Joe Harris

St. Louis

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Midwest Bureau Chief and St. Louis Reporter at Courthouse News Service

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De Smet sweeps SLUH to win Missouri boys volleyball state championship

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Joe Harris

CAPE GIRARDEAU — De Smet volleyball coach Tim Haffner entered the Missouri boys volleyball state championship match Wednesday convinced he still hadn’t seen his team’s best match this season. He has now. De Smet concluded its impressive postseason run with a 25-14, 25-19, 25-19 sweep of St. Louis U. High at Show Me Center. “That might have been our best match this season, and obviously the right time to have your best match of the season,” Haffner said. “We played really well.
Road trip! Local teams travel for boys volleyball state championships for first time

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Joe Harris

CAPE GIRARDEAU — Shawn Hughes made quite the entrance before the Class 4 boys volleyball championship match in 2015. Hughes, a standout outside hitter for St. Louis U. High, was nowhere to be seen during warmups. Even his parents were trying to call him from the stands of the Westminster Christian Academy gym. Finally, Hughes came running into the gym during the national anthem.
Rory Luina's dig provides spark, De Smet sweeps Zumwalt South to advance to state final

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Joe Harris

CAPE GIRARDEAU — De Smet libero Rory Luina may have had an advanced scouting report that helped him make one of the plays of the year in the Class 1 semifinals on Tuesday night. Fort Zumwalt South’s Caden Smith let go a laser of a jump serve late in the third set that seemed destined for the floor and a critical Bulldogs’ point.
Tyler Zippay has SLUH's offense humming in state semifinal sweep of Rockhurst

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Joe Harris

CAPE GIRARDEAU — St. Louis U. High setter Tanner Zippay has the volleyball team’s offense cruising in the fast lane. SLUH coach Jeff Cheak handed the keys to the offense to the 6-foot freshman late in the season and Zippay hasn’t looked back. After racking up 54 assists in the state quarterfinal, Zippay had 33 to lead SLUH to an impressive 25-14, 25-15, 25-15 sweep of Rockhurst in the Class 1 semifinals at the Show-Me Center on Tuesday night.
What pressure? De Smet embraces great expectations in boys volleyball state tournament

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Joe Harris

Binge watching Netflix has paid off for the De Smet volleyball team. Spartans coach Tim Haffner was watching a show called “The Playbook | A Coach’s Rules For Life” documentary when inspiration hit. “This particular episode was with Jill Ellis, who (was) the coach for the U.S. women's national soccer team,” Haffner said. “And she was talking about, you know, when the women's soccer team was the No. 1 ranked team in the world, and she had that phrase, pressure is a privilege.
'Tough to stomach': D-backs on wrong side of one-run game yet again

1 week ago | mlb.com | Joe Harris

ST. LOUIS -- It’s looking like Groundhog Day for the Diamondbacks. “There's a lot of frustration,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “You know, there's frustration in the coaches’ room. There's frustration in the players’ space. We're going to get this thing turned around, but it's just tough to stomach right now.”The five losses have come by a total of six runs, with all three games in St. Louis being decided by a single run.
D-backs find offensive identity in 8th-inning rally before late collapse

2 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Joe Harris
D-backs find offensive identity in 8th-inning rally before late collapse

2 weeks ago | mlb.com | Joe Harris

ST. LOUIS -- With an offense that had become homer dependent of late, Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said the team needed to get back to its philosophy of hitting to all fields. The Diamondbacks broke out of their power-reliant funk Saturday with four runs in the eighth inning against the Cardinals. Unfortunately for Arizona, the bullpen struggled once again as the D-backs lost, 6-5, at Busch Stadium.
Zac Gallen unable to escape sixth inning in D-backs' loss to Cardinals

2 weeks ago | mlb.com | Joe Harris

ST. LOUIS -- After Zac Gallen struggled during his last outing, Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo decided to switch things up. That meant reuniting Gallen with catcher José Herrera for the opener against the Cardinals on Friday at Busch Stadium. The decision seemed to pay off, for the first five innings, anyway. A forgettable sixth inning for Gallen and the Diamondbacks erased five innings of dominance as they dropped the opener, 4-3, to the Redbirds.
Justin Martinez activated from injured list by Diamondbacks

2 weeks ago | mlb.com | Joe Harris

ST. LOUIS – Diamondbacks right-hander Justin Martinez was excited to get on the team bus to Busch Stadium on Friday. His teammates were equally as excited to see him. “You don't know how much you love this game until you can’t play,” Martinez said.