BCIG's Bolte is Gatorade Player of the Year
Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2007
More honors for Battle Creek-Ida Grove senior Kelsey Bolte.
The three-time Iowa Class 2A first-team all-stater and Iowa State recruit has been named the 2007 Gatorade Iowa Girls Basketball Player of the Year.
The 6-1 guard averaged 24.5 points, 11.4 rebounds, 5.2 steals, 3.8 assists and 2.4 blocked shots in leading her team to a 25-3 record in a runner-up finish in the Iowa 2A state tourney for the second straight year in 2007.
"You know someone is a great player when you come in with a game plan to stop her and she still beats you,'' said highly successful South Sioux City Coach Kelly Flynn. "That's how it is with Kelsey.
"We had a pretty good defensive team and she still scored 28 points on us. She's the whole package.''
Bolte and her BCIG team defeated South Sioux City, which had won 10 of the previous 11 Nebraska Class B state titles prior to 2006-07, 63-48 in the fifth-place game of the Sacajawea National Girls Invitational in Sioux City on Dec. 16.
BCIG's only other losses in '06-07 were to eventual Nebraska Class C1 state champ Crofton and to North Butler in the 2A state title game.
Bolte is also a 3.22 student in the classroom and actively participates in several community service projects.
The Gatorade Player of Year award is bestowed in each state and the District of Columbia. Bolte, who will play this weekend in the WBCA High School All-America Game in Cleveland, is now eligible for national Gatorade award.
Swedish Classic
moves to Fremont
The long-running Swedish Classic boys and girls high school all-star basketball competition held for many years in Oakland, Neb., will be played this year in Fremont, Neb., on Saturday, June 9.
The competition features graduated seniors from 29 Nebraska high schools, Journal circulation area schools Bancroft-Rosalie, Howells, Logan View, Lyons-Decatur, Oakland-Craig, Pender, Scribner-Snyder, Tekamah-Herman, West Point-Beemer, West Point Central Catholic and Wisner-Pilger.
Midland Lutheran College will host the event, which has been renamed the Warrior Basketball Classic.
South Sioux ties
for fourth in lifting
OMAHA -- Luis DeAnda finished second at 123 pounds and Cory Kramper second in the 132-pound division to help South Sioux City to a tie for fourth in the recent Nebraska Class B State Powerlifting meet.
Finishing third for SSC were Tyler Hoch (148), Nate Vajgrt (181), Mike Dryden (275) and heavyweight Mike Munson. Sergio Guerrero (114) and Kenny Wasmund (181) were fifth and Lindsey Kander took fifth in the girls competition.
Plattsmouth won the team title with 36 points, followed by Crete (29), Omaha Skutt (26), Ssouth Sioux City (24), Elkhorn (24) and Gretna (18). Nine of SSC's 10 pre-chose lifters place in the top five.
Quade homers
spark Cyclones
AMES, Iowa -- Sioux City North grad Jessica Quade swatted a solo homer in each game here Wednesday to power Iowa State to a 6-3, 5-3 sweep of Northern Iowa in softball.
Quade, a senior first baseman hitting .221, belted her fourth homer in the first game and fifth round-tripper in the nightcap. The RBIs were her 11th and 12th of the season.
The Cyclones improved to 19-24 and UNI slipped to 13-18.
Mount Marty splits
with Mayville State
YANKTON, S.D. -- Jeremy Zens and Trey Kreir combined to pitch a three-hitter Wednesday as Mount Marty defeated Mayville State 2-1 in the first game of a baseball doubleheader here. Kreir got the win in relief.
Mayville State, now 12-4, bounced back to win the nightcap 10-1 and earn a split.
In the second game, Mount Marty, now 15-4, got a double and RBI single from Stephan Guy in a seven-hit attack.
Billy McDonald and Robb McClemans each had two hits for the Lancers in the opener. Matt Kemp singled home Joey Matzke in the fifth for the Lancers first run and McClemans doubled and scored the winning run on an error in the sixth.
The three-time Iowa Class 2A first-team all-stater and Iowa State recruit has been named the 2007 Gatorade Iowa Girls Basketball Player of the Year.
The 6-1 guard averaged 24.5 points, 11.4 rebounds, 5.2 steals, 3.8 assists and 2.4 blocked shots in leading her team to a 25-3 record in a runner-up finish in the Iowa 2A state tourney for the second straight year in 2007.
"You know someone is a great player when you come in with a game plan to stop her and she still beats you,'' said highly successful South Sioux City Coach Kelly Flynn. "That's how it is with Kelsey.
"We had a pretty good defensive team and she still scored 28 points on us. She's the whole package.''
Bolte and her BCIG team defeated South Sioux City, which had won 10 of the previous 11 Nebraska Class B state titles prior to 2006-07, 63-48 in the fifth-place game of the Sacajawea National Girls Invitational in Sioux City on Dec. 16.
BCIG's only other losses in '06-07 were to eventual Nebraska Class C1 state champ Crofton and to North Butler in the 2A state title game.
Bolte is also a 3.22 student in the classroom and actively participates in several community service projects.
The Gatorade Player of Year award is bestowed in each state and the District of Columbia. Bolte, who will play this weekend in the WBCA High School All-America Game in Cleveland, is now eligible for national Gatorade award.
Swedish Classic
moves to Fremont
The long-running Swedish Classic boys and girls high school all-star basketball competition held for many years in Oakland, Neb., will be played this year in Fremont, Neb., on Saturday, June 9.
The competition features graduated seniors from 29 Nebraska high schools, Journal circulation area schools Bancroft-Rosalie, Howells, Logan View, Lyons-Decatur, Oakland-Craig, Pender, Scribner-Snyder, Tekamah-Herman, West Point-Beemer, West Point Central Catholic and Wisner-Pilger.
Midland Lutheran College will host the event, which has been renamed the Warrior Basketball Classic.
South Sioux ties
for fourth in lifting
OMAHA -- Luis DeAnda finished second at 123 pounds and Cory Kramper second in the 132-pound division to help South Sioux City to a tie for fourth in the recent Nebraska Class B State Powerlifting meet.
Finishing third for SSC were Tyler Hoch (148), Nate Vajgrt (181), Mike Dryden (275) and heavyweight Mike Munson. Sergio Guerrero (114) and Kenny Wasmund (181) were fifth and Lindsey Kander took fifth in the girls competition.
Plattsmouth won the team title with 36 points, followed by Crete (29), Omaha Skutt (26), Ssouth Sioux City (24), Elkhorn (24) and Gretna (18). Nine of SSC's 10 pre-chose lifters place in the top five.
Quade homers
spark Cyclones
AMES, Iowa -- Sioux City North grad Jessica Quade swatted a solo homer in each game here Wednesday to power Iowa State to a 6-3, 5-3 sweep of Northern Iowa in softball.
Quade, a senior first baseman hitting .221, belted her fourth homer in the first game and fifth round-tripper in the nightcap. The RBIs were her 11th and 12th of the season.
The Cyclones improved to 19-24 and UNI slipped to 13-18.
Mount Marty splits
with Mayville State
YANKTON, S.D. -- Jeremy Zens and Trey Kreir combined to pitch a three-hitter Wednesday as Mount Marty defeated Mayville State 2-1 in the first game of a baseball doubleheader here. Kreir got the win in relief.
Mayville State, now 12-4, bounced back to win the nightcap 10-1 and earn a split.
In the second game, Mount Marty, now 15-4, got a double and RBI single from Stephan Guy in a seven-hit attack.
Billy McDonald and Robb McClemans each had two hits for the Lancers in the opener. Matt Kemp singled home Joey Matzke in the fifth for the Lancers first run and McClemans doubled and scored the winning run on an error in the sixth.
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