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HOCKEY

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Opp. Result ScorePipestone W 51-12Redwood W 67-6Luverne W 45-15W/RRC W 44-21Adrian W 40-22SB-Luton W 54-14Bishop Helan W 65-0Ankeny W 37-33Sioux City E. W 56-18BH/Rock ValleyW 43-18Marshall W 65-6Worthington W 55-16Blue Earth W 43-21

LCWM W 52-15USC W 42-28Byron W 61-15Kasson-Man. L 32-37Zumbrota-M W 42-36W/MLBO W 51-20Waseca W 56-15JWP/WEM W 71-12L-Henderson W 54-18Tournaments

Christmas Tourney 5thRumble on the Red 2ndHayfeld 8thHutchinson 2ndJanesville/WP 1stSection 2A

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Overall record: 26-1-1

SWC record: 6-0

2010-11 JCCwrestling results

Opp. Result ScoreSleepy Eye W 61-26SE St. Marys W 66-24Spirit Lake W 65-50Luverne W 66-55Worthington W 80-61Redwood Val. W 76-51Marshall W 54-39LCWM W 72-42Fairmont W 75-44L-Henderson W 86-57Windom W 72-61Fairmont W 53-41Redwood Val. W 69-54Marshall L 56-62Luverne W 91-68Estherville LC L 40-44MCW W 64-40 TMB W 84-39Pipestone W 58-34Windom W 66-54Pipestone W 62-41St. Peter W 58-44St. James W 71-52Worthington W 53-42Section 3AA

Luverne W 73-51MCW W 53-37Fairmont W 66-34YME W 57-41State Tournament

Minnehaha L 59-60

Overall record: 26-3SWC record: 11-1

2010-11 JCC girlsbasketball results

Back-to-back state titles for wrestlers

Trip to state highlights great season

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Huskies win SWCfor rst time inteam history, winsection title forrst time since 2004

by DAN CONDONSports Editor

Huskies nish asco-state champsafter anotherdominating season


Senior Bronson Steuber works for a pin at the state tournament this year. Steuber won his third individual statechampionship this season and finished his career with 215 wins. He also was a starter on three team state champi-onship teams dur ing his career as a Husky.

Senior William Baker works a takedown this season. Baker led the team with 124takedowns this season and had a record of 40-4.

Brittney Kruse puts up a shot for the Huskies. Kruse averaged 6.5 points and 5.8rebounds per game this season.

It was a season to remem-ber for the Jackson CountyCentral girls basketballteam.

The Huskies started theseason with a team-recordwinning streak of 13 gamesand lost just three timesall season with all threelosses coming to tea ms thatqualied for the state tour-nament.

O n e o f those loss-e s c a m eby a singlep o i n t t oMinneha-h a A c a d -emy in therst round of the Class Astate tournament, bring-ing the season to an endfor the Huskies with a 26-3record.

The trip to state was therst for JCC since 2004.

While the state birth was

the rst in a while, the Hus-kies accomplished some-thing that had never beendone by a basketball teamat JCC: win the SouthwestConference.

The H uskies went 11-1 inconference play, with their

only loss coming in over-time to Marshall, a teamthat made it to state in ClassAAA. The only other Huskyloss on the season came toEstherville Lincoln Central,a team that nished secondin Iowas state tourne y.

Our season was verygood, head coach TomSchuller said. I dont knowif I could hope for a lotmore.

Schuller listed the t rip tostate a s a highlight, as wellas the SWC title.

Its a great accomplish-ment for the girls, he saidof winning the conference.They put in a lot of work to get there.

The work came throughmany seasons together, asthe team a nd Schuller have

b e e n t o -gether al-most everyseason forthe past sixyears.

Thestartingfive have

played together for a longtime, Schuller said. Thatgroup has been together fora while.

The starter s were seniorsBrittney Kruse, CourtneyKruse and Leslie Handzusand juniors Whitney Bur-

meister and Kaylee Benson.Coming off the bench were junior Tracey Steffen andsophomores Marita Rascheand M ichel le VanEpps.Sophomore Angela Hand-zus also had a key reserveroll until a knee injury end-

ed her season.Schuller credits the se-

niors for their leadershipthis season and throughouttheir entire careers in thenavy and silver.

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OUR SEASON WAS

VERY GOOD. I DONT

KNOW IF I COULD HOPE

FOR A LOT MORE.

Tom Schuller

Randy Baker just keepsproducing winners.

The head coach of theJackson County Centralwrestling team producedanother individual statechampion the 29 th of Bakers career and guid-ed the H uskies to a co-statechampionship.

The H uskies lost just onedual all season and nishedthe regular season with arecord of 21-1. JCC rolledthrough the Section 2Atournament before comingback to beat Pierz and Min-neota in the rst two dualsat state.

In the finals, the Hus-kies erased a 22-9 lead andwould up tying Frazee forthe Class A title.

Along the way, the Hus-kies won a tournament inJanesville, nished secondat the Rumble on the Redand at a tournament inHutchinson and were fthat the Christmas Tourna-ment.

I think highlights for mewould have to be the strongshowing at the ChristmasTournament, the runner-upnish at the Rumble on theRed, another section andstate title and the two statenalists we had.

Those two state nalistswere senior Bronson Steu-ber and sophomore Darick Vancura.

Steuber won the third in-dividual state championshipof his career, putting himin rare company, even withBakers incredible coachingresults.

I think anyone that canbe a four-time nalist andthree-time state champi-on is right there (with thebest), Baker said. He has

won the Christmas Tourna-ment, he has some greatwins in his career and a lotof them.

Baker said it takes a lot tobecome a three-time statechamp.

I t takes some ta lent ,but mostly drive and a will-ingness to work hard, setgoals and keep going afterthem, Baker said. I havecoached three three-timestate champions now and

they all wrestled folkstyleand Gre co in the offseason.They werent afraid of com-petition and were very hardworkers. They liked to com-pete a nd liked wrestling.

Steuber went 36-3 thisseason and finished with215 wins, but had to with-stand quite a bit of painduring the second half of the season after injuring hisshoulder.

We didnt get to see himgo out with his guns blaz-ing, Baker said. We sawsome guts and toughnessfrom an injured wrestler try-ing to reach a goal of his thelast half of the season.

Vancura nished secondat state, improving onespot from his finish as afreshman.

What allowed him to n-ish so well, Baker said, wasan adjustment he madefollowing the ChristmasTournament.

He changed some thingsand really did a great job

taking away some weak-nesses he had, Baker said.That was key for his nishon the season.

Vancura now has a car eerrecord of 118-27.

Senior Jordan Phibbsalso qualied for state forthe second year in a row.Phibbs nished the seasonwith a record of 35-11, giv-ing him 65 wins in his naltwo seasons.

Jordan is a rea l warrior,Baker said. He battles re-ally hard and he wants towin bad each time out onthe mat.

Baker credits the seniorswith leading the team dur-ing matches and also in thepractice room.

Phibbs helped seniorBrandon Pygman improveto the point of winning 24matches.

Jordan pushed the up-per weights and helpedBrandon a lot, Baker said.Brandon had a great year.

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Opp. Result ScoreSpirit Lake W 57-54GHEC W 58-41Luverne W 69-52Redwood Val. L 58-77MLBO W 83-63Marshall L 61-68Blue Earth W 65-37USC W 64-42Windom L 58-59New Ulm W 86-45Fairmont L 63-79Worthington L 72-94MCW W 71-63Marshall L 66-89Luverne W 75-58Estherville LC W 82-69St. James W 68-55

Windom W 61-51Pipestone W 61-53Worthington L 54-68Pipestone W 61-53Redwood Val. W 77-66 Tracy-MB L 77-84Blue Earth W 66-54Section 3AA

St. James W 77-30Fairmont W 63-57Windom L 42-62


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Opponent Result ScoreNew Ulm W 129.95 - 121.825St. James W 133.5 - 102.05Blue Earth Area W 136.175 - 127.9Martin County Area L 137.875 - 138.85Marshall W 136.725 - 114.15Luverne W 136.525 - 115.775Windom Area W 140.775 - 123.85Redwood Valley W 133.75 - 128.55Worthington W 138.925 - 132.575Pipestone Area W 141.675 - 127.325Tournaments

Martin County Area 2nd 136.2Sweetheart Invitational 5th 130.275State True Team 6th 168.075Section 3A 2nd 139.755


2010-11 JCC gymnastics results

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Ty Schwarting soars over a defender to get off a jump shot. Schwarting became thefirst Jackson County Central boy to score 1,000 career points. The senior ended hiscareer with 1,160 points.

Senior Courtney Donnelli performs on the balance beam. Donnelli qualified for thestate tournament for the first time in floor exercise this season.


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See JCC BBB on C6For many years, oppo-nents looked at a gameagainst the Jackson CountyCentral boys basketball asa fairly easy win.

That is no longer the caseas the Huskies have becomeone of the best teams in thesection and area.

The Huskies won a team-record 18 games this seasonand were victorious in twoplayoff games for the rsttime in team history.

We nally got over thehump and won a lo t of games and made a nice runin the postseason, saidhead coach Trent Sukalski,whose 58 coaching victorie sput him in a tie with cur-rent assistant coach Mark Kocak for the most in teamhistory.

The Huskies started 3-0and were 6-2 before los-ing three of four games tomove to 7-5. Two of thoselosses were t o Windom andFairmont, teams the Hus-kies would later beat .

The Huskies were 8-6overall and 1-5 in the South-west Conference beforewinning ve games in a r ow.The stretch continued asJCC won eight of 10 gamesto wrap up the regular sea-son with a record of 16-8.

JCC went 5-1 in conferenceplay during that stretch tonish 6-6. The Huskies beatWindom 61-51 and toppedPipestone twice during thatstretch.

We played rea lly well thesecond half of the year, Su-kalski said. I think we justcaught our rhythm and the

guys believed that we coulddo well. They believed thatthey could beat good teamsand played like that. Theyplayed with a lot of con-dence. We believed thatwe were capable of beatinganyone on any given nightand we had enough talentedplayers to do it.

JCC opened t he playoffswith a 77-30 win over St.James and then got revengeagainst Fairmont with a 63-57 win. The season en ded inthe sub-section nals with aloss to Windom.

Windom lost to RedwoodValley in the section nalsand the Cardinals went onto nish fourth at state afterlosing in four overtimes inthe state sem inals.

JCC beat both Windomand RV during the season,

something that proved toSukalski that he ha d a goodteam.

We werent that faraway, he said. We feelpretty good about that.

The biggest reason theHuskies have turned into aconference contender wasthe leadership and playof seniors Ty Schwarting,Bryce Christopher and No-lan Luhmann.

They meant a wholelot, Sukalski said. Theyve

been around the program along time. They really arean example of what I hopeour program is all about.Theyre har d workers, bothin practice and in games.Everyday they wanted toget better and that was abig reason for our success.Theyve meant a whole lot

Brandi Sether-Hassing smiles as she salutes the judgebefore competing this season. Sether-Hassing qualifiedfor the state tournament in bars.

The Jackson County Cen-tral gymnastics team hasbeen a model of consistencyfor nearly a decade.

The Huskies won theSouthwest Conference titlefor the ninth season in a rowafter again going undefeat-ed against SWC teams.

After nishing 9-1 overallduring the regular season,the H uskies nished secondto Martin County Area inthe Section 3A meet theonly team that beat JCC in

Huskies win another conference championshipFour gymnasts

compete at state

a dual this season.Despite nishing behind

the Magic at the sectionmeet again, the Huskieswere able to ha ve four girlsqualify for state individu-ally.

Senior Courtney Don-n e l l i a n d s o p h o m o r e sSydnee Donnelli, BrandiSether-Hassing and Adri-ane Rent schler all qualiedfor state.

For Courtney Donnelli,it was the rst time com-peting in t he state s biggesttournament.

She qualied for state inthe oor exercise after scor-ing 9.175 to nish third atthe section meet. At state,Donnelli scored 8.85 to n-ish 25 th .

Everything came t o-gether for Courtney when

it needed to at the sectionmeet, head coach TammyHandevidt said. It wasgreat to see her qualify forthe state meet for the rsttime as a senior.

Younger sister SydneeDonnelli made it to state invault, bars and all-around.She had the best nish everby a JCC gymnast at statewhen she nished fth onvault with a score of 9.475.Donn elli was also 13 th in all-around (35.35) and 17 th onbars (8.4).

Sether-Hassing nished13 th on bars at state with ascore of 8.675. She nearlymade it in all-around andoor, nishing fth in bothat the section meet.

Rentschler won the bal-ance beam compet i t ionat the section meet with ascore of 9.05. At state, shefinished 23 rd with a scoreof 8.225.

I was very proud to ha vefour girls that qualied forthe state meet, Handevidtsaid.

It took a lot of hard work in the offseason and prac-tice room to get to the pointof qualifying for stat e. But,Handevidt said, things real-ly started looking up for theHuskies midway throughthe season.

After starting 5-1, theHuskies nally topped the140-point mark in a winover Windom Area.

The Windom meet wasa real turning point in ourseason, Handevidt said.The girls came out with alot of re and it r eally gavethem condence for the restof the season.

JCC followed the winover the E agles with a sixth-place nish at the state tr ueteam meet and then beatRedwood Valley, Worthing-ton and Pipestone to wrapup the regular season.

Sydnee D onnelli won thevault in each SWC meetand was the top nisher inthe event in nine of JCCs10 duals. She also won all-around three times during

the season, oor once andbars once.

Sether-Hassing was anall-around champion fourtimes, including three timesin conference meets. Shewon bars and floor fourtimes each during SWCmeets and beam twice.

Rentschler won beamve times during the sea-son, including three timesin conference action. Shealso nished as all-aroundchampion once.

Courtney Donnelli wonbeam once and oor twiceduring the season.

Junior Morgan Halver-son won the beam competi-


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ScoringName Goals Assists PointsAdam Eisenmenger 29 14 43Mitchell Baumhoefner 16 18 34Justin Cook 8 15 23Brett Larson 9 5 14Joseph Voth 5 6 11Kyle Luhmann 0 8 8Kyle Tasler 5 3 8Windom Area 74 80 154

GoaltendingName Shots Saves Save %Ben Stubbe 300 242 80.7Cale Pell 284 225 79.2 Tyler McGowan 156 120 76.9Windom Area 740 587 79.3

2010-11 boys hockey statistics

ScoringName Goals Assists PointsBrandy Kerkaert 8 9 17Shelby Veenker 12 4 16Josie Higley 6 5 11Kylie Willard 1 4 5Aurelia Martinez 1 2 3Kristin Koch 1 2 3Meredith Hentges 0 3 3Kaylee Rosenkranz 0 2 2

K. Schoenenberger 1 0 1Windom Area 30 31 61

GoaltendingName Shots Saves Save %Amber Svoboda 876 706 80.5Astaria Blanshan 124 90 72.6Windom Area 1,000 796 79.6

2010-11 girls hockey statistics

Opp. Result ScoreMarshall L 2-10Mankato East L 4-5Worthington W 7-2Redwood Valley L 5-8Sleepy Eye L 4-6Fairmont W 9-4Sioux Falls L 3-4Simley L 2-13Worthington W 10-1Redwood Valley L 0-8Luverne L 3-4Marshall L 4-14LSH/St. Peter L 1-8Morris-Benson L 1-12Sleepy Eye L 3-4Waseca W 2-1

Morris-Benson L 3-12Fairmont L 3-4Luverne L 2-13New Ulm L 0-11Section 3A

Fairmont L 6-9


2010-11 boyshockey results

Opp. Result ScoreLSH/St. Peter L 1-10Luverne L 0-13New Ulm L 0-11Marshall L 0-18Mankato East L 1-13Worthington L 1-3Redwood Valley L 2-13Luverne L 0-11Fairmont L 1-6Holy Family C. L 1-15Minnehaha L 0-9Worthington W 6-0Redwood Valley W 5-4Austin L 2-11Waseca L 2-7Marshall L 1-8Morris-Benson L 0-8LSH/St. Peter L 0-7Fairmont L 4-6New Ulm L 1-7Morris-Benson L 0-14Waseca L 0-8Section 3A

Fairmont L 1-2


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Eagle girls struggle on the iceAmber Svoboda ma kes a sa ve for t he Windom Area girls hockey team. Svoboda made706 saves for the Eagles dur ing the season.

Back-to-back winshighlight season



Justin Cook takes th e puck toward the net t his season. Cook finished his senior seasonwith eight goals and 15 assist s.

A midseason coachingchange and a 2-20 regularseason record would leada lot of teams to give upon a season, but WindomArea girls hockey headcoach Dean Drahota saidhis team s playoff game wasthe highlight of the season.

Drahota, who took overas head coach after ShawnVeenker resigned midwaythrough the season, saidhe really liked the way histeam played in a 2-1 sea-son-ending playoff loss toFairmont.

Everybody started com-ing together and playingas a team, Drahota said.We came together andplayed excellent; I couldnthave asked anything else of them.

Drahota said it took alittle while for him to getcomfortable as a head coachfor the rst time and it took a bit for his team to get usedto his coaching.

It was tough for me,Drahota said. I had neverbeen a head coach before.All of us were learning to-gether.

Drahota credits assistantcoaches Steve Willard andDick Veenker for help-ing make the transition assmooth as possible.

They helped out a lotand the girls were real re-ceptive, Drahota said. Ittook a while, but e verybodybought in. We still didntwin a lot of games, but wewere a lot more competi-tive.

The E agles won back-to-back games in January fortheir only two wins of theseason.

A big reason for thosewins , which came over

Worthington and RedwoodValley after the Eagles hadlost to both teams earlier inthe season, was the returnof senior Shelby Veenkerto the lineup.

That really started set-ting the table for things wewanted to do, Drahotasaid. We paid Worthing-ton back and got a shutout.Then we beat Redwoodafter Redwood hammeredus (the rst game).

The win over RedwoodValley came in overtimeafter the Eagles blew a latelead.

They came back on usand got in overtime, but wepulled out the win, whichshowed some of the char-acter of the team, Drahotasaid.

The win was the last of the season for the Eagles,but Drahota said the teamkept playing hard.

We got a long bet teras the year went along,Drahota sa id . We hadbetter attitudes and betterteam unity as the team wentalong.

Veenker, the lone senioron the team, led the Eagles

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A key ingredient to mostsuccessful teams is goodsenior leadership and thatwas the case with JacksonCounty Centrals competi-tion cheerleading team.

The Huskies put togetheranother successful season,thanks to veteran leader-ship and a talented crop of newcomers.

Seniors Taylor Egeland,Courtney Henning, ShawnaGrupe and Lauren Vacek have been on the team since

Senior leadership helps Huskieshave another successful season

Photos by Dan CondonLexi Schneekloth (fr om left), Kar lee Wegner, Lauren Vacek, Alyssa Pau lson and Lacey Schneekloth cheer on the J CC wrestlers th is season. The cheerleader s got to cheer forthe Huskies at the Class A state tournament, where JCC finished as co-state champions.

Wrestling andbasketball squadscheer for Huskiesat state, comp.

team nishes thirdat state tourney


they were freshman, and itshowed.

Those that have beenon the te am since they werefreshman have been reallyspecial, head coach BarbTvinnereim said. Their

dedication to the team in-spired a lot of other girls tocome and give cheerleadinga try.

Tvinnereim credited theseniors for helping get theprogram to the level it isat.

Without their leadershipand de dication, we couldnthave the team we have to-day, she said.

Also returning from lastyears squad were seniorKate Anderson and juniorsEmma Smith, Karlee Weg-ner a nd Alyssa Paulson.

Newcomers this year weresenior Natalie Reardon and

juniors Lacey Schneeklothand Lexi Schneekloth.

The new girls fit right

in, Tvinnereim said. Theyworked hard and made itseem like they have beenon the team for years. Iam always amazed at howquickly the new girls learnthe material.

The cheerleade rs wowedthe home crowd during sev-eral halftime performancesand did well at their com-petitions.

JCC opened the seasonwith a fth-place nish ata meet in Edina and thenwas fifth at the Spirit of

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American competition atthe Mall of America. TheHuskies then nished thirdat state, second at a meet atthe University of Minnesotaand were second at the UPANationals in Minneapolis.

We had a good season,Tvinnereim said. We had alot of illnesses and injuriesand we still managed to puttogether good routines ateach competition we wentto. I am proud of the girlsand how well they repre-sented our school.

H e n n i n g , R e a r d o n ,Grupe and Egeland a l lwere named to the HonorTeam of Excellence at thestate competition.

Basketball cheer teamreturns, goes to state

The Huskies had a bas-ketball cheerleading squadthis year after going a sea-son without one. On the Taylor Egeland is held high dur ing a performa nce by the

competition cheerleading team this season.

Tournament ResultEdina Sweetheart 5thSpirit of America 5thState 3rdU of Minnesota 2ndUPA Nationals 2nd

2010-11 JCCcheer results

With just four seniorson the roster, head coachSteve Clark expected a bitof a rough season for hisWindom Area boys hockeyteam.

The Ea gles managed justfour wins on the season,but the improvement andhard work the y showed im-pressed Clark.

They worked hard andthey improved all the time,

Clark said. As long as youcan do tha t, youll keep get-

Young Eagles win just four gamesJCC studentscombine for 17goals and 29 assists


ting better.The Eagles opened the

season with two losses be-fore bea ting Worthington7-2. The Eagles repeatedthe t wo losses followed by awin two more time s to startthe season 3-6. From there,Windom Area won just oneof its nal 12 games to n-ish 4-17.

It was about what weexpected, Clark said. Wewere young and it showedup a lot.

The lone win during thelate-season stretch camewith senior goalie Cale Pell

leading the Eagles to a 2-1victory over Waseca.

Pell played between th epipes and at forward forthe Eagles.

He showed up everyday and worked hard,Clark said. He helpedcarry the team, whetherit was at forward or asgoalie.

Pell made 225 savesduring the season as oneof three Eagles to play ingoalie.

Senior Justin Cook wasthird on the t eam with 23

Cale Pell makes one of his 225 saves for th e Eagles.


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Opp. Result ScoreWWG W 51-45Edgerton W 46-43MCC L 34-53Lincoln Hi W 56-55WWG W 39-32Hills-BC L 40-56RL-Brewster L 44-51Canby W 57-43RRC W 54-47SW Christian L 51-67MLBO L 41-49Fulda L 41-69Adrian W 53-50ML Christian L 33-44WWG W 77-62Ellsworth L 53-77M. Luther L 51-55Luverne L 40-59MLBO L 43-72Ellsworth L 47-71Hills-BC L 36-65RRC L 31-44RL-Brewster L 47-56Section 3A

Adrian W 59-54SW Christian L 38-71

Overall record: 9-16RRC record: 5-12

2010-11 SSC boysbasketball results Averages

Name Points Reb. AssistsJameson Collin 15.0 14.2 1.9Sean Haberman 8.3 3.1 1.6Andrew Kramer 6.9 5.4 1.2Alex Meyer 6.6 5.1 1.9Austin Liepold 5.0 8.3 1.0Luke Henkels 4.5 2.7 0.9Fred Pellegrini 1.4 1.6 0.5SSC 46.5 39.8 9.0

Total Points and ReboundsName Points OR DR Reb.Collin 346 105 221 326Haberman 208 30 48 78Kramer 172 54 80 134Meyer 164 34 93 127Liepold 119 74 126 200Henkels 68 20 20 40Pellegrini 35 11 30 41SSC 1,162 350 646 996

Made basketsName 2-pt. 3-pt. FTCollin 129 4 76Haberman 62 17 33Kramer 66 2 34Meyer 45 15 29Liepold 45 0 29Henkels 24 1 17Pellegrini 12 2 5SSC 394 45 239

2010-11 SSC boys basketball statistics

AveragesName Points Reb. AssistsJennifer Schmidt 11.6 8.2 1.7Connor DeWall 9.6 7.6 1.3Katey Granstra 9.3 9.0 3.5Courtney Place 8.6 2.0 2.8Arianna Hesemann 5.6 2.3 2.0Maddie Rasche 2.0 0.4 1.2Alyssa Hendrickson 1.5 0.7 0.2SSC 48.7 30.7 12.8

Total Points and ReboundsName Points OR DR Reb.Schmidt 280 72 127 199DeWall 232 73 110 183Granstra 223 55 162 217Place 207 8 41 49Hesemann 134 23 31 54Rasche 45 2 8 10Hendrickson 32 5 12 17SSC 1,169 242 494 736

Made basketsName 2-pt. 3-pt. FTSchmidt 112 0 56DeWall 96 0 40Granstra 97 0 29Place 28 34 49Hesemann 36 9 35Rasche 8 8 5Hendrickson 9 0 14SSC 391 51 234

2010-11 SSC girls basketball statistics

Opp. Result ScoreHills-BC L 48-56MLBO W 60-43RRC W 69-59SW Christian L 35-60BOLD L 40-47Madelia W 47-28Martin Luther W 46-31Ellsworth W 54-49WWG L 36-54Adrian L 26-48Canby L 36-59Blue Earth L 31-53Edgerton W 63-48RL-Brewster W 64-52MLBO W 52-38Fulda L 39-70Hills-BC W 56-43RRC W 47-41Luverne W 63-49RL-Brewster W 50-41MCC L 52-54Ellsworth L 49-65WWG L 60-72Section 3A

WWG L 43-51

Overall record: 12-12RRC record: 9-8

2010-11 SSC girlsbasketball results



Jennifer Schmidt drives to the hoop in the Quasars win over Luverne this season.Schmidt averaged 11.6 points and 8.2 rebounds in her junior season.

Senior Katey Granstra looks for an open teammate. Granstra led the Quasars with 3.5 assists and 9.0 reboundsper game.

Jameson Collin puts the ball in t he hoop after gra bbing an offensive rebound. Collin led the Quasa rs with 15.0 pointsand 14.2 rebounds during his junior season.

Senior Alex Meyer hustles the ball up t he court for SSC.Meyer averaged 6.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.9 assistsper game for the Quasars.

After starting 6-3 andeventually 8-7, injuries anda tough schedule causedthe Southwest Star Conceptboys basketball team tolose eight straight games toend the regular season.

The Quasars opened theSection 3A playoffs with athrilling four-overtime winover Adrian before losingto Southwest Christian toend the season with a 9-16mark.

The losing streak startedwith a loss to Ellsworth, ateam that beat the Q uasarsagain during the streak.

We were playing betterteams, th at obviously playeda part of it, head coach TimOwen said.

Injuries to junior James-on Collin, junior AustinLiepold and sophomoreMark Ferguson also hurtthe Q uasars.

Collins high ankle sprainwas particularly difcult, asthe junior led SSC in scor-ing and rebounding.

We were 8-7 when hegot hurt, Owen said. Idsay there was a little bit of a correlation between hisinjury and our record afterthat.

Owen said even after Col-lin returned to the lineupafter missing a few gameslate in the season, he wasntplaying at 100 percent .

Collin still averaged 15.0points and 14.2 reboundsper game and had a school-record 20 double-doubles.He also grabbed a school-record 326 rebounds 221

on defense and 105 on of-fense.Teams were geared to-

ward stopping him, but hestill found a way to put upnumbers, Owen said.

The Quasars had ve oth-ers score at lea st 4.5 points

Injuries derail Quasars down the stretchTeam starts 8-7 before losingnal eight regularseason games

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

per game in senior SeanHaberman (8.3), sopho-more Andrew Kramer (6.9),senior Alex Meyer (6.6),Liepold (5.0) and juniorLuke Hen kels (4.5).

Despi te the balancedscoring, Owen said the of-fensive side of the courtcaused problems for theQuasars, part icularly in thesecond half of the season.

We played all-right de-fensively all year, Owensaid. Offensively, it was astruggle.

The Quasars held theiropponent to 45 or fewerpoints six times this seasonand gave up 55.6 points pergame.

O u r d e f e n s e w a s astrength, Owen said. Thekids bought into that, whichthey needed to do becauseour offense wasnt verygood.

The offense did come onlate in the playoff-open-

See SSC BBB on C6

Despite just one playerwith considerable varsityexperience, the SouthwestStar Concept girls basket-ball team nished 12-12 andwent 9-8 in the Red Rock Conference under rst-yearhead coach Keith Place.

Senior Katey Granstranished her fourth year onthe Q uasar varsity team,but had little experiencearound her.

The inexperience slowedthe Quasars a bit at rst, butthey hit their stride in thelatter third of the season.

At the end of the year,we had some games that weplayed extremely well in,Place said, noting some of

Quasar girls fnish right at .500Inexperiencedteam still managesto win 12 games


those games were close loss-es to good teams. I think we progressed enormouslyfrom the beginning of theyear to the end.

SSC put together threestreaks of at least threewins, including four in a r owthat came in a span of sevenwins in eight games.

The Quasars opened theseason with a loss, but wontheir next two games. Aftertwo more losses, SSC wonthree in a row, including a54-49 win over Ellsworth their closest game allseason.

SSC then dropped fourgames before winning sev-en-of-eight to improve to12-8. The Q uasars lost theirnal three regular seasongames and then lost in thefirst round of the sectiontournament.

Place said the offensekept improving as the sea-son went along.

We put the transition inthe rst day of practice and

worked on it every day andit started paying off for ushalfway through the year,he said. We were able toget the ball out and score intransition. We really startedto attack the basket.

One of those leading theoffense was junior JenniferSchmidt, who averaged a

team-high 11.6 points pergame. She also had 8.2 re-bounds and 1.7 assists eachgame.

Jennifer is an incredibleathlete, Place said. Shehas skills, now we need herto become consistent everygame. She could score 20or 30 points in one gameand then in the same week,score two points.

Place said part of thatcomes from Schmidts in-experience, as this was herfirst full year as a varsitystarter.

Her role will increaseeven more next season.

Shes long, ta l l andstrong, she just needs to

play more, Place said.Shes got the physical toolsand weve got to get her in aposition to help the team inevery way she can.

Granstr as role as a scor-er diminished a bit this year,but that was ne with thesenior.

She was extremely self-

less, Place said. She wouldrather somebody else scoreand she got the ball to them.She didnt care and thatsprobably unusual for a lotof high school basketballplayers.

Granstra , a 61 cen-ter, led the team with 9.0rebounds and 3.5 assistsper game while scoring 9.3points.

The leading scorer isntnecessarily the player thatis contributing the most,Place said. She understoodthat she needed to do morethan score. Her passingability was outstanding.

Junior Connor DeWallaveraged 9.6 points and 7.6

rebounds a game. Whilethose are impressive num-bers, Place said her biggestasset was her defense.

She was our main defen-sive player, he said. Shegot to defend their bestplayer every night and shedid a ter ric job.

Eighth-grader Courtney

Place averaged 8.6 pointsper game and led the Qua-sars with 34 three-pointers.The sharp-shooter steppedup for her team when itneeded a point guard.

We didnt have a truepoint guard and Courtneyended up playing pointguard, her dad and coachsaid. She got better everygame. She loves the ball andwants the ball; thats whatyouve got to have. Shesgoing to be good for a fewyears.

Junior Arianna Hese-mann averaged 5.6 pointsa n d 2 . 3 r e b o u n d s p e rgame.

She was probably ourmost improved player,Place said. She had a pret -ty good overall year.

Junior Maddie Rasche

scored 2.0 points per gameand sophomore AlyssaHendrickson scored 1.5points per game.

Maddie had to playthree positions: the 1, 2 and3, Place said. She had toadjust every time she wentout there because she hadto sub for different people,but she can score.

The Quasars return allbut one starter, giving Placecondence for even morewins next season.

Were going to missKatey, theres no questionabout it, he said. But Ithink were going to havea pretty good team. Weregoing to be senior domi-nated with four girls com-ing back.

The Quasars will alsoadd girls from Round Lake-Brewster, as the Raiderswill become part of the SSCQuasars for girls basketballnext winter.

That will give the Quasar smore depth, something theyhavent had the luxury of having most seasons.

But Place knows it will

take some hard work inthe offseason for SSC toimprove.

Were going to have tochange our style of play abit, he said. Weve gotgood speed, but dont use

it all the time. We need tolearn how to press and someother defensive schemes.

For Place, his rst year asa head coach after many asan assistant was a fun one.

Its a challenge, but I

love it, he said . At my age,its kind of a fun added val-ue type of situation whereI get to work with the kidsand develop players. Thatwas always my passion wasplayer development.


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Team leadersName Record Pins TakedownsDarick Vancura 41-8 27 84William Baker 40-4 13 124Cooper Moore 39-2 21 103Bronson Steuber 36-3 14 90Paden Moore 36-10 17 72Eliot Jurries 36-11 13 119Jordan Phibbs 35-11 20 65Alex Tewes 32-12 20 57Keegan Moore 26-19 15 67Brandon Pygman 24-18 10 26Patrick Hanson 23-12 16 33Dylan Riggle 19-14 8 27Luke Norland 18-8 8 45Kyle Edlin 18-10 11 50 Tanner Menke 17-12 10 36Jordan Biehn 14-14 4 60Dakota Rossow 7-22 5 16 JCC 441-231 235 1,105

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WR: Huskies tie Frazee to win back-to-back team state championshipsContinued from C1



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Whitney Burmeister lines up a shot for the Huskies. The junior averaged 17.3 pointsand 11.7 rebounds per game this season.

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AveragesName Points Reb. AssistsWhitney Burmeister 19.3 11.7 3.3Leslie Handzus 11.6 2.8 6.2Kaylee Benson 11.6 4.4 2.3Courtney Kruse 11.4 5.7 3.3Brittney Kruse 6.5 5.8 2.1Marita Rasche 3.2 3.5 0.8Angela Handzus 2.7 1.2 0.5Michelle VanEpps 1.4 2.0 0.5 JCC 65.7 38.3 19.2

Total Points and ReboundsName Points OR DR Reb.Burmeister 501 126 215 341L. Handzus 335 16 64 80Benson 336 43 85 128C. Kruse 332 103 61 164B. Kruse 189 84 83 167Rasche 94 33 70 103A. Handzus 35 5 11 16VanEpps 40 24 35 69 JCC 1,906 458 652 1,110

Made basketsName 2-pt. 3-pt. FTBurmeister 160 15 136L. Handzus 60 45 80Benson 80 41 53C. Kruse 112 14 66B. Kruse 70 0 49Rasche 36 0 22A. Handzus 10 8 6VanEpps 16 0 8 JCC 560 118 432

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They all did a great joband did a nice job of lead-ing, especially by example ,Schuller said.

Schuller spoke highly of Handzus and the Krusetwins a l l season, com-plimenting Handzus forher all-around game andB r i t t n e y a n d C o u r t n e yKruse for their hustle.

After games peoplewould comment on howhard t hey played, Schullersaid. I dont know if I couldpick out a game when theydidnt play hard. They arean example of how hard youhave to work; th ey dont juststay it, they do it. The e ffortwas there constantly.

Handzus set up the of-fense and dished out aschool record 480 assists inher career. She averaged 6.2assists a game this seasonand also scored 11.6 pointsper game. Handzus also had3.4 steals and 4.7 deection sper game.

Courtney Kruse scored11.4 points a game andgrabbed 5.7 rebounds a con-test. She averaged 3.9 steals

a game, deected 5.7 passesper game and had just thethird triple-double in schoolhistory in a game againstLuverne. Kruse scored 17points, grabbed 13 rebound sand had 10 steals in the win,which came in the playoff opener.

Brittney Kruse scored6.5 points and grabbed 5.8rebounds a game. She had2.7 steals a game and dishedout 2.1 assists.

Handzus is eighth in ca-reer scoring (809 points),Court ney Kruse is 14 th (581)and Brittney Kruse is 17 th (488). The Kruse twins hadnearly identical reboundingnumbers, with Courtneygrabbing 358 in her careerto finish eighth in schoolhistory and Brittney comingin one spot beh ind with 352career boards.

Handzus 480 career as-sists are 113 more than any-one else. Courtney Kruse isseventh on the list (199) and

Brittney Kruse is 11th

(165).Handzus made the mostthree-pointers in school his-tory, sinking 96 long-rangeshots.

Burmeister led the Hus-kies in scoring (17.3 points),rebounding (11.7) and steals(4.2) and also averaged 3.3assists per game.

The junior scored her1,000 th career point and iscurrently at 1,344 for hercareer. That puts her just66 points behind her sis-ter Brooke for the most inschool history.

Burmeister already hasthe school record with 926rebounds, nearly 100 morethan any other H usky.

Benson scored 11.6 pointsper game and a lso averaged4.4 rebounds, 2.3 steals and2.3 assists.

She has 657 career points,putting her 12 th in schoolhis tory. She is th i rd inschool history with 69 madethree-pointers and is in thetop 10 in blocks (21) anddeections (241).

Rasche averaged 3.5 re-bounds and 3.2 points pergame and VanEpps grabbed2.0 rebounds a game.

Schuller was impressedwith his teams overall bodyof work this season and saidhe will always remember theKruse girls diving aroundfor loose balls on the oorand Leslie Handzus gluedon the person shes guard-ing.

Those three are the onlyplayers the Huskies lose,giving Schuller hope foranother successful seasonnext year.

We have to starters com-ing back and a lot of kidsthat have experience com-ing back, he said. Someof the kids we have back runvery well, which is good forthe system were playing.

With his thoughts alreadylooking ahead, Schullercant help but reminisce ona wonderful season.

We had a very enjoyableyear, he said. Everybodycontributed to it; the coach-es, players and parents.

I never expected him tobe the s tar ter. Brandonsurpassed many expecta-tions.

Another senior who hadan excellent season wasWilliam Baker, who wasa Husky for the rst timethis season. William Bake rfinished the season 40-4and led the team with 124takedowns.

William was re al steady,his coach and uncle said.He never los t a matchat team sections or stateand he added a lot to ourlineup.

Baker narrowly missedqualifying for state as anindividual, finishing thirdin a loaded bracket at theSection 2A individual tour -

nament.Junior Cooper Moore

dominated all season untilan injury in the individualstate tournament ended hisquest for back-to-back statechampionships.

Cooper Moore is oneof the best guys I have everhad a pleasure to coach,Baker said. He goes re-ally hard and mo ves people

really well; he has a lot of tools. I wish it would haveended differently for himthis year.

Moore nished the sea-son with a record of 39-2,giving him a career mark of 188-27.

H i s b r o t h e r s , P a d e n(eighth-grade) and Keegan(seventh-grade) wrestled

well in the bottom third of the lineup for JCC.

Paden nished the seasonwith a record of 36-10 andqualied for state for therst time. Paden now has acareer r ecord of 54-31.

Paden had a great yearfor his age, Baker said.I was really amazed athim in practice and in hismatches.

Keegan Moore went 26-19 in his first season onvarsity.

Junior Alex Tewes fin-ished 32-12, sophomoreEliot Jurr ies nished 36-11and junior Patrick Hansonwas 23-12, giving the Hus-kies 11 wrestlers with atleast 20 wins.

Also seeing consider-

able time on the mat weresophomores Dylan Riggle(19-14), Kyle Edlin (18-10)and Tanner Menke ( 17-12);freshmen Jordan Biehn (14-14) and Dakota Rossow (7-22); and eighth-grader LukeNorland (18-8).

Baker said all of thosewrestlers improved through-out the season.

I think we had a lot of

improvement from Dakota,Jordan Biehn, Dylan, Alexand Tanner, Baker said.They perhaps improvedthe most, along with Van-cura. The rest of the guysimproved, but it was polish-ing what they already knewand did.

Baker credited Riggleand Hanson for bumpingup and down the lineupwhenever needed.

Guys like Pat Hansonand Dylan Riggle helpedout a lot when they weighedin wherever we neededthem at to help give us a fewoptions, Baker said. Thatwas key and they need a lotof credit for that. That al-lowed us to get a few match-ups in duals we wanted.

Their versatility was im-portant because the H uskies

had some injuries through-out the season.Edlin and Norland both

missed part of the seasonwith injuries, somethingthat hurt the team and keptthe two from rea ching theirfull potential.

Luke is very tough andmost people never got tosee him get after it becausehe wrestled hurt most of the year, Baker said, add-ing Edlin was injured frommid-January until the end

of the season.We had perhaps more

than the usual or our fairshare of injuries, Bakersaid. So some guys wres-tled hurt and some sat outfor a time.

For that reason, Bakersaid the team ended uphaving more success thansome of the individuals,who couldnt pe ak because

of various ailments.I thought we had a greatseason and overcame somesignicant injuries, he said.The team perha ps nishedbetter than our individu-als did overall, but it wasa great nish consideringeverything.

And Baker expects moreof the same next season.

I think we will be bet-ter next year, Baker said.That may seem strange tosay after going 26-1-1. We

will lose four very talentedseniors, but bring a lot of talent b ack. If the guys work

hard in the offseason, wecould be tougher than wewere this season.

BH: Four winsContinued from C3

points. Cook scored eightgoals and ha d 15 assists,the second most on theteam.

Justin was a four-yearplayer and got better ev-ery single year, Clark sa id . He was one of the guys that carried theteam.

Junior Bret t Larsonscored nine goals and

hade ve assists to nishwith 14 points, the fourthmost of any Eagle.

Hes good, Clark said. He has improvedand he keeps workinghard. Hes gotten a lotbetter.

Sophomore Kyle Luh-mann recorded eight as-sists during the season,putting him fourth onthe team.

He was the most valu-able defenseman we had,Clark said. Hes only a10 th-grader so well havehim for two more years.

Junior Adam Eisen-menger led the Eagleswith 43 points. He scoreda tea m-high 29 goals andadded 14 assists.

Junior Mitchell Baum-hoefner led Windom Area

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With quite a bit of tal-ent coming back nextyear, things are lookingup for the Eagles.

Everybody will be ayear older and a yearsmarter, Clark sa id .Hopefully well be ableto t ransla te that in tosome more wins.


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Zach Copley goes str ong to the hoop for t wo points.

Bryce Christopher flies to the bas ket for two of his 341 points this season.

Morgan Halverson performs on the balance beam this season.

ing win over Adrian, a s theQuasars scored at the buzz-er to force overtime andthen used another buzzer-beater to extend the gamebefore winning 59-54 in thefourth overtime.

Other highlights werewinning the Candy CaneClassic with wins over Lin-coln Hi and Westbrook-Walnut Grove and overallsolid play during the rsthalf of the season.

Owen credi ts h is twoseniors, Meyer and Haber-man, for their leadershipall season.

Our two seniors wereterrific for us all year,Owen said.

Meyer played point guarddespite being better suitedfor playing on the wing. It isthat selessness that Owensaid helped SSC.

We needed a point guardand he was willing to do it,Owen said. Thats the waythose two were; he and Seanwere willing to do whateverit was to make the teambetter.

Meyer averaged 1.9 assistsand 5.1 rebounds per gameand Haberm an grabbed 3.1rebounds and dished 1.6 as-sists a game.

Liepold grabbed 8.3 re-bounds per game, secondonly to Collin.

The Q uasars also got con-tributions from exchangestudent Fred Pelligrini and

junior Jacob Olson.SSC brings back all but

three players, includingCollin.

But Owen knows the65 forward will again bethe center of atte ntion nextseason.

Hes going to face thesame thing next year andwill have to elevate to an-other level to continue withthose numbers , Owensaid.

The Quasars will alsoadd a group of sophomoresthat won more than a dozengames under the coachingof Les Knutson.

He was very helpful,Owen said of Knutson.Anytime you can have ahall-of-famer on the side-line, thats a nice thing. Hedid a rea l nice job with ourB squad. They got someexperience and they learnedsome things with Les sothatll hopefully pay off next year.

SSC will change sectionsnext year, something that

GH: Drahota hopes to be back as head coach of Eagles next seasonContinued from C3

SSC BBB: Quasars start out 8-7 before losing eight straight gamesContinued from C4

with 12 goals. She addedfour assists to finish with16 points.

S o p h o m o r e B r a n d yKerkaert led the Eagleswith 17 points, coming oneight goals and a team-highnine assists. Junior JosieHigley also hit double-digitscoring, netting six goals

and picking up ve assistsfor her 11 points.The Eagles lose jus t

Veenker next year, givingDrahota hope for a moresuccessful season.

It will be hard to replaceShelby, but shes the only

senior we lose, Drahotasaid. Weve got a good re-turning group.

One of those returningis junior Amber Svoboda,who moved to goalie earlyin the season.

Svoboda, who had neverplayed in the net before, im-proved as the season went

along and ended up witha save percentage over 80percent. She h ad 706 saveson the 876 shots she faced.

For Amber to step upand improve the way shedid throughout the yearwas important, Drahota

said. Her numbers didntend up being great, but hergoals against went downabout three from the rsthalf of the season and sheraised her save percentageabout 10 percent.

Drahota liked the lead-ership Svoboda showed asshe made the transition to

goalie.Thats not somethingyou just jump in and startd o i n g , h e s a i d . S h eshowed great improvement.If she keeps working hardand wants to go at it, she hasthe skill to do well.

As far as Drahot a, heshoping hes back on thebench to coach the Ea-gles again.

Drahota said no of-cial decision has beenmade yet, but he hopeshes the man leading theteam.

It was a fun year, he

said. We had a lot of upsand downs. If they wantme back, Im denitelygoing to go back and doit again.

squad were Grupe, seniorJennie Vrchota , sopho-more Sabrina McConnell,freshman Jenna Petersenand eighth-grader Kortney

Porter.The girls fired up thecrowd for the boys andgirls basketball teams a ndgot to cheer on the girlsbasketball team at the ClassA state tournament.

I t was nice to havethe basketball cheerlead-ers return, Tvinnereimsaid. The group was fairlyyoung, yet added a lot of spirit to both the girls andboys games.

Wrestling squad also cheersat state

The wrestling cheer squadalso got to cheer at state asthe wrestlers nished as co-

state champions.It is always an honor tobe able to cheer at the statemeet, Tvinnereim said.The girls really enjoyedthe opportunity and triedto encourage the teams tovictory.

Members of the wrestlingcheer team were Vacek,Wegner, Paulson and theSchneekloth t wins.

Cheer: Another successful seasonContinued from C3

AveragesName Points Reb. Assists Ty Schwarting 22.5 4.5 5.3Bryce Christopher 12.6 5.6 2.7Nolan Luhmann 8.5 4.4 4.9Jon Harmening 8.0 6.2 0.7Zach Copley 7.1 7.1 2.0Cody Gettler 3.8 3.5 0.3Logan Hall 2.3 1.9 1.3Phil Buschena 1.4 2.3 0.1 JCC 66.2 35.7 17.3

TotalsName Points Reb. Steals AssistsSchwarting 608 121 52 142Christopher 341 151 56 71Luhmann 229 119 32 133Harmening 183 142 41 15Copley 192 192 49 54Gettler 100 91 25 7Hall 62 52 34 36Buschena 38 61 4 2 JCC 1,787 965 299 468

Made basketsName 2-pt. 3-pt. FTSchwarting 149 65 115Christopher 74 43 64Luhmann 57 28 31Harmening 77 0 29Copley 70 4 40Gettler 27 9 19Hall 21 1 17Buschena 13 0 12 JCC 496 152 339

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in getting our program toanother level.

Sukalski said the t rio dideverything they could to geta W for the Huskies.

Theyre team -rst guys,he said. They want theteam to do well.

That meant helping a sup-porting cast that featured

juniors Logan Hall, CodyGettler and Phil Buschena,

sophomore Zach Copleyand freshman Jon Har-mening get better everyday.

They worked great withthe oth er players, Sukalskisaid of the seniors. Theyencouraged the under class-men and led by example.

Schwarting became the

programs leading scorerand was the rst JCC boyto eclipse the 1,000 pointplatea u, nishing with 1,160points. He also ranks in thetop 10 in assists (secondwith 285), games played(fourth with 68) and re-bounds (seventh with 272).

S c h w a r t i n g s c o r e d aschool-record 40 points ina win over Redwood Valley

late in the season and n-ished his nal season withan average of 22.5 points,5.3 assists and 4.5 reboundsper game.

Chris topher averaged12.6 points per game thisseason and finished hiscareer sixth on the scoringchart with 685 points. His

314 career rebounds arefth, as are his 67 gamesplayed. Christopher alsoaveraged 5.6 rebounds pergame this season.

L u h m a n n i s t h i r d i nschool history with 261assists. He averaged 4.9 as-sists, 4.4 rebounds and 8.5points per game this season.The point guard wraps uphis career with 469 career

points and 233 boards.Harmening averaged 8.0points per game after be-ing moved up to the varsitysquad early in the season.He nished with 183 pointsand 142 rebounds, an av-erage of 6.2 rebounds agame.

I thought Jon was out-standing as a freshman,Sukalski said. To be ableto compete against someof the people he had to inthis conference and holdhis own was impressive. Heknows how to play, knowswhere to put his body, hasgood feet, good hands and isa very coachable kid.

Copley led the team with7.1 rebounds per game. Healso scored 7.1 points pergame, with his points andrebounds ending at an iden-

tical 192.I thought Zach had areally good year, Sukalskisaid. He rebounded well,passed well and he defendswell.

G e t t l e r a v e r a ge d 3 . 8points and 3.5 reboundsp e r g a m e , H a l l s c o r e d2.3 points per game andBuschena scored 1.4 pointsand grabbed 2.3 reboundsper game.

Those three guys, theirroles were very important,Sukalski said. Logans areally good defender. Hecame off the bench and wasa little spark for us. He has

quickness that nobody elseon our team doe s. Cody hasthe ability to put the ball inthe basket and hes a goodrebounder. Phil also did anice job for us. He camein and rebounded well anddefended well for us.

E v e n b e f o r e l i s t i n gSchwartings 40-point gam eand 1,000-point mark anda trip to the sub-section -nals as highlights, Sukalskinamed coaching the team ashis most enjoyable memoryof the season.

I think the highlightfor me was just coachingthem, he said. Theyrea good group; a really fungroup of kids that bought

into what we were doing.The highlight for me was

going to practice everydayand getting to coach theseguys.

While Sukalski was re-ally happy with the season,he knows he hasnt beenbuilding the program for

just a few years of success.Whats important to be

is to go from good to great,he said. We have to striveto be consistently good andthen from there, be great.

That challenge now fallsin the hands of Copley,Harmening, Buschena andGettler, as well as otherswho got a taste of varsityaction this season.

leaves Owen with mixedfeelings.

Its kind of nice to getout of Section 3 becauseour section has been pretty

tough at the state level, hesaid. But now we move toSection 2 and theyve gotthe defending state cham-pion.

The key for us beinggood next year is how muchtime these guys are goingto put in, Sukalski said.They have to put time intothe gym both playing gamesand individually working ontheir game.

The Huskies might fea-ture a bigger lineup thannormal, with Harmening,Copley, freshman NolanHohenstein and others pro-

jecting to give the Huskiesgood size the next coupleof years.

But Sukalski also likesthe compe tition he will havefor other p ositions.

Itll be very competi-tive, he said. Im excitedabout the future.

tion once this season. She,along with senior HannaFraser, junior Ha iley Timkoand eighth-grader MichaelaVancura rounded out thevarsity lineup for J CC.

Handevidt said it was off-season work that he lped theHuskies win another South-west Conference title.

I feel the girls workedhard in the offseason toincrease their level of dif-culty and that really paidoff during the season, shesaid. Working out in theoffseason really pays off because the harder-levelskills take more time thanthe compet ition season willallow.

It will take more of thesame again this offseason,but Handevidt expects an-

other successful seasonnext year.If the girls keep work-

ing as hard in the offseasonas they did last year, nextyear should be very prom-ising for the JCC team,Handevidt said.

Sydnee Donnelli competes on the bar s this year, one of three events she ma de it to sta te in.

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