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SPORTSSECTION C NOVEMBER 21, 2013

REVIEW

Opponent Result ScoreSt. Louis Park W 21-7

Foley L 7-42Redwood Valley W 26-2Pipestone W 34-6Luverne W 39-13Marshall W 35-14Windom W 42-7Worthington W 44-23Section 3AA Tournament

St. James W 56-0Martin County West W 51-12Maple River W 23-7Class AA State Tournament

Chatfield L 6-32

Overall record: 10-2SWC record: 6-0

2013 JCC football results

Opponent Result ScoreSouthwestern United W 3-0St. James W 3-0Redwood Valley W 3-0Rochesster Mayo L 0-2Anoka W 2-0Eagan L 0-2Shakopee W 2-1Mankato East W 3-0Luverne W 3-0Mankato East W 2-1Westbrook-Walnut Grove W 2-0Cannon Falls W 2-1Minneota L 1-2Spirit Lake W 3-0Marshall L 0-3Fairmont W 3-0Blue Earth Area W 3-0Windom W 3-2Visitation W 2-1Edina L 1-2Sioux Falls Roosevelt L 1-2

Tri-City United W 2-1Hill-Murray L 0-2New Ulm W 3-0Worthington W 3-1Martin County West W 3-1Pipestone W 3-0Section 3AA Tournament

Fairmont W 3-0Pipestone W 3-0Marshall L 0-3

Overall record: 22-8SWC record: 5-1

2013 JCC volleyball results

Only one team won a setagainst the Marshall Ti-gers in the postseason thisseason. And it wasnt at thestate tournament or even in

the section finals.

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

Huskies top 20 wins for seventh straight seasonJCC volleyball teamhad season endto eventual statechampion Marshall

It was Jackson CountyCentral in the Section 3AAsub-section finals on Hal-loween.

The Tigers went onto sweep Morris Area/Chokia/Alberta in the sec-tion finals and sweep theirway through the state tour-nament.

Thats the way thingshave gone lately for theHuskies: put an excellentteam on the court, only tolose in the section tourna-ment to the eventual statechampions.

We were the team that

played them toughest inthe tournament, JCC headcoach Teresa VanEppssaid. So was our match thestate title match?

Marshall was the onlyteam to beat JCC in South-west Conference actionthis year as JCC went 5-1in the conference and 20-7in the regular season. Afteropening the section tourna-ment with two wins, JCClost to Marshall to finishthe season 22-8.

Seven of those lossescame in tournaments

both regular season and

postseason as JCC facedstiff competition at Lakev-ille North and Shakopeetournaments, as well as itsown tourney.

Those are the types oftournaments we need to goto to be successful. Play-ing those squads that pushyou to the limit helps youpush forward and to knowwhere you need to go,VanEpps said. We learnwhen were playing a teamand losing 25-20. We dontlearn when were winning25-2 or 25-5.

A balanced team helped

the Huskies all fall, butVanEpps credits her twoseniors, Kenna Bannisterand Shelby Benson, forleading the team.

Neither played a wholelot prior to this season, butboth put together fine finalseasons.

My two seniors, Imsure glad they stuck itout, VanEpps said. Imso proud of them and whatthey did in the offseason. I

think it says a ton for theircharacter; how many kidsdo you know their junioryear not see much of thecourt and then shine theirsenior year?

Bannister was second onthe team with 203 kills andher 161 digs were the third-most. She also had 37 aceserves and 27 set assists.

Kenna did a fabulousjob thi s year, VanEpps

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Kegan Moore follows a block from Matt Schmit after taking a handoff from Shadrach Wacker during a game thisseason. All three were all-Southwest Conference players this season.

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Sarah Brandt (2), Sydney Eddy (11), Kaylee Burmeister (3), Rachel Johnson (back right), Kathryn Nasby (middleright) and Sydney Nyborg (front right) celebrate a point for Jackson County Central this season.

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Heading into the season,the Jackson County Centralfootball team had plenty ofquestion marks after losingseveral key players from ateam that went to the state

tournament in 2012.The Huskies answered

all those questions withpassing grades as theymade it back-to-back sec-tion championships andthe first outright SouthwestConference championshipsince 2009.

I thought we had a greatyear, head coach TomSchuller said. Anytimeyou can get 10 victories,thats high-rent district.

Conference, section championships highlight seasonBack-to-back tripsto state tourney forJCC football team

That means you made it outof the section.

The Huskies went 7-1during the regular season,with their lone loss comingto Foley in the second gameof the year. Following thatloss, the Huskies ran thetable in the conference,outscoring opponents 220-65 in league games.

JCC took its six-gamewin streak into the playoffsand had little trouble in thefirst two section games,winning 56-0 and 51-12 to

move to the section finals.There, the Huskies

earned their second con-secutive trip to the statetournament by beatingMaple River 23-7.

JCC lost 32-6 to Chatfieldin the Class AA state quar-terfinals to have its seasonend with a 10-2 mark.

Getting out of the sec-tion is always a highlight,Schuller said.

Part of the reason for

JCCs success was a stronggroup of seniors and adominant line on both sidesof the ball.

The Huskies had 13 se-niors, with quite a few ofthem having playing ex-perience heading into thisseason.

They had a huge im-

pact, Schuller said. Thatwas a great class for us.They had a hand in win-ning 20 ball games the lasttwo years.

Two of those meaningfulseniors were Matt Schmitand Nolan Hohenstein, whowere in their third year onthe offensive and defen-

sive lines. The two, alongwith senior Chris Baker,brought experience to anoffensive line that pavedthe way for the Huskies torush for 3,284 yards thisfall.

Joining the three return-ers on the offensive linewere senior Zach Paulson

and sophomore MichaelMiller.

Those five, along withsenior tight end RyanBrighton and junior tightend Freeman Scott, madethings easy for a backfieldthat was fairly new.

Senior Shadrach Wack-


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Peter Nasby (left) and Jordan Cushman (above) run atmeets this season for Jackson County Central.

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Annika Lilleberg (left) and Jessica Christoffer run side-by-side during the Southwest Conference meet.

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Girls finally fieldfull team, boyscome on strong

Things are looking up forthe cross country teams atJackson County Central.

The girls fielded a fullteam all season after acouple seasons of not doingso and the boys finished theyear with arguably theirbest meet of the season.

Deep girls team does wellAfter two seasons with-

out a full team, the Huskieshad some depth on theirroster this season.

JCC started with a fullvarsity squad and got even

better with the addition of apair of eighth-graders mid-way through the season.

Through it all, freshmanAnnika Lilleberg and se-nior Sam Swift were teamleaders.

Swift was the fastest JCCgirl in the seasons firstmeet and then Lillebergtook over the lead spot thenext five meets.

Lilleberg had a timefaster than 17 minutesfour times this season andSwift was under 18 minutesseven times. Lillebergsbest time of the seasonwas 16:15 in Fairmont andSwifts best was 17:02 onthe same course.

Swift was voted theteams most dedicated run-

Cross country teams filled with improvementsner, an award head coachRafe York said she earnedbecause of her work ethicand great attitude. Lille-berg was the teams runnerof the year.

Freshman Jayni Ander-son was a scoring runnerin every meet for JCC thisseason, finishing as thesecond Husky once. Shehad a season-best time of16:58 in Fairmont and wasfaster than 18 minutes fivetimes.

Midway through the sea-son, eighth-graders Jes-sica Christoffer and MollyBoyum made the jumpfrom junior high to var-sity and immediately madetheir presence felt.

The girls were com-petitive all season and theranks were bolstered mid-way through the season

when the eighth-gradersmade the jump to varsity.It was an eclectic group,but they pulled together onrace days.

Christoffer was the fast-est Husky in the final twomeets of the season, includ-ing when she finished 15that the Southwest Confer-ence meet and 22ndat theSection 3A meet. She wasconsistent in her four var-sity races, with all of hertimes being between 16:23and 16:33.

Jessica was a nice sur-prise, York said. Shemade the jump from mid-dle school to varsity andcontinued to excel.

Boyum was JCCs fifthrunner in all four meetsshe ran in and she ran a

season-best time of 18:02twice.

Sophomore Jadin Bez-dicek had her score countin four meets and was un-der 19 minutes three times.Sophomore Elyse Johnsonbettered the 19-minutemark four times, with aseason-best time of 18:24in Fairmont.

Freshman Karli Cavnessran a season-best 18:03 inFairmont and exchangestudent Oda Kristensenhad a season-best time of

19:19 when she was JCCsfifth runner in Worthing-ton.

S ophom or e K ay le eRosenkranz ran in twovarsity meets for JCC andfreshman Rhilynn Luh-mann-Reyes ran in three.

The Huskies were fourthin the conference meet andplaced seventh in the sec-tion meet.

Just having a full teamwas something for the girlsto be proud of said first-year head coach York.

I think the returnersfrom previous seasonsprobably appreciated hav-ing a full team more thanI did, simply because Iwasnt here for the leaneryears, he said.

York said the team hopesto continue its upwardtrend.

The girls who are re-turning are looking for-ward to improving nextyear, he said. Theyreplanning to participate inour summer program and

to run some road racestogether next summer. Inaddition to the returningvarsity runners, we alsohave a full team of mid-dle-schoolers returning.Im excited for the girlsfuture.

Boys finish strongThe JCC boys had some

ups and downs throughoutthe season, but all sevenvarsity runners had eithertheir best or second-bestrace of the year at the sec-

tion meet.The boys had a bit of an

up and down season, Yorksaid. We finished last inthe conference, but pulledout a top-10 finish at thesection meet.

York said that meet wasthe highlight of the season.

Achieving the goal offinishing in the top-10 atthe section meet wouldhave to be the highlight,he said. It was nice to seeeverything come togetherin the final meet.

The Huskies were a se-nior-dominated team, withsix on the team.

Leading the way wasPeter Nasby, who was thefastest JCC runner in allseven meets he competedin. Nasbys fastest finishwas 18:24 at Fairmont andhe ran 18:27 in the finalrace of his career to place30that sections.

Senior Jeremiah Flat-gard was the fastest Hus-ky once and had his timecount in all eight meets.His best time was 19:13 atsections and he ran 19:30 atthe conference meet.

Although he never was ascoring runner for the Hus-

kies, senior Jack Ziemermade an impression inhis only season of crosscountry. Ziemer had a sea-son-best time of 28:16 atthe conference meet andtrimmed nearly four min-utes off his first meet ofthe season.

The Triple Threat ofPeter Nasby, JeremiahFlatgard and Jack Ziemerset the tone for the teamwith their combination ofwork ethic and goofiness,York said.

Senior Jordan Ringgen-berg was JCCs secondfinisher five times, withhis best time coming with

a 19:12 at the section meet.He also ran 19:41 at theconference meet, givingRinggenberg his two besttimes of the season in hisfinal two races.

Jordan Ringgenbergwas a steady presence whoseemed to get better everymeet, York said.

Junior Warren Darlingalso kept improving andwas JCCs four runner fivetimes and second finisheronce. In his first seasonof cross country, Darlinghad a season-best 19:48 inFairmont and was just two

seconds slower at sections.Senior Jordan Cushman

finished strong, postingby far his best time of theseason at the section meet.There, he ran 19:54 to place67th. His second-best timewas 20:18 in Worthingtonearly in the season.

At the section meet,Jordan Cushman displayedsome competitive fire thatI wasnt sure he had, Yorksaid.

Senior Bradley Gus-tafson was a scoring run-

ner twice and had season-best 20:37 at sections.

Bradley was one of thetrack kids I recruited andhe made an impact by be-ing in our top seven allseason, York said.

Junior Jack Ringkob wasa scoring runner twice andsophomore Matthew Ring-kob, sophomore JeremiahManwarren and freshmanWyatt Weier were scoringrunners once. Junior An-drew Torgerson also rantwo varsity meets for JCC.

York said the six seniorsstand out from this seasonand will be missed headinginto next year.

Losing six runners from

a team of 14 will obviouslyhave an impact from anumbers standpoint, butwell also miss their lead-ership and ability, he said.

The Huskies will have tofind capable replacementsif Yorks plans of buildinga quality program happen.

I want to keep build-ing the program, he said.This years team set thebaseline and now its timeto start advancing.

York gets helpYork said there were a

few things that made hisfirst season as head coacha success.

One was former headcoach Kerri Kocak comingback to help him.

I cant thank Kerri Ko-cak enough for comingout of retirement to bemy assistant, he said.The other was a supportivegroup of parents.

Our parents weregreat, he said. Workingat our meet, throwing pastaparties, getting their kidsto school for 6:30 practiceon the really hot days,supporting the kids at themeets; they were awe-some.


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For the second year ina row, the Jackson Coun-ty Central cheerleadingsquad got to cheer at thestate tournament. On thesideline for every JCC foot-ball game this season werethe cheerleaders, and thatwas no different during theHuskies run through theplayoffs.

In fact, the cheerleadersperformed during halftimeof the Class AA state tour-nament, with part of that

routine done in just a day.That was made possible

by a group of cheerleadersthat put in a lot of time allthroughout the season.

They work hard, headcoach Barb Tvinnereimsaid. They are never will-ing to settle for less thantheir best. Weve had prac-tice every day. Sometimeswe practice in the morning.They really do try to repre-sent JCC well on the field.

The team had a pair ofhardworking seniors inKassidy Timmer and JaydePrice leading the way.

Seniors are always im-portant, Tvinnereim said.I cant say enough about

Kassidy and Jayde andwhat they have done forour team. They are the gluethat keeps everything elsetogether.

Joining those two werejun iors Bai ley Schn eek-loth, Madison Cregeen,Kortney Porter and Mi-chaela Vancura; sopho-mores Kiana Nyborg, An-nie Gee, Makenna Donnelliand Aubry Salberg; andfreshmen Josie Horn andClair Smith.

Schneekloth and Porterwere both named all-statecheerleaders at the Min-nesota Cheer Off in St. Pauland helped the Huskies

win the Class A divisionand the time-out cheer.Along with their success

in the cheer off competi-tion, the team did a fine

job pumping up the crowdduring games.

I was very happy withhow the girls performedand cheered this year,Tvinnereim said. Theywere willing to work hardand get the job done whenneeded. Football cheer isabout the team and theyreally went above and be-yond to make the boys feelspecial.

With the football seasonover, several of the cheer-

JCC cheer squad has two named to all-state team

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

Huskies cheer atstate tourney forsecond straight year

leaders now turn theirfocus to the competitivecheerleading season.

Football cheer is animportant way to get thosegirls that havent cheereda lot ready for the competi-tive season, Tvinnereimsaid. They can work on

stunts, jumps, dance; what-ever is needed. Just gettingout in front of people isimportant; it makes themmore confident.

The Huskies hope thatseason is just as successfulas the one that just ended.

I always hate the end

of another season, but thisyears football team andcheer team have reallymade this season unforget-table, Tvinnereim said. Ifeel both have done an ex-cellent job of representingJCC and the hardworkingkids that go to school here.

Left: Annie Gee holds upa sign as she cheers onthe Huskies. Above: KianaNyborg sports a smileand whips her hair duringa cheer. Right: MadisonCregeen holds her poseat the top of a pyramidduring a halftime perfor-mance this season. Below:Bailey Schneekloth flashesa smile while cheering forJackson County Centralthis fall.


Jackson County Central cheerleaders strike a pose while cheering at a football game this season. Cheer team members are Bailey Schneekloth,Kortney Porter, Kassidy Timmer, Jayde Price, Madison Cregeen, Michaela Vancura, Kiana Nyborg, Annie Gee, Makenna Donnelli, AubrySalberg, Josie Horn and Clair Smith.

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Opponent Result ScoreNicollet L 0-57Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman L 16-52Fulda L 13-30Mt. Lake Area L 0-77Edgerton/Ellsworth L 6-64Hills-Beaver Creek L 0-56Westbrook-Walnut Grove L 6-50Renville County West L 22-41

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Despite going winlessthis season, there wereplenty of positives to takeaway from the Southwest-ern United football season.

For one, there was a solidgroup of players who kept

an encouraging attitudeand worked hard despitenot seeing that effort turninto wins.

We had a good group ofkids, co-head coach JeffDrent said. We had a goodcore group that showed upevery day with a positiveattitude and was willing towork hard and do whateverwe asked of them. I was re-ally happy with the kids.

Drent said one of thereasons for the absence ofsuccess was a lack of con-sistency for SWU.

When you dont win,youre not consistent, he

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said. We looked good attimes on offense, then wedget a penalty or make amental mistake. The samething on defense: wedhave a couple good seriesand then give up a bigplay.

The Wildcats shuffledsome people around and,at times, had some success.

We tried to mix somethings up and try differentthings, Drent said. Wecontinued to give a goodeffort, which is not alwayseasy when youre not win-ning.

Junior Dakotah Schmidand senior Skyler Sievertboth played some quarter-back, with Schmid leadingthe team with 374 passingyards and three touch-downs.

Schmid also led SWUwith 284 rushing yards anda pair of touchdowns.

Sievert had a team-high11 catches for 180 yards

and hauled in a touchdownpass. On defense, he hadtwo interceptions.

Christian Mariscal hadtwo fumble recoveries forthe Wildcats and HunterTimko had three sacks.

Schmid was named to theall-Southern ConfederacyConference and Sievertand junior Jordan Hall

were honorable-mentionpicks.

The Wildcats graduatejust three players, givingthe team hope for moresuccess next season.

There are a lot of kidsback, Drent said. Theyshould have a lot of expe-rience back and hopefullyget in the win column acouple times.

While the Wildcats re-turn plenty of players,Drent and co-head coachJason Fisher wont be backon the sideline.

The two have been to-gether the last 11 seasons with Drent coaching


Jake Getzel sheds off a tackler in a Southwestern United football game this season.

Jordan Hall gets some pointers from co-head coachJason Fisher on the sideline this season.

four more years prior tothat but are steppingdown.

We both have large fam-ilies, Drent said. We bothneed to have a little more

family time. Hopefullysomeday Ill be back at it.

Drent said former Wild-cat player and currentassistant Jared Bourquinwould be a good candidate

to take over as head coach,

but nothing has been de-cided yet.

Id like to see him takeit over, Drent said. Hedbe a good guy for it. Theyllget some young blood in

there, some new voices.

Increased numbers andsome runners returningwith experience helpedthe Southwestern Unitedcross country teams dowell this fall.

The SWU girls, in par-ticular, had team and indi-vidual success, while theWildcat boys saw someflashes individually.

Two to state for girlsEighth-graders Rachel

Salentiny and MaKaylaEdwards led the SWU girlsall season and both quali-fied for the state meet the first runners from theschool to do so since JuliePohlman in 2003.

Salentiny earned all-state honors by placing13th at the Class A statemeet with a time of 15:20.Edwards finished 35th in15:43.

Head coach Les Knut-son was surprised to seethe two running near the30thspot at the state meetand then was even moresurprised when he sawSalentiny keep moving up.

I said, Here comes Sal-entiny already, and thenEdwards wasnt far behindher, he said.

Salentinys time at stateis the fastest of any run-

ner in school history andher 13th-place finish trailsjust Jessica Zellars eighth-place finish in 1997.

More numbers, consistency means more success for WildcatsSalentiny, Edwardsrun at state meet

The two qualified forstate by placing well inthe section meet, whereSalentiny was eighth andEdwards 13th. Salentinyfinished third at the RedRock Conference meet

and Edwards was sixth asboth earned all-conferencehonors.

Eighth-grader BriannaPreston also had a consis-tent season, finishing 35that the section meet and 11that the conference meet.

Those three weresteady, Knutson said.They came back and gota lot better.

Eighth-grader Chey-enne Schaffer went out forcross country all seasonafter running the final fewmeets a season ago. Shewas SWUs fourth runner,finishing 58that the sectionmeet and 15that the confer-ence meet.

Seventh-grader JaylynLubben was 17 th at theconference meet and 94thatsections and eighth-graderVanessa Juarez was 23rdatthe RRC meet and 79th atsections.

The Wildcats got fifth inthe section meet, finish-ing just two points out offourth. They were secondat the RRC meet, missinga conference title by justtwo points.

Looking back, not win-ning the conference was alittle disappointing, Knut-son said. At the time, wewere happy. If we wouldvetied Mt. Lake, we wouldve

won the meet because wewouldve won the tiebreak-er.

Knutson leads SWU boysFreshman Logan Knut-

son had the best season ofany SWU boy, even thoughit ended a meet early. Knut-son, the son of SWUs headcoach, was really coming

on at the end of the seasonbefore an injury forced himout of the section meet.

He really ran well;much better than I fig-ured, Coach Knutson said.He started out the seasonwith some pretty goodruns in junior varsity. Thenwhen he moved to varsity,he really ran well.

Knutsons first few var-sity meets were solid, butthen he finished eighth inSt. James in 17:23, eighthin Fairmont in 17:59 andfifth at the conferencemeet to earn all-conferencehonors.

The injury preventedKnutson from an outsidechance at state.

He wouldve been alongshot, although the wayhe was improving, younever know, Coach Knut-son said. He had a goodindividual season.

Running for the Wildcatsat the section meet wereeighth-grader Brett Muel-ler (75th), eighth-graderBen Sheldahl (85th), sev-enth-grader Carlos Juarez(103rd), eighth-grader Ty-ler Brunk (112th), fresh-man Derek Rossow (113th),freshman Jacob Rossow(115th) and seventh-graderChristian Juarez (117th).It was the first varsity

meet for all but the Ros-sow twins.The Wildcats were last

in the meet, but that didnt

deter Coach Knutson.We got a team score,

which we didnt do lastyear, he said. Theresnowhere to go but up.

The Wildcats won thejun ior high mee t at theRRC meet, with Sheldahlfinishing first and Muellersecond.

Hope for continuedsuccess for the Wildcats

Coach Knutson said hethinks the SWU girls canmaintain their successand hopes with even morenumbers, the boys can fol-low suit.

I think these girls arereally cohesive, he said.They really like it. Theboys, its hard to say. We

need to get a few moreout.

But the coach likes wherethe program is headed.

I was real happy withthe whole deal, he said.We made improvementsnumber-wise over a yearago and made improve-


Rachel Salentiny (left) and MaKayla Edwards are the first cross country runnersfrom the school to qualify for state since 2003.

ments consistency-wise.We had better team successwith the girls and at leasthad a team with the boys.

Logan Knutson runs for the Wildcat boys this season.


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Opponent Result ScoreJackson County Central L 0-3Worthington W 3-0Edgerton W 3-0Waconia L 0-2Andover L 0-2Bloomington Jefferson W 2-0LeSueur-Henderson W 2-1Tracy-Milroy-Balaton L 1-2Pipestone W 3-0Southwest MN Christian W 3-1Hills-Beaver Creek W 3-0Mt. Lake Area W 3-0Fulda W 3-0LeSueur-Henderson T 1-1Blue Earth Area W 2-0Martin County West W 2-0Minnesota Valley Lutheran W 2-0New Richland-H-E-Geneva W 2-0

Adrian W 3-0Murray County Central W 3-2Harris-Lake Park W 3-0Red Rock Central W 3-1Westbrook-Walnut Grove W 3-1Cedar Mountain/Comfrey W 2-0Renville County West W 2-1Lac Qui Parle Valley W 2-0Central Minnesota Christian W 2-0Dawson-Boyd W 2-0Ellsworth W 3-0Section 3A Tournament

Westbrook-Walnut Grove W 3-1Murray County Central L 2-3

Overall record: 25-5-1RRC record: 10-0

2013 SWU volleyball results

HittingName Hits Kills Kill %Courtney Place 916 463 50.5Andrea Hinkeldey 460 162 35.2

Kailey Wendland 388 126 32.5Rachel Mathias 307 120 39.1SWU 2,312 943 40.8

ServingName Serves Errors Pct. AcesRachel Mathias 376 23 93.9 48Kailey Wendland 196 12 93.9 16Hailey Schumacher 236 15 93.6 17Courtney Place 302 20 93.4 28Autumn Hinkeldey 308 24 92.2 37Andrea Hinkeldey 353 47 86.7 33Kristin Liepold 72 10 86.1 11SWU 1,906 156 91.8 193

SettingName Sets Set assistsHailey Schumacher 1,532 710Andrea Hinkeldey 268 88SWU 1,931 827

Blocking

Name Solo Assists TotalCourtney Place 36 63 99Rachel Mathias 19 57 76Andrea Hinkeldey 16 55 71Hailey Schumacher 1 34 35Kailey Wendland 7 21 28Autumn Hinkeldey 2 15 17SWU 81 254 335

DigsName DigsKailey Wendland 239Autumn Hinkeldey 230Andrea Hinkeldey 209Courtney Place 204Hailey Schumacher 111Alisa Carlson 98SWU 1,178

2013 SWU volleyball stats

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Wildcats win Red Rock Conference championship


Andrea Hinkeldey makes a pass with her teammates watching during a Southwestern United volleyball match this season.

by DAN CONDON

Sports Editor

Kailey Wendland (from left), Courtney Place, Rachel Mathias, Autumn Hinkeldey,Andrea Hinkeldey and Hailey Schumacher celebrate after Southwestern United wonthe Red Rock Conference championship.

Led by an all-state per-former and six all-confer-ence players, the South-western United volleyballteam had one of the bestseasons in team history.

SWU went 25-5-2 on theseason and was a perfect10-0 to win the Red RockConference for the firsttime since 2009.

That was definitely amajor success, head coachChristine Malm said of

winning the conference.During the season, SWU

had a streak of 22 straightmatches without a loss (theWildcats had a tie in there),which continued into theplayoffs.

Included in the streakwere tournament titles atBlue Earth and the SubwayTournament in Marshall.

SWU volleyball teamhas sights set even

higher next season

That streak finally endedin the Section 3A tourna-ment when the Wildcatslost a five-set match to

Murray County Central. Inthe regular season, SWUbeat MCC in a five-setmatch to all but clinch theconference title.

I thoughtit was a goodseason, over-a l l , e v e nthough wedidnt makeit as far in thepostseason aswe wanted,Malm said.

The key tothe teamss t r i n g o fwins, Malm said, was adesire to go all-in for theteam.

They were playing to-gether, she said. Its hardto get all 16 girls togetheron the same page. When wewere having our winningstreak, we were all in it forthe same reason.

Leading the Wildcats thisseason was junior Court-ney Place, who was anall-conference performer

and named second-teamall-state for Class A.

Place had 463 kills onthe season, accounting for

nearly half of the Wild-cats 943 kills. The hard-hitting middle hitter alsohad a team-high 99 blocks,including 36 solo blocks.

Her 204digs werethird mosto n t h eteam andPlace add-ed 28 aceserves.

Alsoearningall-con-ferencehonors

were senior outside hitterAutumn Hinkeldey, ju-nior outside hitter Kailey

Wendland and sophomoreright-side hitter AndreaHinkeldey. Junior middlehitter Rachel Mathias andsophomore setter HaileySchumacher were honor-able-mention all-confer-ence.

Andrea Hinkeldey wassecond on the team with162 kills and dished out 88set assists. She added 209digs, 71 blocks and 33 aceserves.

Autumn Hinkeldey wassecond on the team with230 digs and added 37

ace serves, 26 kills and 28blocks.

Wendlands 126 killswere third on the teamand her 239 digs were ateam high. She also had 16ace serves and 28 blocks.

Mathias led the Wildcatswith 48 ace serves andpounded 120 kills thefourth most for SWU. Her76 blocks were second onthe team and Mathias alsohad 43 digs.

Schumacher dished out710 set assists as she set up

MY PHILOSOPHY IS

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EVEN BETTER YEAR

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Christine Malm

a powerful Wildcat attack.The sophomore also had16 kills, 17 ace serves, 111digs and 35 blocks.

Senior defensive spe-cialist Alisa Carlson had98 digs, senior defensivespecialist Sonja Peters had27 digs, junior right-sidehitter Sarah Schmid had13 kills and senior outsidehitter Kristin Liepold had16 kills, 13 digs and 11 aceserves.

Along with contributingon the court, Malm saidLiepold was the teams big-gest motivator.

Kristin was definitely

our cheer captain, shesaid. She had the teammotivated all the time.

With five girls named toall-conference teams re-turning next season, Malmsaid theres no reason tobelieve next year couldeven be better than thisseason.

I think the girls areready to make it a littlefurther next year, shesaid. My philosophy is toalways build on the yearbefore, so Im hoping foran even better year nextyear.


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Score by quarter 1 2 3 4 TotalJCC 90 142 87 65 384Opponent 46 39 34 46 165

Team statisticsCategory JCC OpponentTotal points 384 165Points per game 32.0 13.8Total offense 4,218 2,497Offensive yards per game 351.5 208.1Rushing yards 3,284 1,186Rush yards per game 273.7 98.8Yards per rush 6.1 3.3Passing yards 934 1,311Pass yards per game 77.7 109.3Pass attempts-completions 57-109 115-243Yards per completion 16.4 11.4Penalties-yards 89-706 49-356

2013 JCC football team stats

RushingName Yards Carries Avg. TDsKeegan Moore 1,377 181 7.6 20

Luke Norland 540 112 4.8 9Paden Moore 453 86 5.3 8Shadrach Wacker 296 67 4.4 5JCC 3,284 539 6.1 46

PassingName Att. Comp. Yards TDsShadrach Wacker 107 57 934 4JCC 109 57 934 4

ReceivingName Catches Yards Avg. TDsDarnell Taylor-Breck 28 535 19.1 3Ryan Brighton 11 194 17.6 1Keegan Moore 10 75 7.5 0JCC 57 934 16.4 4

Defense/Special TeamsName INT FR TDs SafetyRyan Salzwedel 5 0 2 0Mitchell Macek 2 1 0 0Shadrach Wacker 2 1 0 0

Brady Place 2 0 0 0JCC 12 7 2 2

ScoringName TDs FG/XP 2 pt. PointsKeegan Moore 20 3 126Luke Norland 9 1 56Paden Moore 8 1 50Marek Bingel 41/3 50Shadrach Wacker 5 30Darnell Taylor-Breck 3 18Ryan Salzwedel 3 18Caleb Will 2 12Ryan Brighton 1 1 8Demonte Thomas 1 6Zach Holm 1 6Team 2 safeties 4JCC 53 41/3 6 384

2013 JCC football individual stats

Kills/BlocksName Kills Ace blocksKaylee Burmeister 302 13.5Kenna Bannister 203 14Abby Benson 168 56

Sydney Eddy 119 34Sarah Brandt 88 21.5Sydney Nyborg 69 17Alison Benson 42 15Rachel Johnson 29 11JCC 1,042 182

ServingName Serves Errors Pct. AcesShelby Benson 217 9 95.8 30Rachel Johnson 274 12 95.6 40Kathryn Nasby 370 17 95.4 40Sydney Nyborg 171 11 93.5 11Abby Brinkman 62 5 91.9 5Abby Benson 89 10 88.7 11Kaylee Burmeister 237 30 87.3 37Megan Edlin 57 10 82.4 10Kenna Bannister 107 20 81.3 8JCC 1,505 134 91.8 208

Sets/DigsName Set assists Digs

Rachel Johnson 625 135Shelby Benson 195 69Kathryn Nasby 43 390Kaylee Burmeister 27 217Kenna Bannister 15 161Sydney Nyborg 12 89Lacey Wacker 26 2Sarah Brandt 14 24Sydney Eddy 19 16Abby Benson 5 27Abby Brinkman 3 27Alison Benson 15 12JCC 999 1,171

2013 JCC volleyball stats

said. What a great senioryear. She developed somedifferent shots and wasntafraid to use them. Shewas a great senior leaderfor us.

Benson led the Huskieswith a 95.8 serving per-centage and had 30 aceserves. She also had 195 setassists and 69 digs.

Shelby had such a greatattitude and determina-tion to be on the court,

VanEpps said.The Huskies had three

juniors earn all-conferencehonors, including two whowere recognized by thestate.

Kaylee Burmeister wasnamed first-team all-statefor Class AA and KathrynNasby was honorable men-tion.

Burmeister led JCC with302 kills and was secondwith 217 digs. She also had13.5 ace blocks and 37 aceserves.

Nasby, JCCs libero, hada team-leading 390 digsand tied for the team leadwith 40 ace serves. Shealso served at 95.4 per-cent, missing just 17 of 370serves.

Setter Rachel Johnsonwas also all-conference

after dishing out 625 set as-sists. The junior routinelyput the ball on the moneyas JCC pounded 1,042 killsas a team this season. John-son also had 40 ace serves,135 digs, 29 kills and a 95.6serving percentage.

Freshman Abby Bensonemerged in her first yearon varsity, hammering 168

kills and recording a team-high 56 blocks as a middlehitter.

Older sister Alison Ben-son had 42 kills and 15blocks as a junior.

Junior Sydney Eddy had119 kills and 34 ace blocksand junior Sarah Brandthad 88 kills and 21.5 aceblocks. Sophomore SydneyNyborg had 69 kills, 89digs, 17 ace blocks and 21ace serves.

Junior Megan Edlin had10 ace serves, sophomoreAbby Brinkman had 27digs and five ace servesand freshman Lacey Wack-er had 26 set assists.

The girls were a joyto work with every day,VanEpps said. It was funcoming to the gym; thatswhat keeps you comingback for more when itsenjoyable to be there.VanEpps said it was toughnot having her daughter,

former three-year starterand all-state player Mi-chelle, in the gym this sea-son, but this group made itmuch easier.

Not having Michelle inthe gym, that was a littledifferent, she said. Beingable to come into the gymand work with those ladiesand their great attitudes,they made it easier not be-ing at Michelles games. Ahighlight of the season is

how hard they came in andworked every day. Therewasnt a day they didntcome in and work hard;and thats all 13 of them.

VanEpps said that hardwork is expected to con-tinue throughout the off-season.

Playing in the offsea-son, getting those touchesin the offseason, is hugefor our program, she said.The more touches you canget, the better youre going

JCC VB:JCC wins 22Continued from C1

to be. If a player doesntplay spring ball, they loseover 600,000 touches; thatshuge.

While the Huskies had

two valuable seniors thisyear, they return 11 play-ers from a team that won22 matches.

Weve got some greatyoung girls, VanEpps said.Im definitely looking for-ward to next year.

The Huskies return boththeir all-state performersand all three all-confer-ence players and bringback plenty of height.

Well have a tall squad,VanEpps said. There are

three 6-footers and a cou-ple 510 girls. Volleyballis a game of height in cer-tain aspects. Weve alsogot girls that are willing

to put in the time and ef-fort to become better de-fensive players and servereceivers. That, for me, isexciting.

And just knowing shehas 11 girls coming backwith varsity experience isa good feeling for VanEpps.

I had 13 girls on mysquad and 11 are return-ing, she said. Thatspromising for any coachwhen you have 11 letter-winners returning.


Kenna Bannister makes a pass for the Huskies.

Rachel Johnson dishes out one of her 625 set assists.

JCC FB:Back to stateContinued from C1

er was in his first yearas starting quarterbackand running backs KeeganMoore, Paden Moore andLuke Norland were allnew to their roles as work-

horses.Keegan Moore led theHuskies with 1,377 yardsrushing, which ranks fifthfor a single season in schoolhistory. His 20 touchdownruns are the third most fora season.

Moore, just a sopho-more, already has 21 ca-reer touchdowns (fifth fora career) and 1,450 careerrushing yards (10th for acareer).

Paden Moore has 17 ca-reer rushing touchdownsafter scoring eight thisseason. He rushed for 453yards his junior season.

Norland, a junior in hisfirst year out for football

since seventh grade, ranfor 540 yards and ninetouchdowns.

Wacker rushed for 296yards and five touchdownsand threw for another 934yards and four scores.

Three of those touchdownpasses went to senior Dar-nell Taylor-Breck, who had28 catches for 535 yards.Brighton caught the othertouchdown one of his 11catches for 194 yards.

The Huskies scored 53touchdowns this seasonand exchange studentMarek Bingel made theextra point after 41 of

them. The kicking special-ist missed just three extrapoints and made three fieldgoals this season.

Sophomore Ryan Salz-wedel led a new-look de-

fensive backfield with fiveinterceptions, two of whichwere returned for touch-downs.

Wacker and senior safetyMitchell Macek both in-tercepted two passes andrecovered a fumble. Seniorsafety Brady Place had apair of interceptions.

The Moore brotherswere joined in the line-backing core by juniorKyle Kapplinger. The trioplayed behind a line thatincluded Schmit, Hohen-stein, Brighton, senior Wy-att Livingston, senior Aus-tin Bell-Pixler and juniorBrandon Schmit.

As a unit, the Huskies

allowed just 208 yardsper game and limited op-ponents to just 98.8 yardsrushing a game.

Zach Holm did the bulkof the kick returning forthe Huskies, averaging21.5 yards on his 20 re-turns. One of those went fora touchdown in JCCs con-ference win over Marshall.

Keegan Moore wasnamed the offensive backof the year in the confer-ence and Matt Schmit wasthe defensive lineman ofthe year. Paden Moore wasthe co-defensive back ofthe year for the conference

and Schuller was namedthe conferences coach ofthe year.

Both Moores , MattS c hm it , Hohe ns t e in ,Brighton and Wacker werenamed to the first-teamall-conference team andMacek and Salzwedel werehonorable-mention selec-

tions.While several Huskies

earned year-end recogni-tion, Schuller said theyall deserve credit for theteams success.

Its more of a teamthing, he said. Everybodythat was on the team had animpact on the team.

The Huskies graduate 13players who had a big partin the teams two straighttrips to state, but Schullersaid his team knows whatit takes to replace a tough

group.We have to get back to

work, he said. We had agreat year in the weightroom; now we need an-other great offseason in theweight room.

The biggest change willcome on the offensive line,where four starters will

need to be replaced.Weve got to overhaul

almost the whole offensiveline, Schuller said.

But all three runningbacks return, as do severalothers with varsity experi-ence.

Weve got some peoplecoming back, Schullersaid. Fortunately, we havea lot of running backs re-turning, and that meansour linebackers are re-turning. We have a lot ofthings coming back, but

Mitchell Macek closes in on Maple Rivers Casey Deckerin the Section 3AA championship game.


Jackson County Central players check their armbands for the play call from head coach Tom Schuller.

the holes to fill will be bigones. Thats why you workhard in the offseason: to

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