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SECTION C MARCH 14, 2013

SPORTS

REVIEW

JCC gymnastics resultsOpponent Result ScoreNew Ulm W 136.825-126.375St. James W 136.575-93.35BEA W 142.7-124.075Marshall W 136.325-124.075Luverne W 141.125-126.225

Windom/ML W 142.825-135.3Redwood Valley W 141.375-122.525Worthington W 142.2-135.0Pipestone W 143.825-120.375Tournaments

Blue Earth Area 1st 135.425Martin Co. Area 1st 139.875Sweetheart 3rd 139.625State True Team 5th 173.325Section 3A 1st 143.125Class A State 6th 141.3

Overall record: 9-0SWC record: 6-0

JCC wrestling results

Opp. Result ScorePipestone W 47-21Fargo North W 59-21Fargo Davies W 48-30BEA W 45-28Adrian W 38-30Ankeny L 48-33Bishop Heelan W 50-18Storm Lake W 54-22BH/Rock Valley W 38-35SC East W 60-18Marshall W 47-24Worthington W 46-24Luverne W 55-18Redwood Valley W 58-18LCWM W 35-33Byron W 43-28Simley L 53-14Centennial W 44-24Windom/ML W 43-25NL-Spicer W 42-33Tournaments

BEA 2ndJCC 1stChristmas 11th

Rumble 3rdHutchinson 1stJanesville 1stSection 2A tournament

Blooming P. W 69-6NRHEG W 48-18USC W 49-19Class A state tournament

Barnesville W 43-19Chatfeld W 39-25Frazee W 38-22


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For a while during theseason, it looked like in-

juries might put an end tothe Jackson County Central

wrestling teams dominanceo Class A.

But the Huskies gothealthy down the stretchand ended the season withtheir ourth straight statechampionship.

We knew we would bevery tough i everyone wasin the lineup, head coachRandy Baker said. We hadsome wrestlers that were re-

ally tough outs and a gooddeal o balance through therest o the lineup. Havingsome guys that would behard to beat, period, andgood balance was real nice.

Sophomore Luke Nor-land who was rankedNo. 1 at 152 pounds dealt

with injuries the second halo the season, as did seniorTanner Menke, who cameback rom a knee injury justin time or the postseason.Freshman Keegan Mooremissed the early stages othe season ater recoveringrom an injury suered dur-ing the ootball season.

It was dicult at times

Another season, another state title or JCCHuskies gethealthy at the righttime, win ourthstraight Class Achampionship

with the injuries and match-count issues to keep a toughlineup, Baker said. But atthose times we were gettingexperience or the other

wrestlers.Through it all, the Hus-

kies won their ourthstraight Southwest Coner-ence title, went 24-2 and

won thre e tea m tour na-ments. JCC was also thirdin the prestigious Rumbleon the Red in Fargo, N.D.,and 11th in the ChristmasTournament.

One o the highlights orme was watching the guysbattle at the Rumble on theRed to try to win that tour-nament, Baker said.

Senior Darick Vancurawon an individu al cham-pionship at the Rumble,sophomore Paden Moorenished second, senior El-iot Jurries was third andNorland was sixth.

Those our, plus our oth-ers, all qualied or the in-dividual state tournament,

which Baker listed as thebiggest highlight based onthe Huskies success in boththe team and individualportion.

Ater rolling through theSection 2A team tourna-ment, the Huskies beatBarnesville and Chateldin the state tournament tomeet up with Frazee in thenals.

The top-ranked Huskies

used a strong perormanceorm the middle o itslineup to beat the second-ranked Hornets 38-22.

Then came two individualstate championships andour other Huskies on thepodium.

V a n c u r a w o n t h e170-pound state champi-onship or the second indi-

vidual championship o hiscareer. Vancura who be-came the rst JCC wrestlerto win ve team state titles

was 43-2 as a senior andranked No. 1 in Class A allseason long.

Vancura nished his ca-reer with a record o 215-33 which is in the top 30 ormost wins or a Minnesota

wrestler and added a sec-

ond- and third-place nishat state to his two titles.Jurries also inished

his career atop the po-dium at state, winning the132-pound class or his rststate championship. Jur-ries went 42-4 this winterand won the section titleor the rst time. For hiscareer, Jurries had a recordo 157-57.

The Moore brothers pro-vided some toughne ss tothe heart o the lineup and

combined or 73 wins.Paden Moore inished

second at the state tourna-ment and was th at theChristmas Tournament. He

won the section champion-ship and nished the season

with a record o 39-6. Paden

Moore has a career recordo 137-46 with two seasonsremaining.

Keegan Moore nishedthird at the state tourna-ment ater winning his sec-ond section championship.Keegan Moore had a recordo 34-4 on the season and is95-32 or his career.

Junior Jordan Biehn n-ished ourth at state ater

winning the 120-pound sec-tion championship. Biehn,

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Darick Vancura went 43-2 this season and won his second individual state champion-ship. In his career, Vancura won 215 matches and five team state titles.

Senior Eliot Jurries gets a hug from head coach RandyBaker after Jurries won his first individual state cham-pionship. Jurries was 42-4 on the season. See WR on C4

See GYM on C4

One long string o success continued orthe Jackson County Central gymnasticsteam and the Huskies are hoping anotheris just in its beginning stages.

The Huskies won the Southwest Con-erence championship or the 11 th straightseason and won the Section 3A title or thesecond season in a row.

The Huskies were unbeaten in duals this

Second straight trip to state makes season a huge success

JCC gymnasts win 11th SWC

championship in a row

season, sporting a perect 9-0 mark overalland 6-0 record in the conerence.

JCC also won two regular-season tourna-ments and nished third at the SweetheartInvitational and th at the state true teammeet.

But all that meant little i the Huskiesdidnt make it back to the state tournament.

The Huskies erased any doubt o thatas they dominated the section tournament

with a score o 143.125 the highest everby JCC in the section meet.

At state, the Huskies nished sixth orthe second season in a row. The 141.3scored by JCC is its highest score at state.

It was an amazing season ull o greatperormances and wonderul achieve-ments, head coach Tammy Handevidtsaid.

For Handevidt, the most memorableachievement was going back to state.

The highlight o the season had to beadvancing to the state tournament or thesecond year in a row, she said. It wasthe teams ultimate goal as they startedthe season.

Having been to state a season ago madethings a bit easier or the Huskies this

winter.It always helps having experienced

individuals who have been to state in thepast and our seniors had been there both asindividuals and as a team, so that denitelyhelps as the younger ones look to the cap-tains or their leadership, Handevidt said.

The three seniors on the team led theway all season and all capped careers onJCCs varsity that began back in seventhgrade.

Sydnee Donnelli, Brandi Sether-Hassingand Adriane Rentschler all made multiple


Senior Sydnee Donnelli is the only Jackson County Central gymnast to advance to theindividual state tournament six straight seasons. This year, she qualified for state inall-around, floor, bars and vault.


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JCC girlsbasketball results

Opponent Result ScoreSESM W 70-62Sleepy Eye W 65-44St. James W 67-31Spirit Lake L 75-53Luverne L 54-44Worthington L 67-65Redwood Valley W 62-51Marshall L 84-44Windom L 70-51MVL W 80-77USC L 60-44St. Clair W 58-47Pipestone W 72-49ELC L 66-25Blue Earth Area L 52-48TMB W 67-57Fairmont L 48-43

Redwood Valley L 55-45Luverne L 60-46Marshall L 74-36Windom L 46-40MCW L 67-63Pipestone L 48-39St. Peter L 73-51Worthington L 59-40Section 3AA tournament

Fairmont L 35-56


JCC boysbasketball results

Opponent Result ScoreGHEC W 70-56Mt. Lake W 80-77Luverne L 62-56Redwood Valley L 70-50Marshall L 80-50Windom W 62-60USC W 72-64Blue Earth Area W 68-35MCW L 59-47Pipestone W 57-42ELC W 79-63Worthington L 84-71TMB W 60-47Fairmont L 65-60Luverne W 66-61Marshall L 86-63Windom W 83-66St. James W 65-46Pipestone W 58-39Worthington L 84-79Redwood Valley L 67-54Nicollet W 81-44St. Clair W 72-61Blue Earth Area W 67-55Section 3AA tournament

Luverne W 70-56Fairmont L 65-56


Sometimes things takea turn or the worse and

Promising start ades with losing streak or JCC girlsHuskies startedout 8-8 beore 10straight losses

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Sports Editor

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

theres just not much youcan do to stop it.

That seemed to be thecase or the Jackson CountyCentral girls basketballteam, which started theseason 8-8 beore losing itsnal 10 games o the seasonto nish 8-18. The Huskies

were 2-10 in the SouthwestConerence.The losing streak start-

ed and ended againstFairmont. The Cardinalstopped JCC 48-43 on Jan.14 and then put an end tothe Huskies season with a56-35 loss in the rst roundo the Section 3AA playos.

Our shooting steadilydigressed during the year,head coach Tom Schullersaid.

And everything the Hus-kies tried to do to changethat didnt provide muchhelp.

Its not like we didntwork on it, Schuller said.We tried everything; we

we re co ld r om ev er y-where.

Schuller said the Huskieswere able t o stay in somegames late in the seasonbecause o their deense.

I thought deensively wekept improving, he said.It just because increasinglydicult to score.

What also hurt the Hus-kies was a season-endinginjury to starting guard JuliaSchumann.

That deinitely set usback, Schuller said.

But there were still high-lights or the Huskies this

winter.JCC started the season

3-0, with the rst two winscoming at a tournament inSleepy Eye.

The Huskies then lostthree straight and hungaround the .500 mark untilthe losing streak.

Schuller said the best wincame just ater Christmas ata tournament in St. Clair.

Probably our best win othe year was beating Minne-sota Valley Lutheran at theChristmas Tournament,Schuller said. They wereundeeated at the time.

That loss was the only onein the rst 17 games or theCrusaders.

But the mo mentumdidnt last long as the Hus-kies won just three moretimes all season.

It was obviously disap-pointing, Schuller said othe season. You hope to

win more games than that.The Huskies had six play-

ers average at least ivepoints-per-game this seasonand three grab at least verebounds a game.

Sophomore Kaylee Bur-meister led the Huskies onoense with 11.2 points-per-game and also averaged7.4 rebounds, 2.8 steals andtwo assists per game.

Burmeisters 71 careerthree-pointers are alreadyourth in team history, asare her eight double-dou-bles. She has racked up555 career points with twoseasons let at JCC. Her 33three-pointers this winter

are the th most or a sea-son and her 193 rebounds

were seventh most.Senior Lydia Brandt

grabbed 214 rebounds thisseason, the sixth most inJCC history. She graduatesthird in team history with11 career double-doubles.

Brandt averaged 10.0points and a team-high 8.6

rebounds per game and alsohad 34 steals and 29 assists.

Senior Marita Rascheplayed in 106 games in hercareer (the ourth most inteam history) and averaged8.6 points and 5.7 reboundsper game this season. Shegraduates with 531 careerpoints (17th), 467 rebounds(sixth), 166 steals (11th) and

78 blocked shots (second).Schumann and senior

Ange la Handz us orme da ormidable duo at guardbeore Schumanns injury.Schumann averaged 5.3points, 4.1 assists, 3.0 re-bounds and 2.9 steals pergame and Handzus aver-aged 5.0 points, 2.6 assists,

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Sophomore Kaylee Burmeister led the Huskies with 11.2 points-per-game this seasonand has 555 career points.

For the Jackson CountyCentral boys basketball

team, the biggest loss othe season might have hap-pened beore the rst whis-tle blew at the teams rstpractice.

Senior Zach Copley, whoaveraged 9.3 points and5.7 rebounds per gamelast season, was hurt dur-ing the ootball season andmissed the entire basketballseason.

But the Huskies over-came the injury and puttogether a 16-10 season.

We had high expecta-tions or this season and

were dealt a blow with Zachbeing out, head coach

Deep team helped Huskies win 16 gamesAer 2-3 start, JCCboys started rolling

Trent Sukalski said. Wehad to deal with that andbuild over a little bit.

A ew Husk ies had toadjust to new roles becauseo the injury, but hard workmade things work out.

We had to make somechanges on how we weregoing to go about things,

Sukalski said. I thought wedid a really good job withthat. The guys stepped upand lled roles nicely. Theyreally made a commitmentto getting better in practiceevery day.

The Huskies started theseason 2-3, but won ve otheir next six to sit at 7-4.Even with a tough South-

west Conerence schedulethat saw JCC go 5-7, theHuskies managed 15 winsin the regular season beorebeating Luverne in the Sec-tion 3AA opener. The sea-son then ended with a lossto Fairmont in the sectiontournament.

It was a very good year,Sukalski said. I was veryhappy. We got to be verygood by the time it was allover.

Included in the 16 winswere two victories over rivalWindom Area, two wins tocome home with a tourna-ment championship in BlueEarth and an early-season

win over Mt. Lake Area,which plays or a sectionchampionship tomorrow(Friday).

A lot o good thingshappened, Sukalski said.Beating Windom bothtimes, especially beat-ing them up there on thelast-second shot by Taylor(Christopher), was a nicehighlight or us.

Christopher saved hisbest game or last as hescored a career-high 31points in the playo loss toFairmont. The senior guardaveraged 15.4 points, 3.4rebounds and 5.1 assistsper game this season. Healso had 51 steals to leadthe team.

Christophers 589 careerpoints are 10th in team his-tory and his 199 career as-sists are the sixth most.

Junior Jon Harmeningscored 455 points this sea-son and sits just our shy o

1,000 or his career. His 17.4points and 12.2 reboundsper game both led the team.

Harmenings 996 careerpoints are second in teamhistory and his 75 gamesplayed are second.

Harmening entered theseason as the schools all-time leading rebounder

with 408 and hauled in 316more rebounds this seasonto sit at 724 or his career.

Senior Austin Hinkeldeyhit 27 three-pointers thisseason and inished with253 points or an averageo 9.7 per game. He alsohad 2.8 rebounds a game.Hinkeldey scored 369 ca-reer points.

Junior Darnell Taylor-Breck scored 199 pointsthis season or an average o7.9 a night. He also had 2.9

rebounds and 1.6 assists pergame and was the teamsbest deender. Taylor-Brecksits 14th on the career scor-ing list with 471 points.

Junior Nolan Hohensteinwas a orce in the paint and

nished second on the teamwith 140 rebounds or anaverage o 5.6 per game.

Hohenstein now has 232career boards, the 17th mostin team history.

He averaged 5.1 pointsper game and shot nearly


Head coach Trent Sukalski (kneeling) and the Jackson County Central bench watch game action this season. TheHuskies won 16 games, the second-most in a single season in team history.

Austin Hinkeldey had success driving to the hoop and shooting three-pointers for theHuskies. Hinkeldey scored 253 points this season and 369 in his career.

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AveragesName Points Rebounds AssistsJon Harmening 17.5 12.2 1.0Taylor Christopher 15.4 3.4 5.1Austin Hinkeldey 9.7 2.8 .9Darnell Taylor-Breck 7.9 2.9 1.6Shadrach Wacker 6.1 2.1 2.9Nolan Hohenstein 5.1 5.6 .7Josh Thaemlitz 2.5 1.6 1.6Brady Place 1.8 1.1 .3Matt Schmit 1.2 .9 0

JCC 65.4 34.8 13.5Opponent 61.5 32.1 12.5

Total points and reboundsName Points OR DR Reb.Harmening 455 109 207 316Christopher 386 22 62 84Hinkeldey 253 19 53 72Taylor-Breck 199 18 56 74Wacker 141 9 39 48Hohenstein 128 46 94 140

Thaemlitz 66 19 22 41Place 41 7 19 26Schmit 28 10 11 21

JCC 1,700 294 613 906Opponent 1,598 254 581 835

Made basketsName 2-pt. 3-pt. FTHarmening 193 0 69Christopher 111 28 80Hinkeldey 68 27 36Taylor-Breck 72 12 19Wacker 37 11 34Hohenstein 58 0 12Thaemlitz 13 8 16Place 10 6 3Schmit 11 0 6

JCC 573 92 278Opponent 419 175 235

JCC boys basketball stats

AveragesName Points Rebounds AssistsKaylee Burmeister 11.2 7.4 2.0Lydia Brandt 10.0 8.6 1.2Marita Rasche 8.6 5.7 1.7Rachel Johnson 5.8 2.6 1.6Julia Schumann 5.3 3.0 4.1Angela Handzus 5.3 3.0 4.1Sydney Eddy 3.0 4.2 0.4Brooke Klontz 2.6 2.2 1.2Michelle VanEpps 2.4 4.0 0.6Sarah Brandt 2.1 3.4 0.6

Total points and reboundsName Points OR DR Reb.Burmeister 291 71 122 193L. Brandt 249 127 87 214Rasche 224 82 65 147Johnson 151 47 22 69Schumann 106 47 12 59Handzus 130 47 22 69Eddy 15 16 5 21Klontz 68 37 22 59VanEpps 55 59 33 92S. Brandt 45 41 33 74

Made basketsName 2-pt. 3-pt. FTBurmeister 55 33 82L. Brandt 105 0 39Rasche 75 8 50Johnson 25 23 32Schumann 19 15 23Handzus 28 14 32Eddy 2 3 1Klontz 15 9 11VanEpps 23 0 9S. Brandt 17 0 11

JCC girls basketball stats

2.6 rebounds and 2.5steals a game. Schumannis already 10th in teamhistory with 182 careerassists.

Sophomore RachelJohnson scored 5.8 pointsper game and had 69 re-bounds, 41 assists and 28steals this season.

Sophomore SarahBrandt moved into thestarting lineup late in theseason and averaged 2.1points and 3.4 reboundsper game.

Michel le VanEppsplayed in 90 games as aHusky the ninth mostall-time and averaged2.4 points and 4.0 re-bounds as a senior.

Senior Brooke Klontzaveraged 2.6 points and2.2 rebounds per gamethis season.

Sophomore Sydney

Eddy returned rom a kneeinjury late in the season andaveraged 4.2 rebounds and3.0 points per game.

Senior Mackenzie Reedscored 14 points andgrabbed 17 rebounds or theHuskies, who also got con-tributions rom sophomores

Allison Benson, Jade Hol-the and Blaney Markman.

Schuller said the teamssix seniors will be missed,but with no juniors andeight sophomores on theteam this year, the uturecould be bright.

Well have a lot o kidsback on the team thathave varsity experience,Schuller said, pointing outSchumann and Burmeisterhave been starters or twoseasons already. Weve gota lot o experience comingback.

JCC GBB: Huskies struggle lateContinued from C2


Angela Handzus (from left), Mackenzie Reed, Sarah Brandt, Rachel Johnson and Lydia Brandt cheer on theirteammates as they get ready to enter the game for the Jackson County Central girls basketball team.

Senior Angela Handzus drives to the hoop for theHuskies this season.

Senior Marita Rasche had 531 points, 467 rebounds, 166steals and 78 blocked shots in her career at JCC.

50 percent rom the eld.Senior Josh Thaemlitz

averaged 2.5 points and1.6 rebounds per game thisseason and provided a sparko the bench or the Hus-kies. He hit 36.4 percent ohis three-point shots andscored a total o 66 points.

Junior Shadrach Wackeraveraged 6.1 points, 2.1 re-bounds and 2.9 assists per

game as a guard. His 112career assists have Wacker10th on the JCC chart.

Juniors Brady Place (1.8points per game) and MattSchmit (1.2 points pergame) also provided qual-ity minutes o the benchor the Huskies.

We got contributionsrom a lot o guys, Sukal-ski said. We started sevendierent kids this year andI elt comortable startingany o those seven. MattSchmit played a role, BradyPlace played a role. We

were nine deep on varsity.O those nine, three were

seniors who Sukalski saidwill be missed.

Their leadership wasso good, he said. Theymeant a lot to the program.In their three years o var-

sity basketball, they won 42games; they were a big parto that.

But Sukalski likes whathe has coming back next

winter.Im really excited, he

said. As disappointed asthe loss was to Fairmont,Im very excited or next

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will rely on it s six experi-enced returners, but alsohas a ew younger kids whocould step into the lineup.

We lose some qualityseniors, but have a lot oguys back with a lot o ex-perience, he said. Wevealso got some young guyslike Zach Schwarting andJoe Brinkman that can step

JCC BBB: Sweep of Windom, tournament wins highlight 16-win seasonContinued from C2

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who was ranked sixth in thenal Guillotine poll, had arecord o 30-12 this seasonand is 74-44 in his careerat JCC.

Norlands injuries resur-aced during the individualstate tournament ater thesophomore went 3-0 to helpthe Huskies win the teamtitle. Despite not being 100percent, Norland nishedsixth at state and had a re-cord o 27-6 on the season.With two years let, Norlandhas a career record o 83-25.

Senior Cameron Hen-ning won his irst sectionchampionship at 126 poundthis season to qualiy orstate. Henning went 32-11on the season and graduates

with a career mark o 62-22.Despite missing much o

the season, Menke quali-ed or the individual statetournament ater nishingsecond at the section tour-nament. Menke was 9-5on the season and won 46matches in his career.

WR: Huskies get healthy, win their fourth straight state championshipContinued from C1


Senior Nate Guggisberg works for a pin this season. Guggisberg won 17 matches this season and helped the Huskies win their fourth s traight state championship.

Senior Kyle Edlin in-ished his career with exactly100 wins, with his last two

wins coming in the teamstate tournament. Edlin,

who inished third at theindividual section meet,

was 29-12 this season and100-85 in his career.

Senior Dylan Riggle was20-18 this season and won39 matches in his career.

Seventh-grader DaltonWagner (13-15) and eighth-grader Ryker VanderWoude(18-16) started the Huskieso in dual meets this seasonand junior Jack Ziemer (15-23) and sophomore NateHorn (11-19) nished othe duals.

Senior Nate Guggisbergwas 17-23 while wrestlingat a variety o weights nearthe top o the JCC lineup.

Also on the roster at thestate tournament or theHuskies were senior JohnMarker (5-18), junior Da-kota Rossow (4-8), resh-man Luke Pygman (8-6)

and sophomore Kyle Kap-plinger (2-7).

The Huskies had nineseniors in the program andBaker said they ormed thebackbone or the teamssuccess this season.

We had a great groupo seniors, he said. Theseguys got pretty close, eventhe guys who werent herein elementary and middleschool. Not only good wres-tlers, but good students andcitizens as well. These aresome really good kids thathave worked hard or theachievements they got.

While the Huskies cantreplace the likes o Van-cura and Jurries, Baker saidthere are enough piecescoming back to put anothersolid lineup on the mat nextseason.

We certainly have somelarge holes to ll with losingthis years seniors, Bakersaid. The good thing isthat some younger guys willnow get their chance to ll

those shoes and leave theirown mark. You cant reallyreplace guys like we haveas seniors, you just have toget another group ready tocompete. That will be thechallenge in the oseason.

The Huskies return ourstate place-winners andBaker expects the Moorebrothers, Biehn and Nor-land to lead the team nextseason.

The core is there oranother great year, Bakersaid. We deinitely havesome very talented and ex-perienced guys returning.However, we need a num-ber o guys to really step upand prepare or next year.I look orward to watchingsome o these guys reachtheir goals in the next yearor two. We have some wres-tlers with high goals theyare hoping to reach downthe road.

GYM: Huskies go to state for second straight seasonContinued from C1

Sophomore Paden Moore wraps the head of his opponentduring a match this season. Moore was 39-6 on the seasonand finished second at the individual state tournament.For his career, Moore already has 137 wins.

trips to the individual statetournament and didnt dis-appoint in their inal go-round at JCC.

Donnelli, who is the onlyJCC gymnast to competeat state six years in a row,had at least two rst-placenishes in each event thisseason. She won all-aroundsix times and her season-high score o 36.625 was justone o six times she toppedthe 36.0 mark.

Donnelli scored 9.55 onvault against Redwood Val-ley or her career high andthe second highest score inteam history. She won vaultseven times and won foor

eight times, with her high o9.5 being the sixth best scorein school history. Donnelliscored 9.1 or better all 12times she competed on foorthis season. Donnelli had aseason-best 9.0 on bars and

won that event three times.Donnelli was a section

champion in all-around andfoor this season and alsomade it state on vault andbars. She was 14th at state inall-around and on vault, 16thon foor and 23rd on bars.

Sether-Hassing excelledon bars, which she won10 times this season. Herseason-high score o 9.35 isthe th best in team historyand she was over 9.0 seventimes.

Sether-Hassing wonbeam six times and scoreda career-high 9.55, which

is the second best in schoolhistory. She scored 9.0 orbetter eight times and wasat 9.2 or better eight timeson foor exercise. Sether-Hassing won loor threetimes and won all-aroundtwice. Sether-Hassingscored 36.0 or better eighttimes in all-around and hercareer-high 36.75 is tied orseventh best in team history.

As a senior, Sether-Has-sing won bars at sections

and qualiied or state ineverything but vault.

At state, Sether-Hassingwas eighth on beam, 13thin all-around, 14th on foorand 19th on bars. It was theth straight season Sether-Hassing qualied or the in-dividual state tournament.

Rentschler had a careerhigh 36.0 in all-aroundagainst Redwood Valleyand then bettered that num-ber with 36.025 two meetslater against Pipestone. She

won all-around three timesand won beam ive times including at the sectiontournament.

Rentschlers season-high

beam o 9.425 is ninth bestin team history and one oour times she scored 9.0 orhigher on beam this season.She had a season-high 9.25on vault against Redwoodand won that event twice.

Rentschler qualied orstate or the third time as anindividual and competed inall-around, beam and vaultthis season. She nished 24thon beam, 29th in all-aroundand 32nd on vault at the statemeet.

Seventh-grader BrooklynSchuett also made it to stateon foor the only eventshe competed on or theJCC varsity. Schuett scored9.2 to nish ourth at thesection meet and advanceto state, where she scored8.95 to inish 24th as theonly seventh-grader in the

tournament.Schuett had a season-high

score o 9.175 at Worthing-ton and inished secondtwice on foor.

Sophomore MichaelaVancura won foor againstMarshall and scored a sea-son-high 9.25 against Pipe-stone. She was at 9.0 or bet-ter in 10 meets and placedin the top our nine times.

Vancura also competedon vault, where she scored

a season-high 9.225 and wasabove 9.0 ve times.

Freshman Haley Basscompeted on beam and barsor the Huskies all seasonand competed in the othertwo events at least once.Bass posted her highestscore o the season on beam(9.0) and bars (8.225) atthe Martin County Areatournament, when she alsocompeted on vault and foorto nish with an all-aroundscore o 34.55.

Bass topped the 8.0mark 11 times on beamand scored 8.0 or better vetimes on bars.

Sophomore Riley Van-cura specialized on vaultor the Huskies, where shescored a season-best 9.15against Redwood. Vancura

was at 9.0 or better ourtimes and won vault with8.775 against St. James.

S o p h o m o r e B a i l e ySchneekloth competed onbeam or JCC and had aseason-best score o 8.525against Blue Earth Area.

Seventh-grader AbbySchneekloth competed onbars, with her best scoreo 8.05 against Marshallputting her in ourth placethat dual.

The Huskies also got con-tributions on varsity romseniors Megan Andersonand Jessica Voehl; reshmenJadin Bezdicek, MakennaDonnelli and Sydney Ny-borg; eighth-grader Sophie

Johnson; and seventh-grad-er Brielle Scheepstra.

The three seniors werethe only Huskies to com-pete in all-around regularly,but that leaves big holes tobe lled next season.

The three captains haveheld three strong all-aroundpositions, which will open12 spots or next year,Handevidt said. Thosespots will probably be lled

with one all-arounder and

the rest with girls who spe-cialize on the individualevents.

Handevidt said the Hus-

kies look like they have thetalent to ll those gaps withcapable girls.

There is some amazing

talent in JV, so they will beready and anxious to stepup and ill those spots,she said.


Above: Senior Brandi Sether-Hassing had a way of making seemingly difficult moveslook easy in her career at Jackson County Central. Sether-Hassing advanced to s tatefive straight seasons and helped the Huskies make it to state twice as a team. Below:

Senior Adriane Rentschler was joined Sether-Hassing and Sydnee Donnelli as a tri ofHuskies that competed on varsity since seventh grade.


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Windom Area girls

hockey resultsOpponent Result ScoreAlbert Lea L 13-0Luverne L 10-2Marshall L 8-1LH/St. Peter L 10-3Worthington W 5-2Morris/Benson L 2-1Luverne L 11-3Albert Lea L 13-0Fairmont L 4-1Waseca L 8-0Faribault L 9-0St. Louis Park L 12-0Waseca L 13-3Morris/Benson L 3-2Marshall L 6-1LH/St. Peter L 4-3Worthington L 1-0Fairmont L 6-0Worthington T 1-1Section 3A tournament

Marshall L 3-0

Overall record: 1-18-1

SWC record: 1-7

Scoring by PeriodTeam 1 2 3 OT TotalWindom Area 6 13 7 0 26Opponent 50 56 35 0 141

ScoringName Goals Assists PointsAddison Beaty 5 7 12Jolyssa Higley-Purrington 5 4 9Kaylee Janssen 6 3 9Kaylee Rosenkranz 5 4 9Porsha Porath 1 3 4Alexis Jellema-Baerg 2 1 3Elizabeth Schoenenberger 2 0 2Arica Svoboda 0 1 1Katie Schoenenberger 0 1 1Windom Area 26 24 50Opponent 141 168 309

GoaltendingName Shots Saves Save %Emily Steen 935 794 .849Windom Area 935 794 .849

Opponent 278 252 .906

Windom Area girls hockey stats

I seasons are measuredsolely by wins and losses,there wasnt much to speako or the Windom Areagirls hockey team.

But thats ar rom whathead coach Dean Drahotatook away rom a 1-18-1season.

Record-wise, we strug-gled, Drahota said. But

we made a lot o big im-provements.

That was the goal orDrahota and the Eagles en-tering the season. The team

was young there wasnta single senior on the ros-ter and, in a playo lossto Marshall, had a startinglineup o three seventh-graders, two eighth-gradersand one reshman.

From where we startedthe year, theyre really start-ing to understand the gamea lot better, Drahota said.

The biggest improvementwas just the overall knowl-edge o the sport, Drahotasaid.

Where they were sup-posed to be, making thepasses we needed to, justtheir overall knowledge othe game, Drahota said.Their general knowledgeo the game really improveda lot.

That was evident in a 4-0loss to Marshall, Drahotasaid, when the team playeddisciplined hockey despitehaving its season end.

Eagle girls show improvement

Windom Areawins just once,but season waslled with gainingexperience

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

That section gameagainst Marshall, we knewhow their oense worked,he said. We game plannedaround it and did it or the

whole game. Their knowl-edge o the game camealong so ar.

Drahota credits someo that to assistant NathanBoler, who played hockey

in high school and was inhis rst season as a coachunder Drahota.

He really brought a lotto the program, Drahotasaid. He was a great helpor us.

Between Drahota, Bolerand assistant Steve Willard,the coaches had the Eaglesplaying much better hockeythan in years past.

We made a lot o im-provements throughoutthe year, Drahota said othe team.

The Eagles started out0-4 beore getting theirlone win o the season in a5-2 victory over Worthing-ton. In the regular-seasonnale, Windom Area andWorthington tied at 1.

We had our one-goalgames and tied one, Dra-hota said. The uture looksreally good.

Getting that win overWorthington was big, Dra-hota said, especially to showthe hard work is paying o.

Getting that win washuge, he said. It givesthem the eeling o howmuch better it is sitting inthat locker room.

That win and severalclose games helped changethe way the Eagles wentabout their business onthe ice.

It used to be that theywere too happy just beingout there and thats startingto change, Drahota said.

The Eagles were in anumber o games this sea-son because o the out-standing play by seventh-

grade goalie Emily Steen.Steen made 794 saves thisseason and had a save-percentage o .849.

Emily had a great seasonin goal, Drahota said. She

was close to 85 perc ent,which is outstanding, espe-cially considering her age.

There were similar suc-cesses rom other players

during the season, most owhom made huge improve-ments.

They all really helpedout, Drahota said. Jolys-sa (Higley-Purrington),Porsha Porath, Addison(Beaty), they all made greatcontributions to the teamand were very integral to theteams growth, Drahotasaid o three other seventh-graders. The other girls,they all got another year oexperience.

Beaty led the Eagles with12 points, coming on vegoals and seven assists. Hig-ley-Purrington and resh-man Kaylee Rosenkranzboth had nine points romve goals and our assistsand reshman Kaylee Jans-sen (team-high ive goalsand our assists) also hadnine points.

The lone Jackson CountyCentral player on the team Arica Svoboda is oneo just three juniors on theEagle team this season.

Arica made a lot o im-provement again, Drahotasaid.

While having a younggroup didnt lead to many

wins this sea son, Drahotasaid their experience willpay o soon.

Well have to ightthrough the next couple

years and then itll be uswith all the juniors and se-niors, Drahota said. Theuture is getting here now.We really turned a cornerand are going to be a goodteam in the next couple o

years.

Scoring by PeriodTeam 1 2 3 OT TotalWindom Area 34 40 30 4 108Opponent 23 36 34 0 93

ScoringName Goals Assists PointsTravis Janssen 38 25 63Zach Bartosh 21 24 45Devin Nielsen 21 8 29Kyle Luhmann 5 12 17Mitchell Macek 5 11 16Stuart Schumacher 3 11 14Windom Area 108 118 226Opponent 93 119 212

GoaltendingName Shots Saves Save %Ben Stubbe 437 351 .885Tyler McGowan 261 226 .866Garrett Schumacher 37 31 .838Windom Area 737 644 .874

Opponent 774 666 .860

Windom Area boys hockey stats

Windom Area boyshockey results

Opponent Result ScoreMarshall W 5-4

Mankato East W 4-3Worthington W 9-1Morris/Benson W 10-6Achiever NEA W 6-3Luverne L 6-0Fairmont W 11-1Waseca W 6-2Waterloo L 8-7Achiever NEA L 4-1Redwood Valley W 8-2Achiever NEA L 5-2Morris/Benson L 7-4Marshall L 2-1LH/St. Peter L 5-0Worthington W 6-5Becker/Big Lake W 4-3Sartell-St. S. L 6-3Waseca W 4-3Luverne L 9-0Fairmont W 9-0Redwood Valley W 8-4Section 3A tournament

Marshall L 4-0

Overall record: 13-10

SWC record: 6-4

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Sports Editor

An early-season oensivesurge helped the Windom

Area boys hock ey tea mget o to a 7-1 start beorethe Eagles nished with a13-10 overall record and6-4 mark in the Southwest

Conerence.Whether or not the Ea-gles got their oense rolling

was a big key to the season,head coach Jon Ammer-man said.

At the beginning o theyear when teams were g-uring out who they were,

we wer e abl e to scor e,Ammerman said. We werescoring goals basically oncommand at the beginning.Unortunately, we werentable to keep that goingthroughout.

While it seems obviousthat a high-powered oenseleads to wins, the numbersbacked it up or the Eagles.Windom Area scored 6.9goals in its 13 wins and just1.8 in 10 losses.

We scored a lot earlyand they were hard to come

by in the middle o theyear, Ammerman said.Ate r a stre tch durin g

which the Eagles were 1-6in the middle o the season,the Eagles rebounded to go5-2 in the last seven regularseason games beore los-ing 4-0 to eventual sectionchampion Marshall in thesection opener.

Once you start to thinkyoure starting to put a ewthings together, its overall o a sudden, Ammer-man said. Hopeully next

year we pick up where welet o.

Eagle ofense dictated success in 13-win season

Thats what Ammermanwants to become the normor the Eagles: Get o toa hot start. But he wants itto continue throughout theseason.

Weve raised the statusquo or Windom hockey,

where the expec tati on isthere rom the get-go, Am-merman said.

Senior Travis Janssen wasat the oreront o the hotstart or the Eagles as theorward was tallying goal-ater-goal early on en routeto a 63-point season. Jans-sen nished with team highs

with 38 goals and 25 assists.Junior orward Zach Bar-

tosh tallied 21 goals and 24assists and reshman DevinNielsen had 21 goals andeight assists.

Jackson County Centralsenior deenseman KyleLuhmann had ve goals and12 assists and JCC juniororward Mitchell Macekscored ve goals and added11 assists.

Kyle was pretty solid onthe back end or us, Am-merman said. This year headded some oense, too.He had a pretty good year.

Ammerm an liked whathe saw rom Macek andexpects even more nextseason.

He grew into a leader-ship role, Ammerman said.Hes a guy coming back

were expecting a lot rom.Hell be one o our betterplayers next year.

JCC junior orward ZachIgnaszewski who scoredtwo goals this season willalso be counted on or anincreased role next season.

He improved a lot orus, Ammerman said.

The Huskies were alsorepresented in goal by se-nior Ben Stubbe, who splittime at the position withsenior Tyler McGowan andsophomore Garrett Schum-acher.

Stubbe had a save per-centage o nearly 90 percentand made 351 saves or theEagles.

Ben played a lot o im-portant minutes and was apretty darn good goalie,

Amm erm an sai d. He sathletic and did a good job.

The Eagles lose seven se-niors, who ormed a group

Ammerman said provideda lot o leadership.

They led by example,he said. They wanted tobecome better hockey play-ers. That goes a long way

when you have a group will-ing to work to get better.

With their leading scorerand top two goalies gone,the Eagles will have somebig skates to ll next season.

Everybodys going tohave to pull their own

weight, Ammerman said.

Thats the thing withhigh school athletics;usually your better play-ers are the older players.

But Ammerman cantwait to see who tak esover to lead the Eaglesnext winter.

Thats the un thingin athletics in general issomeones got to stepup, he said. Our guys

will be ready to improveand be ready to buildupon whats been hap-pening the last couple

years.


Jackson County Central players Kyle Luhmann (from left), Zach Ignaszewski andMitchell Macek share a laugh during pregame introductions for the Windom Areaboys hockey team this season.

Mitchell Macek (right) fights to win a faceoff.

Jackson County Central senior Ben Stubbe makes one of his 351 saves for the Eaglesthis season.


Top left: Miranda Timko (from left), Carolyn Lovan andKortney Porter cheer in front of the home crowd duringa basketball game this season. Annie Gee (far left) andHally Dauffenbach (left) lead cheers during a perfor-mance by the competition cheerleading team. Right: JennaStade cheers for the Huskies.

Photo courtesy of Fitzloff Photography

The Jackson County Central competition cheerleadingteam finished second at the MCCA state tournamentthis season and won the season-opening meet in Edina.Members of the team are (front, from left): Annie Gee,Carolyn Lovan and Madison Cregeen. Middle: Jessica

Jandera, Jenna Stade, Hally Dauffenbach and KortneyPorter. Back: Josie Horn, Kiana Nyborg, Jayde Price,Miranda Timko and Kassidy Timmer.


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Averages

Name Points Rebounds AssistsCourtney Place 22.1 9.4 2.7Kailey Wendland 8.1 5.4 2.7Sarah Baumgard 6.1 4.1 0.9Sonja Peters 4.8 2.4 0.6Andrea Hinkeldey 3.5 3.5 2.1Alyssa Hendrickson 2.8 3.1 0.1Autumn Hinkeldey 1.1 1.4 2.4

Total points and reboundsName Points OR DR Reb.Courtney Place 354 50 101 151Kailey Wendland 130 40 47 87Sarah Baumgard 92 19 42 61Sonja Peters 76 13 26 39Andrea Hinkeldey 56 22 34 56Alyssa Hendrickson 45 17 33 50Autumn Hinkeldey 16 8 13 21

Made basketsName 2-pt. 3-pt. FTCourtney Place 99 23 87Kailey Wendland 41 2 42Sarah Baumgard 34 1 21Sonja Peters 24 6 10Andrea Hinkeldey 19 0 18

Alyssa Hendrickson 19 0 7Autumn Hinkeldey 5 0 6

SWU girls basketball conference stats

SWU boysbasketball results

Opponent Result ScoreLuverne L 84-61Hills-BC L 77-62Mt. Lake L 80-78Lincoln HI W 61-36WWG W 69-53SW MN Christian L 85-45Springfeld L 63-52MCC W 54-50Canby L 63-41

Red Rock Central L 70-62Ellsworth W 58-55Fulda W 75-66Edgerton W 77-71WWG W 70-56Adrian L 88-76Harris-LP L 76-37Red Rock CentralW 65-44GHEC W 71-65Ellsworth W 71-61Hills-BC L 79-62Mt. Lake L 69-44WWG L 87-77Edgerton L 84-75Section 2A tournament

Mankato Loyola L 75-69

Overall record: 10-14RRC record: 7-9

SWU girlsbasketball results

Opponent Result ScoreHarris-LP L 40-37Mt. Lake L 54-39

Hills-BC L 50-43Blue Earth Area L 48-42Martin Luther L 56-53MCC W 55-47Lester Prairie/HT L 62-42CM/Comrey L 49-39WWG W 45-44SW MN Christian L 52-28Edgerton W 64-56Canby W 44-39Ellsworth L 53-45Red Rock CentralW 51-37Fulda L 67-43Edgerton L 54-52Luverne L 57-54WWG L 58-49Adrian L 57-51Hills-BC W 60-53Mt. Lake L 58-48Red Rock CentralW 57-40Ellsworth W 55-54Section 2A tournament

Madelia W 72-35GHEC L 48-34

Overall record: 9-16RRC record: 7-9

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Ater a slow start to theseason, the SouthwesternUnited girls basketballteam started to play pretty

well.The Wildcats lost their

rst ve games, but went9-11 the rest o the way tonish the season 9-16.

Eventually you just getso sick o losing youve gotto gure out a way to win,head coach Keith Placesaid.

The young Wildcats lostour o those rst ve gamesby seven points or ewerand had seven other lossesdecided by 10 points or less.

Considering the age oour team and the depth oour team, we tried to becompetitive night in andnight out and we were,Place said.

As the season went along,SWU ound a way to win aew o those close games,including a buzzer-beating

win over Westbrook-WalnutGrove and a come-rom-behind win over Ellsworthin the regular-season nale.

At the end o the year,we were able to nish gamesand win some games, Placesaid.

A big part o that wasplayers developing intotheir position and role onthe team.

At the beginning o the

Wildcat girls rebound to win nine games

Young SWU teamlearns how tonish of victories

year, we were still trying toput in our oense and geteverybody oriented to whatposition they were playing,

Place said. The rst vegames were close losses andit was rustrating.

That changed with theWildcats irst win overMurray County Central.

I think we took out thatrustration against MCC,Place said. We played ex-tremely well.

The progression contin-ued or the Wildcats, whobeat Red Rock Central andEllsworth to end the regularseason and then beat Mad-elia 72-35 to open the Sec-tion 2A tournament beorelosing to Granada-Huntley-East Chain.

I think were getting

there to being able to com-pete against anybody onany night and thats the rstgoal youve got to have,

Place said.A big reason the Wild-cats were competitive inmost games was sopho-more Courtney Place,

who alre ady topp ed the1,000-point mark or hercareer. Place scored 528points this season and sitsat 1,028 or her career.

In Red Rock Conerencegames, Place averaged 22.1points, 9.4 rebounds and2.7 assists per game. Her354 points in conerenceaction was 30 more thananyone else in the competi-tive league and her 151 re-bounds were the sixth most.She also had 43 steals and

26 blocks in conerencegames.

Sophomore KaileyWendland nished with

196 points, with 130coming in conerencegames. Her 8.1 points-per-game average in RRCgames was 28th best in theleague. She also averaged5.4 rebounds, 2.7 assistsand 1.4 steals per coner-ence game.

Senior Sarah Baum-gard averaged 6.1 pointsand 4.1 rebounds perconerence game and,along with senior AlyssaHendrickson, providedleadership or a youngsquad.

They both were peo-ple that had to play in themiddle, had to play toughdeense and had to ghtagainst the other teamsbig players every night,Coach Place said. Theydid a super job becausethey were the anchor. Itsgoing to be tough nd-ing someone to replacethem.

Hendrickson averaged2.8 points and 3.1 re-bounds per league gameand was playing her bestball late in the season a-ter missing last year witha knee injury.

A b o u t h a l w a ythrough the season shereally started coming on,Coach Place said. She

was just starting to playextremely well by the endo the year.

Junior Sonja Peters av-eraged 4.8 points and 2.4rebounds in each coner-ence game.

Junior Autumn Hin-keldey averaged 1.1points, 1.4 rebounds and2.4 assists per game andsister Andrea Hinkeldey just a reshman averaged 3.5 points, 3.5rebounds and 2.1 assistsper league game.

With just two seniors,Coach Place said theWildcats can improve ontheir strong nish to theseason.

We should be at least.500; thats a minimumgoal, Place said. I hope

we can sta rt str ong erquicker.

To do so will take somework in the oseason.

We just have to con-tinue to develop kids andtalent, he said. We haveto get bigger, strongerand aster over the sum-mer. We need to get inthe weight room and de-

velop strength and speed;

thats the way the game istoday.

I that happens, Placeexpects good things romhis team.

Weve got kids withskills who can score andhave some moves, hesaid. Weve got talent;its just such a wide agespread. This season wasgood and I think its goingto get better.


Southwestern United sophomore Courtney Place scored 528 points this season andhas 1,028 for her career.

Kailey Wendland drives to the hoop for the Wildcats this season.


Justin Jass (second from right) and Zach Schumacher do a chest bump during pregame introductions while team-mates Mark Ferguson (left) and Matthew Soto look on.

For the irst time, theboys basketball teams atSouthwest Star Conceptand Round Lake-Brewstercombined on the hardwood

Wildcats come together to hit double-digit wins

SSC, RLB joinorces or boysbasketball

as the Southwestern UnitedWildcats.

The schools were com-bined or most sports priorto this season includingootball and are together

or all sports this schoolyear.It didnt take long or

the players to orm a cohe-sive unit, head coach LonEichenberger said.

The kids gelled togeth-er, he said. The ew romRound Lake-Brewster, theSSC kids were more than

welcoming.And soon, the Wildcats

were play ing some goodbasketball.

Ater a while, theyplayed pretty well togeth-er, Eichenberger said.

The Wildcats started theseason with three straightlosses, but got consecutive

wins over Lincoln HI andWestbrook-Walnut Grovein the Candy Cane Classic.

The Wildcats then went1-4 to drop to 3-7 beore

a hot streak. SWU wonour straight games andseven-o-nine to improve itsrecord to 10-9 beore alter-ing down the stretch. TheWildcats nished the season10-14 and was 7-9 in a di-cult Red Rock Conerence.

In the winning streak,SWU beat Ellsworth bythree, Fulda by nine, Edger-ton by six and then poundedWWG by 14 points.

Things got on a roll aterwe hosted the Candy CaneClassic, Eichenberger said.It seemed like it was goingto take a while at rst, butater we got a ew gamesunder our belt things went

well.A te r th e o ur -g am e

winning stre ak, SWU losttwice beore winning threestraight.

Starting that streak was a

win over Red Rock Central,which Eiche nberg er saidwas one o the best wins othe winter.

We played solid deenseholding a airly high-scoringteam like that to 44, hesaid.

SWU ollowed with winsover Granada-Huntley-East Chain and Ellsworth,but then lost our straightgames to end the regularseason and then the playoopener to Mankato Loyola.

We started winning aew, except at the end othe season we couldnt getback in the win column,Eichenberger said.

When the Wildcats wereat their best was when they

were sharing the ball. T h e o n e w h e r e I

thought we were ready to

roll against Edgerton wedished out 20-somethingassists, Eichenberger said.Even in that last gameagainst Loyola, we still had21 assists.

But it was ouls thatplagued the Wildcats, es-pecially late in the season.

We just had too manyouls, Eichenberger said.The other team got to theline ar too oten and we

werent getting to line nearas oten.

Eichenberger said Mt.Lake Area shot 27 reethrows, WWG shot 31, Edg-erton 36 and Loyola 32 asthe Wildcats altered down

the stretch.Eichenberger praised a

group o eight seniors thatpaced SWU throughout theseason.

They led us very well,

he said. They said, as ar ascaptains, wed like to rotate.Each game was a dierentcaptain and everybody gotthat responsibility.

Eichenberger said seniorsMark Ferguson and An-drew Kramer particularlyled the way in practice.

Mark and Andrew werereally working, especiallyin practice, Eichenbergersaid. They showed by ex-ample; the same way withthe other seniors.

In games, it was seniorsJustin Jass, Erik Jass andMatthew Soto that red upthe team with their deense.

In games, they wouldjust work their tail o on de-ense, Eichenberger said.Sometimes theyd hear itrom the crowd or theireort on deense.

Other seniors or SWUwere Kyle Wendland, LukeVeith and William Gouriet.The Wildcats got contribu-tions rom juniors AaronFest, Cole Bosma, ZachSchumacher, BrandonThurk, Levi Taylor andWalker Crocker.

Eichenberger was pleasedwith the way all the Wildcatsplayed this season.

I could point out justabout all o them, he said.We went nine strong.Sometimes those nightshappened where someone

would hit a shot and sparkus.

Above: Andrew Kramer was one of the seniors to provideleadership for the Southwestern United boys basketballteam. Right: Junior Aaron Fest makes a move whilehandling the ball against Red Rock Central this season.

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Winter Sports Review 2013