Overtime nothing new to Wildcats
Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Until and upon further review, this space will continue to be referred to as Siouxland Sportlight -- not Sioux City Sportlight, Northwest Iowa Sportlight or Morningside Avenue Sportlight. Unless, of course, that enlightened Super Bowl XL officiating crew overrules:
So, while in a provincial mood, on with the show.
You can understand why veteran Woodbury Central Coach Terry Horsley has consumed a few more Tums for the tummy this season.
Horsley's Woodbury Central boys have won nine of 18 games this season with four of the wins in either overtime or double overtime in the last five games.
The latest extra session and third in a row was a 70-68 thriller over Galva-Holstein Tuesday. The Wildcats also topped River Valley in overtime on Feb. 3 and Remsen-Union in an extra session on Jan. 31.
Horsley, who how has 446 career victories in 35 seasons, also guided his team to an overtime win over Remsen-Union Jan. 23 when the Rockets failed to score in the extra session.
The countdown continues.
Battle Creek-Ida Grove's Casey Harriman has scored 1,992 career points and could top the 2,000 barrier Friday when his team plays at Kingsley-Pierson. Harriman tallied 30 points in a win Tuesday over Whiting.
Maybe, maybe not, but you probably heard or read that Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis returned to his hometown of Detroit for Super Bowl XL. And then, after the Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks, announced he was retiring.
At first, it was believed the last Super Bowl was named in honor of Bettis' shirt size, but the show was actually missing a couple of X's.
Charity begins at the free throw line.
Former Miss Iowa Basketball honorees Deb Remmerde (Rock Valley) and Wendy Ausdemore (Neola Tri-Center) are singeing the nets this season in the free throw shooting department.
Northwestern College's Remmerde is now the most accurate free throw shooter -- male or female -- in the history of hoops. She's made 127 straight gifters this season. The last hoop she had to jump through was the national high school boys record of 126 held by Daryl Moreau of De La Salle High School in New Orleans, who made 126 in a row from Jan. 27, 1978, to Jan. 9, 1979.
Monday night, Remmerde hit four straight against Sioux Falls to surpass the last consecutive record mark, including high school, college and the pros. However, her streak ended at 133 in Wednesday's Great Plains Athletic Conference game at Dakota Wesleyan.
Ausdemore, a University of Iowa freshman, hasn't gotten to the line as much this season, but has made the most of her 32 chances, cashing in 31 times. In high school, Remmerde shot an all-time Iowa prep best (five-player game) 95.5 percent from the charity stripe, sinking 257 of 269 attempts.
Proper name dept.:
Make that appropriately named.
A couple of days back South Dakota State lost at home to Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne in men's NCAA Division I men's basketball 58-38.
That's IPFW -- the Mastodons.
If it chose to, IPFW could send out a starting lineup that includes Tyler Best (6-9, 240), Mohamed Esseghir (6-11, 225), Armend Ademi (6-9, 240) and Zeljiko Egeric (6-9, 220).
After the then-nationally ranked Phoenix (Ariz.) St. Mary's girls basketball team lost in the championship game of the 2005 Sacajawea National Invitational in the Tyson Events Center, the rather large and handsome trophy was not allowed on the plane when the team returned to Phoenix.
Tournament founder John Adams solved the problem.
Last weekend, Adams motored to Phoenix and personally presented the trophy to the St. Mary's team prior to the team's Parents Night contest.
Sioux City North's Micah Sheffield earned his 100th career wrestling win with a victory over Austin Burke of Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson last Saturday in the Missouri River Cities Conference tournament at North.
The junior 125-pounder, ranked second in the state in 3A, then won two more matches before losing to Skyler Stilwell of East in his fifth match of the tourney. Interestingly, Stilwell, also a junior, had been pinned by Burke in his first match of the tournament.
Journal sports writer Steven Allspach may be reached at 71-293-4207 or by e-mail at steven.allspach@lee.net
So, while in a provincial mood, on with the show.
You can understand why veteran Woodbury Central Coach Terry Horsley has consumed a few more Tums for the tummy this season.
Horsley's Woodbury Central boys have won nine of 18 games this season with four of the wins in either overtime or double overtime in the last five games.
The latest extra session and third in a row was a 70-68 thriller over Galva-Holstein Tuesday. The Wildcats also topped River Valley in overtime on Feb. 3 and Remsen-Union in an extra session on Jan. 31.
Horsley, who how has 446 career victories in 35 seasons, also guided his team to an overtime win over Remsen-Union Jan. 23 when the Rockets failed to score in the extra session.
The countdown continues.
Battle Creek-Ida Grove's Casey Harriman has scored 1,992 career points and could top the 2,000 barrier Friday when his team plays at Kingsley-Pierson. Harriman tallied 30 points in a win Tuesday over Whiting.
Maybe, maybe not, but you probably heard or read that Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis returned to his hometown of Detroit for Super Bowl XL. And then, after the Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks, announced he was retiring.
At first, it was believed the last Super Bowl was named in honor of Bettis' shirt size, but the show was actually missing a couple of X's.
Charity begins at the free throw line.
Former Miss Iowa Basketball honorees Deb Remmerde (Rock Valley) and Wendy Ausdemore (Neola Tri-Center) are singeing the nets this season in the free throw shooting department.
Northwestern College's Remmerde is now the most accurate free throw shooter -- male or female -- in the history of hoops. She's made 127 straight gifters this season. The last hoop she had to jump through was the national high school boys record of 126 held by Daryl Moreau of De La Salle High School in New Orleans, who made 126 in a row from Jan. 27, 1978, to Jan. 9, 1979.
Monday night, Remmerde hit four straight against Sioux Falls to surpass the last consecutive record mark, including high school, college and the pros. However, her streak ended at 133 in Wednesday's Great Plains Athletic Conference game at Dakota Wesleyan.
Ausdemore, a University of Iowa freshman, hasn't gotten to the line as much this season, but has made the most of her 32 chances, cashing in 31 times. In high school, Remmerde shot an all-time Iowa prep best (five-player game) 95.5 percent from the charity stripe, sinking 257 of 269 attempts.
Proper name dept.:
Make that appropriately named.
A couple of days back South Dakota State lost at home to Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne in men's NCAA Division I men's basketball 58-38.
That's IPFW -- the Mastodons.
If it chose to, IPFW could send out a starting lineup that includes Tyler Best (6-9, 240), Mohamed Esseghir (6-11, 225), Armend Ademi (6-9, 240) and Zeljiko Egeric (6-9, 220).
After the then-nationally ranked Phoenix (Ariz.) St. Mary's girls basketball team lost in the championship game of the 2005 Sacajawea National Invitational in the Tyson Events Center, the rather large and handsome trophy was not allowed on the plane when the team returned to Phoenix.
Tournament founder John Adams solved the problem.
Last weekend, Adams motored to Phoenix and personally presented the trophy to the St. Mary's team prior to the team's Parents Night contest.
Sioux City North's Micah Sheffield earned his 100th career wrestling win with a victory over Austin Burke of Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson last Saturday in the Missouri River Cities Conference tournament at North.
The junior 125-pounder, ranked second in the state in 3A, then won two more matches before losing to Skyler Stilwell of East in his fifth match of the tourney. Interestingly, Stilwell, also a junior, had been pinned by Burke in his first match of the tournament.
Journal sports writer Steven Allspach may be reached at 71-293-4207 or by e-mail at steven.allspach@lee.net
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