By John Walsh

Last updated at 10:03, Thursday, 11 September 2014

BERWICK 55 COMETS 37: Workington Comets returned empty-handed from their trip to Berwick after being in contention for a bonus point for most of the match.

Leading the way: Comets Josh Grajczonek on the outside of Berwick's Alex Edberg, blue, and David Bellego. Below, Mason Campton heads Berwick's Bellego in the opening heat

In good heart from the point picked up at Peterborough the night before, the Comets were unable to repeat the trick.

Team manager Tony Jackson said: It was a good effort really and the final score doesnt really give a true reflection. We were in the mix for a bonus point for a long time and their two 5-1s in the last three heats rather took it away from us.

We seem to be in a situation where we cant get all the lads firing at the same time. However the encouraging thing recently has been the way Joe Jacobs has been riding.

Hes fitted in well at reserve and his win in heat 14 was against experienced rivals.

Ricky Wells is riding well and he top-scored again for us and he picked up two of our five race wins.

Workington had to make a late change at reserve where Simon Lambert pulled-out after feeling unwell during and after the Peterborough match.

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For such a small team, the West Liberty Comets have a big, big dream. And theyre not afraid to share.

Molly Kelly was the first one to say it, said West Liberty Coach Ruben Galvan. After the way we played at summer camp and summer leagues, she said, This team has the potential to win a state championship.

That wont be determined for a couple months, but heres what we know now despite a lack of height, the Comets have backed down from nobody.

Class 3A ninth-rated West Liberty swept Wilton on Tuesday, improving to 12-0 overall, 2-0 in the River Valley Conference South Division. And the wins arent coming against schools its size.

The Comets claimed the title at the Muscatine Invitational tournament Saturday. Of their 12 wins, three have come against 5A foes, six against 4A teams.

Its not as if this comes as a surprise that are in volleyballs inner circle. More than one coach from the Wamac Conference mentioned before the season that the Comets were better than their ranking.

Now, about the height issue. West Liberty does not have a player taller than 5-foot-8. It hasnt presented a problem yet.

Weve been able to overcome it because we have a setter (Cassedi Simon) who is a threat herself, Galvan said. People have to focus on her, and it creates openings for other hitters.

Hailey Daufeldt leads the Comets with 3.46 kills per game, followed by Audra Bridenstine and Simon and 2.08 apiece. All three are juniors

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Last updated at 10:59, Wednesday, 10 September 2014

PETERBOROUGH 42 COMETS 36: Workington Comets gained a valuable bonus point in their bid to reach the Premier League play-offs.

Impressive rides: Comet Joe Jacobs

It was especially valuable as their opponents Peterborough are also among the rivals to grab the last play-off berth and would have been looking for maximum home points.

In fact the Panthers, who were staging a double header, had to settle for just two points from them both as they only beat Glasgow 46-44 in the first meeting.

Workington were second on, and because of the curfew at the track, had to call it a result after 13 heats and as they trailed by six points could take home the bonus point.

Team manager Tony Jackson said: To be fair, if it had gone all the way to 15 I think they might have taken the extra point the way Ostergaard and Dryml were riding.

But I drove away feeling it was as good as a win, earning the bonus point against a team also striving for a top six place.

I think if we can get maximum points from our two home matches with Sheffield on Saturday we should make the play-offs.

The Comets actually earned their bonus point without either of their top two riders Josh Grajczonek and Rene Bach winning a race, a remarkable stat in itself.

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The MUCC Comets special teams and defense took control of the season opening football game early giving them their first win. The Comets posted a 38-20 victory over the Tisdale Tornadoes on Friday, September 5 in Tisdale. Tyler Jones ran the opening kickoff back about 70 yards for a touchdown. The defense followed that up with a safety for two points giving them a 9-0 lead. The Comets took advantage of a Tisdale penalty and Jomar Malaggay ran the ball in from eight yards out for another touchdown. The Comets defense forced another safety for two more points and the comets led 18-0 halfway through the opening quarter. Comets coach Dave Rogers said having taking a commanding early lead is a double-edged sword. I think we came out really strong, we came out with some intensity and I think we went though a dip in intensity especially in the second quarter, he said. Everything really went the way we wanted it to in the beginning and that is part of learning to play too, the start of a new season is keeping the intensity up. The next score came late in the third quarter when the Comets capped off a drive from midfield with a five-yard touchdown run by Malaggay. The extra point gave the Comets a 25-0 lead. Jones added another touchdown for the comets. This time the convert missed and the comets led 31-0 with 90 seconds remaining in the quarter. The Tornadoes were not done yet. Corey Serhan had an 85-yard touchdown run for the Tornadoes first score. The conversion missed but the lead was cut to 31-6. The tornadoes then capped off a pair of big plays with another touchdown, this time the conversion was good and the lead was cut to 31-13. Late in the game the teams traded touchdowns. Melforts Zach Richardson scored from 15-yards out. With the conversion the comets led 38-13. Tisdales next possession saw Cole Chowan have a 60-yard catch and run for a touchdown. With the conversion the final score was decided, 38-20. Rogers said the score of the game is not as important as the overall outcome. We need our kids to play and develop and if we are worried about if we are going to be 38-0 or 38-6 or something like that we are really focusing on the wrong things. We need to focus on the development of our kids as players and the chance to play, Rogers explained. If we are going to do that we have to be willing to let our opponents score some points against our younger kids because our younger kids are going to play. It helps with the learning. More learning will be taking place this week as the Comets have a bye week. They are going to focus on intensity both on and off the field as well as developing overall as a team. The bye in some ways comes in a good place for us. We had our game and saw it against a live opponent in a game that mattered for points. It pointed out to us as coaches and to the players what we need to work on to get better, he said. The story of the season isnt the first week or the first bye it is when we get later into the season. It is good we got the result we wanted and we still need to work on the where we want to go with the rest of the season. After the bye week the Comets host Clavet in their home opener. It is set for 4 p.m. on September 19 at MUCC field. greg.wiseman@sunmedia.ca @melfortjournal

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A 40 minute exposure of Comet E2 Jacques taken from Payson, Arizona. Credit: Chris Schur.

As the Chinese proverb says, May you live in interesting times, and while the promise of Comet ISON dazzling observers didnt exactly pan out as hoped for in early2014, we now have a bevy of binocular comets set to grace evening skies for northern hemisphere observers. Comet 2012K1 PanSTARRS has put on a fine show, and comet C/2014 E2 Jacques has emerged from behind the Sun and its close 0.085 AU passage near Venus and has already proven to be a fine target for astro-imagers. And weve got another icy visitor to the inner solar system beating tracks northward in the form of Comet C/2013 V5 Oukaimeden, and a grand cometary finale as comet A1 Siding Spring brushes past the planet Mars. That is, IF a spectacular naked eye comet doesnt come by and steal the show, as happens every decade or so

Comet E2 Jacques crossing Cassiopeia as seen from the island of Malta. Credit: Leonard Mercer.

Anyhow, heres a rapid fire run down on what you can expect from three of these binocular comets that continue to grace the twilight skies this Fall.

(Note that mentions of comets passing near a given object denote conjunctions of less than an angular degree of arc unless otherwise stated).

C/2014 E2 Jacques:

Discovered by amateur astronomer Cristovao Jacques on March 13th of this year from the SONEAR Observatory in Brazil, Comet E2 Jacques has been dazzling observers as it passed 35 degrees from the north celestial pole and posed near several deep sky wonders as it transited the constellation of Cassiopeia.

Comet E2 Jacques on August 28th as seen from the MVAS dark sky site in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Credit: John Chumack.

Mid-September finds Jacques 55 degrees above the NE horizon at dusk for northern hemisphere viewers in the constellation Cygnus. It then races southward parallel to the galactic equator, keeping in the +7th to +8th magnitude range before dropping down below +10th magnitude in late October. After this current passage through the inner solar system, Comet Jacques will be on a shortened 12,000 year orbit.

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STERLING Kai Tomaszewski got Saturday nights football game off with a bang, racing 95 yards on the games opening kickoff for a quick six against host Sterling Newman.

The Tigers spent the rest of the half, however, chasing the Comets. The Class 2A defending Comets scored six unanswered touchdowns in the first half to go up 36-6 and added one more score early in the third quarter en route to a 44-21 victory at Roscoe Eades Stadium in a Three Rivers Conference crossover.

Tomaszewski, who came over from soccer this year, hit the line at the 20-yard line, bounced off down the left sidelines and was off to the races. It was a stunning blow to the Newman faithful in attendance.

While veteran Newman coach Mike Papoccia called it a kick right between the eyes, it proved to be just the kick-start the Comets needed.

The Comets answered decisively, racking up 44 straight points on seven touchdowns on the strength of a running game that racked up 316 yards on 54 carries.

Brady Rude, a four-time medal winner in track this spring, led the Comets attack with 147 yards on 15 carries and a touchdown.

He also recovered a Princeton fumble in the endzone for a touchdown that gave Newman a 28-6 lead late in the second quarter.

Nolan McGinn got the Comets on the board first with a 13-yard TD to tie the game with 8:30 left in the first quarter. He closed the first quarter with a 3-yard run and took in the conversion to make it 20-6.

The Comets played beat the clock, scoring on an eight-yard TD pass from Logan Whitman to Shayne Allen with six seconds left in the half. Dillan Heffelfinger added the conversion run to make it 36-6 at the half.

PHS (1-1) surrendered a 25-yard touchdown run by Rude early in the third quarter but did not allow another point the rest of the way.

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RANDLEMAN When inexperience meets experience on any playing surface, the latter usually wins out.

Heading into Tuesday nights non-conference Randolph County battle the Asheboro High School varsity soccer team had a lot more 12s on its roster, while Randleman, which doesnt have a jayvee team, had the monopoly on 9s.

The result was an 8-0 win for the Blue Comets at Charles R. Gregory Stadium.

We have a lot of subs and its nice when you can get everyone some playing experience, Asheboro coach David Parrish said. Weve been telling them to just focus on improving for the next game and theyve bought into that mentality.

Despite the result, Tigers coach Sean Fitzgibbon said it was good for his team to get tested.

Give credit to Asheboro, he said. Theyre a great team. Their middle school team is good. Their jayvee teams been undefeated for five years. Playing against teams like this will help us later in conference. It makes us physically and mentally tough.

Fernando Avila notched a hat trick for the Blue Comets, scoring the first three goals of the game. The first came within the first 2 minutes of action off an Eluid Jaimes cross from the right.

Avila scored again less than 4 minutes later off a Moi Ramirez assist as he kicked a hard roller toward Randleman goalkeeper Robert Luis Valdez, who dove for the ball. The shot tipped off of Valdezs fingertips and went into the back of the net.

With less than 23 minutes left in the first half, Avila booted a high shot over Valdezs reach for a 3-0 Asheboro lead.

Still, the Blue Comets didnt score again until 18.5 ticks were left until halftime. Sidney Rogers kicked a shot that went off Valdezs hands and right to teammate Tony Depaz, who followed the ball into the net for a 4-0 Asheboro halftime lead.

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POOLE Comets left it latebefore snatching bothpoints from their Elite League match with Ipswich.

Comets heroes were Steve Harris and Marcin Szymanski, who held their nerve to win the last race and steer their team to an 89-88 away win.

The match was always going to be a closely-fought encounterand so it proved asboth sides tradedheat wins with Ipswich holding a slender 45-44 lead at the end of the first half.

The scores, however, might have been different if Arron Morgan had not been excluded while in a points scoring position in heat seven.

Aaron Smith got the second half off to a good start by winning heat 10 and, with Dean Hook taking a solid third place, the Comets were in front by a single point.

Three more shared heats followed before Smith teamed up with Szymanski for another 6-4 which gave Poole a three-point lead.

Controversy followed at the end of heat 15, with Ipswich awarded a 7-2 race win after a last-bend incident which resulted in race exclusion for Smith and the relegation of his team partner Morgan from a second-place finish.

Comets Dean Hook also received his marching orders from the match referee following another racing incident.

Pooles skipper Greg Gluchowski kept his cool to win the re-run before Harris and Szymanski sealed the overall win.

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Glasgow 52 Workington Comets 41: Despite losing 52-41 at Glasgow yesterday, Workington Comets are still on course to make the Premier League play-offs.

Josh Grajczonek, left, and Ricky Wells

Maximum points from a shortened home double header on Saturday from clashes with the Tigers and Somerset Rebels have edged them closer to the top six.

It is still a hectic scramble to fit in their remaining seven matches by next Sunday but they should be able to garner sufficient points to qualify.

Saturdays long meeting was finally ended by the curfew after 12 heats, but the previous meeting had also been cut short after 12 races following a long delay in the aftermath of a serious injury.

Chris Mills, guesting for Glasgow, went through the fence on the fourth bend and careered into a wall.

There was a 40-minute delay while Mills was attended to and later he was flown by the Great North Air Ambulance service to hospital in Middlesbrough.

Latest word on the former Comet was that he had suffered back, shoulder and neck injuries but was stable.

Workington had always been in control of that first meeting and when referee Willie Dishington called a halt after 12 meetings it was 48-27 to the home side.

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MUSCATINE West Liberty had the smallest enrollment of the eight schools competing at Muscatine's volleyball tournament Saturday.

The Comets were the last ones standing.

After sweeping Muscatine, Burlington and Class 4A 14th-ranked Central DeWitt in pool play, West Liberty silenced North Scott in the semifinals and outlasted Clinton in the championship match, 25-16, 20-25, 15-11.

"We don't really realize who we're beating at the time," senior libero and Iowa recruit Molly Kelly said. "Afterward, our coaches will tell us they're ranked or had this kind of record.

"It just shows we look at every single competitor the same. We have respect, but we want to beat them."

So far, Class 3A ninth-ranked West Liberty has conquered every opponent.

The Comets (11-0) have won 23 of their 24 contested sets. Nine of their 11 match victories are against 4A and 5A programs.

"If you look at our schedule, that is our schedule," said coach Ruben Galvan, whose team still has weekend tournaments at Western Dubuque and Cedar Rapids Jefferson. "We don't go to many tournaments with teams in our class or lower. That makes us better in the long run."

West Liberty doesn't have a player taller than 5-foot-8, but it compensates for that with a scrappy back row, a talented setter in Cassedi Simon and a nice trio of front row attackers in Hailey Daufeldt, Kayla Kaalberg and Audra Bridenstine.

Daufeldt had 13 kills and Kelly recorded 24 digs in the finals match.

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STERLING After receiving what coach Mike Papoccia described as a kick between the eyes by an upstart Princeton squad, the Newman football team used its legs for other purposes in a dominating 44-21 victory Saturday night.

The host Comets fell behind 6-0 just 17 seconds into the game when Princeton returned the opening kickoff 95 yards, but they answered decisively with 44 consecutive points on the strength of a running game that racked up 316 yards on 54 carries.

Princeton entered the season on a 20-game losing streak, while Newman was riding high after last years romp through the Class 2A playoff field en route to the state championship.

However, the Tigers snapped that skid in Week 1, and strong-armed quarterback Jacob Reinhardt leads a strong junior class that looks to keep Princeton competitive for the next 2 years.

I was worried about their skill kids, Papoccia said. Their running back [Kai Tomaszewski] was really quick, the fullback [Jacob Smith] is a hard runner, and the quarterback [Reinhardt] is a good athlete.

Indeed, it was Tomaszewski that bounced outside to take the opening kickoff to the house for the Tigers, a turn of events that stunned the Newman faithful.

But that moment was fleeting, as it was all Comets for the rest of the next three quarters. Brady Rude, four-time medal winner at last years state track and field meet, showcased his athleticism with 147 yards on 15 carries. He also recovered a Princeton fumble in the end zone for a touchdown that gave Newman a 28-6 lead late in the second quarter.

Hes a full athlete," Papoccia said. "He can run, and he can block. Hes a leader even though hes a junior. Theres a kid that just works so hard. Hes an exceptional athlete, and he showed that again tonight.

Nolan McGinn rushed for 80 yards on 12 carries, with most of his damage coming in the first half. At halftime, the Comets had turned the 6-0 deficit into a 36-6 blowout, outgaining Princeton 259-44 in total yardage and owning an edge in time of possession of more than 6 minutes.

Newman was in such control it never needed to punt, thanks in large part to the effort of the young men up front. Senior Division I recruit Jacob Barnes, Newmans 6-foot-4, 250-pound left tackle, helped the Comets dominate the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. Papoccia noted that while Barnes and center David Rowzee are certainly the anchors of the offensive line, he believes everyone in the trenches has earned their stripes.

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Published at 11:25, Saturday, 06 September 2014

Workington Comets need to pull out all the stops this weekend to take maximum points from three meetings in two days.

Laura Morgan

Another home double-header tonight sees Glasgow and Somerset visit Derwent Park, before a trip north of the border to face Glasgow on their own turf tomorrow.

A lacklustre Comets display left them empty handed at Sheffield on Thursday, with seven fixtures in the next seven days to turn their fortunes around and break into the play-off places.

Owner Laura Morgan said: I know Glasgow came back and beat us the other week, but now our team is a very different one to the one they saw last time.

Obviously, they have Rusty [Harrison] who was awesome last time round but I am happy we can beat them.

We seemed to cope with the tiredness well last week so that shouldnt be a problem.

Its about building up momentum now. Well need everyone pulling out all the stops to get anything.

And in a particularly shrewd move, Somerset have secured Harrison as a guest for the second meeting of the night.

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Workington Comets need to pull out all the stops this weekend to take maximum points from three meetings in two days.

Laura Morgan

Another home double-header tonight sees Glasgow and Somerset visit Derwent Park, before a trip north of the border to face Glasgow on their own turf tomorrow.

A lacklustre Comets display left them empty handed at Sheffield on Thursday, with seven fixtures in the next seven days to turn their fortunes around and break into the play-off places.

Owner Laura Morgan said: I know Glasgow came back and beat us the other week, but now our team is a very different one to the one they saw last time.

Obviously, they have Rusty [Harrison] who was awesome last time round but I am happy we can beat them.

We seemed to cope with the tiredness well last week so that shouldnt be a problem.

Its about building up momentum now. Well need everyone pulling out all the stops to get anything.

And in a particularly shrewd move, Somerset have secured Harrison as a guest for the second meeting of the night.

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Michael Bevan of NSW, Jamie Cox of Tasmania, Darren Lehmann of South Australia, Paul Reiffel of Victoria, Adam Gilchrist of Western Australia, Rod Tucker of Canberra and Stuart Law of Queensland launch the 1999-2000 Mercantile Mutual Cup. Photo: Getty Images

Does anyone remember big Swervin' Mervin Hughes steaming in at Manuka Oval?

All zinked up, marvellous mo, a bit heavier than when he was in his prime, but the great man was still an Australian hero and the marquee man for the Canberra Comets.

Then there was young gun Brad Haddin, a brash Queanbeyan junior ready to take the cricket world by storm.

Merv Hughes in the field for the ACT Comets in 1997. Photo: Pat Scala

It's been 14 years of waiting, wondering and hoping, but the Comets are (almost) back sans big Merv, of course.

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