Brocka Commits to UNI, Lynx Offense #s

#1 posting 6.15. 2006
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SIGNINGS & Verbals
IA
Erin Brocka, of state 2A champion North Butler, has made a verbal to Northern Iowa. Here is more from the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier.
Iowa Wesleyan has added these former JUCO players to their squad: Jennifer Cahill, Sandburg, Illinois; Shelly Rennison, North Central Missouri; Jordan Rathburn, Highland, Kansas; Kelli Garrison, Garden City, Kansas. More details in the Burlington Hawkeye.
SD
Kelly Schilling, Miller has signed with Mount Marty. The 6-0 footer averaged 11 ppg last year. Here is more from the Yankton Press & Dakotan

VERBALS

COACHING NEWS
COLLEGE
As reported last week here, Jonelle Streed will be the new assistant at Arizona. Streed is from Cambridge, MN and this is what the Isanti County News , her hometown paper, had to say.
MI
Dan Telgenhoff has been hired at Holland. He has worked in the system there.
Rob Roelofs has been hired at Middleville. He was the former coach at East Kentwood and had a 73-42 record in five years there.
MN
New (for this site) openings:
Aitkin
Greenway
Richfield has hired LeeAnn Wise as their new coach.
Bemidji has filled their position with Rick Kehoe.

COACHING OPENINGS

SUMMER LEAGUES
MN
St. Cloud State
Hosts games on Monday and Thursday evenings between 6:00 and 7:30. Some teams include St. Cloud Apollo, St. Cloud Tech, Litchfield, Holdingford, Little Falls, Albany, Kimball, Foley, Sauk Rapids, Pierz, Sartell.
The league started on June 5th and continues through the semi-finals and championship on Monday, July 17th.
UM Duluth
Teams involved include: Grand Rapids, Hibbing (2 teams), Duluth East, Duluth Denfeld, Duluth Central, Floodwood, Two Harbors, and Cotton.
The top teams are Hibbings number 1 team, Grand Rapids and East. Julia Rickert, Marissa Yernatich, and Becky Anderson are not playing for East. Hibbing has most of their returners on the #1 team. They were beat by Grand Rapids in the first game. Grand Rapids is 3-0 in the league right now.
Deer River
Teams involved include: Deer River (2 teams), Bigfork, Grand Rapids, Nashwauk-Keewatin, Hill City, Northland-Remer, and Greenway.
Grand Rapids is 4-0 in this league. They have beaten Deer River #1, Nashwauk-Keewatin, Hill City, and Northland.
Bigfork, which has most everyone back next year is 4-0. They will be a team to watch in 7A. They run the floor.
Northland is 2-2. They have speed, but only 7 players limits their legs.
Deer River is 2-2. they are aggressive, but lack size.

OTHER SPORTS
I am throwing this in to show that some basketball players are pretty good athletes. Katie Loberg, Princeton finished fourth in the state High Jump at 5-3. Here is the Princeton Union Eaagle with more. Furthermore, her teammate from the North Tartan 14s Devin Smith of Roseville finished third with a jump of 5-4. The winner of the high jump is also a basketball player--Tressa Beckel of Waseca who is headed to UW Green Bay--jumped at 5-8. Here are the results of the AA meet. Here is the MN State AA HS results. Scroll down to the High Jump to see the results

THE LIST
AAU ROSTERS
CALENDAR

BOOK PROGRESSION
I have North Dakota formatted, along with Minnesota. The ground work is in place for South Dakota. Now is data entry time for Wisconsin and Iowa.
My part timer is doing data entry on the colleges.
I did get the MCAA all conference list.
I am still missing MN All Conference lists from these conferences:
Great River (partial)
Mid State
Northern Lakes
Northwest Suburban (partial)
Prairie (partial)
Rum River
St. Louis County
Valley
Wright County
Detective Quan, where are you? I would hope you would be able to crack the case of the NW Suburban missing information.

A LOOK AT THE LYNX (part 2--the offensive end)
NUMBERS EXPLAINED
player, points, possessions, pp100, floor %
MINNESOTA
STARTERS
Amber Jacobs 6, 10, 60.0, .200
Simone Augustus 32, 27, 118.5, .556
Krista Mann 8, 6, 133.3, .833
Timika Williams 2, 4, 50.0, .250
Nicole Ohlde 5, 10, 50.0, .300
BENCH
Adrian Williams 8, 7, 114.3, .571
Meghan Duffy 0, 3, 0.0, .000
Svetlana Abrosimova 5, 8, 62.5, .250
Shona Thorburn 0, 1, 0.0, .000

SEATTLE
STARTERS
Sue Bird 9, 7, 128.6, .571
Betty Lennox 15, 15, 100.0, .400
Iziane Castro Marques 6, 6, 100.0, .500
Lauren Jackson 8, 8, 100.0, .375
Janell Burse 14, 13, 107.7, .615
BENCH
Barbara Turner 3, 5, 60.0, .200
Tiffani Johnson 13, 10, 130.0, .700
Tanisha Wright 2, 5, 40.0, .200
Shaunzinski Gortman 4, 6, 66.7, .333
Edwige Lawson-Wade 0, 1, 0.0, .000

BY THE NUMBERS
Minnesota 66, 76, 86.8, .421
Seattle 74, 76, 97.4, .447
Seattle's starters were all at 100 pp100 or better, where only Augustus and Mann could crack that barrier for the Lynx. In fact only 3 MN players reached the milestone. Part of the problem is that in the third quarter only one other player other than Augustus was able to find the bottom of the basket.
Ohlde needs to keep her game up for the Lynx to make a move. The Lynx are 4-1 when Ohlde is above 100 in the pp100 category, 0-4 when she isn't on top of her game.

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Next up: later today with the Southern Minne Magic vs Quest, along with the photos of that game.