Devoy said.

"If you have a couple of good games against contracted players, that probably holds you in good stead.

"Whereas if you do it down here, it's pretty much expected."

Devoy will still be eligible to play for the Comets for the rest of the season as part of the memorandum of understanding between Cricket ACT and Cricket NSW.

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WEST LIBERTY, Iowa The West Liberty High School volleyball team had to battle itself Thursday night.

The Comets were good enough against Mid-Prairie to overcome their own mental errors and deal with a feisty Golden Hawks squad as West Liberty earned a straight-set sweep in a Class 3A Region 8 semifinal at West Liberty High School.

West Liberty won 25-21, 25-17, 25-12. The 3A No. 7 Comets will face 3A No. 9 Mediapolis on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at Muscatine High School for a berth in the 3A state tournament.

Hailey Daufeldt led the Comets (35-5) with 15 kills and Audra Bridenstine added 13 for a West Liberty team that struggled at times in the first two sets.

"We were kinda lacking on defense," Bridenstine said. "We weren't getting the tips and we weren't reading [Mid-Prairie's] hits, mainly us just making stupid mistakes."

Mid-Prairie, who had already played West Liberty twice this season, took advantage of the Comets' mistakes with a nothing-to-lose attitude, staying aggressive at the net and digging up a lot of hard West Liberty attacks.

"We knew that if we could play with our best defense, that would save us and that's what held us in there tonight," Mid-Prairie coach Cindy Miller said.

The Golden Hawks (14-17) trailed by as little as 20-19 in the first set before the Comets pulled away with a quick 5-2 run. Mid-Prairie would break West Liberty's set point twice but fell too far behind when the Comets went on a 7-0 run to start that second set.

After giving up three quick points to Mid-Prairie to start the third set on two net violations and a hitting error, the Comets started moving much better offensively, with Daufeldt and Bridenstine cranking out attacks from Cassedi Simon, who had 36 assists on Thursday.

"Our intensity was better [in the third set] and we just communicated better," Bridenstine said, admitting "we've dropped down a little bit from the beginning of the season, but I feel like we're coming back."

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MANLIUS After a certain newspaper that shall remain nameless printed its volleyball regional preview capsules in last weekends edition, the Newman Comets found themselves a favorite Katy Perry song.

After reading they were the dark horse at the 2A Bureau Valley Regional, the Comets must have put the Perry ditty of the same name on a loop. But after their performance in a 21-25, 25-16, 25-18 victory over top-seeded Bureau Valley in Thursday nights championship match, maybe This Is How We Do would be the more appropriate song of the chanteuse with the ever-changing hair color.

Newman (14-17) scrapped, hustled, dove, dug, and clawed its way to victory over the Storm (27-6), which had beaten the Comets in both Three Rivers West meetings this season.

But so had No. 2 seed Riverdale, which third-seeded Newman dispatched in straight sets in Tuesdays semifinals.

Being the dark horse, that got to us, senior hitter Aubree Schmitt said, and its been motivating us all week. We figured if someone outside the team believed in us, then we could get it done.

We talked about the dark horse thing, and it pushed us this whole time, sophomore libero Mady Ferris added. The underdog role, we like to play like that, and we felt coming into this match that we could finish with a win.

Bureau Valley took control early, as the Storm reeled off the first six points of Game 1. But that was the biggest lead the Storm had all night, as the Comets kept battling back throughout that first game, then trailed only twice in the next two combined.

While BVs powerful hitting carried it to a Game 1 win, the Storm was unable to get its offense back on track consistently in games 2 & 3. That was mostly thanks to the scrappy Comets, who dominated points on out-of-system plays all match long.

It was a rough start, but the way we battled back in the first game carried over to the next two, Schmitt said. We knew if we carried that momentum over, just kept fighting and being aggressive and not giving them anything easy, they might get a little jumbled up and out of sync.

They were picking up everything in the second and third games, BV senior setter Sydney Lebahn said. I think we caught them off guard a little in the first game, but they came back strong. We tried to make plays out of whatever they gave us, but they just made more plays tonight.

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CHARLES CITY | The postseason backdrop to perhaps the biggest rivalry in Class 4A volleyball moved from Cedar Rapids to Charles City. Thursday night, the result remained the same.

For a third consecutive year, Charles City eliminated its Northeast Iowa Conference rival Waverly-Shell Rock from postseason play, 25-22, 25-15, 17-25, 25-16

This win came in the regional semifinals, following back-to-back meetings between these two schools won by Charles City in the state tournament.

A year ago the Comets rallied from two sets down to defeat the Go-Hawks in the opening round at state. This year, it was Wavelry-Shell Rock that nearly accomplished the feat.

Class 4A's No. 9 Go-Hawks (32-20) led 14-9 in midway through set four before No. 6 Charles City (40-4) went on a 10-0 run during Hali Hillegas' serve. The Comets finished off the match by winning 16 of the final 18 points, advancing to the regional finals against No. 10 Boone 7 p.m. Tuesday in Webster City.

"We really had to work together," Charles City senior setter and hitter Meagan Miller said. "We had to talk it out, keep the energy up. We had to just work hard as a team and come together. The energy was up."

Miller tallied a match-high 14 kills and was one three Comets to finish with at least 10 terminations. Hillegas added 12 kills and Jamie Sindlinger finished with 11.

It was a pair of back-to-back blocks by Sindlinger and Miller early during the Comets' 10-0 fourth set run that helped turned the tide in their team's favor. Sindlinger teamed up with Shay Carolan for a rejection on the final point of the run.

"Something that we talked about is we have to play with confidence all the time," Charles City coach Donna Forsyth said. "No matter what the score is we have to play with confidence. I think we had our middles close out and get a few key blocks in there, put the ball right down so it was just determination, and I think that built our momentum back up."

Charles City overcame seven service errors in an opening set in which the Comets rallied from down 13-9 with a five-point run. The pace of Charles City's attacks increased throughout the frame and Miller closed it out with kills for three of her final four points.

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The Melfort Comets put forth a dominant performance against the LP Miller Bears to end their regular football season on October 24, defeating their opponents 54-12. The victory, which saw the Comets finish their regular season record at 6-0, and finish atop their conference. We were fortunate to be undefeated throughout the regular season, it reflects a lot on the hard work of our players and coaches and the amount of preparation we put into every game, Comets head coach, Doug Rogers said following the game. The Comets established an early lead after failing to convert on their first possession. After scoring a touchdown on their next possession, Melfort dominated their opponents on both sides of the ball, extending their lead to 47-0 at the end of the first half. Melfort continued to pile on the points in the second half, adding one more touchdown in the fourth quarter to extend their lead, and put the game out of reach for the Bears. The Comets will host the Meadow Lake Spartans in the Provincial Quarter-Final on November 1. Rogers said that while the victory was a nice touch to their perfect season, he felt they still have room to improve ahead of next Saturdays matchup. I think in the first half we played a good football game, we didnt play a great football game. We have room to improve, offensively, on our execution to begin with, he said. Theres a couple things to clean up on offense and theres always room to improve. When youre through improving, in any sort of sport, thats when youre through. Melfort and Meadow Lake met in the Provincial Semi-Finals in 2011, which saw the Comets advance to the Provincial Championships. Rogers said he expects to see a competitive game when the two teams square off. I wouldnt be surprised to see a motivated, fired-up Meadow Lake Spartans team, who comes in and gives us a good, challenging football game, he said.

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David Dawson was brilliant for the Comets against Queensland. Photo: Rohan Thomson

ACT Comets captain David Dawson spent all but 76 minutes of the four-day Futures League clash against Queensland on the field, almost carrying his bat twice, but he was critical of himself for getting out at a crucial time.

He was caught and bowled by Cameron Brimblecombe 14 runs short of his second century of the game as the Comets lost their season opener by 40 runs.

Dawson said a NSW Blues call-up was out of his control, but he would take the opportunity if it arose.

He wasn't picked in their Sheffield Shield side to play Victoria at the MCG on Friday, but his 143 not out in the first innings and 86 in the second hasn't done his chances of a recall any harm.

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Having carried his bat through the first innings, Dawson spent almost every minute of the game on the field.

With the Comets' next fixture against WA on November 17, the 32-year-old will play for his Sydney club University of NSW in the meantime.

"It's always nice to get a few runs, but it's obviously more important to try and get the win and unfortunately we didn't quite get there today, which was disappointing," Dawson said.

"Obviously I was hoping to help the boys get over the line, but unfortunately I got out at a crucial time."

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The Contra Costa College football team has a lunch pail approach and a hunger to make history.

Coach Alonzo Carter's squad is trying to become the first champion of the new American-Pacific 7 Conference. The Comets (6-1, 3-0) can take a big step toward that objective with a win over visiting Shasta (6-1, 3-0) on Saturday. Kickoff is 3 p.m.

"It is pretty big one," Carter said of the showdown.

In his fifth season in San Pablo, Carter goes by the see it, believe it, achieve it method.

Clearly, he has worked wonders with a once-woeful program. The Comets went 4-6 and 6-4 in his first two years after winning just once in their previous two years combined.

In 2012, they really got rolling. An 8-3 record included an outright Bay Valley Conference title and a bowl victory. Last year, they went 7-4 and shared the BVC title with Los Medanos and Shasta, before dropping a bowl game 37-26 to Hartnell.

Before taking the job at Contra Costa, Carter went 25-8-1 over three seasons at Berkeley High. His final year, the Yellowjackets won their first North Coast Section playoff game since 1996. Previous to that, Carter's McClymonds' teams were 57-35 over eight seasons.

This season, the Comets overcame the jolt of losing of outside linebacker Takkarist McKinley, the top-rated junior college prospect in California by 247Sports.com, after he signed with UCLA on Sept. 15.

Carter said McKinley was "respected" and "loved" by his teammates and left with the Comets' blessing, but his departure put a "little bit of a wrench in what we wanted to do."

But the cupboard is far from bare. The Comets defense ranks in the top 10 in the state in passing yardage allowed, total yards per game and scoring.

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Kansas City is often referred to as the Soccer Capital of America. Last season, both FC Kansas City and Sporting KC became champions in their respective leagues, and so did the Missouri Comets.

The Comets are Kansas Citys professional indoor soccer team, which reemerged in 2010 after playing in the original Major Indoor Soccer League from 1981-1991. The Comets play home games at the Independence Events Center.

Last season, the Comets won its first championship in club history after defeating the Baltimore Blast in three games at the championship series in March.

UMKC and the Comets have worked together throughout the years. After playing four years for UMKC mens soccer, Bryan Perez and John Sosa were recruited by the Comets and played important roles in last years season.

UMKC mens soccer Head Coach Rick Benben, who has remained the teams head coach for 17 straight seasons, served as the Comets Head Coach from 1984-1987, with an overall record of 47-57.

This year, Head Coach Vlatko Andonovski boasts not one, but two championship winning teams. He led FC Kansas City to the National Womens Soccer League Championship only three months after clinching the Major Indoor Soccer League title with the Comets.

After the Comets won last season, the MISL announced its fusion with the Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL) to form the new Major Arena Soccer League, which features 23 teams from the U.S. and Mexico.

The 2014-15 MASL season kicked off this past weekend with the Comets crushing former PASL powerhouse, the Dallas Sidekicks, 13-4 at the Allen Events Center.

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It took ACT Comets all-rounder Daniel Magin just 94 balls to smash his team back into the Futures League contest before Queensland's Michael Philipson responded with his second century to give the visitors the upper hand at Manuka Oval on Wednesday.

Queensland goes into the final day leading by 317 runs with five wickets in hand after Philipson (109) cancelled out the earlier good work of Magin (112) and Comets captain David Dawson (143 not out).

Novocastrian Magin scored a scorching century in the opening session to become the fifth Comet to make a ton on debut, whichincluded a hook shot for six that landed on the roof of the Menzies Stand.

The 25-year-old said he was just glad to help his team get back into the contest.

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"I've never been the type to hang around," Magin said. "I like to play my shots and I guess today it just came off.

"It was just good to get us back in the match. We were sort of struggling overnight and then a good first session by me and 'Dawso' was good."

Comets coach Mark Higgs said he'd been trying to lure Magin to Canberra for a couple of years.

He hoped Queensland would set a reasonable target to make it a contest on the final day, especially after itopted to declare while still 69 runs behind.

Higgs was confident the wicket was still good enough to give them a realistic chance of going for the win provided Queensland made a game of it.

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Workington Comets 57 Berwick Bandits 38: Workington Comets lifted the Border Trophy to go out of the Premier League play-offs in style.

Comets went into the meeting with a seven-point deficit after losing to the Bandits in the first leg.

But Workington pulled it back with a confident display to win 98-86 on aggregate and take the Border Trophy.

Bizarrely, Comets contested the second leg of their play-off clashes with Berwick on the same night as Edinburgh and Somerset met in the final.

They started in a positive vein, Ricky Wells and Ulrich Ostergaard dominant from the gate in the first race of the night ahead of Bandits No1 Matej Kus.

Heat two saw an awful gate for MacDonald but his teammate Lambert continued the impressive form he showed against Edinburgh last week with a thrilling ride, Alex Edberg at his heels the whole way.

And with Edberg out again as rider replacement for Steen Jensen, Mason Campton had to drive up the inside and Rene Bach up the middle. Edberg retired from the back but Bach hammered round in style with Campton and ex-Comet Kevin Doolan in tow to make it 13-5 after three races.

A phenomenal start from Claus Vissing who left him untouchable for the duration as points were shared in heat four.

In heat six, Edberg led the Comets pairing of Wells and Ostergaard before a stunning pass round the outside from the former. Vissing nicked past Ostergaard on the first bends of the penultimate lap, who bombed past round the outside at the next opportunity to make it 4-2 and 25-11 overall.

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Workington Comets manager Tony Jackson admitted that his team are relieved to see the back of their long season after their Border Trophy success.

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Comets won the second leg of their play-off meetings with Berwick Bandits despite Edinburgh Monarchs already progressing to the final, which they won on the same night.

But they did claim the Border Trophy, awarded to the aggregate winner between the Comets and Bandits. The trophy had first been contested between the sides more than 40 years ago and Jackson admitted it was a nice way to end what has been an emotionally draining season.

He said: It was a great way to finish.

Berwick werent the strongest but the lads got the job done.

It was nice to win the trophy. Of course its not the top prize but youd rather that than nothing.

Jackson admitted he was desperate to see a Comets title someday and was disappointed with the way the season turned out after such a positive build-up.

He said: I want to see Workington win the title before I die but I dont want to live forever.

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Return: David Dawson will captain the ACT Comets in their Futures League match against Queensland, starting Monday, at Manuka Oval.

ACT Comets captain David Dawson moved to Tasmania to get his crack in the first-class arena.

But he could have progressed through the NSW system if the partnership between Cricket ACT and Cricket NSW was in place when he was coming through the ranks.

Now 32, Dawson will play for the Comets for the first time in more than 10 years when he leads the side in its opening Futures League match of the season against the Queensland second XI, starting on Monday at Manuka Oval.

Dawson is one of six players from the Sydney grade competition - five of whom hail from country NSW - who will join the remaining Canberra-based contingent in the Comets team.

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It is part of Cricket ACT forming a partnership with Cricket NSW, fielding joint teams in the juniors from under-12s to under-19s and sharing resources to best identify outstanding talent.

After having come through the ranks with the Comets and Ginninderra, Dawson moved to Tasmania when he was 20 for more opportunitiesbefore relocating to Sydney in 2009.

Dawson said the new partnership between Cricket ACT and Cricket NSW would provide an easier avenue for Canberra cricketers.

"It's a direct pathway now for Canberra guys to get selected in the NSW Shield and one-day teams," Dawson said.

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