TAKE 7th IN LONG JUMP, 8th IN HIGH JUMP
East Greene had its best showing in many years at the Iowa High School State Track Meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, May 19-21, with Reed Ostrander placing seventh in the long jump and Chelsi Wilkens tying for eighth in the high jump.
Ostrander’s leap of 20’8” gave East Greene 2 points in the Class 1A team standings—the first time in many years that EG has scored at state. Nick Efkamp of Madrid won the event with a new state record of 23’2.5”. Efkamp won four events to lead Madrid to its third straight 1A championship and fifth overall since 2002.
East Greene tied for 49th place with Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian, Hinton and Clay Central-Everly in the team standings.
Wilkens, a freshman, tied for eighth among 24 state finalists in the high jump with a 4’10” effort, giving the Hawkettes one-half point scoring in the team standings—the first points at state for EG in more than a decade.
Wilkens qualified for state at the district meet on Thursday, May 13, in Manson with a jump of 4’10”—good for second place behind Maddie Bardole of Woodward-Granger, who won with a 5’1” effort. Bardole took fourth at state with a 5’2” jump to pace Woodward-Granger to a seventh place finish in the team standings.
Ostrander, a sophomore, qualified for state at the district at Manson with a runner-up finish to Efkamp of Madrid. Efkamp, an Iowa State recruit, won with a 21’11 ¾” jump with Ostrander second at 20’ 10 ½”.
It was a very tough district with not just the defending two-time state champs from Madrid to contend with, but the host team from Manson-Northwest Webster was coming off a fifth-place finish from last year’s state meet.
Madrid repeated as district champions with 185 points with MNW in second with 142. MNW won the girls district title with 145.33 points, edging out Woodward-Granger with 140.
At the state meet, Manson-Northwest Webster moved up to the runner-up spot, scoring 53 points to Madrid’s state championship-winning 74 points. The third-place team, West Harrison (Mondamin), was nearly 20 points behind M-NW with 34—indicating how dominating the two teams from the Manson district were in the boys competition.
The Manson-Northwest Webster girls tied Corning for fifth place with 29 points at the state meet, just ahead of Woodward-Granger at 25.5.
WILKENS PLACES IN FOUR EVENTS
Wilkens paced the East Greene girls—a team comprised of just one senior and four freshmen—
to a 10th place finish among 12 teams with 24.33 points at the district meet on May 12. The EG boys finished tied for 7th among the same 12 teams with 30 points. It was the best finish for each of the boys and girls teams in many years.
Wilkens was third in the 100 meters, 14.16, and third in the 100 meter hurdles, 17.62. She anchored EG to a fifth place in the shuttle hurdle relay, 1:17.92. Senior Tia Lowe was the leadoff runner with Emily Jacobsen and Brooke Popp handling the second and third legs. Popp rounded out the scoring tying for eighth place in the high jump, 4’4”, giving EG 1/3 of a point.
Also competing were Shelby Cooklin, 15th in the shot put, 23’4” and Lowe in the 200 meter dash, 20.28 seconds, 13th place.
In the boys competition, senior Schyler Bardole closed out a successful track and EG sports career with a third-place finish in the 100 meter dash, 12.24 seconds. Madrid’s Efkamp won the district 100 meter crown, 11.52, with Blake Jesse of Newell-Fonda in second, 12.09. Efkamp went on to win the 100 at the state meet, 11.41, after running in 11.28 in the preliminaries.
Wes Onken was third in the discus, 124’8 ½”, and Harrison Johnston was eighth in the 400 meter dash, 58.94 seconds.
East Greene had a good showing in the relay events: distance medley relay (Bardole, Aaron Lyons, Ostrander, Broc Timm), fifth, 4:19.87; 4 x 100 meter relay (Gabe Bardole, Alex Gordon, Wyatt Beaman, Bret Kersey), seventh, 53.66; 4 x 400 meter relay (Johnston, T.J. Lint, Zack Dearborn, Zack Fouch), seventh, 4:10.43; and 4 x 200 meter relay (Ostrander, Lyons, Kersey and Schyler Bardole), eighth, 1:40.66.
Also participating at the district but not finishing in the top eight to score team points were Schyler Bardole, high jump, 16’4”, 13th; Tory Beger, discus, 98’5 ¾”, 15th; Joe Pena, shotput, 25’6 ¾”, 18th; Fouch, 200 meter dash, 28.41, 19th; Beger, 200 meter dash, 28.65, 20th; Gabe Bardole, 100 meter dash, 14.19, 21st; and Johnston and Dearborn in the high jump.
Paton-Churdan was also at the Manson district but had no state qualifiers. Taylor King finished fourth in the 1600 meter run, 5:00.96, and fourth in the 800 meter run, 2:20.87 to give PC 10 points in the team scoring.
BOYS TEAM STANDINGS AT MANSON: Madrid 185, Manson-Northwest Webster 142, Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer 82, Woodward-Granger 73, Newell-Fonda 50, Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) 50, EAST GREENE 30, Glidden-Ralston 30, Coon Rapids-Bayard 26, St. Mary’s (Storm Lake) 12, Paton-Churdan 10, Southeast Webster-Grand 1.
Paton-Churdan girls finished 12th with 9 points. Jaclyn Baldwin was fifth in both the 200 meter dash and 400 meter dash, and Stephanie Thompson was eighth in the 3,200 run.
GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS AT MANSON: Manson-Northwest Webster 145.33, Woodward-Granger 140, Madrid 114, Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer 68, Southeast Webster-Grand 60, Newell-Fonda 47.5, Glidden-Ralston 38.33, Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) 33.5, St. Mary’s (Storm Lake) 30, EAST GREENE 24.33, Coon Rapids-Bayard 21, and Paton-Churdan 9.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: This is not only the best showing at state in many years for both the EG girls and boys track teams, but it is probably the best showing ever for underclassmen in such intense competition. Ostrander, a sophomore, and Wilkens, just a freshmen, are off to impressive starts as East Greene athletes as their track success is just one of many accomplishments this school year.
Here’s a hats off to a great job by all the EG tracksters and track coaches for a terrific job this season!
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
2009 VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW
Hawkettes Sweep SWG In Season Opener
East Greene got the 2009 season off on the right note last Thursday, Aug. 27, with a quick, three-game sweep of Southeast Webster-Grand on the Eagles’ home court in Burnside.
The Hawkettes were firing on all cylinders as their defense held SWG to an average of just 11 points in the three games, while the offense took charge with a solid night serving, connecting on 69 of 75 serves attempted for a 92% success rate and 16 ace serves.
Leaders at the service line were Malarie Gilley going 19-21 for 91%, Bobbie Halterman 13-14 for 93%, and Heidi Kiner and Jessi Beaman, both at 100%. Kiner was perfect in 12 serve attempts, Beaman in 9.
Gilley was a force at the net with 11 kills in 27 attempts with 5 errors and 7 blocks. As a team, the Hawkettes were 22 of 57 kills with 10 errors and 9 blocks. Katlynn Gannon led the team in digs with 11 and Kiner was the assist leader with 15.
CONFERENCE PREVIEW: EG takes a 1-0 record in tonight’s conference opener at Earlham. The Hawkettes will build on last year’s 6-3 record in the West Central, the Hawkettes’ best finish since joining the league in 1996. EG will look to improve its play out of the conference, as last year’s team finished 11-15 overall. East Greene returns five of six starters, losing only Megan Johnston to graduation, and seven letter winners.
The Hawkettes will contend for the conference crown along with Woodward-Granger, which joins the West Central after many years in the Heart of Iowa; Coon Rapids-Bayard, last year’s conference champions at 9-0; and West Central Valley (Stuart) and Guthrie Center, who tied for second at 7-2, just ahead of EG and Des Moines Christian who tied for fourth at 6-3
WCV is solid in girls athletics, winning a volleyball championship in 2007 (9-0) and finishing as runner-up at 8-1 in both 2006 and 2005, in addition to its second place tie last year. The Wildcats have also won four consecutive West Central basketball championships. WCV returns Maggie Marnin, a junior who was first-team all-conference last year and honorable mention in 2007, her freshman season.
Guthrie Center will field a veteran team led by three senior all-conference picks from 2008: Kaitlin Rosenbeck, first team; Bailey Knudson, second team; and Hope Wilson, honorable mention. GC has finished in the upper division of the conference in each of the last four years. Rosenbeck is a two-time, first-team pick to the all-conference team and Knudson was named all-district in 2A last year.
Des Moines Christian has long been a league powerhouse, and last year’s victory over the Lions was the first for EG. Since 2002, the Lions had finished no lower than second in the West Central and won championships in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. DMC will be led by junior Emily Horstman, a second team all-league pick, and senior Hannah Heilskov, honorable mention.
CRB graduated five key players off a team that made it to the state 1A tournament in Cedar Rapids last year. Gentry Sheer, Heidi Eisdohr, Lindsey Reis, Taylor Hilgenberg and Casi Willenborg earned numerous all-conference and all-state honors after last year’s league championship and state tournament qualification. Those players also served as the core of CRB’s basketball team which made it to state and finished as runner-up in the conference with Panorama last year. Back from last year’s volleyball squad are all-conference honorable mention choice Karly Grettenberg and 5-11 Katie Dentlinger who had an outstanding freshman season last year as a starter on both of the Crusaders’ state tournament volleyball and basketball teams.
Woodward-Granger finished 18-6 last year and won the Heart of Iowa-Small title with a 5-0 record, winning the crown over Ogden, Colo-Nesco, South Hamilton, Colfax-Mingo and Grandview Park Baptist (Des Moines), all 2A schools with the exception of GPB, a 1A team that finished second in the HOI-Small at 4-1 and 32-11 overall and advanced to the state tournament along with CRB. WG returns four of their top seven players from last year. The Hawkettes beat Madrid in their season opener and inaugural West Central Conference game on Tuesday 25-8, 25-13, 25-8.
Gilley will serve as the anchor of the East Greene team this year. A 6-1 middle hitter, she was a unanimous first-team all-conference choice and one of 15 area Class 1A players named all-district. Like WCV’s Marnin, she moved up from honorable mention to first team for all-conference honors last year. Gilley was the only unanimous first team pick among the league’s 10 coaches.
Halterman and Gannon were all-conference honorable mention. Kiner, Beaman, Molly Neese and Tia Lowe are returning letter winners. Rounding out this years squad are senior Brittney Moss; junior Jasmine Kinney; and freshmen Tori Lowe, Alanna Orfield, Kim Hatfield, Brandy Burrows, Megan McElheney, Tylar Elliott, Brittany Gunn and Elizabeth Gunn. There are no sophomores on the team.
THE BIG PICTURE: Last year, the West Central was evenly divided with five teams competing in Class 1A (EG, CRB, Glidden-Ralston, Madrid and Van Meter) and five teams in Class 2A (DMC, WCV, GC, Earlham and Panorama). With WG now in the conference replacing 1A Glidden-Ralston, which has moved to the Rolling Hills, the balance shifts in volleyball classifications with WG joining WCV, GC, Panorama, Earlham and Van Meter in 2A, and DMC now in 1A with CRB, EG and Madrid, making a 6-4 split between 2A and 1A schools. Due to enrollment changes, VM and DMC have essentially switched from last year’s classifications.
EG will face each of the West Central teams once in conference competition-- four matches on the road and five on the home court in Rippey. The lone non-conference match on the schedule was SWG, and the rest of EG’s non-conference slate will come in tourney play at Coon Rapids on Saturday and at Walnut on Oct. 10 with playoffs getting underway on Oct. 19 in the districts.
The strongest area teams in 1A will be Exira to the west, Southern Cal to the north, and GPB to the east/southeast. The Defenders are the pick of the litter among a cluster of 1A central Iowa/Des Moines area schools including DMC, Iowa Christian Academy, Ankeny Christian and Madrid. South of Des Moines are two very strong teams: Martensdale-St. Mary’s and Twin Cedars (Bussey). GPB went 32-11 in 2008 and lost just two starters and one key reserve from its state tournament team. Victoria Weatherly, who was 1A First Team All State and 1A Player of the Year as a setter and outside hitter has graduated, but GPB returns junior Amanda Bell, second team all-state as an outside hitter last year, and senior Kayla Nikkel, honorable mention all-state as a setter.
GPB, ranked 8th in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) pre-season rankings, lost to Gilbert (1-3) in a four-game match last Tuesday (Aug. 25) but came back to sweep West Central Valley this Tuesday (Sept. 1) 25-11, 25-15, 30-28. Gilbert, a 2A school, dropped all three of its matches in a tournament on Saturday. GPB has maintained its No. 8 spot in the IGHSAU rankings released today.
Exira (20-5) is ranked seventh in the IGHSAU rankings. The Vikettes return senior Hallie Christofferson, an all-state special mention pick and all-district in the West Central district, as was Ann Walker, another senior veteran. Exira graduated just two players from last year’s team that won the Rolling Hills with an 8-0 mark. The Vikettes return two other starters along with Christofferson and Walker, and three key reserves.
Southern Cal was ranked fifth in the preseason by the IGHSAU after rolling up a 26-7 record last season and finishing as runner-up to Class 2A East Sac in the Twin Lakes Conference at 5-1. The Mustangs field a veteran team this year, losing just two starters and one key reserve off last year’s team which made it to the regional finals before falling to Schaller-Crestland, which is ranked fourth in the preseason rankings. Schaller-Crestland went 27-7 last season, falling to state runner-up AGWSR in the first round of the state tournament. Southern Cal is led this year by Meghan Monahan, a senior who was special mention all-state and all-district last year.
No 2A teams from central or west central Iowa are ranked in the Class 2A Top 15 poll.
EG’s 2009 Schedule:
(All WC Conference games start at 6 p.m. with the freshmen and junior varsity games preceding the varsity match)
Aug. 27 Southeast Webster-Grand @ Burnside
Sept. 3 @ Earlham
Sept. 5 CRB Tourney @ Coon Rapids
Sept. 8 Van Meter @ Rippey
Sept. 15 Des Moines Christian @ Rippey
Sept. 22 @ Guthrie Center
Sept. 24 Coon Rapids-Bayard @ Rippey
Sept. 29 West Central Valley @ Menlo
Oct. 6 Woodward-Granger @ Woodward
Oct. 10 Walnut Tourney @ Walnut
Oct. 13 Panorama @ Rippey
Oct. 15 Madrid @ Rippey
EYE ON GJ SAYS: A win over SWG is a terrific start for the Hawkettes, as EG got by the Eagles in the regular season last year 3-1 in early October but two weeks later were sidelined by them in a rematch in the first round of the districts, 3-2. EG should have some solid competition in Saturday’s CRB Tourney at Coon Rapids. EG could cross paths with longtime rival Paton-Churdan, which moved from the West Central to the Rolling Hills three years ago. PC won its opening match of the season over conference opponent Elk Horn-Kimballton on Tuesday, 21-25, 25-14, 25-20, 25-16. Along with host CRB, the tourney field includes Iowa Christian Academy, a team that went 20-8 and finished second to Exira in the Rolling Hills last year.
Overall, competition with six 2A schools in the West Central should help put EG in fighting shape for the 1A district and regional playoffs at the end of the season, In addition to EG at Earlham, other conference matches tonight are WCV @ DMC and Panorama @ CRB.
East Greene got the 2009 season off on the right note last Thursday, Aug. 27, with a quick, three-game sweep of Southeast Webster-Grand on the Eagles’ home court in Burnside.
The Hawkettes were firing on all cylinders as their defense held SWG to an average of just 11 points in the three games, while the offense took charge with a solid night serving, connecting on 69 of 75 serves attempted for a 92% success rate and 16 ace serves.
Leaders at the service line were Malarie Gilley going 19-21 for 91%, Bobbie Halterman 13-14 for 93%, and Heidi Kiner and Jessi Beaman, both at 100%. Kiner was perfect in 12 serve attempts, Beaman in 9.
Gilley was a force at the net with 11 kills in 27 attempts with 5 errors and 7 blocks. As a team, the Hawkettes were 22 of 57 kills with 10 errors and 9 blocks. Katlynn Gannon led the team in digs with 11 and Kiner was the assist leader with 15.
CONFERENCE PREVIEW: EG takes a 1-0 record in tonight’s conference opener at Earlham. The Hawkettes will build on last year’s 6-3 record in the West Central, the Hawkettes’ best finish since joining the league in 1996. EG will look to improve its play out of the conference, as last year’s team finished 11-15 overall. East Greene returns five of six starters, losing only Megan Johnston to graduation, and seven letter winners.
The Hawkettes will contend for the conference crown along with Woodward-Granger, which joins the West Central after many years in the Heart of Iowa; Coon Rapids-Bayard, last year’s conference champions at 9-0; and West Central Valley (Stuart) and Guthrie Center, who tied for second at 7-2, just ahead of EG and Des Moines Christian who tied for fourth at 6-3
WCV is solid in girls athletics, winning a volleyball championship in 2007 (9-0) and finishing as runner-up at 8-1 in both 2006 and 2005, in addition to its second place tie last year. The Wildcats have also won four consecutive West Central basketball championships. WCV returns Maggie Marnin, a junior who was first-team all-conference last year and honorable mention in 2007, her freshman season.
Guthrie Center will field a veteran team led by three senior all-conference picks from 2008: Kaitlin Rosenbeck, first team; Bailey Knudson, second team; and Hope Wilson, honorable mention. GC has finished in the upper division of the conference in each of the last four years. Rosenbeck is a two-time, first-team pick to the all-conference team and Knudson was named all-district in 2A last year.
Des Moines Christian has long been a league powerhouse, and last year’s victory over the Lions was the first for EG. Since 2002, the Lions had finished no lower than second in the West Central and won championships in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. DMC will be led by junior Emily Horstman, a second team all-league pick, and senior Hannah Heilskov, honorable mention.
CRB graduated five key players off a team that made it to the state 1A tournament in Cedar Rapids last year. Gentry Sheer, Heidi Eisdohr, Lindsey Reis, Taylor Hilgenberg and Casi Willenborg earned numerous all-conference and all-state honors after last year’s league championship and state tournament qualification. Those players also served as the core of CRB’s basketball team which made it to state and finished as runner-up in the conference with Panorama last year. Back from last year’s volleyball squad are all-conference honorable mention choice Karly Grettenberg and 5-11 Katie Dentlinger who had an outstanding freshman season last year as a starter on both of the Crusaders’ state tournament volleyball and basketball teams.
Woodward-Granger finished 18-6 last year and won the Heart of Iowa-Small title with a 5-0 record, winning the crown over Ogden, Colo-Nesco, South Hamilton, Colfax-Mingo and Grandview Park Baptist (Des Moines), all 2A schools with the exception of GPB, a 1A team that finished second in the HOI-Small at 4-1 and 32-11 overall and advanced to the state tournament along with CRB. WG returns four of their top seven players from last year. The Hawkettes beat Madrid in their season opener and inaugural West Central Conference game on Tuesday 25-8, 25-13, 25-8.
Gilley will serve as the anchor of the East Greene team this year. A 6-1 middle hitter, she was a unanimous first-team all-conference choice and one of 15 area Class 1A players named all-district. Like WCV’s Marnin, she moved up from honorable mention to first team for all-conference honors last year. Gilley was the only unanimous first team pick among the league’s 10 coaches.
Halterman and Gannon were all-conference honorable mention. Kiner, Beaman, Molly Neese and Tia Lowe are returning letter winners. Rounding out this years squad are senior Brittney Moss; junior Jasmine Kinney; and freshmen Tori Lowe, Alanna Orfield, Kim Hatfield, Brandy Burrows, Megan McElheney, Tylar Elliott, Brittany Gunn and Elizabeth Gunn. There are no sophomores on the team.
THE BIG PICTURE: Last year, the West Central was evenly divided with five teams competing in Class 1A (EG, CRB, Glidden-Ralston, Madrid and Van Meter) and five teams in Class 2A (DMC, WCV, GC, Earlham and Panorama). With WG now in the conference replacing 1A Glidden-Ralston, which has moved to the Rolling Hills, the balance shifts in volleyball classifications with WG joining WCV, GC, Panorama, Earlham and Van Meter in 2A, and DMC now in 1A with CRB, EG and Madrid, making a 6-4 split between 2A and 1A schools. Due to enrollment changes, VM and DMC have essentially switched from last year’s classifications.
EG will face each of the West Central teams once in conference competition-- four matches on the road and five on the home court in Rippey. The lone non-conference match on the schedule was SWG, and the rest of EG’s non-conference slate will come in tourney play at Coon Rapids on Saturday and at Walnut on Oct. 10 with playoffs getting underway on Oct. 19 in the districts.
The strongest area teams in 1A will be Exira to the west, Southern Cal to the north, and GPB to the east/southeast. The Defenders are the pick of the litter among a cluster of 1A central Iowa/Des Moines area schools including DMC, Iowa Christian Academy, Ankeny Christian and Madrid. South of Des Moines are two very strong teams: Martensdale-St. Mary’s and Twin Cedars (Bussey). GPB went 32-11 in 2008 and lost just two starters and one key reserve from its state tournament team. Victoria Weatherly, who was 1A First Team All State and 1A Player of the Year as a setter and outside hitter has graduated, but GPB returns junior Amanda Bell, second team all-state as an outside hitter last year, and senior Kayla Nikkel, honorable mention all-state as a setter.
GPB, ranked 8th in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) pre-season rankings, lost to Gilbert (1-3) in a four-game match last Tuesday (Aug. 25) but came back to sweep West Central Valley this Tuesday (Sept. 1) 25-11, 25-15, 30-28. Gilbert, a 2A school, dropped all three of its matches in a tournament on Saturday. GPB has maintained its No. 8 spot in the IGHSAU rankings released today.
Exira (20-5) is ranked seventh in the IGHSAU rankings. The Vikettes return senior Hallie Christofferson, an all-state special mention pick and all-district in the West Central district, as was Ann Walker, another senior veteran. Exira graduated just two players from last year’s team that won the Rolling Hills with an 8-0 mark. The Vikettes return two other starters along with Christofferson and Walker, and three key reserves.
Southern Cal was ranked fifth in the preseason by the IGHSAU after rolling up a 26-7 record last season and finishing as runner-up to Class 2A East Sac in the Twin Lakes Conference at 5-1. The Mustangs field a veteran team this year, losing just two starters and one key reserve off last year’s team which made it to the regional finals before falling to Schaller-Crestland, which is ranked fourth in the preseason rankings. Schaller-Crestland went 27-7 last season, falling to state runner-up AGWSR in the first round of the state tournament. Southern Cal is led this year by Meghan Monahan, a senior who was special mention all-state and all-district last year.
No 2A teams from central or west central Iowa are ranked in the Class 2A Top 15 poll.
EG’s 2009 Schedule:
(All WC Conference games start at 6 p.m. with the freshmen and junior varsity games preceding the varsity match)
Aug. 27 Southeast Webster-Grand @ Burnside
Sept. 3 @ Earlham
Sept. 5 CRB Tourney @ Coon Rapids
Sept. 8 Van Meter @ Rippey
Sept. 15 Des Moines Christian @ Rippey
Sept. 22 @ Guthrie Center
Sept. 24 Coon Rapids-Bayard @ Rippey
Sept. 29 West Central Valley @ Menlo
Oct. 6 Woodward-Granger @ Woodward
Oct. 10 Walnut Tourney @ Walnut
Oct. 13 Panorama @ Rippey
Oct. 15 Madrid @ Rippey
EYE ON GJ SAYS: A win over SWG is a terrific start for the Hawkettes, as EG got by the Eagles in the regular season last year 3-1 in early October but two weeks later were sidelined by them in a rematch in the first round of the districts, 3-2. EG should have some solid competition in Saturday’s CRB Tourney at Coon Rapids. EG could cross paths with longtime rival Paton-Churdan, which moved from the West Central to the Rolling Hills three years ago. PC won its opening match of the season over conference opponent Elk Horn-Kimballton on Tuesday, 21-25, 25-14, 25-20, 25-16. Along with host CRB, the tourney field includes Iowa Christian Academy, a team that went 20-8 and finished second to Exira in the Rolling Hills last year.
Overall, competition with six 2A schools in the West Central should help put EG in fighting shape for the 1A district and regional playoffs at the end of the season, In addition to EG at Earlham, other conference matches tonight are WCV @ DMC and Panorama @ CRB.
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