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SPORTSSECTION C • JUNE 18, 2015

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Opponent Result ScoreMt. Lake Area W 21-1Fairmont W 9-4Belle Plaine L 2-3Windom W 9-1Windom W 12-2

Luverne W 6-0Luverne W 8-7LS-Henderson L 6-9Apple Valley L 4-11Henry Sibley W 13-1Worthington W 11-0St. James W 2-1St. James W 13-3Pipestone L 1-10Pipestone W 11-2Marshall L 7-10Watertown-M L 5-6Mankato Loyola L 14-16Redwood W 21-4Redwood W 11-1New Ulm L 1-10Section 3AA Tournament

Luverne W 11-1Pipestone W 3-1MACA W 6-2New Ulm L 0-6Pipestone L 1-5

Overall record: 16-10BSC record: 9-1

JCC softballresults

Opponent Result ScoreSpirit Lake W 163-183Marshall W 161-163Worthington L 157-156Fairmont W 167-187

Luverne W 162-183Redwood W 159-177RRC W 163-215ELC L 162-156Pipestone W 167-191Windom W 166-186Blue Earth Area W 173-177Tournaments

Worthington 2ndJordan 4thFairmont 2ndBSC 4th


JCC boys’ golfresults

Opponent Result ScoreSpirit Lake W 190-244Marshall L 183-168Worthington L Inc.-213Fairmont W 188-220

Luverne W 188-212Redwood L 191-186RRC W 177-254ELC W 182-228Pipestone W 183-Inc.Windom W 176-204BEA W 185-226Tournaments

Worthington 2ndJordan 5thFairmont 2ndSection 3AA 3rd


JCC girls’ golfresults

When they were play-ing their best, the JacksonCounty Central boys’ andgirls’ golf teams could beat

just about anybody they

matched up against.The boys proved that

with a victory at Marshallearly in the season and thegirls proved that at the BigSouth Conference meet.

Both teams had a golf-er play at the Class AAstate tournament and bothsquads had plenty of high-

Huskies could hang with just about anybody on the linksby DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

lights all season long.

Boys start hotThe JCC boys went 9-2

on the season and tied forfirst place in the BSC WestDivision during the regularseason with a 5-1 mark.

One of those wins cameat Marshall, somethingthat hadn’t been done since2003.

“Beating Marshall atMarshall has to be thehighlight,” Head coachKeith Eggink said of theboys’ season. “That wasreally good.”

The lone conference losscame by a single stroke atWorthington, which endedup playing at the state tour-nament.

While the regular sea-son was filled with suc-cess, the postseason was

not as memorable for theHuskies.

By virtue of tying forthe BSC West Divisiontitle, JCC was in conten-tion for the conferencetitle at the BSC meet. TheHuskies finished fourth inthat meet.

Later that week, JCC waseighth after the first dayof the Section 3AA tourna-ment and didn’t advance tothe second day as a team.

“We were just as goodas anybody else,” Egg-ink said. “We were rightthere, but we didn’t per-form down the stretch.”

Not making the secondday of the section tourna-

ment was quite a disap-pointment, Eggink said,especially after the teamhad hopes of qualifying forstate at the beginning of theseason.

“I thought we’d at leastadvance to the second day,”he said. “We just didn’tplay well that first day.”While the team didn’t ad-vance, a pair of individu-als made it to Day 2 of thesection tournament.

Seniors Joe Brinkman

PHOTO BY DAN CONDON

Joe Brinkman watches his tee shot during a match this season. Brinkman qualifiedfor the state tournament, where he finished tied for 33rd place.

and Austin Olson bothmoved on, with Brinkmaneventually finishing in a tiefor second in the sectionand earning his first tripto state. Both also earnedall-conference honors, as

did seventh-grader JackBrinkman.

For the elder Brinkman,Eggink said playing at state— where he finished in a tiefor 33rd — was a nice wayto end his career.

“He’d been close two orthree years,” Eggink said.“For him to make it as asenior was great.”

Joe Brinkman was med-alist in eight meets thisseason and had his scorecount in all 17 team events.

His average of 38.7 strokesper nine holes led the teamby nearly six strokes.

Olson seemed to step upat the right time, advanc-ing to Day 2 of the sectionmeet this year and making

it to the section tournamentin its old format last year.

“It’s not that he hits theball particularly long, buthe’s a grinder,” Egginksaid. “He might not behaving his best day, but hecan still find a way to scorewell.”

Olson had his scorecount in 12 meets and hadan average score of 44.2per nine holes.

Senior Jack Ringkobaveraged 43.1 strokes per

nine holes and had hisscore count in a dozenmeets. The lefty had alow score of 39 againstWorthington.

Senior Kyle Kapplingeralso fired a season-low 39

at Worthington and aver-aged 44.3 strokes per nineholes. He had his scorecount in 11 meets this sea-son.

Eggink said the four se-niors will be sorely missednext season.

“They’ve all been thereforever,” he said. “Joe’sbeen on varsity since sev-enth grade and the restof them since they werefreshmen or sophomores.

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PHOTO BY DAN CONDON

Kelsey Kannenberg set several single-season pitching marks for Jackson CountyCentral this season, including strikeouts, innings pitched and earned-run average.

It’s not often a group ofseniors comes around likethe one on this year’s Jack-son County Central softballteam.

The Huskies’ lineup rou-tinely had six seniors in it,with two others also on theroster.

The Huskies took advan-tage of their talented group

in its final season, finishingtied for first place in thesmall-school division ofthe Big South Conferenceand coming in third in theSection 3AA tournament.

“I thought we had a greatseason,” head coach ShellyHotzler said. “We did some

Huskies led by ‘amazing group’ of seniorsby DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

things we haven’t done in afew years.”

Mainly, she said, makinga run at the section title.

JCC opened the sectiontournament with a win overLuverne and then upsetsecond-seeded Pipestone.Then came one of the mostmemorable games in teamhistory as the Huskies beatMorris Area/Chokio-Alber-ta 6-2 in 12 innings.

“That was probably one

of the top ones, next tothe state games,” Hotzlersaid as far as exciting andnerve-wracking games inher tenure as head coach.

After the thrilling win,JCC lost to eventual sectionchampion New Ulm andthen got beat by Pipestone

to have its season end witha record of 16-10.

“I think we kind of sur-prised some people,” Hot-zler said. “We finally hadeverybody healthy whenwe started to make thatrun.”

The Huskies were 9-1 intheir division and earneda share of the division titleby beating Pipestone 11-2in the second game of theirconference doubleheader.

JCC won a coin flip be-tween the two teams to playin the BSC championshipgame, which it lost to NewUlm.

What helped the Huskiesall season was facing atough schedule, includingstate-ranked Belle Plaine

and tough teams at a tour-nament in Shakopee.

“It was good to be chal-lenged,” Hotzler said.

The seniors helped makesure JCC rose to any oc-casion and will be sorelymissed, Hotzler said.

Mo Carlson and BlaneyMarkman led the group ofseniors and were namedfirst-team and honorable-mention all-state, respec-tively.

Kathryn Nasby, RachelJohnson, Bailey Schneek-loth and Megan Edlin wereseniors in the lineup on aregular basis and TearzaBrewer played a role inthe team’s success. JCCalso had senior AngelicaSchwering on its roster.

“They are an amaz-ing group of kids,” Hot-zler said. “I don’t thinkI’ve ever had eight comethrough since my first yearhere. They were a greatgroup of leaders.”

What made them special,Hotzler said, was they allwere able to contributesomething special to thesquad.

“They each had theirown unique ability they

brought to the team,” shesaid.For Carlson, it was plen-

ty of leadership and plentyof pop with the bat.

Carlson’s career saw herpitch until midway throughher junior season and thenswitch to first base andcatcher.

She led the Huskies witha .478 batting average thisseason and also had teamhighs in hits (43), triples(three), extra-base hits(15) and runs batted in(34). Carlson tied for theteam lead with eight dou-bles and four home runs.She also drew 11 walks andscored 23 runs.

In her career, Carlson hit.398, had 97 hits, 87 RBI,19 doubles, 12 homers, 41walks and scored 62 runs.

She leaves as the school’ssingle-season leader inRBI after driving in 39runs as a junior. She is alsotied for the single-seasonrecord with seven homeruns during her juniorseason.

Markman was step-for-step with Carlson in manyoffensive categories andprovided a slick glove atshortstop.

This season, Markmanled the team with 29 singlesand tied for the team leadwith eight doubles and

four homers. Markmanwas second to Carlson inaverage (.441), hits (41)and RBI (32). She scored

20 runs and had a dozenextra-base hits.

In her career, Markmanhit .408 with 92 hits, 15doubles, nine homers, 64RBI and 65 runs scored.

Nasby provided severalhighlight-reel catches incenter field and providedtons of speed at the topof the JCC lineup. She hit.368, scored 27 runs anddrove in 11. Nasby alsostole seven bases and tied

Markman for the team leadwith 29 singles.Nasby had 68 hits and

scored 54 runs in her JCCcareer, which saw her postnearly identical numbersas a junior and senior.

After missing much oflast season with concus-sion issues, Johnson movedfrom catcher to right fieldthis season and didn’t missa beat. She hit .282 as a se-nior and used eight walksto post an on-base percent-age of .366. Johnson scored17 runs and drove in eightthis season.

Schneekloth was theteam’s designated playerand hit .268 in 71 at bats.

The speedster had threedoubles and one homer,drove in 11 runs and scored19.

Edlin graduates as theschool’s career leader insacrifices. She had a sin-gle-season record 11 lastyear and added two morethis year to graduate with13. Edlin hit .206 this sea-son, drove in 15 runs andscored 15 times.

Brewer had four hits andscored eight runs in hersenior season.

While the seniors provid-ed leadership and plentyof talent, the Huskies hadseveral other skilled play-ers this season, starting

with freshman Kelsey Kan-nenberg.

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Opponent Result Score

Mt. Lake Area W 16-6Fairmont L 1-4Fairmont L 1-5HL-O W 6-4Windom L 0-5Pipestone L 0-2Pipestone W 2-1St. James L 5-12Redwood W 12-3St. James L 1-11LCWM W 11-5Worthington W 6-5Luverne L 0-13Luverne L 5-16USC L 8-11Windom L 1-3Redwood W 5-0Maple River W 8-7MCW W 12-0Section 3AA Tournament

Pipestone W 4-2

New Ulm L 5-9Luverne L 0-5


JCC baseballresults

OffenseName AB Runs Hits RBI BB BA OBPNick Arp 26 4 10 6 6 .385 .515Scott Christopher 67 14 23 13 10 .343 .443Nathan Monson 66 13 22 15 6 .333 .389Jared Bakalyar 49 5 16 4 13 .327 .468Easton Bahr 65 20 21 14 17 .323 .470Ryan Christopher 70 17 21 7 8 .300 .372Chris Gumto 68 10 17 16 6 .250 .329Keegan Klontz 12 3 3 1 3 .250 .400Andrew Hesse 38 14 6 1 11 .158 .373Brody Anderson 47 3 7 6 4 .149 .220Ryan Timko 43 5 4 2 5 .093 .188 JCC 576 109 151 86 93 .262 .374

PitchingName W L IP H R K BB

Ryan Christopher 3 1 35.1 29 14 37 6Christ Gumto 2 5 31 30 35 22 26Scott Christopher 3 3 26.1 36 30 22 20Nick Arp 2 3 17.2 11 28 13 22 JCC 10 12 134.1 125 128 107 91

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The Huskies have JackBrinkman and junior Ca-leb Kolander returningafter both spent all seasonon varsity and also re-

turn junior Matt Ringkob,who played in four varsitymatches.

Kolander had his scorecount nine times this sea-son and had an average of44.9 strokes per nine holes.

He had a low of 41 in thewin at Marshall.

Jack Brinkman made abig impression in his firstseason of varsity, posting ascore that counted towardthe team total 11 times.He had a low of 40 againstRedwood Valley and alsoshot 80 in a tournament atWorthington.

Matt Ringkob had hisscore count in two of hisfour meets and averaged45.4 strokes per nine holes.

Eggink said those threereturners will give theHuskies a solid base tobuild around next year andthe team has some otherswho can fill in the othervarsity spots, including

junior Keegan Moore andfreshmen Zach Torgersonand Sutton Flatgard.

“Four of the six varsi-ty players were seniors,”

Eggink said. “Some youngkids are going to have tostep up.”

Trio leads JCC girlsAll season long, senior

Alison Benson, junior AbbyBrinkman and sophomoreAbby Benson pushed eachother as the leader of theJCC girls’ team.

All three had their scorecount toward the team totalin every meet in which theyplayed this season and allthree were meet medalists

at least twice.Alison Benson was med-

alist just twice, but playedher best golf down thestretch.

She earned all-confer-ence honors with 88 at theconference meet and thenfinished fifth at the section.She opened that tourna-ment with 84 and then shota career-best 80 to advanceto state.

At state, Alison Bensonshot rounds of 88 and 87 totie for 41st place.

On the season, AlisonBenson averaged 43.7strokes per nine holes.

Abby Brinkman led theteam with an average of43.6 shots per nine holesand was medalist most of-ten, posting the low scoresix times.

Brinkman shot a lot of40 against Luverne and

earned all-conference hon-ors with an 85 at the BSCmeet.

Abby Benson endedher season on a high note,shooting a career-low 83on the second day of thesection tournament. Thatincluded a career-best 36on the back nine that day.

Abby Benson was med-alist in three meets andaveraged 44.5 strokes pernine holes. She was also anall-conference performerafter shooting 91 at the

conference meet.“They’re competitive,”

Eggink said of his top threegirls. “They all want to bemedalist every night, sothat helps.”

Junior Emmalie Bensonemerged throughout theseason, and was excellentdown the stretch. She shota career-low 93 at the BSCmeet to earn all-conferencehonors and then toppedthat with 88 during the firstround of the section meet.

Emmalie Benson had herscore count in 13 meets thisseason and averaged 48.5strokes per nine holes.

Freshman Tiara Menkeand seventh-grader GraceBenson were new to thevarsity team this year.Menke had her score countin two meets and averaged53.1 strokes per nine holes.Her low of 49 came early

in the season at Marshall.Grace Benson averaged65.2 strokes per nine holes,but was well below that inher two rounds at the sec-tion meet, shooting 124and 117.

As a team, JCC had apretty impressive season,going 8-3 overall. One ofthose losses came when theHuskies had an incompleteteam at Worthington.

JCC finished third inthe section meet behindMinnewaska and Marshall

and posted the second-bestscore at the BSC tourna-ment behind Marshall.

“To finish third at thesection,that wasprettygood,”Egginksaid. “Thetwo teamsthat beatus are re-ally goodteams.Marshallwas be t -ter than usand Min-newaskawas betterthan us.”

With allbut AlisonBensonreturningnext sea-

son, Egg-ink has no doubt the teamcan be just as good nextspring.

“I look for us to be prettycompetitive,” he said.

But that will depend onwhat happens now that theseason has ended.

“You can’t get betterduring the season in golf,”Eggink said. “The season istoo short and it’s too cold.You have to work on yourgame during the summerand hopefully they will.”

PHOTO BY DAN CONDON

Abby Benson sends a tee shot down the fairway.

AlisonBenson

AbbyBrinkman

JCC GOLF: Huskies send two to Class AA state golf tournamentContinued from C1

Last season, the JacksonCounty Central baseballteam finished strong andit carried over into thisseason. Head coach MikeWierson hopes that trendcontinues into next seasonafter another hot stretchlate.

The Huskies played wellto open the season, butplayed their best ball at theright time.

“We finished last yearstrong and brought that inthis season,” Wierson said.“We got wins early and got

off to a good start.”The Huskies won theiropener and were 2-2 afterfour games, with both loss-es coming to state-rankedFairmont.

As the season wounddown, JCC won its finalthree regular season gamesand then, as the seventhseed in the Section 3AAtournament, opened theplayoffs with an upset win

Another strong finish for the JCC baseball teamHuskies pull offupset in first roundof section playoffs

by DAN CONDONSports Editor

over No. 2 Pipestone.JCC lost its next two

games to have its seasonend with a record of 10-12.

Winning a playoff gameis something Wierson saidshould be expected in thefuture.

“Winning that first tour-nament game against Pipe-stone was the highlight,” hesaid. “The kids then think,‘There’s more to this thana weekend tournament.We win and we’re still in.’It gave us a we-play-to-stay-in kind of mentalityto build off.”

Wierson said the biggestthings for the Huskies thisseason were solid pitchingand a group of players thatwere willing to do what-ever it took to win.

“We had a lot of pitch-ing,” he said. “I thought

we had great pitching thisyear. There were timeswe had four games in aweek and it seemed likewe always had guys readyto go.”

Leading the charge onthe mound were seniorsScott Christopher and NickArp and sophomores RyanChristopher and ChrisGumto.

The dynamic on themound was an exampleof the entire team, as theHuskies had talented se-niors and a host of excel-lent young players.

That mix worked well,Wierson said, because the

players put the team first.“It’s kind of hard beingan older player becauseonce you get to varsity, thebest kids play,” Wiersonsaid. “Sometimes that’stough because maybe ayounger guy takes a cou-ple innings from you, butthe guys were able to staypositive and stick togetherthroughout the season.”

That’s a testament to theseniors, Wierson said.

“We had a lot of seniorsand that really helpedbring those younger guysalong,” he said. “We hadsenior leadership. They’renot just good baseball play-

ers, but great guys andgood leaders.”The leading hitters for

the Huskies in terms ofaverage were a pair ofseniors in Arp and ScottChristopher.

Arp hit .385 with threedoubles in 26 at-bats.He drove in six runs andscored four.

Scott Christopher hit.343 and led the team with23 hits. The senior tied forthe team high with threedoubles and was third with14 runs batted in. He alsoscored 14 runs and stolefive bases.

Junior outfielder Nate

Monson hit .333, drove in15 runs and scored 13.Senior catcher Jared

Bakalyar had an averageof .327 and used 13 walksto post an on-base percent-age of .468.

Sophomore middle in-fielder Easton Bahr hit .323out of the leadoff spot andled the team with 17 walksand 11 stolen bases. Hedrove in 14 runs and scoreda team-high 20.

Ryan Christopher hit.300, scored 17 runs anddrove in seven. The speedycenter fielder stole 10 bas-es and walked eight times.

Gumto hit .250 and led

the team with 16 RBI. Hescored 10 runs and hit apair of doubles.

Senior first basemanBrody Anderson hit theteam’s only home run anddrove in six runs this sea-son.

Senior Andrew Hessescored 14 runs and had anon-base percentage of .373after picking up six hitsand 11 walks. He was anexample of a player whodid anything to help theteam, bouncing back andforth between the infieldand outfield.

On the mound, Ryan

PHOTOS BY DAN CONDON

Ryan Christopher (from left) is greeted by teammates Andrew Hesse, Chris Gumto and Ryan Timko after scoringa run for Jackson County Central this season.

Sophomore Easton Bahr follows through on one of his 21 hits this season.

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1. Aleigha Henderson 235.52. Alyssa Post 2153. Jessica Christoffer 194.54. Brielle Scheepstra 193.55. Kailey Koep 167.56. Molly Boyum 1317. Zoe Pohlman 128.58. Kia Holm 909. Melissa Brandt 81.510. Karli Cavness 80.5

JCC girlsscoring list

Meet Boys GirlsMt. Lake 2 2Mt. Lake 4 3Windom 5 2Luverne 4 3Fairmont 3 4Section True Team 9 7Fairmont 6 7Worthington 5 5Big South Conf. 6 4

JCC track andfield results

1. Warren Darling 272.52. Matt Strom 189.53. Brandon Schmit 1844. Damien VanWesten 1285. Demonte Thomas 118.56. Andrew Hesse 937. Jordan Hutzler 828. Curtis Pell 76.59. Ryder Lesch 7210. Dalton Mekosch 68.5

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Central boys’ track andfield team had a lot of newfaces this season and thegirls’ squad was loadedwith young talent.

Head coach Rafe Yorkwas pleased with the wayboth teams fared thisspring and has high hopesfor the future — particu-larly with the girls’ team.

‘Everyone stood out’York said there were so

many things to be happywith on the girls’ team, itwas hard to name just afew.

“Everyone stood out,”he said, rattling off half-a-dozen names and their ac-

complishments. “Everyoneon that team excites me.”

The top 12 scorers onthis year’s team were soph-omores or younger, ledby eighth-grader AleighaHenderson.

“She’s a really good ath-lete and she let it show,”York said. “She gained con-fidence in herself.”

Henderson excelled in avariety of events to score235.5 points this spring.

Henderson finishedfirst in long jump in thesmall-school division ofthe Big South Conferencemeet and was third in the100-meter dash. She quali-fied for the section meet

in both events, as well asin the 4x200- and 4x100-meter relays.

The 4x1 team of Hen-derson, freshman AlyssaPost and eighth-gradersZoe Pohlman and KaileyKoep posted the ninth-besttime in school history thisseason.

Post was second on thescoring list with 215 points.She was on both sprintrelay teams that finishedthird at the BSC meet andfifth at the sub-sectionmeet. She also placed sixth

New-look Huskies fare well in track and fieldat the sub-section meet inthe 200-meter dash.

“She ran so well thisyear,” York said.

Freshman Jessica Christ-offer led a good group ofdistance runners for theHuskies and finished thirdwith 194.5 points. She has307.5 points in the last twoyears.

Christoffer has the sec-ond-best 1,600-meter timein school history, is sixthin the 300-meter hurdlesand ninth in the 400-meterdash.

Christoffer was joinedby freshmen Molly Boyumand Kia Holm and sopho-more Karli Cavness to winthe 4x800-meter relay atthe BSC meet. The teamwas second at the sub-section meet.

Christoffer also placed

second at the sub-sectionmeet and fourth at sectionsin the 1,600 and was fourthin the race at the confer-ence meet.

F r e s h m a n B r i e l l eScheepstra is secondin school history in the100-meter hurdles andplaced fifth in the eventat the BSC meet. She wassixth at the sub-sectionmeet and upped that finishat sections, placing fifth.She also advanced to sec-tions on the 4x1 team. Thisseason, she racked up 193.5points and has 250.5 in hercareer.

Koep scored 167.5 pointsthis season and is tied

for eight in school historyin pole vault. She placedthird at the section meetin vault and was fourth atsub-sections.

Boyum totaled 131 pointsthis spring, coming in mid-dle-distance and distanceruns. She was third in the800-meter run at the BSCmeet, on the winning 4x8team and part of the 4x4team that was fifth. Sheran on both of those relayteams at the section meet.

Pohlman is fifth in schoolhistory in the 300 hurdles

and advanced to sections inthe event. She scored 128.5points this season.

Holm scored 90 pointsthis season and was fourthat the conference meet inthe 800-meter run.

Eighth-grader MelissaBrandt racked up 81.5 andwas fifth in the 1,600 and3,200 at the BSC meet.

Cavness rounded outthe top 10 on this year’sscoring list, accumulating80.5 points. She qualifiedfor sections in the 3,200and 4x8.

Sophomore Sophie John-son scored 51.5 points thisyear and eighth-graderHailey Handevidt totaled36 before suffering a sea-son-ending injury early.

Senior Jade Holthescored 34.5 points thisseason and had more than

200 in her career.Seventh-graders Alexis

Crees and Sheridan Oster-berg both impressed Yorkwith late-season call ups.

Crees finished sixth atthe sub-section meet inpole vault and Osterbergwas on the 4x4 team thatwas fifth at the BSC meet.

York said one of the bestparts of the season waswatching how well the girlsinteracted and cheered foreach other.

“What stands out in mymind is watching kids likeHailey Handevidt, who washurt most of the season, atthe meet cheering for peo-ple, hobbling from one side

of the track to the othercheering them on,” Yorksaid. “Placing importanceon the team aspect, that’sthe thing that leads to asuccessful track program.”

That also came fromsenior Sarah Brandt, whowasn’t able to compete af-ter a knee injury.

“Sarah was great,” Yorksaid. “She was so disap-pointed that she couldn’trun. She and Hailey weresupposed to be big contrib-utors, it just didn’t workout that way. They bothcontributed to the teamatmosphere a lot.”

Darling, Schmitset school records

Seniors Warren Darlingand Matt Schmit set schoolrecords this season and

were leaders on a team thathad several new athletes

this spring.Darling led the team with

272.5 points and scoredmore than 800 in his career.

He flew 20 feet, 10 inch-es in long jump to breakhis own record and wonthe event at the BSC meet.He was also the conferencechampionin t r ip le

ju mp an downs theseventh-best dis -t anc e inthat eventi n t e a mhistory.

At sub-sections,

Darlingwas second in long jumpand fifth in triple jump. Henarrowly missed a trip tostate in long jump, placingthird at the section meet.Darling was also on the4x200-meter relay teamthat posted the 10th-besttime in school history.

Schmit set the schoolrecord in discus with adistance of 148 feet, 1 inch.He’s also eighth in schoolhistory in shot put. Heplaced second in discus atthe BSC meet and fourthin shot put. He was secondat the sub-section meet inboth events.

This year, he scored 184points to finish third onthe team.

Sophomore Matt Stromscored 189.5 points thisseason and has 494 in hiscareer.

Strom was third in the800-meter run at the BSCand sub-section meets andfinished sixth at sections.He was also part of the4x2 team that was third atsub-sections and on the 4x4team that was third at theBSC meet.

“Matt Strom had a greatyear,” York said. “He start-ed off running 4s and 2s.He wanted to run the 800and we thought that was

probably his best event.”Freshman Damien Van-

Westen sprinted his way to128 points this season. Hewas fourth in the 400 at theBSC meet and made it tosections in the race.

“Damien had a greatyear,” York said. “Hehad been running 100s inmiddle school and want-ed to do the 4 and he re-ally improved all year.”At sections, VanWestenplaced 16th, but York washappy with how he ran.

“It can be discouraging,”York said. “He got dead lastat the section meet, but, asa freshman, getting thereis the big thing.”

Senior Demonte Thomasis the rare sprinter and

thrower and did well atboth. He scored 118.5points this season and iseighth in school history indiscus.

Thomas was fifth in discat the BSC meet and sixthat sub-sections. He wasalso on the 4x1 team thatwent to the section meet.

Senior Andrew Hessescored 93 points, despitenot being at every meet be-cause he also played base-ball. Senior Zach Holmwas in the same boat andscored 51.5 points.

Both sprinted and wereon the 4x1 team that com-peted at sections. Hesse

was also on the 4x2 teamthat was third at the sub-section meet and 10th-bestin school history.

Junior Jordan Hutzlerscored 82 points in a vari-ety of events, junior Cur-tis Pell scored 76.5 andsophomore Ryder Leschscored 72.

Lesch was second andPell fourth in pole vaultat the BSC meet and bothqualified for sections.Lesch is sixth in schoolhistory in the event andPell is tied for seventh.

It’s guys like Hutzler,

though, that York is excitedabout.

“We had a lot of newguys who I thought re-ally stepped up,” he said.“Guys like Jordan Hutzler.It was his first year and webounced him around quitea bit. He ended up hurdlingand running every relayexcept the 4x8.”

The five seniors also im-pressed York and helpedbring the team together.

“The five seniors, theydid a great job of showingleadership,” he said. “I feltlike the team was as closeas I’ve ever seen a trackteam. They really enjoyedbeing around each other.”

York said the key to moreteam success in the future

is getting more kids out forthe sport.

“We need to increaseparticipation,” he said.“We’ve got good athleteswalking the halls not doinganything in the spring. Weneed to convince them to

join us. Kids look at it as just running. They don’tsee the fun that comes withthe running and throwing.”

Walsh retiresLongtime coach Jack

Walsh announced his re-tirement after the season.He spent 45 years as acoach for Jackson HighSchool and JCC.

“That will be a changegoing forward withoutJack next year,” Yorksaid. “Forty-five years ofcoaching at the school;I can’t imagine doinganything for that long.”York said if there wereever a good time for thelongtime coach to retire,now is as good as any.“It’s probably a goodtime to do it with so manyyoung kids,” he said. “We’llmove forward. He’ll bemissed, but he says he’llbe around.”


Aleigha Henderson hands the baton to Alyssa Post during a relay race this season.The two were the top scorers for Jackson County Central this spring.

Brandon Schmit set the school record in discus thisseason and is in the top 10 in shot put.


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HL-O softballresults

Opponent Result ScoreRRC L 289-265WWG L 228-205SWC W 243-305Adrian L 243-184Windom L 241-183SWC W 229-277Adrian L 229-187Worthington L 232-198Tournaments

WWG 6thRed Rock Conference 3rdSub-section 5th

Overall record: 2-6

HL-O girls’ golfresults

Opponent Result ScoreRRC L 265-215WWG L 232-182HBC L 232-205

SWC W 244-Inc.Adrian L 244-178Mt. Lake Area L 223-200Windom L 232-191HBC L 251-213SWC L 227-205Adrian L 227-163HBC L 251-197Worthington L 230-156Tournaments

Fulda 8thRed Rock Conference 8thSub-section 8th

Overall record: 1-11

HL-O boys’ golfresults

In terms of wins andlosses, this spring wasn’ta great one for the HeronLake-Okabena boys’ andgirls’ golf teams.

But in terms of manyother measurements, therewere plenty of good thingsto take away from the sea-son.

The HL-O girls went2-6 on the season, but didwell down the stretch. TheHL-O boys were 1-11 thisspring.

Wendland leadsWildcat girls

Senior Kailey Wendlandled the HL-O girls every

Wildcats make major strides on the golf course

HL-O relies onRogers-Ferguson,Obermoller to leadteam to success

Wendland endsremarkable careerwith trip to sections

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

meet this season, but that’sno surprise.

She’s been at the fore-front of the program and isone of the big reasons it’seven around.

“She was one of the maindriving forces of gettingthe golf program startedagain,” head coach JaredBourquin said. “She reallyencouraged kids to go out.She was begging and plead-ing girls to go out.”

What that led to is an op-portunity for Wendland toshowcase her talent and achance for others to fall inlove with the sport.

“She got a group of girlsto come out who really en-

joy the game,” Bourquinsaid. “As a leader, that’sinvaluable.”

Wendland finished in atie for second at the RedRock Conference meet thisseason with a score of 47and continued her successat the sub-section meet.

There, she shot 93 to finishfourth and advance to thesection meet.

At sections, Wendlandshot 102 to place 15th.

Wendland making it backto the section meet was oneof the biggest highlights ofthe season, Bourquin said.

“She played really well,”he said. “She had a realtough hole and that wasenough to knock her outof state.”

Wendland shot a season-low of 43 twice this season,which was the lowest scoreby any HL-O golfer thisspring.

Junior Haley Rueschshot a season-low score of53 against Mt. Lake Area.Sophomores Sarah Madsen(57) and Brooke Freking(58) both shot their seasonlow in a triangular againstAdrian and Southwest Min-nesota Christian.

Seventh-grader LexyRuesch shot nine-holescores of 65 and 63 at atournament in Westbrookfor her two lowest scores

of the season. In the sametournament, seventh-grad-er Sam Freking shot herbest rounds of the season,posting scores of 71 and 72.

The Wildcats played welllate in the season, finishingthird at the Red Rock Con-ference meet and fifth atthe sub-section meet.

“As a team, we did fair-ly well at the conferenceand sub-section meets,”Bourquin said. “The teamdid really well.”

With Wendland graduat-ing, the Wildcats will havea huge hole to fill at the topof their lineup.

“We’ll lose Kailey, butwe have girls coming backwho got a lot of experi-ence this year and havethe capability to shoot lowscores,” Bourquin said.

He said Haley Ruesch,Madsen and Brooke Frek-ing all have a chance to fillthe spot vacated by Wend-land’s graduation.

“Those three girls are allfairly close in scores,” hesaid. “Hopefully they havea competition to fill thatrole. Those girls will befighting for that top spot, sohopefully that drives themto low scores.”

Boys show majorimprovements

The HL-O boys won just once this spring, but

Bourquin said there weremajor strides made allseason.

“We weren’t going towin a whole lot of meets,”he said. “Their averagedropped by seven strokesthis year. That’s a big stepfor them to build on nextseason.”

Bourquin said one ofthe reasons for the lowerscores was just playingsmart.

“They got rid of a lot

of their wasted hits,” hesaid. “Working on takingsmarter shots and not risk-ing throwing shots away onpenalties.”

The experience gainedduring the season start-ed to show late, whereBourquin said the teamplayed its best golf.

“Toward the end of theyear they all golfed reallywell individually,” he said.“The last two meets, someof them had their bestscores of the season.”

The Wildcats had threegolfers post the team’s lowscore in a meet this season,with freshman Ben Shel-dahl doing that six times.

Sheldahl shot his bestscore of 48 on the frontnine at a tournament atFulda.

Senior Hunter Timkomatched Sheldahl’s low of48 with an identical scorein a triangular againstHills-Beaver Creek andWestbrook/Walnut Grove.He led HL-O in three meetsthis season.

Seventh-grader EthanKoep showed real prom-ise during the season andhad the low Wildcat scorein two meets. He shot 52against Windom and card-ed a 53 against Mt. LakeArea.

Freshman Wyatt Schum-acher shot 54 on the backnine at the Fulda tour-nament, seventh-grad-er Chase Little shot 61against MLA, MatthewBartosh fired a 65 againstWorthington and seventh-grader Ethan Untiedt post-ed a 76 at the conferencemeet.

Bourquin liked the im-provement he saw thisseason and expects it tocontinue.

“They are all going tobe sophomores or youngernext year, so they still havetime to improve,” he said.“We talked a lot about howto improve this offseason:Go out and golf and golfand golf. Get that repetitionso they come in improvednext year.”

SUBMITTED PHOTO

Kailey Wendland shows the medal she won for placing

fourth at the Red Rock Conference golf meet.

A good softball teamstarts with good pitchingand catching and that’s

Pitching, catching help Wildcats do well on the diamond

PHOTO BY DAN CONDON

Ida Rogers-Ferguson delivers a pitch for Heron Lake-Okabena this season.

exactly what Heron Lake-Okabena had this season.

The Wildcats relied on junior pitcher Ida Rogers-Ferguson and sophomorecatcher Samantha Ober-moller and the two didn’tdisappoint.

“Ida did well on themound and at the bat,”head coach Angie Rogotzkesaid. “She carries the team.But without a good catch-

er, you can’t really havea good pitcher. Sam wasexcellent behind the plateand she had a hot bat too.”Both were named all-RedRock Conference play-ers and named the team’smost valuable players andObermoller was named tothe honorable-mention all-state team.

But the two weren’t theonly standouts on a Wildcat

team that went 10-7 andfinished tied for second inthe conference with a 7-3record. HL-O had threetalented seniors and a hostof others to help the teamwin a pair of playoff games.

“The season went great,”Rogotzke said. “We’re ex-cited to tie for second inthe conference; that hasto be the big highlight. Wealso made it further in theplayoff bracket than weever have.”

What really proved theteam’s talent was its abil-ity to hang with some ofthe best teams in the area,including Edgerton/South-

west Christian, which fin-ished fifth at state. HL-Olost 5-4 to the Flying Dutch-men late in the season andthen played them tough inthe playoffs.

“If the girls have theirminds into it and are will-ing to give it their all,these girls have the abil-ity to hang with anybody,”Rogotzke said.

It all started with Rog-ers-Ferguson — literallyon offense.

The junior leadoff batterled the Wildcats with a .466batting average, 27 runsscored, 27 hits, 12 walksand six stolen bases. Sheand Obermoller tied for theteam lead with five doublesand two triples. Rogers-Ferguson also hit a pair ofhome runs and had 16 runsbatted in.

In the circle, Rogers-

Ferguson pitched 94 ofthe teams’ 109 inningsthis year. She struck out108 batters and had a 2.71earned-run average.

Obermoller hit .404 andled the team with 26 RBI.The sophomore was one offive players to hit a pair ofhomers. She also scored 16runs and swiped five bases.

Obermoller was namedthe team’s best offensiveplayer for her ability atthe plate.

Seniors Rachel Mathiasand Lizzie Rossow wereboth named to the all-con-ference team and freshmenJessica VanWesten and

Tessla Crowell were on thehonorable-mention team.

Mathias hit .321 this sea-son and two of her 18 hitswere home runs. She drovein 13 runs and scored 16.

Mathias was also a gold-glove-caliber first basemanfor the Wildcats, earningan award as the team’s bestdefender.

“I would put her atfirst base at any and ev-ery game,” Rogotzke said.“She’s got a great glove.She was a huge aspect ofthe team.”

Rossow developed into asolid outfielder, with a bighighlight this season com-ing when she gunned downa runner at the plate inwhat turned out to be a 1-0win over Mt. Lake Area.

“She has played eversince I took over the pro-gram,” Rogotzke said. “In

the beginning, her glovewas eerie in the outfield,but she has turned into areally good outfielder.”

At the plate, Rossow hit.320 as a senior and drovein seven runs.

VanWesten hit a pair ofhome runs this season,drove in 11 runs and had10 hits. Crowell drove insix runs and scored nine.

Crowell also pitched 15innings for the Wildcatsand struck out eight bat-ters.

Junior Megan Haber-man had the potential to bean all-conference player,

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HL-O track andfield results

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by DAN CONDON

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A pair of seniors weresolid all season for the Her-on Lake-Okabena baseball

Fest, Cranston shine in winless season for the Wildcatsteam, but a young squadwasn’t able to win anygames this season.

Isaac Fest and TreyCranston were both namedto the all-Red Rock Confer-

ence baseball team afterdoing well this season.Fest was by far the

team’s best hitter, postingan average of .370 He had20 hits and stole “at least adozen bases,” according tohead coach Keith Rogers.

Cranston had 12 hits forthe Wildcats and finishedwith a batting average of.260.

“We barely hit .200 afterthat,” Rogers said. “Thatwas our weakness. Weneeded to make contactand get on base.”

The Wildcats scored just39 runs in 17 games for anaverage of 2.3 per game.They were shutout four

times, scored one run infour games and plated twoin two games.

Just once did the Wild-cats score more than sixruns, but that game theygave up a bunch in a 20-10loss to Mt. Lake Area.

Typically, the pitchingwas pretty good, as theWildcats were in quite afew games.

Fest and Cranston werethe team’s best pitchers

and both were able to giveHL-O a chance in manygames.

“They can hold themdown, but we just didn’t getthem enough runs to win,”Rogers said.

The Wildcats lost twogames by one run, three by

just two runs and were de-feated once by three runs.

“We were in two-thirdsof them,” Rogers said.“A few clutch hits hereand there would definitelyhelp.”

Jacob Getzel was theonly other senior on theteam this year and a growthon his arm kept him out ofaction most of the season.

With just three seniors,the Wildcats were forcedto play quite a few youngplayers.

“It was kind of a rebuild-ing year,” Rogers said. “Wewere young.”

While the kids took their

lumps this season, Rogers

said it could be beneficialin the long run.

“Sometimes you throwyounger guys on themound,” he said. “They’regaining experience, butyou just don’t win manygames that way.”

PHOTO BY DAN CONDON

Isaac Fest waits to field a ground ball while playing shortstop this season. Fest wasthe team’s top hitter and one of two players named to the all-conference team.

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two wins this summer andis showing promise.

“They’re playing a littlebetter this summer,” Rog-ers said. “Hopefully thingswill look up next year.”

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The Heron Lake-Okabe-na track and field programhad low numbers, mean-ing there wasn’t going tobe much success as far asteam standings.

But the Wildcats wereable to maximize the tal-ent they had and had 10entrants in the Section 3Ameet.

The HL-O girls had eightof those entrants, includ-ing a pair of relay teams.Two Wildcat boys qualifiedfor sections in individualevents.

Coming off a successfulgirls’ cross country sea-son last fall, the Wildcatshad much of their success

Wildcats were low on numbers, high on talentin distance runs and the4x800-meter relay.

Leading the charge werefreshmen MaKayla Ed-

wards, Rachel Salentiny,Brianna Preston and Chey-enne Schaffer.

Those four ran the 4x8and finished first at thesub-section meet. The four-some placed fifth in therelay at the section meet.

The 4x8 relay teamalso won at Windom andwas second at Luverne,Fairmont and Mt. Lake.The team also finishedthird at a season-openingindoor meet and at anothermeet in Mt. Lake.

Preston claimed firstplace in the 3,200-meterrun at a meet in Mt. Lake.She finished third at Lu-verne and fourth at the Sen-

tinel Relays in Fairmont.Salentiny finished sev-

enth in the 3,200-meterrun at the section meet and

was third at the SentinelRelays. She also ran the1,600, finishing second andthird in two different meetsat Mt. Lake and fourth at ameet in Windom.

Edwards finished ninthin the 800-meter run at thesection meet and also ranthe two longer races. Shefinished in the top threeof all three races at leastonce. Edwards was secondin the 3,200 at Windom,third in the 800 at Mt. Lakeand third in the 1,600 at theSentinel Relays.

Salentiny, Schaffer,freshman Kaylan Untiedtand freshman Taylor Jo-hanning teamed up in the

4x400-meter relay and ad-vanced to the section meet.The relay team was fourthin two meets and fifth inanother.

Untiedt also competedin the 100- and 300-meter

hurdles at sections andcompeted in high jumpduring the season.

Schaffer ran in the 800 at

sections and palced secondin the event at Mt. Lake andthird in two other meets.She also competed in high

jump, finishing third onceand fourth in a pair ofmeets.

Senior Sarah Schmid fin-ished sixth in high jump atthe indoor meet.

Sophomore Bailey Collinwas 12th at the section meetin shot put and fourth atthe indoor meet. She fin-ished second in discus atMt. Lake.

The HL-O boys had twoathletes finish in the top 11at the section meet.

Senior Dakotah Schmidwas 11th in the 300-meter

hurdles after a success-ful season in the event.He placed second at theSentinel relays, third atMt. Lake and fourth in twomeets.

The speedster also ranthe 200, finishing fifth inMt. Lake and Luverne. Hewas second in long jump atthe Sentinel Relays.

Sophomore Logan Knut-son came in eighth placein the 3,200-meter run atthe section meet. He wasfourth in the race in Mt.Lake and also did well inthe 1,600. He won that raceat one meet in Mt. Lake andhad a pair of fourth-placefinishes.

Junior Matthrew Poppefinished second in shot

put and discus at a meetin Mt. Lake and was thirdin both at another meet inMt. Lake.

Freshman Tyler Brunkfinished eighth in both the100- and 400-meter dash at

the Sentinel Relays.Senior Isaac Fest, who

also played baseball for theWildcats, was third in high

jump in Luverne and fifthat the indoor meet.


MaKayla Edwards excelled in distance running for Heron Lake-Okabena this season and was on the 4x800-meterrelay team that won the sub-section title.

Logan Knutson advanced to the section meet in the3,200-meter run, where he placed eighth.


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OffenseName AB Runs Hits RBI BB BA OBPMo Carlson 90 23 43 34 11 .478 .534Blaney Markman 93 20 41 32 7 .441 .485Kelsey Kannenberg 68 13 26 14 5 .382 .432Jadin Bezdicek 92 36 34 21 10 .370 .448Kathryn Nasby 95 27 35 11 5 .368 .406Rachel Johnson 71 17 20 8 8 .282 .366Sydney Nyborg 72 18 20 17 16 .278 .411Bailey Schneekloth 71 19 19 11 7 .268 .342Megan Edlin 63 15 13 15 3 .206 .259

Tearza Brewer 24 8 4 1 2 .167 .259 JCC 784 208 164 174 80 .337 .406

PitchingName App. IP Hits K BB ER ERAKannenberg (12-5) 17 112 74 134 26 27 1.69Nyborg (3-3) 8 34 44 23 18 23 4.74 JCC (16-10) 26 173.2 153 174 59 73 2.94

JCC softball stats

OffenseName AB Runs Hits RBI BB BA OBPIda Rogers-Ferguson 58 27 27 16 12 .466 .581Megan Haberman 17 5 7 5 1 .412 .525Sam Obermoller 57 16 23 26 3 .404 .477Rachel Mathias 56 16 18 13 7 .321 .400Lizzie Rossow 50 7 16 7 1 .320 .414Brooklynne Elder 32 10 9 2 3 .250 .400Whitney Evers 44 6 10 6 9 .227 .382Madison Leighty 48 14 10 7 6 . 208 .321Jessica VanWesten 57 5 10 11 4 .175 .254

Tessla Crowell 46 9 6 6 10 .130 .286HL-O 470 116 135 99 57 .287 .399

PitchingName App. IP Hits K BB ER ERARogers-Ferguson (9-2) 16 94 123 108 26 37 2.71Crowell (0-2) 3 15 29 8 11 15 9.0HL-O (9-4) 19 109 152 116 37 52 3.29

HL-O softball stats

but a shoulder injuryderailed her season af-ter she hit .412 in six

games. She still drovein five runs and scoredfive. Of her seven hits,three were doubles andone was a homer.

Sophomore Brook-lyn Elder scored 10runs, senior WhitneyEvers drove in six runsand walked nine times,sophomore MadisonLeighty scored 14 runsand hit two homers and

junior Mariah Harveyscored one run for theWildcats.

Evers, who Rogotzkesaid did very well inright field this season,was named the team’smost improved player.

Rogotzke said thethree seniors will bemissed next season,but the team has thefoundation in place tobe very good.

“Next season we’vegot the ability to bereally good,” she said.“Ida will be back, Samwill be back. MeganHaberman, hopefullyshe’ll be healthy.”

With talent all acrossthe field, Rogotzke saidthe Wildcats could giveE/SWC a run for theirmoney for the confer-ence title.

“I look to improve

next year and we’ve got theability to do what we didthis year and try to go for

HL-O SB: Ten wins for WildcatsContinued from C4

first place,” she said. “It’llbe a fun race for everybodyagain.”

PHOTO BY DAN CONDON

Samantha Obermoller, an honorable-mention all-state player for Heron Lake-Okabena, tags a runner out at home plate this season.

JCC SB: JCC makes postseason runContinued from C1

PHOTO BY DAN CONDON

Jadin Bezdicek hits a three-run home run in JacksonCounty Central’s extra-inning win over Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta in the Section 3AA tournament.

Christopher went 3-1 andpitched a team-high 35 1/3innings. He fanned a team-high 37 batters and allowed

just 14 runs.Gumto struck out 22 bat-

ters in 31 innings and ScottChristopher punched out22 batters in 26 1/3 innings.Arp had 13 strikeouts in 172/3 innings.

Sophomores DarriusJohnson, Keegan Klontz

and Carter Heinrichs allgot quality playing timein various roles down thestretch for the Huskies.

Scott Christopher andBahr were named to theall-Big South Conferenceteam and Ryan Christo-pher was an honorable-mention pick.

With Monson back nextyear, a strong group ofsophomores returning and

a few other players readyto step into bigger roles,Wierson said there’s noreason the Huskies can’tbuild on their 10-win sea-son.

“We’ve got a lot of posi-tives to build on,” he said.“With that sophomoregroup, Monson and AveryHenderson, we could bereally, really tough.”

To make that happen,

though, will require workin the offseason.

“As those sophomoresget more confident, get alittle stronger, I hope theirbats come alive,” Wiersonsaid. “They are good hit-ters, but at times a littlebit outmatched. It’ll be adifference-maker havingthat year of strength ofconfidence. It’s going to bea lot of fun next year.”

JCC BASE: Playoff win highlights 10-win seasonContinued from C1

tered several single-sea-son pitching records forJCC since the rubber wasmoved from 40 to 43 feet,setting new marks in wins(12), innings pitched (112),games pitched (17), strike-

outs (134) and earned-runaverage (1.69). The rightywent 12-5 in the circle thisseason and allowed an op-ponent batting average of

just .179.Kannenberg was equally

impressive with a bat inher hands, hitting .382with eight doubles and onehome run this season. Shedrove in 14 runs and scored13 despite missing timewith an injury.

In her career, Kannen-berg already has 66 hits,48 RBI, 13 doubles and sixhomers. She has 19 pitch-ing wins and has struck out213 batters.

Junior Jadin Bezdicekburst onto the scene thisspring and led the Hus-kies with 36 runs scoredand nine stolen bases. Thesecond baseman hit .370this season and had ninedoubles, two triples and athree-run home run in ex-tra innings in the win overMACA. Bezdicek drovein 21 runs and walked 10times this season.

Junior Sydney Nyborgwas a vacuum at thirdbase and equally impres-sive when she was at firstbase. On offense, Nyborg

led the team with 16 walks,leading to an on-base per-centage of .411. Nyborghit three home runs, drovein 17 runs and scored 18.She has already walked 31times in her career and has37 hits in two seasons.

Nyborg pitched 34 in-nings this season, strikingout 23 batters.

Sophomore Jayni Ander-son had just 22 at bats thisseason, but she played a bigrole as the team’s primarycatcher. She threw outthree would-be base steal-ers this season and had afielding percentage of .952.

Eighth-grader BlaneyJohnson pitched 22 innings

f o r t h eHuskiesthis sea-son, fan-ning eightbatters.Eighth-graderAshleyHeinrichsalso sawaction int h e c i r -cle in twogames thisseason.

Johnsondr ove infive runsand scoredt h r e e i n

just 15 atbats this season.

Carlson, Markman, Kan-

nenberg, Nyborg and Bez-dicek were all named to theall-conference team andNasby and Schneeklothwere honorable-mentionselections. Carlson, Mark-man and Kannenberg werenamed to the all-sectionteam.

Hotzler said the hugegroup of seniors will obvi-ously be missed, but thatdoesn’t mean the Huskiescan’t pick up next yearwhere they left off thisyear.

“We’ll be reloadingagain,” she said. “Not re-building; we never reallydo that.”

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