Grab Bag: Twin Verbals, Coaching Milestones, Weekly Awards

#4 posting 2.11.2008
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AFTERNOON GRAB BAG
VERBALS
Samantha and Danielle Anderson of Wrenshall have verbally committed to play basketball at UW Superior. The twins are guards on the Wrens this year. They are the 57th and 58th players to commit from the 2008 class.

Lexi Braun of Wahpeton has made a verbal to NDSCS in volleyball. Braun is also a McDonald's nominee from North Dakota they have the list of 9 ND girls nominated. From the Wahpeton Daily News.

PLUNGE
The Braham Bomber girls basketball team is going to take an icy plunge. From the Isanti County News.

CONFERENCE RACE
The Big 9 will be a lot clearer on Tuesday...maybe...if Rochester JM wins both contests against Owatonna tonight, and Austin on Tuesday. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

BIG 10 TIDBITS
Iowa's Lindsey Nyenhuis (Forest Hills Northern, MI) does a Q&A.
Iowa's Johanna Solverson (Lake Zurich, IL) was named co-Big 10 player of the week with Purdue's FahKara Malone (Evansville Memorial, IN).

If it is Monday, it must be time for Wisconsin Coach Stone to talk to the media.

The Capital Times talks about the "one that got away." There is a photo of Alyssa Karel (Cretin-Derham Hall) in the article.

COACHING MILESTONES
Iowa's Lisa Bluder has 500 wins after beating Penn State on Sunday. From the Des Moines Register.

Buena Vista had two coaches reach milestones the same day. Janet Berry is now the winningest coach at Buena Vista on the women's side with 260 total.

AWARDS
Iowa State's Alison Lacey (Ballard, IA) was named co Big 12 Player of the Week. Courtney Paris of Oklahoma also shared the honor.

Central Michigan's Angel Chan (Wyoming Park, MI) has been named Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week.

Carleton's Hannah Oken-Berg (Portland Lincoln, OR) has been named MIAC player of the week.

LISTEN
You can listen to the archived game between Cedar Rapids Washington vs CR Jefferson on KGYM.

LATE RESULTS
MINNESOTA: Cretin-Derham Hall beat Stillwater 64-48 on Friday. From the Stillwater Gazette.

IOWA: In district play Clinton Prince of Peace beat Preston 58-34 to open 1A play. From the Clinton Herald.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Bon Homme beat Dakota Christian 54-49 plus other results in the Mitchell Daily Republic.

Next up: tonight with another in the out & abouts