St. Ben's in Greece, Battle of the Plains

#1 posting 5.22. 2008
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

ST. BEN'S IN GREECE
The College of St. Benedict beat Kalamata in Greece 78-31. The Blazers lost to Ravenna, the feeder team to the Greek National team, 59-53. From the St. Cloud Times.

BATTLE ON THE PLAINS
3rd Annual Battle on the Plains
(Promoted and endorsed by Michael T White)

NCAA Certified Event
13U-17U
July 22nd-24th, 2008
Lincoln, NE

Look Below for some Committed teams:

To Register go online:
http://www.basketballincollege.com/TTIntro.aspx?tid=TRN005
We are limited to 64 teams, and with the growing demand and interest we have already received, we full expect to reach that number.
Girls Exposure Tournament
5 age divisions ( U13, U14, U15, U16, and U17)
Elite teams
All games will be played at 1 location, allowing for college coaches to watch more games
5 game guarantee- many play 6-7 games
16 minute stopped clock halves
all courts will feature 30 second NCAA shot clock
Many D1, D2, D3, NAIA and JUCO coaches in attendance
Entry Fee- Only $550, for 5 game guarantee Event will be hosted by the NE Bison & Judds teams, along with the Cornhusker Shooting Stars, and Bison Youth Sports Complex.
We expect some of the best clubs, and teams in the nation in attendance. We have already confirmed many of the top rated players from 2009, 2010, 2011 that will be in attendance.

Dan Lesoing(402) 429-0920
NE Bison & Judds CSShttp://www.cornhuskershootingstars.com/
dlesoing@windstream.net
bigish84@aol.com

Some Committed teams
Cornhusker Shooting Stars- 5
NE Bison & Judds
All Iowa Attack- 4
IBCA Select- 3
Houston, TX CY-Fair- 3
TX Team Ichiban- 3
KC Thundercats/Blazers 2-3
Kansas Dream Team- 2
Omaha Crusaders- 2

SUMMER LEAGUE
The Park Region conference will host a summer league with sites rotating among these teams: Bertha-Hewitt, Eagle Valley, Henning, Menahga, New York Mills, Sebeka, Verndale

YOUNGSTERS
The MN Stars- Antl 11U team has qualified for the USSSA National Championships on July 5-8 in Tampa, FL, They also will be participating in the Memorial Classic this weekend in Menomonie, WI, Summer Jam in June and ending with the Midwest Adidas Classic in Ames, IA June 20-22.
Girls on roster include Jordyn Alt, Alyssa Antl, Grace Coughlin, McKenna Happke, Erika Johnson, Sydney Lamberty, Oliva Mathis, Emily Namyst, Emma Robinson, Jaime Schnell, and Katie Werth

SUMMER CAMP
Minneapolis South will hold a summer camp June 23-26 for boys and girls from 8 am to noon. Their will be a second camp from July 14-18 from 8 am to noon for girls only. Cost will be $85. Contact Ahmil Jihad at-mailto:at-ahmil07@yahoo.com for more information.

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Two Signings, MYAS State Tournament, St. Ben's in Greece

#1 posting 5.19.2008
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

MSU-BOTTINEAU SIGNINGS
Abby Langehaug of Glenburn and Kacie Beattie of Rolette-Wolford have signed with Minot State University-Bottineau to play women’s basketball. Langehaug is a 5-7 guard that averaged 16.1 ppg. Beattie is a 5-7 guard that averaged 9.7 ppg.

MYAS STATE TOURNAMENT
X Factor 2 beat the Minnesota Finishers 41-29 in the 17u consolation championship. X Factor clamped down on the Finishers post game holding Britta Syverson to 2 points. Here is the X Factor scoring:
Caitlin Robinson, Staples-Motley 11
Betsy Olson, Sebeka 8
Missy Kassube, Eagle Valley 7
Megan Strese, Brandon-Evansville 5
Sara Van Den Huevel, Bertha-Hewitt 4
Jessica Fink, Bertha-Hewitt 4
Katie Huttunen, Sebeka 2

ALL TOURNAMENT
Here are the All Tournament teams, sponsored by the Minnesota Pork Producers, from the Minnesota Seeding tournament held three weeks ago.

ST. BENEDICT IN GREECE
The College of St. Benedict is in Greece for three games and lost to Aris Cholargou 61-50 in Athens. From the St. Cloud Times.

SCOTT A LEADER
St. Cloud State point guard Krystal Scott is headed to the NCAA's Student-Athlete Development Conference starting next Sunday in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. From the St. Cloud Times.

WNBA
LYNX
The youngsters of the Lynx helped lift them to a 84-70 win over Detroit. The St. Paul Pioneer Press looks at the rookie contributions.

INTERNET RADIO
I am scheduled to be a guest on the Al Woods Show, an internet radio show, tonight at 8pm Eastern, 7 Central.

NEW FEATURE
If you scroll down the right side of the blog you will find all the subject tags on the postings. For example you can click on a subject and all the postings that were tagged will come up. It should help people looking for certain topics.

Next up: Blueprint All Star Weekend.

Rengel, Schmidt and Morningside

#2 posting 10.16.2007
your daily dose of girls basketball news & information

COLLEGIATE FEATURES
Kayla Rengel of St. Cloud State, the only senior, is featured in the St. Cloud Times. Also in the article Abby Rittenhouse is being held out due of practice to her 3rd concussion.

Mindy Schmidt will not be a surprise this season for St. Benedict. From the St. Cloud Times.

Morningside is moving on from the Carper/Cloud era. From the Sioux City Journal.

ANOTHER BLOG
The Minnesota Daily will have a blog after home Gopher games this year.

I will be getting photos up of the Barnum Gold/Goodhue game later. The computer has been sooooo sssssslllllloooowwww.

Thanks to the readers for the help. If you have news, go to my profile and email me.

next up: Out & about with Midtown Lady Monarchs and Forest Lake Maroon