Cermak, Zastrow Verbal, Lynx, and WI Photos

#1 posting 6.10.2006
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VERBALS
IA
Kelsey Cermak, Norwalk indicated yesterday she will be attending Iowa. Norwalk won the 3A division of the Iowa State Tournament last year. The 6-2 Cermak averaged 17 ppg. Here is more from the Des Moines Register.
WI
Lin Zastrow, Jefferson has made a verbal to Wisconsin. The 6-4 Zastrow averaged 19.7 last year. Her team won the state tournament at the D2 level two years ago. Caitlin Gibson, her teammate from HS is also there. Here is the Capital Times with more.

VERBALS

AAU NEWS
IA/NE
The Daubert Pinnacle Bank named a few more players to their squad: McKayla Knudson, South Sioux City, NE and Amber Hegge, Crofton, NE. Here is more on the squad in the Sioux City Journal.

AAU ROSTERS

CAMP NEWS
MN/ND
Crookston has more players in the pipeline. Five 8th graders made the All Camp team at the University of North Dakota's camp last week. Crookston's Kellee Emanuel was named MVP of the Camp. Here is more from the Crookston Daily News.

COACHING NEWS
COLLEGE
Still more on the fall out at UM Crookston. This time it is an editorial on the change over to new coach Mike Roysland, fairness and tough decisions.
MI
Brad Erlenbeck has been hired at Freeland. He is a Freeland grad. Here is more from the Saginaw News.

COACHING OPENINGS

NUMBERS EXPLAINED
player, high school, points, possessions, pp100, floor %
A LOOK AT THE LYNX
MINNESOTA
STARTERS
Amber Jacobs 12, 13, 92.3, .462
Simone Augustus 27, 25, 108.0, .520
Krista Mann 11, 8, 137.5, .500
Timika Williams 3, 4, 75.0, .500
Nicole Ohlde 18, 11, 163.6, .818
BENCH
Svetlana Abrosimova 8, 9, 88.9, .444
Vanessa Hayden 5, 3, 166.7, 1.000 snapped out of an offensive funk
Meghan Duffy 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Adrian Williams 0, 2, 0.0, .000
Shona Thorburn 2, 2, 100.0, .500 scored her first points in wnba action

SAN ANTONIO
STARTERS
Vickie Johnson 3, 8, 37.5, .250
Kendra Wecker 2, 5, 40.0, .200
Chantelle Anderson 4, 4, 100.0, .500
Sophia Young 13, 10, 130.0, .600
Shannon Johnson 14, 11, 127.3, .636
BENCH
Katie Feenstra 7, 5, 140.0, .600
Agnieszka Bibrzycka 13, 7, 185.7, .714
Dalma Ivanyi 0, 3, 0.0, .000
LaToya Thomas 17, 17, 100.0, .529
Shanna Zolman 6, 5, 120.0, .400

BY THE NUMBERS
Minnesota 86, 78, 110.3, .538
San Antonio 79, 78, 101.3, .474
A couple of points--1. this was MN's second best defensive performance of the year, but SA still reached above 100 in the pp100 category. It was also the second best floor % game defensively for the Lynx with a .474. 2. The offense had its 3rd best night on both pp100 and floor %.
For the year the Lynx are at 105 on pp100 and .494 for floor %.
Defensively the numbers are fairly close with 105.9 and .503
Augustus leads the way with a 124.4 pp100 average. Even though she had 27 tonight she was off her game a bit with a 108 pp100.
Nicole Ohlde needs to perform every game like this and not be so up & down.
I do find it odd that Jacobs was second in defensive rebounds with six, only one behind Ohlde.
The Lynx offense will be even better when they eliminate some turnovers.
An interesting tidbit: MN closed out the first quarter with an 0/7 drought, yet, when the money was on the table in the fourth quarter, closed out with 8 straight scoring possessions, six of which were free throws.

MORE MENOMONIE PHOTOS
Here are some more photos, this time The Team WI 17 vs TriState Storm. Photo #1 has Val Schuster going around Julia Rickert of TSS. Photo #2 has Jade Hatchett penetrating and dishing to Cassy Schemberger





#3 has Schemberger faking to the baseline, and #4 coming back to the middle leaving Rickert. Photo #5 has Hatchett scoring on a pull up jumper.

AAU ROSTERS

Next up: tomorrow with results and information from the Mpls Midtown YWCA tournament. There are a few teams I haven't seen yet. I will list the books that coaches and players should have on their shelves at a later time. There was a lot of activity with verbals and coaching news yesterday.