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2011 JCC football resultsACGC 20-0Worthington 31-6Luverne 35-0Marshall 6-44Redwood Valley 42-13West Central 7-47Pipestone 41-6Windom 46-0Section 3AA playofsPipestone 43-13Luverne 0-12

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Michelle VanEpps (20) and Kaylee Benson go up for a block for the Huskies this season. The duo helped JCC go 26-4.

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The Jackson County Central defense swarms to a Luverne ball-carrier. JCC defenders are Travis Beeck (from left), Darnell Taylor-Breck, Kyle Luhmann, Carsen Nyborg and Josh Bretzman.

JCC volleyball team goes26-4, posts 20-match winstreak and wins sub-section

Despite injuries and newplayers, JCC ootball teamputs together anotherwinning season on the grid

by DAN CONDON

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by DAN CONDON

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Aoh mpssv saso o Hsks

The Jackson County Central volleyballteam seemed to be doing what every coachhopes or: peaking as the playos start.

The Huskies had ound a way to keepclicking despite a season-ending kneeinjury to senior Kaylee Benson and had

a 17-match winning streak entering theplayos. The postseason started with apair o sweeps beore the Huskies playedpossibly their best match o the season ina sweep o Windom.

And then came Marshall.The Tigers proved to be too much or

the Huskies, with No. 1-ranked Marshallsweeping No. 2 JCC or the Section 3AAtitle. The loss to the Tigers marks the th

year in a row Marshall has ended the sea-son or the Huskies.

The Tigers also handed JCC a loss inthe regular season the Huskies onlySouthwest Conerence loss.

We had goals o winning the conerenceand getting to state, head coach TeresaVanEpps said. Unortunately, Marshallgot us again.

The only other losses JCC had this yearcame to Bethlehem Academy and Eaganin tournaments.

Marshall and BA both won state champi-onships, meaning three o JCCs our lossesin a 26-4 season came to state champions.

Were there, VanEpps said o being astate-caliber team. Well be there againnext year.

Despite losing to Marshall, the Huskieswon the sub-section championship or therst time since 2004.

That win over Windom in the sub-sec-tion nals was denitely the highlight o theseason, VanEpps said. We played one oour best matches o the season and camehome with a blue medal, not a red medal.

The Huskies started 6-3 on the seasonbeore winning 20 matches in a row. In-cluded in that stretch were two tournamentchampionships and a win over Class A No.5 Minneota.

From the beginning the girls really dida nice job, VanEpps said. Adversity wason our doorstep and they overcame that.

They rallied together in the section tour-nament.

Benson was having another impressiveseason beore getting hurt Oct. 4. She had193 kills, 44 ace blocks, 170 digs and 27ace serves.

Ater Bensons injury, reshman KayleeBurmeister saw her role increase.

Kaylee Burmeister, she really steppedit up and was able to play dierent posi-tions, VanEpps said.

Burmeister nished with 107 kills, 192digs and 26 ace serves.

But it was her older sister who cappedan illustrious career with another impres-sive season.

Senior Whitney Burmeister was namedthe Class AA Player o the Year ater post-ing team highs with 318 kills, 327 digs and45 ace serves. She also had 61 ace blocks.

Burmeister recorded her 1,000th careerkill in the playos and got her 1,000th digduring the season.

An individual highlight was Whitneygetting her 1,000th kill and being named

player o the year, VanEpps said. Thatspretty awesome.

Besides Benson and Whitney Burmeis-ter, the only other senior on the team wassetter Lexi Schneekloth.

Schneekloth had 506 set assists, 114 digsand 16 ace serves on the season.

Theyll denitely be missed, VanEppssaid o the seniors. They were eighth-graders when I took the head coachingposition. I wish them the best o luck.

Junior Jasmine Erickson led the Huskieswith 78 ace blocks and added 150 kills and104 digs. She also had 18 ace serves.

Like Kaylee Burmeister, junior SydneeDonnelli saw her role change throughoutthe season. Donnelli played libero lastseason and was there again briefy betweenstints as outside hitter.

Sydnee really adapted to the changes,VanEpps said. Thats what the season isabout: starting at one place and continu-ing to grow.

Donnelli nished the season with 106 Whitney Burmeister blasts one of her 318kills for the Huskies this season.

For Jackson County Central ootballcoach Tom Schuller, theres really onlyone way or a season to be as successul as

you hope it will be when two-a-days begin,and thats to win the state championship.

That goal was derailed or SchullersHuskies with a 12-0 playo loss to Luverneater JCC opened the postseason with a winover Pipestone.

It ended just like every other season,except or one, Schuller said. Youd al-

ways like to win the last one.Prior to the playo loss, the Huskies

aced a little bit o everything in a 7-3

season.The Huskies blew out several teams,

were blown out twice, replaced an entiredeensive backeld, replaced nearly anentire oensive line and scrambled ateran injury to quarterback Tanner Menke.

The season started with three straightwins, the third o which was a 35-0 shellack-ing o Luverne that Schuller said served asthe highlight to the season.

We played well on both sides o theball, he said. That was our most completegame oensively and deensively.

Just as the Huskies appeared to be hit-

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ting their stride, Menke tore his ACL inwhat ended up being a 44-6 loss to Mar-shall. The Huskies still dominated Red-

wood Valley the next week, but ollowedthat with a 47-7 loss to West Central. De-spite the injured knee, Menke returned ina limited role in a big win over Pipestoneand shared time at quarterback in the threeremaining games or the Huskies.

It was a strange year, Schuller said.We didnt have many close games. Really,the only close game we had was Luvernein the postseason.

Along with the changes at quarterback,the Huskies had the dicult task o puttingtogether an oensive line that looked verydierent than the one rom a year earlier.

Its always a challenge to rebuild youroensive line, Schuller said. Its the mostdicult thing to build. This year, we pretty

much built it rom scratch.The lone returning starter was senior

Alex Tewes, but he missed the rst ewweeks with an injury. Also playing on theoensive line during the season were se-niors Josh Bretzman, Merlin Tordsen andJoe Heckard; junior Mark Thaemlitz; andsophomores Nolan Hohenstein and Matt

Schmit.We were constantly battling to maintain

the oensive line, Schuller said.Injuries and ineectiveness orced

changes almost weekly on the oensiveline and in the deensive backeld.

We were in a constant state o changing,it seemed like, Schuller said. We seldomhad the same starting lineup two weeks ina row and that made it dicult.

One bright spot in the deensive back-eld was sophomore Darnell Taylor-Breck,

who saw his playing time increase duringthe season. He picked o our passes, twoo which were returned or touchdowns.

Senior Kyle Luhmann also played solidat cornerback and earned honorable-mention all-conerence honors. He hadan interception and returned a punt or atouchdown.

Others playing in the deensive backeld were senior Brett Larson (our umblerecoveries); juniors Menke (two intercep-tions), Zach Copley (two interceptions andtwo umble recoveries), Taylor Christopherand Daniel Weires (one umble recovery);and sophomores Shadrach Wacker and JonHarmening.

The strength o the deense might havebeen the linebackers, which eatured se-niors Cooper Moore and Carsen Nyborgand junior Darick Vancura. Vancura hadtwo interceptions and a umble recovery,Moore had a umble recovery and Nyborghad an interception. Vancura and Nyborgeach returned an interception or a score.

Juniors Travis Beeck and Spencer John-son both recovered a umble and wereboth relied on to play multiple positionson deense.

Bretzman anchored a deensive line thatsaw plenty o rotation. Copley, Hohenstein(one umble recovery), Tordsen, Schmit,Tewes, senior Kyle Edwards and sopho-more Ryan Brighton all saw extensive timeon the deensive line.

The JCC deense gave up just 14.1 pointsper game and held its opponent to 240

yards per game.The oense scored 27.1 points per game

and racked up 262 yards a contest.Most o those yards came on the ground

thanks to Moore and Nyborg.Moore rushed or 721 yards and 12

touchdowns and added a touchdown catch.


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Jadin Bezdicek runs with the lead at the Huskies home meet this season. Bezdicekwon the meet with a school-record time of 15:06.

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Above: Jack Ringkob leads a pack of runners during a cross country race this season.Left: Jason Vongsavanh runs at the Huskies home meet at the Loon Lake Golf Course.Ringkob was the second finisher for JCC twice this season and was the third JCC run-ner three times. Vongsavanh was third for JCC four times.

Eighth-grader sets school record twice,fnishes 27th at state cross country meet

Seniors Ben Kocak and JohnIsaacson lead the JCC boyscross country team

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

by DAN CONDON

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Putting together a season as successul as Jadin Bez-diceks doesnt come easy.

The eighth-grader rewrote the record books at JacksonCounty Central as the lone member o the JCC varsity

girls cross country team.Bezdicek won three junior high races

early in the season beore bumping up tovarsity the same strategy used last yearin her rst year on the team.

Bezdicek made a seamless transition asshe nished third at theTurkey Trot in her irst

varsity meet o the seasonand then set a school re-

cord with a time o 15:17 asshe nished second at theHuskies home meet at theLoon Lake Gol Course.That record didnt last long, as Bezdicekbroke her own record our races later onthe same course. This time, Bezdicek n-ished the 4,000-meter race in 15:06 as she

won the Southwest Conerence meet.In her next outing, Bezdicek nished

ourth at the section meet to become therst JCC girl to qualiy or state since 2003.

At state, Bezdicek nished 27 th with a timeo 15:32.

She turned it up a notch rom last year,co-head coach Kerri Kocak said. She hadan excellent season.

Bedicek inished aster than 16 min-utes in every meet this season and wasin the top ve o every race until state.Bezdiceks success came rom plenty omiles in the summer.

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Her summer preparation was what ev-ery coach would like, co-head coach BradStrom said. She was very consistent.

Thats because one o her training slo-gans is The most important aspect otraining is consistency.

Bezdicek trained or10 weeks beore takinga week o right beorethe season started. That

allowed her body to re-cuperate and be ready orthe season.

A similar pattern wasollowed during the season, as the longerbreaks between races at the end o theseason allowed Bezdicek to catch herbreath.

That allowed or a strong nish to theseason.

Those last races were phenomenal,Strom said.

The only other emale JCC runner dur-ing the season was seventh-grader RhilynnLuhmann, who competed in junior highraces or the Huskies.

Luhmann ran her best time in the one-mile race at the Huskies home meet atLoon Lake, nishing in 7:18. She came in13th at the SWC meet with a time o 7:36.

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Every meet or the Jackson County Cen-tral boys cross country team ended thesame way or the same way: with seniorBen Kocak leading the Huskies to the n-ish line. Ater that, it was a dierent resultevery meet, with the Huskies supportingcast mixing and matching as the remainingscoring runners.

The Huskies used their pack running tonish in the top ve o our meets, includ-ing a th-place nish at the SouthwestConerence meet. The Huskies ended theseason by nishing sixth at the Section3A meet.

We kind o expected to be a middle-o-the-pack team, co-head coach KerriKocak said. We were somewhat inconsis-tent, but had our moments that we couldsee what we could be.

Ben Kocak, the teams runner o the year, ran aster than 18 minutes in vemeets o nine 5,000-meter races this sea-son. Kocak nished 10th at Mt. Lake earlyin the season and had a personal-best timeo 17:59 when he came in seventh at theTurkey Trot. He lowered his personal best

to 17:31 in the next race as he nished sixthat the Huskies home meet at Loon Lake.

Kocak earned honorable-mention all-conerence honors when he nished 14th atthe Southwest Conerence meet and camein 12th at the section meet.

Co-head coach Brad Strom said it wasKocaks maturity that helped him takethe step rom being a scoring runner to ateam leader.

He matured and came into his own asan athlete and leader, Strom said. He el-evated himsel and it showed in his leader-ship. He had a totally dierent approach tohis training and the sport o cross country.

Strom said competing in track and eldin the spring also helped Kocak.

Bens career was hugely impacted bythe track season, he said. It basicallychanged his career. He was a more fuid

runner because o the speed he devel-oped.Senior John Isaacson was typically the

Huskies second nisher ater making ahuge improvement rom a year ago.

Isaacson took up the sport or the rsttime last season and this year turned intoa reliable runner.

I was really pleased with the way Johnimproved, Coach Kocak said. He was abright spot.

Kocak said a amiliarity with the sport

was huge or Isaacson.It was his rst year last year and hedidnt know what he could do, she said.The guys he ran with last year graduatedand this year he decided that he could stepit up and he did.

Isaacson, named the teams most im-

John Isaacson leads a pack of runners during the Huskies home meet this season.


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Above: Taylor Briggs gets high-fives during pre-game introductions this season. Below: Maddie Rasche makes a pass for the Quasars.


Above: Jamison Collin is introduced as a starter for the Wildcats. Below: Erik Jass follows Kyle Elder during a carry this season.

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Comparing a season to a rollercoaster isa common clich.

But thats the best way to describe the2011 Southwest Star Concept volleyballseason.

The Quasars season had plenty o highsand lows and was lled with several breath-taking moments. The highs included aneight-match winning streak, the lows wereinjuries and a loss in the rst playo matchand the breathtaking moments came in theorm o 10 matches that were pushed to adecisive third or th set.

Ater starting the season 3-5, the Qua-sars took a long upward swing, winningeight straight matches and 10-o-11.

As the season progressed, the kids reallyplayed well together, head coach CindyOwen said.

Included in the run was a win overeventual Red Rock Conerence championSouthwest Minnesota Christian the onlyconerence loss all season or the Eagles.

Ater a pair o non-conerence losses,

the Quasars won three straight matches,including a ve-game win over Red RockCentral to move into the drivers seat witha record o 7-0 in the conerence.

The wins over SMC and RRC were thehighlights o the season, Owen said.

Winning those two games, that washuge to us, she said. Especially theSouthwest Christian match, those kids justought and ought and ought. We neededto have that momentum throughout theseason.

Ater the win over the Falcons, SSCdropped a pair o ve-set matches to con-erence teams beore sweeping Edgertonand Hills-Beaver Creek to nish with a 9-2mark in the conerence good enough ora tie or second place.

SSC couldnt carry the momentum intothe playos as the Quasars were swept byFulda in their rst section match.

Part o the reason or the late-seasonstruggles were a ew injuries to Quasarseniors.

Jen Schmidt hurt her knee and Jordin

Elness was hospitalized.

Everything was happening at one time,Owen said. We had to do a lot o adjusting.Those kind o things are dicult some-times to ght through.

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Inconsistency was the key word orSouthwestern United co-head ootballcoach Je Drent when describing the Wild-cats 0-9 season.

SWU went winless or the third straightull season a span o 31 straight losses but were much more competitive in aew games this all.

Obviously, were disappointed not toget into the win column, Drent said. I

thought we were competitive, just not con-sistent enough.

That was evident in the second game othe season as SWU and Mt. Lake-Butter-eld-Odin played a scoreless contest untilthe Wolverines scored late or the win.

We had our chances in the rst hal,Drent said. We were inside the 10 atleast a ew times. That was a game weplayed airly consistent, we just missed aew plays.

The Wildcats lost by just 14 to Spring-eld the next week and later in the season

were edged 18-12 by Sleepy Eye St. Marys,a team that is still playing in the state tour-nament.

Im not going to say were close to beingan outstanding ootball team, Drent said.But i we were consistent, it wouldve beeninteresting to see how good we couldvebeen.

Drent said that inconsistency went romdrive to drive, not game to game.

We looked good on certain drives, hesaid. At certain times we looked reallygood; at other times we looked horren-dous. We just could not remain consistentthroughout even a game.

Drent said the same goes or the Wild-cat players, who all showed glimpses ogreatness.

I could name all the kids, Drent said o

stand-out players. They did good things attimes, but none o them were the perect,consistent player.

Improving on the consistency will comewith more practice, Drent said.

You go to practice and you want thosethings to happen on game night, he said.

One player who really impressed Drentwas senior lineman Austin Liepold, whowas healthy or the ull season ater havinghis previous two seasons cut short.

He actually got to play a whole season,Drent said. He really stood out.


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Jackson County Central cheerleaders perform during a break in the action during a football game this fall. Team members were seniors Karlee Wegner, Emma Smith, Laura Einertson, Kaitlyn John and Kirsten Ringgenberg; juniorsJessica Voehl, Brandi Sether-Hassing, Hally Dauffenbach, Holly Reiter and Jenna Stade; sophomore Kassidy Timmer and freshmen Bailey Schneekloth, Kortney Porter and Madison Cregeen. The team performed at every JCC footballgame this season. The team was coached by Barb Tvinnereim and Ellen VonOhlen.

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Ben Kocak runs for the Huskies this season. Kocak was the top finisher for JCC inevery meet and earned honorable-mention all-conference honors.

proved runner, nished in the No. 2 spotor six meets this season and was in the top-our or JCC in every meet. His best timecame in his last career race as Isaacsonnished 31st at the section meet in 18:28.

Three other runners came in as the sec-ond JCC nisher in a meet this season:reshman Jack Ringkob, junior JordanSnyder and sophomore Jordan Ringgen-berg.

Ringkob was the second JCC nisher ata meet at Mankato West and had his scorecount our other times, including threetimes when he was the third JCC nisher.Ringkob also helped JCC nish seventhat Mt. Lake when he was the teams tie-breaking runner.

Ringkob set a personal record ourtimes, the rst three coming in consecutiveraces early in the season. Ringkob thenturned in his best perormance at the sec-tion meet when he nished 42nd in 18:45.

It was Ringkobs hard work as a resh-man that earned him the teams most in-spirational runner award.

He didnt hold back as a reshman,Strom said. He ran some strong, quality

workouts, which inspired his older team-mates.

Snyder earned the teams most dedi-cated runner award. He nished second

among JCC runners at Adrian, was thethird JCC nisher once and was th threetimes. Snyders best time o the seasoncame when he ran 18:43 at the Huskieshome meet and he also dropped below19:00 at the meet in Adrian.

Ringgenberg was the second JCC n-isher when he ran a personal best 18:56 atthe Turkey Trot. He was the ourth JCCrunner once and th twice.

Junior Jason Vongsavanh contributedto the JCC score in all eight races hecompeted in this all, including nishingthird our times and ourth twice. He wasthe th JCC runner once and provided atie-breaking nish at JCCs home meet.Vongsavanh had a personal best time o18:57 in that meet and was just a secondslower at the section meet.

Strom called Vongsavanh Mr. Consis-tency because he had a spread o just 38seconds in the times o his nal six races.

Sophomore Peter Nasby was the Hus-kies ourth nisher three times and wasith once. His best time o the seasoncame at the home meet when he nishedin 18:45.

Sophomore Jordan Cushman was theth JCC runner at the conerence meetand posted his best time o the season(20:02) at the Huskies home meet. Sopho-more Jeremy Ringgenberg also ran or theHuskies, with his best time o 20:22 comingat the conerence meet.

The Huskies have the luxury o returningseven runners next all, but lose their toptwo perormers. To replace them, Coach

Kocak said it will take more training andracing.

Its going to take some summer racing,she said. They ran summer miles, but themore you race and the more you compete,the keener you become on it.

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JCC 84 101 59 27 271Oppo 45 23 39 34 141

tam sascsCagoy JCC Opp

Total Points 271 141Points per game 27.1 14.1

Total Ofense 2,620 2,399

Ofensive yards per game 262 239.9Rushing yards 1,600 1,435Rush yards per game 160 143.5Yards per rush 4.6 3.6Passing yards 1,020 964Pass yards per game 102 96.4Pass attempts 148 168Pass completions 71 71Yards per completion 14.4 13.6Penalties/Yards 57-380 60-463

2011 JCC football team statistics

Sports Review2011 JCC football individual statistics

rshgnam Yas Cas Avg. tdsCooper Moore 721 116 6.2 12Carsen Nyborg 474 88 5.4 5Darick Vancura 194 26 7.5 3

Tanner Menke 52 26 2.0 0 JCC 1,600 343 4.7 21

Passgnam A. Comp. Yas tds

Tanner Menke 113 56 769 11 JCC 148 71 1,020 12

rcvgnam Cachs Yas Avg. tdsZach Copley 23 423 18.4 4

Travis Beeck 6 146 24.3 3Carsen Nyborg 14 142 10.1 0Kyle Luhmann 7 105 15.0 3

JCC 71 1,020 14.4 12

dsv/Spcal tamsnam int Fr td SayD. Taylor-Breck 4 0 2 0Zach Copley 2 2 0 0Brett Larson 0 4 0 0Darick Vancura 2 1 1 0

Tanner Menke 2 0 0 0Kyle Luhmann 1 0 1 0Carsen Nyborg 1 0 1 0Cooper Moore 0 1 0 0

Travis Beeck 0 1 1 0Josh Bretzman 0 1 0 0Spencer Johnson 0 1 0 0Daniel Weires 0 1 0 0Joe Heckard 0 1 0 0Nolan Hohenstein 0 1 0 1

Team Deense 0 0 0 1 JCC 12 14 6 2

Scognam tds FG/xP 2 p. toalCooper Moore 13 78Carsen Nyborg 6 36Niklas Keller 1/26 29Zach Copley 4 24Darick Vancura 4 24

Travis Beeck 4 24Kyle Luhmann 4 24Shadrach Wacker 2 2 16D. Taylor-Breck 2 12Nolan Hohenstein 1 (saety) 2

Team 1 (saety) 2toal 39 1/26 4 271

Hgnam Aacks Klls Klls/gamCourtney Place 740 307 3.4Alyssa Hendrickson 450 141 1.6Jennier Schmidt 310 140 3.1Autumn Hinkeldey 390 97 1.1SSC 2,346 793 8.7

Svgnam Svs eos PCt. AcsCourtney Place 380 14 .963 43Alyssa Hendrickson 150 9 .940 16Jordin Elness 209 14 .933 23Maddie Rasche 365 26 .929 28Jennier Schmidt 125 13 .896 13Mandy Henkels 220 27 .877 22Autumn Hinkeldey 225 45 .800 17SSC 1,881 184 .902 170

Sg, Blockg, dgggnam S Assss Blocks dgsMaddie Rasche 4 0 334Courtney Place 3 113 269Autumn Hinkeldey 3 109 190Mandy Henkels 435 37 189Jordin Elness 124 0 85Jennier Schmidt 3 143 82Alyssa Hendrickson 18 177 62Alissa Carlson 25 39 51Julia DeWall 0 0 44Rachel Mathias 5 98 33SSC 664 472 1,371

2011 SSC volleyball individual statistics

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Mandy Henkels and reshman Courtney Place. Schmidt

and junior Alyssa Hendrickson were both honorable-mention picks.Schmidt had 140 kills, 143 blocks, 82 digs and 13 ace

serves in her nal season or SSC.She was playing very good volleyball beore she got

hurt, Owen said, adding Schmidt played the nal twomatches o the season despite torn ligaments in her knee.

Rasche led the Quasars with 334 digs and had 28 aceserves as a libero.

She got everybody going, Owen said. She alwaystried to keep the energy level up.

Elness had 23 ace serves, 124 set assists and 85 digs.She has a tremendous serve, Owen said. She has

very good hands setting. She always put 110 percent intoeverything.

Henkels had a team-high 435 set assists or SSC andadded 189 digs, 37 blocks and 22 ace serves.

Hendrickson had 141 kills, 62 digs, 16 ace serves andled the Quasars with 177 blocks.

She really stepped up, Owen said. Shes a lety, sowe put her on the right side. She was really clicking onthe ride side, but we moved her to middle when Jen went

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Sophomore Autumn Hinkeldey had a breakout season,recording 97 kills, 190 digs and 109 blocks.

Autumn stepped up and did a really nice job on theoutside or us, Owen said. She was very consistent orus.

Freshman Rachel Mathias stepped in when Schmidt gothurt and recorded 98 blocks, 33 digs and 32 kills or SSC.

Sophomore Alisa Carlson had 51 digs and 39 blocksand junior Julia DeWall had 44 digs or SSC.

Owen said this years group o girls was a very coach-able team.

I really enjoyed them, she said. They work hard andthey never gave up.

Most will be back next year with at least a year o varsityexperience under their belt.

I look orward to another good season, Owen said.Well have three seniors again next year and have some

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He also played quarterbackater Menkes injury, as didWacker.

Nyborg ran or 474 yardsand ve scores and caught14 passes or 142 yards.Vancura added 194 yardsrushing and three scores.

Menke completed 56passes or 769 yards and11 touchdowns. The junioralso ran or 52 yards, but his

mobility was limited aterhe returned rom his kneeinjury.

Copley did a ine jobblocking rom his tight endposition and was Menkesavorite target. He caught23 passes or 423 yards andour touchdowns.

Beeck caught six passesor 146 yards and threetouchdowns, and Luhmannhad seven catches or 105 yards and threescores.

Exchange student Niklas Keller kicked23 PATs and one eld goal, and he andellow exchange student Jonas Gevershandled the kicko duties or the Huskies.

With all the blowouts and injuries, a loto Huskies saw game action this season, butthat will only help i the Huskies continueto work hard in the oseason.

Its nice to get the experience, but i youdont bring the resume o the oseason

workouts, its overrated, Schuller said.

Schuller said the oseason work he sawlast year helped JCC win seven games thisseason and expects a continued commit-ment.

Our oseason workouts are alwaysgood, he said. I think our oseasonpreparation is always the best.

Menke joined Luhmann on the honor-able-mention all-conerence team.

Moore, Nyborg, Copley, Bretzman andTewes were named to the all-conerenceteam.


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C6 Thursday, November 17, 2011Sports ReviewHgnam Hs Klls Kll %Whitney Burmeister 343 318 44Kaylee Benson 121 193 53.8Jasmine Erickson 123 150 42.7Michelle VanEpps 127 133 45.3Lydia Brandt 126 120 41.2Kaylee Burmeister 107 107 41.5Sydnee Donnelli 120 106 41.4

JCC 1,090 1,140 44.4

Svgnam Svs eos Pc. Acs

Whitney Burmeister 302 8 97.8 45Kaylee Burmeister 212 14 94.4 26Mackenzie Reed 44 3 93.9 2Michelle VanEpps 291 22 93.7 37Kaylee Benson 185 15 93.4 27Sydnee Donnelli 230 24 91.6 30Lexi Schneekloth 180 23 89.5 16Jasmine Erickson 93 15 88.1 18

JCC 1,538 124 93.4 202

Sgnam Ss S assssMichelle VanEpps 497 531Lexi Schneekloth 527 506

JCC 1,038 1,100

Blockgnam Blocks Ac blocksJasmine Erickson 23 78Whitney Burmeister 21 61Lydia Brandt 12 52Kaylee Benson 23 44Michelle VanEpps 24 36Sydnee Donnelli 7 26Kaylee Burmeister 12 22

JCC 122 320

dgsnam dgsWhitney Burmeister 327Sydnee Donnelli 213Kaylee Burmeister 192Kaylee Benson 170Michelle VanEpps 131Lexi Schneekloth 114Jasmine Erickson 104Lydia Brandt 34Katherine Nasby 27

JCC 1,322

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Lydia was a recracker all season long,

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VanEpps had 133 kills and 36 ace blocksas a hitter and had a team-high 531 set as-sists. VanEpps also had 37 ace serves and131 digs.

We saw a leadership role in Michelle,her mom and coach said. She was thatcommunicator on the foor or us.

Junior Mackenzie Reed started servinglate in the season or the Huskies and hada pair o aces while hitting on 94 percent oher serves. She also had nine digs.

Freshman Kathryn Nasby had 27 digsor JCC.

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Liepold was named the teams linemano the year.

Liepold and senior tight end/saetyJameson Collin were both named to theall-Red Rock Conerence team.

Jameson did some really good thingsor us this season, Drent said.

Senior Luke Henkels was moved to run-

ning back during the season and did well,Drent said, as did junior twins Erik Jassand Justin Jass.

Henkels was named the oensive mostvaluable player or the Wildcats, with ju-nior linebacker Kurt Schmitz earning thedeensive MVP award.

Theres a lot o good potential or him,Drent said o Schmitz.

Senior Cody Malcolm earned the teamsscout team award and seniors Adam Wal-lace and Collin earned senior awards.

Other letter winners or SWU wereseniors Jake Walker, Jacob Olson, KyleElder, Jacob Clarke, Brady Meyer and

Adam Wallace; juniors Austin Rossow,Erik Haberman, Mykil Vonk, Austin Droll,Emilio Esqueda and Matthew Soto; andreshmen Dakotah Schmid, Jordan Hall,

Brandon OConner and Austin Milbrath.The Wildcats have quite a ew players

returning next year, when SWU will switchback to playing a nine-man schedule.

For SWU to get back in the win column,Drent believes it will take a ew players totake control o the team.

We need a group o guys to come in and

say enough is enough, were ready to dowhatever it takes to get it done on Fridaynight, he said. I think the biggest thing

were lacking is belie. Were kind o in arut here. They just need to believe thattheyre going to get it done and demandthat they get it done.

With his team continuing to work hardand have good attitudes despite a winlessseason, Drent said he and co-head coachJason Fisher are excited to get back at itnext all.

Were excited to go back to a nine-manconerence, he said. Were excited aboutthe kids coming back the Jass brothers,Kurt Schmitz, Mykil Vonk, Emilio Esque-da. Weve got some good kids coming back.Weve got no excuses next year.

with Burmeister earning all-state honorsalong with her player o the year award.

Despite losing three talented seniors,Coach VanEpps expects the Huskies tocontend or conerence and section cham-pionships again next year.

Weve got ve strong juniors back anda reshman class that is just dynamite, shesaid. Well be solid again next year and thegoal will be to win the conerence and getto the state tournament. Those are veryreachable goals.

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