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Justin Hotop August 17, 2017
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Cardinals
must trade
for Stanton
The biggest slugger is
now on the market. Miami
Marlins rightfielder
Giancarlo Stanton cleared
waivers on Tuesday.
Which
means he
is avail-
able to be
traded.
I’ve said it
before and
I’ll say it
JUSTIN again, the
HOTOP Cardinals
need to
BETWEEN
THE WHITE go after
LINES
him, like
yester-
day. There are plenty of
big spenders around the
league like the Boston
Red Sox and Los Ange-
les Dodgers that have the
wallets to go after the
slugger and the remaining
$295 million left on his
10-year contract. But no
one has the assets to give
up the farm for the man.
From Harrison Bader,
Magnus Sierra, Stephen
Piscotty to anyone in be-
tween, there is no one that
is off limits for Stanton.
Why?
Let’s run through a few
numbers. After Tuesday
night’s games, Stanton
had hit a homerun in six
straight games and 11 of
his last 12. He currently
leads the majors in at 44.
And don’t get me
started abut money. The
Cardinals are one of the
most profitable teams in
the league, and that in-
cludes revenue from Ball-
park Village and the new
television contract that
will pay them over one
billion dollars. The Cardi-
nals have the deep pockets
available to pay the mid-
dle-of-the-order-bat.
This is not an Albert
Pujols situation either,
where they would have
paid the former Cardinal
and future Hall-of-Fam-
er well into his twilight
years.
Stanton would be in
the top of the lineup for
at least five years of his
prime. Who wouldn’t
It’s game time
PHS and SV volleyball kick off the season with jamborees
By Justin Hotop
jhotop@perryvillenews.com
The players and coaches have
been waiting for this moment for
months. Well, kind of. Tuesday
marked the start of the volleyball
season as Perryville and St. Vincent
competed in a 4-team jamboree
with Valle Catholic and Ste. Genei-
evieve.
Jamborees don’t count toward
season records, but they still matter
as to what the coaches can go back
and work on before the official reg-
ular season kicks off on Tuesday.
“It counts for me and the play-
ers,” Perryville Coach Cindy Cis-
sell said. “It might just be a prac-
tice, but it’s the beginning of a
whole new season.”
Each team played six sets on the
night, two against the three other
teams to 15 points. But that didn’t
mean fans didn’t see some interest-
ing matchups.
Perryville got a sneak peak into
their season opening match when
they took on Valle, the state run-
ner-up for last season. The Pirates
looked strong in the first set taking
advantage of numerous service er-
rors on the part of the Lady War-
riors to climb out to an 8-3 lead,
eventually claiming the set 15-6.
“You have to take advantage of
everyone’s errors when they make
them,” Cissell said.
But as customary to any Valle
team they came back and claimed
the second set 15-11.
But the main focus for Cissell
during the jamboree was to get
everyone involved in the matches.
Everyone on the bench participated Republic-Monitor/JUSTIN HOTOP
and played some during the event. Macy Robinson (center) celebrates with teammates after an ace during the jamboree.
“It was the way the whole night
was set up,” Cissell said. “We want- nah Layton and Maci Hotop gave “We started the night out well,” “Valle is always tough and they
ed our reserves to play against the Perryville the first set 16-14. Umfleet said. “But as the night went are well coached,” Umfleet said.
other teams’ reserves so that every- “The offense will be there,” Cis- on we fell flat and were back on our “We want to compete with them,
one could play and try to get better sell said. “That’s not something heels. We talked a lot this summer but at times tonight I saw we still
as a team.”
I’m worried about. I’m focused on about being strong in games, which have to progress to get there by dis-
Perryville took the middle two
the defense and I thought we did we did, but we have to play with tricts.”
sets with Ste. Geneieve 15-9 and
17-15 to set up the main event of well with our blocks and moving. I that same intensity on every point.” Perryville will start the season
the night and a match-up of the two couldn’t be more pleased. The intensity was there at times on Tuesday against Valle, while St.
Perryville teams. St. Vincent took the second set to against Valle. A timeout by Umfleet Vincent travels to Jackson on open-
Perryville jumped out to a 7-2 end the night as Umfleet preached with Valle leading 12-7 helped pro- ing night.
lead, thanks to some good defense, to the girls to find a consistency. duce a 4-0 run to climb back to a “We couldn’t be more excited to
and a timeout by St. Vincent coach St. Vincent started the night against 12-11 score. But Valle finished the get the season started and we will
Amy Umfleet calmed her team Ste. Genevieve and won the first set 15-11. The Lady Indians fell take the time we have left to work
down and they raced back to take set 15-9, but then lost the second to Valle in last year’s district title on the things I saw tonight, which is
a 12-11 lead. But Perryville proved set and the two sets to Valle before game and hope to compete with what this jamboree is for,” Umfleet
too strong in the set as kills by Han- splitting with Perryville. them again in 2017. said.

Pirates not worried about past in Week 1

want a guaranteed 50
home runs every season.
You would be dumb not
to.
He would also make
everyone around him bet-
ter. Every lineup needs
that one hitter that strikes
fear in pitchers. Right
now the Cardinals don’t
have one. Who is it now?
Dexter Fowler? Randal
Grichuk?
This would also bode
well for the Cardinals
when they try to chase
down the Chicago Cubs
in the division. The eight-
game winning streak got
them close: now they need
something to take them
over the top. Right now,
St. Louis can’t compete
with the upper echelon
teams. Take for example
the 10-4 loss to Boston on
Tuesday. Stanton would
go a long way to fixing
the mess that is the of-
fense. So the organization
needs to take a long look
at trading for Stanton, the
fans beg of you.
(Justin Hotop is a
sportswriter or the Repub-
lic-Monitor and can be
reached via email at jho-
top@perryvillenews.com)
By Justin Hotop
jhotop@perryvillenews.com
Recent history has not been kind to
the Pirates or new coach Blane Boss
when it comes to matchups with De
Soto, Perryville’s week-one opponent.
The Pirates fell 23-15 at home in the
opening game last season and ,while
as an assistant coach at Windsor, Boss
fell 52-0 in week three. But this is a new
season and with it all games in the past
are left there.
“We really can’t worry about last
year,” Boss said. “This is a new season
and all we can do is worry about us and
what we can control. We are definitely
concentrating on this year and moving
forward.”
Concentrating on themselves means
perfecting the new rushing offense that
Boss hopes to use this season, but he
knows De Soto has seen a similar of-
fense from Hillsboro in the jamboree.
“When they played Hillsboro they
loaded the box against them pretty
heavy, which is something I’m sure we
will see a lot of this season, especially
as the seasons goes along. But they
have a new defensive coordinator who
might run something different like a 3-4
or 403 defense so we are looking at it
all.”
Week 1 at a glance
PERRYVILLE AT DE SOTO
WHEN 7 p.m. Friday
WHERE DeSoto High School
ADMISSION: $3
RECORDS Perryville 0-0, Desoto 0-0
COACHES Perryville, Blane Boss, DeSoto
Bobby Thompson
PLAYERS TO WATCH Perryville: Garrett Rich-
ardet, DB; Jerome Simpson LB, Bryce Fla-
herty RB.
PERRYVILLE SCHEDULE
Aug. 18 at DeSoto 7 p.m.
Aug. 25 St. Pius 7 p.m.
Sept. 1 Fredericktown 7 p.m.
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Sept. 8 Potosi 7 p.m.
Perryville’s Clayton Jung makes the tackle during the jamboree.
Sept. 15 at St. Vincent 7 p.m.
Sept. 22 at Park Hills Central 7 p.m.
Sept. 29 at Ste. Genevieve 7 p.m.
Oct. 7 Windsor 1 p.m. move the ball on them a little bit,” Boss limited film was the one player that
Oct. 13 at Scott City 7 p.m. said. I like to think we have success stood out to them under center.
against every team that we play.” “They have a strong quarterback
Since this is the first week of the To do that the Pirates will rely on who looks to be the best athlete on the
season, coaches don’t have much film a trio of running backs Sloan Hunter, field and several strong running backs
to work from, except for jamboree film. Austin Cook and Bryce Flaherty. Fla- who don’t quit on any play,” he said.
“It makes it difficult to know what herty has showed some big play ability, “They will certainly be a tough team to
they might be trying to do in jamborees busting a 40-yard run during the Pirates defend, and we will have to wrap up on
and if they are switching players in and jamboree. tackles to have a chance.”
out,” Boss said. “The jamboree is all we Defensively, the Pirates will rely But overall, Boss is just happy to fi-
can really go off of.” on senior defensive back Garrett Rich- nally get back on the sidelines for real
This brings Boss back to the idea of ardet, who led the team in 2016 with on Friday.
concentrating on themselves and their five interceptions, and Jerome Simpson “This is something we have been
patented running offense. who had 95 tackles one year ago. working all summer for,” Boss said.
“I believe we should be able to But one thing Boss did see on the “And it’s finally here.”

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