2021 HAWKEYE 10 ALL CONFERENCE BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS

STUDENT NAME HIGH SCHOOL GRADE POSITION

1ST TEAM
1 Skyler Handlos ** Atlantic Sr. G
2 Michael Shull ** Clarinda Sr. G
3 Colby Burg ** Creston Sr. G
4 Braiden Heiden ** Denison-Schleswig Sr. G
5 Ryan Blum ** Glenwood Sr. F
6 Connor Frame ** Harlan Jr. G/F
7 Wyatt Hatcher ** Lewis Central Jr F
8 Sam Rallis ** St. Albert Sr. F

2ND TEAM
1 Dayton Templeton Atlantic Jr. G
2 Drew Brown Clarinda Jr. F
3 Kaden Briggs Creston Sr. F
4 Caden Johnson Glenwood So. G
5 Bradley Curren Harlan So. G
6 John Mayhall Kuemper Catholic Sr. G
7 Max DeVries Red Oak Fr. G
8 Carter White St. Albert Jr. G

HONORABLE MENTION
1 Grant Sturm Atlantic Sr. G
2 Grant Jobe Clarinda Jr. F
3 Brance Baker Creston Sr. G
4 Cael Kralik Creston Sr. G
5 Evan Turin Denison-Schleswig Sr. F
6 Ben Hughes Glenwood Sr. G
7 Michael Erlmeier Harlan Sr. G
8 Mitchell Badding Kuemper Catholic Sr. G
9 JC Dermody Lewis Central Jr. G
10 Baylor Bergren Red Oak Jr. G
11 Braden Knight Shenandoah Sr. G
12 Cy Patterson St. Albert Sr. G
** Notes unanimous selection for 1st team – Selections are listed alphabetically by school name

2020-2021 HAWKEYE 10 ALL CONFERENCE GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAMS

STUDENT NAME HIGH SCHOOL GRADE POSITION

FIRST TEAM
1 Kelsey Fields** Creston 12 F
2 Hannah Neemann Denison- Schleswig 12 F
3 Allie Petry St. Albert 12 F
4 Jenna Hopp Glenwood 10 G
5 Paige Andersen ** Denison- Schleswig 12 F
6 Madison Camden Glenwood 11 G
7 Elle Scarborough Glenwood 12 G
8 Haley Rasmussen Atlantic 12 G

2ND TEAM
1 Sam Dunphy Creston 12 G
2 McKenna Pettepier Lewis Central 12 F
3 Ava Wolf Shenandoah 11 F
4 Ellie Magnuson Denison-Schleswig 12 G
5 Coryl Matheny Glenwood 12 F
6 Cate Mayhall Kuemper Catholic 10 G
7 Ashley Hall Harlan 12 G
8 Macie Leinen Harlan 12 F

HONORABLE MENTION
1 Jocelyn Cheek Harlan 12 G
2 Jessalee Niehart Clarinda 12 G
3 Jada Jensen Atlantic 10 G
4 Abby Hughes Glenwood 11 G
5 Lucy Scott Lewis Central 9 G
6 Grace Ruzicka Lewis Central 12 G
7 Rylie Driskell Creston 11 G
8 Emma Hughes Glenwood 12 G
9 Chloe DeVries Red Oak 12 G

10 Lexi Johnson Red Oak 11 G
11 Makenna Shepard St. Albert 12 G
12 Brooklyn Gifford Kuemper Catholic 12 G
** denotes unanimous selection

MANHATTAN, Kansas (AP) — Mike McGuirl scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half as Kansas State turned aside Iowa State 61-56 to conclude the regular season. McGuirl drained a 3 with 1:41 remaining to give Kansas State a 10-point lead and the Wildcats held on. DaJuan Gordon added 12 points and Nijel Pack 10 Kansas State.

Jalen Coleman-Lands scored 19, making 3 of 9 from 3-point range, to lead Iowa State and Solomon Young added 18 points. The Cyclones have lost 17 straight games and fell to 0-11 on the road.

Class 4A State Championship: Ballard 47, Glenwood 45 –

Josie Fleischmann has been Ballard’s most reliable 3-point shooter all season, but she never made any as important as the ones she hit in her final high school game.Fleischmann knocked down a tying 3 with 1:57 left, then sank the game winner with 37 seconds to go, lifting the Bombers to a 47-45 victory over Glenwood and the Class 4A state championship.

Brooke Loewe added 16 points and seven rebounds for Ballard and all-tournament captain Molly Ihle, a 5-foot-6 senior, led both teams with 13 rebounds and scored six points. Madison Camden hit four 3-pointers and scored 20 to lead top-ranked Glenwood, while Jenna Hopp had 14 points and 11 rebounds. Ballard was the first Iowa team to beat Glenwood, which finished 21-4. Loewe, Camden and Hopp also made the all-tournament team along with North Scott’s Ashley Fountain and Emma Miner of Dallas Center-Grimes.

Class 3A State Championship: Unity Christian 48, West Lyon, Inwood 31 –

Class 2A State Championship: Dike-New Hartford 47, Maquoketa Valley, Delhi 42

Dike-New Hartford found its shooting touch just in time to win a state championship. Shackled for three quarters by Maquoketa Valley’s zone defense, the Wolverines outscored the Wildcats 22-9 in the fourth to claim a 47-42 victory in a battle of unbeaten teams and win the Class 2A state championship. Dike-New Hartford rallied from 11 points down in the third quarter to grab the lead early in the fourth quarter, then survived some shaky free throw shooting down the stretch to add the basketball title to the 2A volleyball championship it won in November.

Taylor Kvale, a 5-foot-3 junior, made the key plays to get the Wolverines (26-0) back in it and finished with 12 points. Ellary Knock also scored 12, Payton Petersen and Sophia Hoffmann added eight each and Paula Gonzalez scored six, including a key 3-pointer midway through the fourth quarter. Petersen, a freshman, was named captain of the all-tournament team after receiving that same honor in volleyball.

Dike won the six-player title in 1988. The Wolverines started only one senior so they should be title contenders again next season. Knock, Tucker, Imler, West Branch’s Sasha Koenig and Nodaway Valley’s Maddax DeVault joined Petersen on the all-tournament team.

Class 1A Championship: Newell-Fonda 66, Bishop Garrigan 52

Same matchup, same results. Newell-Fonda is the Class 1A state champion for the third consecutive year. The Mustangs got some clutch play and free throw shooting from all-tournament captain Macy Sievers in the closing minutes and beat Bishop Garrigan of Algona 66-52 for its fourth title overall. Sievers finished with 17 points, seven rebounds and three steals as the Mustangs closed out another memorable season by defeating the same team they beat in last year’s championship game and avenging a 66-45 loss to Bishop Garrigan back in December.

Bailey Sievers added 14 points for Newell-Fonda (26-1), which became the eighth school to win three consecutive championships. Maggie Walker scored eight points and Ella Larsen had seven points, nine rebounds and seven steals.
It wasn’t a typical game for Newell-Fonda, which averages 81 points and usually scores on a series of fastbreaks and layups off steals. But against a team that had 6-foot-3 sophomore sensation Audi Crooks it the middle, the Mustangs did what they needed to win it.

Newell-Fonda, which also won the 1A title in 2015, finished with 14 steals and scored 26 points off turnovers. Bailey Sievers also made the all-tournament team along with Crooks, Meyers, Montezuma’s Elise Boulton Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton’s Quinn Grubbs.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Joseph Yesufu knifed down the lane, splitting two defenders, and kissed the winning basket off the glass with 2.5 seconds remaining as Drake defeated Missouri State 71-69 in the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. Yesufu scored 25 points, Tremell Murphy added 20 more for the second-seeded Bulldogs.

Drake advanced to Sunday’s tournament championship against top-seeded — and No. 20-ranked — Loyola-Chicago. Gaige Prim had 19 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks for the Bears. Keaton Hervey added 18 points. Demarcus Sharp had 16 points and eight assists.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinal between Northern Iowa and Drake was canceled Friday night because of a positive COVID-19 test and contract tracing within the Panthers program. Drake advanced to the semifinals. The Bulldogs are 24-3. Northern Iowa finished the season 10-15.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri Valley Conference Tournament quarterfinal between Northern Iowa and Drake was canceled Friday night because of a positive COVID-19 test and contract tracing within the Panthers program. Drake advanced to the semifinals. The Bulldogs are 24-3. Northern Iowa finished the season 10-15.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Isiaih Mosley tied a career-high 29 points with 12 rebounds and Missouri State beat Valparaiso 66-55 in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament quarterfinals. The No. 3-seeded Bears advance to play Saturday in the semifinals against second-seeded Drake. The Bulldogs advanced earlier Friday after a positive COVID-19 test in the Northern Iowa program forced the cancelation of the game and ended the Panthers’ season.

EVANSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Jasmine Franklin and Sydney Wilson had 16 points apiece, and No. 23 Missouri State pulled away in the second quarter and cruised to an 87-54 victory over Evansville. The back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference regular season champion Bears (19-2, 15-0 Missouri Valley) extended their winning streak to 15, their longest since an 18-game stretch during the 2003-04 season. Abby Feit scored 16 points for Evansville (6-15, 2-14). Ruffridge made three 3s and Franklin added six points as the Bears outscored the Purple Aces 24-6 in the second quarter and built a 40-20 halftime advantage and led by double digits the rest of the way.

UNDATED (AP) — Kansas coach Les Miles was placed on administrative leave, hours after a report released by LSU revealed school officials there considered firing him in 2013 because of his behavior with female student workers. Kansas athletic director Jeff Long says the school did not know of the allegations against Miles at LSU until this week and plans to review the findings from a law firms’ investigation of how LSU handled sexual misconduct complaints. Miles is entering his third year as Kansas coach, and coming off a winless 2020 season. He was coach at LSU for 11-plus years before being fired four games into the 2016 season.

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Outfielder Jarrod Dyson has returned to the Kansas City Royals, finalizing a $1.5 million, one-year contract. The 36-year-old, who helped the Royals win the 2015 World Series, can earn $250,000 in performance bonuses for plate appearances. Dyson was a 50th-round pick by the Royals in the 2006 amateur draft and played for the Royals from 2010-16 and stole 176 bases, sixth in team history. He helped the Royals win the 2014 AL pennant and scored the go-ahead run in the final game of the 2015 World Series at the New York Mets.

MARYVILLE, Missouri – The No. 1-ranked Northwest Missouri State men’s basketball team reached the MIAA Tournament championship game with a 102-74 rout of No. 5-seeded Central Oklahoma at Bearcat Arena.

Northwest (23-1 overall) won its 18th straight game overall. The Bearcats also won their 17th consecutive MIAA Tournament game and have reached the program’s 16th MIAA championship game.

Senior Ryan Hawkins recorded the tournament’s first-ever triple-double with 30 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists. Hawkins also became the all time MIAA tournament rebounding leader. Junior Trevor Hudgins dropped in 29 points on 10-of-14 shooting, including 4-of-5 from three-point range.

The Bearcats shot 60.0% for the game – marking the fourth straight game they have shot 60% or better.

Northwest will play either Washburn or Missouri Western for the MIAA tournament title Saturday at 6 p.m. in Bearcat Arena.

The Exira-EHK Spartans girls basketball team and their supporters won’t soon forget the 2020-21 season. The Spartans squad of eight, or the “Elite Eight” as Head Coach Tom Petersen has dubbed them, fought all the way to the State Semifinals. The Spartans ride came to an end on Friday afternoon with a 57-35 loss to top-seeded Bishop Garrigan.

It was a tight game early as both teams felt each other out and were square at 9 after one. The Golden Bears opened the second quarter on a 6-0 run and built on the lead the rest of the way. It was a 22-7 advantage in the second for the Bears and they carried the momentum over into the third. Bishop Garrigan hit two quick shots to open up the second half and outscored Sparty 15-6 through the third.

Tipoff for the 1A Semifinal between Exira-EHK and Bishop Garrigan 3/5/2021

The Golden Bears’ outstanding 6’3″ sophomore Audi Crooks made a huge impact defensively. She blocked 7 shots and affected many more to make it tough for the Spartans to get a clean look. Crooks nearly finished with a triple double as she dropped in 17 points and hauled in 18 rebounds. The Golden Bears improved to 25-1 and will head to the 1A Championship on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. They will face the winner of the Newell-Fonda vs. Montezuma Semifinal.

The Spartans were led in scoring by 9 from Mollie Rasmussen and 8 from Quinn Grubbs. The Spartans end their phenomenal season at 24-1. The Spartans were able to get a cool moment late in the game as Senior Tatum Grubbs got on the floor. She suffered a knee injury midway through the season that limited her final year. She was able to knock down a long three and got a run out layup that was the final basket of the game. Coach Petersen was then able to call timeout and give Grubbs a curtain call that she certainly deserves after a phenomenal career.

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