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BY BILL FOLEYof The Montana Standard

CONNOR O’NEILL is hardly a menacing figure when he rolls onto campus riding his little red Honda scooter.“It’s perfect for me, living four blocks away,” he says. “I don’t have to worry

about parking.”O’Neill rides the 50cc scooter all around town. The engine size is small enough

that he doesn’t need a motorcycle endorsement with his driver’s license.“The only problem is coming up some of the steeper hills,” O’Neill says. “It

doesn’t have a big engine, but it gets me around.”On the field is a different story.When he slips into his No. 6 Orediggers jersey, the Montana Tech senior line-

backer never has his motor speed questioned.“I just try to get mentally locked in before the game,” O’Neill says. “I’m definitely

more carefree and loose off the football field.”On or off the field, O’Neill, a 2007 Butte High graduate, is always one to

entertain. Take last year’s 40-yard interception return for a touchdown againstMontana Western for example.

The 6-foot, 205-pound O’Neill jumped to make a one-handed catch of a JeffLogan pass. His return took him toward the Oredigger sideline, where O’Neill wassurrounded by almost every other player on the field.

Somehow, O’Neill spun out of some would-be tacklers and dove into the end zonefor the touchdown.

“I still don’t know. It’s kind of a blur,” O’Neill says of how he managed to get tothe end zone that day. “That was definitely the highlight of my football career. Idon’t know how I got out of that one.”

The touchdown was O’Neill’s first — and so far only — collegiate score.That scoring play came a couple of weeks after O’Neill just missed another

touchdown.“I came close a couple of times,” he says. “One I pitched to Jordy (Jordan

Heringer). There was one guy to beat. It wasn’t a good thing to pitch it, but it couldhave been a score. “So then it was like ‘Man, if I get another opportunity I’ve got toscore.’”

O’Neill earned himself a brief stay in then-coach Bob Green’s doghouse overpitching the ball after an interception.

A week earlier, teammate Jake Stagnoli intercepted a pass against MSU-Northern.Stagnoli’s attempt to pitch the ball to a defensive teammate ended up giving the ballback to the Lights.

So, O’Neill can’t say that he wasn’t warned.“He was like ‘Do not ever pitch the ball,’” O’Neill says, raising his voice to

impersonate the boisterous Green. “‘Do not, do not, do not, do not, do not pitch theball. I got pulled after that. It’s a good thing we recovered it.

“That might have been going back to my ‘O’ days, trying to relive some of theglory from offense.”

That wasn’t the only time O’Neill got in a little trouble with coaches for havingtoo much fun on the football field.

During his sophomore season, O’Neill recorded a pair of sacks in one game.After each sack, he did a little sack dance.He said he was going to review the game film to decide whether or not to continue

the dance, which included a little side step and shake of the hips.The next week, O’Neill registered another sack. This time, he went straight back

to the huddle, business as usual.Didn’t he like the look of his dance on film?“No,” O’Neill said. “Konen didn’t”He was talking about his no-nonsense linebackers coach, Jim Konen.

“I THINK WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD TEAM. I HAVE A REALLY

POSITIVE ATTITUDE ABOUT IT. I’M EXPECTING GOOD THINGS. I’M SAD THAT WE LOST (TO EASTERN OREGON), BUT I ALREADY

FORGOT ABOUT IT. I’M ALREADY THINKING WE’RE GOING

TO WIN A LOT OF GAMES.”

Connor O’Neill

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SENIOR LINEBACKER CONNOR O’NEILL is pictured during Tech’s game againstEastern Oregon last weekend.


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Montana Tech split four matches at the St. ThomasInvitatonal in Houston last weekend.

The Orediggers defeated Huston-Tillotson of Austin,Texas, 25-11, 25-19,25-17,and topped Friends University of Topeka, Kan.,25-21, 25-15, 25-12, after losing to Southwestern Assemblies of God 25-20, 26-28,25-21, 25-28, 9-15, and to St. Thomas 25-18, 25-23, 22-25, 25-23.

Montana Tech shook off the scary effects of a gulfswimming accident to bounce back with the Saturdaywins. Nobody was seriously hurt in the accident at theGalveston beach when an undertow swept five team members into the rockyoutcropping. However, cuts and bruises were incurred and made for some soreness.

Michelle Hardy, Emily Matosich, Emily Lobnitz, Gabby Weber,Lacey Phelan and Korey Krumm were comeback leaders.

The all-around play of Kiara Ross was key all weekend. LiberoAllyse Cruise played so well she earned Frontier Conferenceplayer-of-the-week honors.

WestminsterWestminster begins conference play after posting a 3-5 record during the

first two tournaments of the year. All five losses have come against teamsranked in the NAIA preseason top 25.

Ashley Marchant leads the offensive attack with 82 kills and averages 2.83 killsper set. She ranks third in the conference in average kills while also ranking eighth indigs per set at 3.1. Kenzie Mitchell has recorded 65 kills with a .220 hitting efficiencyto start the year. Stephanie Jones Morin leads all Griffin hitters with a .271 hittingefficiency.

Kyndall Kordakis anchors the defense and averages 4.14 digs per set. Her averageis third-best in the league while her 120 total digs is fifth. Katie Vance is posting0.59 blocks per set to rank eighth in the Frontier and her 17 total blocks is 12th most.

Emily Atkinson is second in the conference with an average of 9.17 assists per set.The sophomore setter has 266 total assists and ranks second in the league and 26thnationally in the department.

Lewis-Clark State CollegeLewis-Clark State College women’s team remained at No. 7 in the poll. The

Warriors defeated four teams that were ranked in the preseason Top 25 poll and alsolost a five-set thriller to Southern Oregon, which moved up one spot to No. 13 after its 4-2 start.

Lewis-Clark State seemed to keep laboring to a min-imum at the Bruin Labor Day Classic on Friday. Theseventh-ranked Warriors opened the event with a 25-16, 26-24, 25-17 sweep of Grand View University andthen followed with a 25-18, 25-16, 27-29, 25-16 four-set win over No. 20 Dordt College.

“We played well and had many players step up,” saidLCSC head coach LaToya Harris. “I was very happywith how today ended up.”

The Warriors squared off against an undefeated foein Grand View, but were able to keep the Vikings’offense off balance. Grand View hit just .027 overall

including a negative .056 clip in the first set. The Warriors hit just .179, buthad a 11-7 edge in blocks and a 6-2 advantage in service aces.

“We came out fired up the first set, and everything just kept rolling,”Harris said. “In the second set we relaxed a little bit, got behind a little,and had to push to finish... We regrouped in the third, changed ouroffense some, and served aggressively and that brought our flow back.”

LCSC cruised with comfortable leads in sets one and three and faced itsonly real deficit during the second set. After falling behind 18-13 and then 22-17,

the Warriors scored four in a row to cut the lead to 22-21. From here theteams stayed close until Kelli Tikker and Kaytlyn Coleman combined forthree straight kills to end the set.

Tikker hit .250 to lead the team in total kills with 10, while BrianneBrown and Lauryn Herrick had eight kills apiece and hitting percentages of

.389 and .273, respectively. Devon Jensen led Grand View with nine kills.Ali Hubert, who had a match-high three aces, led L-C with 14 assists, while

Nevena Dragovic had 12. Tikker and Herrick led with 10 digs apiece, and ChelseaStrong led with seven blocks.

Carroll CollegeThe Carroll College volleyball team went 1-1 on the final day of the Concordia

Irvine Tournament Saturday.The Saints lost to No. 9 Concordia Irvine 25-10, 21-25, 25-15, 25-14, before

beating San Diego Christian 25-21, 25-21, 25-19.Individual leaders versus Concordia were Markki Otteson with nine kills,

Maureen Frauenholtz with 23 digs, 14 assists by Caitlin Tocci, and Elli Graff’s threeblocks.

“In the second set we passed really well and our system came through,” said CCcoach Moe Boyle, whose spikers went 1-3 in the tourney, and stand 10-4 overall.

“I think we got Concordia on their heels, but then they came back and they took

Tech spikers split at Houston invite

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Last week Montana Tech didn’t get the runninggame going.

The Orediggers racked up just 83 yards on 33 carries(2.5 yards per carry) in a 31-15 loss to Southern Oregon.

A week earlier, Tech ran for 220 yards on 45 carries(4.9 ypc) in a 50-47 double overtime win overSouthern Oregon.

Tech ran the ball 45 percent of its plays last week.Under offensive coordinator Ted Schlafke, the

Orediggers don’t get too wrapped up in percentageslike that.

They do, however, know they need to do better than2.5 yards per carry.

Behind a young offensive line, the Orediggersshowed they can run the ball effectively in week 1.

Last week, the Orediggers had senior Drew Walteeand junior David Tapia-Pardon join the starting lineupafter sitting out the opener with injuries.

It’s not necessarily fair to say that the offensive linelost the battle of the line of scrimmage.

They didn’t win it, though.This week the Orediggers face a tough defense.Led by defensive end Will Andrews and middle

linebacker A.J. Pasalo, both seniors, the Lights heldMontana Western to 53 yards on 29 carries in lastweek’s 24-17 win over the Bulldogs.

“They’ve got a couple dominant guys there,” Techcoach Chuck Morrell said. “They hopped all overWestern early. They really shut down Western’soffense.”

The Orediggers have high hopes for their group oflinemen that includes Jay Pyburn, Mack Ferko, LoganSims, Keith Mullan, Frank Petitta, Matt Study andAnthony Tanger.

For the Orediggers to win Saturday, that group will

probably have to show why and open holes for PatHansen, who already has six touchdowns in 2011.

Here’s some more key matchups to watch:

TECH VS. TIME OF POSSESSIONAgainst Eastern Oregon, the Orediggers gave up

23 first downs. Too many of them came on third down.A lot of that had to do with the elusiveness of

quarterback Chris Ware and the explosiveness of running back Kevin Sampson.

Saturday, the Orediggers face another tough test insophomore quarterback Derek Lear and junior runningback Stephen Silva.

Lear is in his second year starting after a stellar prepcareer at Class B Fairfield. Against Western he completed 20 of 39 passes for 342 yards.

Morrell said a lot of Tech’s offensive struggles lastweek came down to the defense being on the field fortoo long.

“We need to do a better job defensively just feedingour offense,” Morrell said. “When our offense is up-tempo and they’re going, they do their best.

“When they’re off the field for long periods of time,it’s hard for them to heat up again.”

The Orediggers sacked Ware four times last week.They just missed on three or four more.

The front seven of Ryan Jones, Mike Waldman,Marcus Johnson, Joe Hickey, Kevin Schey, ConnorO’Neill and Joe Semansky have to make those opportunities count this week.

A secondary that will likely start LoganLedgerwood, Daniel Chandler, Nate Kobold and JakeHelbling will be tested by a receiving corps that

includes explosive junior receiver Kyle Johnson, whoracked up 155 receiving yards last week.

Tech is hoping to get hard-hitting safety JordanHeringer back from injury. That would be a big boostfor the Orediggers.

After a fast start by the Lights, Western forced sevenNorthern punts.

If you see Northern punter Juan Garcia on the fieldthat much Saturday night, it’s a good bet that theOrediggers will win.

BATTLE OF THE AGESThe Orediggers are younger than they’ve been in

years, maybe ever.Morrell’s style is different from former coach Bob

Green, who redshirted almost all of his players.With youth comes mistakes.Morrell said he and his coaches have to constantly

remind themselves that they’re not dealing with a veteran group yet.

“It’s easy after one game when you win to move pastthe point that this is still their second game,” Morrellsaid. “There’s 26 guys who have played their firstOredigger football game the previous week. Now it’sjust their second game.”

Limiting the damage on those young mistakes is key.“We know that there’s going to be some ups and

downs,” Morrell said. “We need to do a better job ofnot letting those down swings turn into a bad series, abad quarter, a bad half.”

THE X FACTORLast week, turnovers proved to be the difference at

Alumni. One team took advantage of two turnovers.The other wasted two turnovers.

“Their turnovers turned into 14 points,” Morrellsaid. “Our two turnovers didn’t turn into anything.”

Last week the Lights proved to be an opportunisticteam when they blocked a punt and Ryan Craigreturned it 15 yards for a touchdown.

The team that cashes in on big opportunitiesSaturday, will likely be the team celebrating under thelights.


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“They’re dedicated student athletes to try to play asport that carries from the fall to the spring and keeptheir grades up,” Hitchcock said. “How hard they haveto work is a big issue.”

Staying sharp on the course through Montana winters is so very difficult. The competition of collegesports, however, necessitates that the participant dowhat he or she can, legally, to be as skilled as possible.

It is a promise owed self, school, conference,organization and community.

In the Frontier Conference points are carried fromthe fall part of the schedule to the spring slate.Championships are then decided in April, withadvancement to NAIA postseason following for qualifiers.

The fall season began Thursday for the MontanaTech team. The Orediggers opened in a meet put on atBillings’ Briarwood Golf Course by Montana State-Billings. The competition replaced the WestminsterInvitational on the schedule. Westminster’s meet,

which was to be played on a SaltLake City course, was canceled.

So, the first FrontierConference meet of the fallschedule will be Sept. 19-2oin Helena where Carroll will

play host to its invitationalat the Green Meadow Country Club.Rocky Mountain will put on a tourna-ment Sept. 26-27 in Billings.Hitchcock said he is also hoping toenter the Orediggers in a tournamentthe University of Great Falls is plannngfor early October.

“We may try to go to that,”Hitchcock said. “We hope the weather holds for fallplay. Then, we’ll knock off for the winter, then hit ithard in the spring.”

The coach said he likes the roster for this year’steam.

The women’s squad returnees include junior BrookeDeBolt of Missoula, sophomore Ellie Stanisich ofDillon, senior Whitney Lamb of Missoula, juniorShelby Fortune of Butte and junior Alex Hareland ofButte.

Newcomers include Whiteffish recruit Danielle

McCully and former Fort Benton star Nikki Ferradas.Hitchcock also added recent Miles Community CollegeNo. 1 golfer Bethany McAuley. However, she will missthe fall season with an injury.

Hitchcock said McAuley hurt her back while working a summer job and won’t be recovered enoughto play this fall.

“We have a good bunch of girls who can strike theball,” Hitchcock said. “With Bethany joining us int thespring and Danielle added to the team, I’m anxious to get them on the course.”

Men’s team returnees are sophomore Justin Sullivanof Butte, sophomore Rick McCloskey of Butte andsophomore Dustin Kaste of Great Falls.

New to the team are Milwaukee School ofEngineering transfer Zach Massen, who is originallyfrom Whitefish and carries sophomore eligibility; jun-ior C.J. Kissell from Butte, freshman Lee Paulson fromManhattan, Alec Shull from Missoula and seniorShawn Medland.

“Justin Sullivan is kind of our leader of the team,”Hitchcock said. “He is a skilled golfer.”

The new players are not new to competition, the coach noted.

“I’m anxious to have the new recruits on the team,”See SWING, Page D9

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For the first time in the Chuck Morrellera, the Orediggers must bounce backfrom a loss on the football field.

Montana Tech (1-1 overall, 0-1 confer-ence) will get that chance Saturday whenthey play host to MSU-Northern in a 6p.m. game at Alumni Coliseum.

The game will be the third straighthome game for Montana Tech, which fell31-15 to Eastern Oregon last Saturdaynight.

Morrell said his first loss with theOrediggers stung, and that sting is a goodthing.

“I don’t want us to move on from it tooquickly,” the coach said. “The way I lookat it — and I told the team this — is weinvest time, energy and passion into everygame we play. If you didn’t come out inthe win column and there’s not some partof you that is torn up about it, then Ithink there’s an issue.”

The issue facing the Orediggers thisweek was not dwelling on the loss

for two long.“What I look for, and this is how I

react, whether you win or lose, is youhave about 24 hours,” Morrell said.“You’ve got to deal with either the highsof winning the game or the lows of losing the game within those 24 hours.

“You’ve got to deal with it good or bad,then we’ve got to move on. You can’t gethung up on a win, you can’t get hung on aloss.”

Morrell said his team should be readyto face the Lights in what is — like everyweek in the Frontier Conference — a keyleague matchup.

“We talked about it coming out onMonday,” Morrell said of the Eastern loss.“We evaluated the mistakes that we madeand how we’re going to fix them.

“Now you’ve just got to transition.You’re mind’s got to go right into playing Northern.”

Morrell said he doesn’t want his play-ers to be gracious losers.

“I want to see guys who are down andmaybe a little bit devastated after a loss,”

he said. “That’s that 24-hour window,and then you’ve got to put it behind you.”

Morrell also said his team can learnfrom such a difficult lose.

“There’s two ways to learn,” Morrellsaid. “Sometimes you don’t learn fromwinning big. You can learn from a closewin, like we had in the first week, whichis a fun way to learn.

“You can also learn from a loss, whichis a tough way to learn,” Morrell added.“Both of them have value, but I wouldobviously prefer any day of the week tolearn from winning a close game asopposed to learning off a loss.”

The Lights (1-0, 1-0), meanwhile, arecoming off the high of a 24-17 home winover Montana Western.

Next week, the Lights are back at hometo take on Eastern Oregon.

Tech will hit the road for the first timein 2011 to take on Rocky MountainCollege in Billings.

The Orediggers are hoping anotherbounce-back won’t be necessary duringthat road trip.

Tech ready for bounce-back gameHitchcock said. “All have good

experience. All have played highschool golf, and some have played college golf

“They have good golf skills. Allof these guys are focused golfers.

The Orediggers practice at boththe Butte Country Club and the OldWorks courses, the latter a JackNicklaus-signature course inAnaconda.

“They’ve given us privileges forafternoon play,” Hitchcock said,grateful for the support the courseshave extended to the program.“They’ve been gracious to our teamand that’s really good of them.”

The only way to improve at thegame is to play and Hitchcock saidsuch will be the focus.

“We will try to play a lot of fallgolf,” he said. “It’s exciting,(coaching) the young kids, sobright-eyed.”

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advantage of us.” Boyle praised the play of Otteson on offense, and Emma Priddy ondefense. She added that Lauren Wilder did a great job coming in and playing hard.

“It doesn’t seem right now that we’re all clicking at the same time, just two orthree at a time,” Boyle said.

In the win over San Diego, Kristen Telin hammered 11 kills, Frauenholtz had 17 digs,Tocci passed for nine assists, and Graff stuffed four blocks.

The Saints coach said her club passed much better in the win. “We had such a dif-ferent level of confidence going into that match than the previous three,” Boyle said.“The two matches yesterday were No. 5 and 6 in the country. You see that on paperand I think we were intimidated stepping on the floor against them.

“We didn’t play flawless (against San Diego), that’s for sure — but that’s our youth.”She said Telin put the ball away with force, while Kathleen Mulligan did “pretty well onthe outside.”

“We’re trying to find out who our main starters are going to be and I don’t thinkwe’re at the elite level yet,” Boyle said. “But I believe, with the players we have, thatwe’ll be playing some very good volleyball by the end of the season.”

MSU-NorthernThis past weekend, the Northern Skylights ended nonconference play by going 4-0

at the Dakota Wesleyn Tournament in Mitchell, S.D. And MSU-N head coach BillHuebsch said things are right where they need to be heading into this weekend, saidthe Havre Daily News. “It was really good,” Huebsch said. “What we were able to dodown there, how we played this weekend, I was very pleased. It was good for us to beable to and do what we did, and it really gives us a lot of momentum heading into con-ference play. I was just very pleased with the way the team performed.”

On Friday, the Skylights opened the tournament with a 3-0 sweep of Valley CityState. Northern won by scores of 25-19, 25-11 and 25-17. Kelsey Williams led the waywith nine kills, three aces and 13 digs, while Sierra Diehl had seven kills and Nahe

Keanaaina had 22 assists. Northern then swept Dakota Stateby scores of 25-14, 25-14 and 26-24. In that match,Williams had 12 kills and eight digs, Holly Cartwright had25 digs and Keanaaina had 28 assists.

MSU-Northern kept rolling on Saturday too.The Skylights beat Dickinson State for the third week

in a row, this time by scores of 10-25, 25-13, 25-12 and 25-17. Hillary Isleifson garnered 12 kills and a block,Keanaaina had 27 assists and two aces and Cartwright had10 digs. “That match was important,” Huebsch said to theHavre Daily News. “We came out flat, we didn’t play wellearly on. But the kids responded. You saw them clean uptheir mistakes and after that first set, they played really,really well. I was really pleased with how they responded tothat first set.” In the finale Saturday, Northern took care of

York College 3-1 by scores of 25-12, 23-25, 25-12 and 25-17. Again, in the three sets theywon, the Skylights were dominant. Isleifson had a match-high 18 kills while Williamsadded 14. Keanaaina had 51 assists, Cartwright had 20 digs and Diehl and Victoria Polohad two blocks each.

Rocky Mountain CollegeNo. 8-ranked Embry-Riddle received 13 kills and 13 digs from Jordan Holcomb in

beating No. 18 Rocky Mountain College 29-27, 25-13, 25-23 in a women’s volleyballshowdown at the Embry-Riddle Labor Day Tournament. Embry-Riddle improved to 5-0 in handing 11-1 Rocky its first loss of the season.

Rocky was led by the 11 kills and 12 digs of senior Sara Brunner, who was selected tothe all-tournament team. Kristin Barott compiled 26 assists, while Jamie Elenbaascame away with 14 digs. Later in the day, Madonna University of Michigan beat theBears 25-22, 19-25, 22-25, 25-22, 15-12 to improve to 8-1. Brunner notched 20 kills forthe Bears. Jillian Bates had 11 and Jillian Stanek 10.

■ Information compiled By Bruce Sayler of The Montana Standard from school websites,The Montana Standard, Helena Independent Record, Billings Gazette and Havre Daily News.

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“It was a bad week for me,” O’Neill says. “He wasn’t too happy.”O’Neill has nothing but respect for Konen, who coached inside linebackers for

nine years at Tech.“He was my guy for four years,” O’Neill says. “Me and him spent a lot of time

together. I liked coach Konen. I miss him this year.”O’Neill’s new coaches don’t have to worry about him celebrating too much after a

sack.“I’m not doing dances anymore,” O’Neill says. “I don’t know what it was. I got

made fun of quite a bit for it, still to this day. Everytime that comes up, usually(Kevin) Schey is the one giving me (guff).”

O’Neill started at linebacker and running back for Butte High’s 7-3 team in 2006.He earend first-team All-Conference and second-team All-State honors on

defense that year, helping the Bulldogs earn a home playoff game.O’Neill and offensive lineman Matt Study from Kalispell were the first two play-

ers to sign with the Orediggers in January 2007.O’Neill also played basketball for two years at Butte High under coach John

Thatcher. He wrestled one season under coach Jim Street.“Coach Mac (Jon McElroy) was my triple jumping coach,” O’Neill says. “I had all

the legends.”Then he played three seasons — and one year as a redshirt — under Green at Tech.“I’ve got a whole gamut of Butte legends,” O’Neill says.Now O’Neill, a captain, is helping the Orediggers make a smooth transition to the

Chuck Morrell era.O’Neill says he sees it as an opportunity.“I just went in thinking it’s just a chance to learn a new defense,” O’Neill says. “It

was a new learning experience. Usually in your senior year, it’s supposed to be old

habit, pretty easy. It’s been pretty cool learning a new defense. I’ve enjoyed it. I’mstill learning it, too.”

O’Neill’s position is much different than it was the last three years.“Linebacker is linebacker, but it’s more outside the box, playing the back side,” he

says. “It’s definitely a better fit for my body type. I don’t have to try to bang aroundwith tackles and tight ends all the time.”

That new position means more fun for O’Neill, who is majoring in metallurgicalengineering.

“I get to move around a lot more,” he says. “I like coming off the end, coming andpressuring the passer. In this new defense I get to do a lot of fun stuff.”

Along with fellow senior captains Schey, Drew Waltee and Clay McQueary,O’Neill has made sure those dreaded words “rebuilding year” weren’t part of theevery-day lingo at Montana Tech, which lost 23 seniors from last season and a leg-endary coach.

“For me, that was the last thing I wanted to hear on my senior year, ‘let’s startrebuilding,’” O’Neill says. “That’s not something we ever really talk about.”

After two games, the new-look Oredigger defense — which is depending onyoung players like never before — hasn’t quite gelled.

Tech beat Southern Oregon 50-47 in double overtime in the opener two weeksago.

Last week, Tech lost 31-15 in a game that was littered with missed tackles.“It’s kind of frustrating watching the film on our defense, and I’m making just as

many errors as anybody,” O’Neill says. “But we can play really good when we getgoing and things are clicking.”

Even in the moments after Tech’s loss Saturday, O’Neill looked to the not-so-distant future with optimism.

“I think we have a really good team,” he says. “I have a really positive attitudeabout it. I’m expecting good things.

“I’m sad that we lost, but I already forgot about it. I’m already thinking we’regoing to win a lot of games.”

Then O’Neill hopped on his scooter and drove away with a smile.

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