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MONDAY - FEBRUARY 8, 2010
12
CROOKSTON PLAYERS SCORE IN 73-48 WIN AT FRAZEE
The Frazee Hornets have won only one game this season and being at
home they jumped out to an early 6-3 lead, but from then on it was all
Crookston as the Pirates defeated Frazee 73-48 in a game between two teams
in Section 8AA at the Frazee High School gym.
Frazee got a couple quick baskets and took a 6-3 lead, but the Pirates,
particularly Tim Desrosier got things going with a 15-0 run in the next
five minutes and in all the Pirate run was 30-4 with Brandon Lyczewski,
Shane Chapman and Josh Baldock finding the range numerous times and
Chapman hitting three free throws on a foul. Frazee made it a little
closer at half-time, scoring two baskets in the last five seconds, but
Crookston still led 37-19 at the intermission. “Before the game
everything was about effort,” said Chapman, “our press wasn’t working
real good early, but during a time-out Coach Garmen got after us a bit
and that was when we started to take off.”
The second half started slowly as both teams had trouble scoring and
only scored six points between the two teams in the first three and a
half minutes, but Baldock scored three baskets in a 35 second span and
Crookston was back on top 49-23 with 12:30 left in the game and the
Pirates biggest lead of the game. Frazee proved to still have some fight
in them as the Nuggets scored the next six points to get within 20, but
Crookston answered with some terrific passing and Papou Maiga finished
it off with a lay up. The rest of the game the Pirates substituted
freely, getting everybody into the game five at a time and had 12
players in the scoring column and a couple Chris Larson and Matt Bjorgo
scoring their first varsity points of the season and even though Frazee
scored the last eight points in the game, Crookston won 73-48 for their
second win in a row. “We weren’t moving the ball and struggling a bit to
start the game,” said Crookston head coach Greg Garmen, “we weren’t
being active. We tried some different things tonight and some of them
worked. We got into a little bit of a rhythm, which we have been
lacking.” Crookston played a number of players in the first half and
eventually everybody dressed played some good minutes. “Frazee has some
low numbers until next week sometime, so they aren’t playing JV, so our
freshmen were the preliminary game, so we had all the JV who could play
in the first half tonight and we put some in the first half as we
weren’t happy with some of the play of our players. Some of the JV
stepped in a knew what we were trying to do, while some others had some
problems.” Wins for the 9-9 Pirates have been slim in the last month of
play and now that they have won two in a row, “It feels great,” said
Chapman who had 11 points in the game, “we hope to get on another roll
now and pick up some wins.” Those sentiments were echoed by Coach Garmen,
“Anytime you win on the road it’s a good thing and I thought we handled
their 1-3-1 pretty good in the game.”
Crookston now takes the 9-9 mark to Stephen on Tuesday night to play the
Stephen-Argyle Storm who are 8-8 on the season. The game is a makeup
from earlier this year and was supposed to be played in Crookston, but
tomorrow night was about the only night available for both schools and
the coaches agreed to move it to Stephen and then next year the Storm
will come to Crookston. “It might work out all right with the
postponement,” said Garmen, “the first time we would have been without
William (Pankow, the 6’9 post) and of course everything the Storm does
goes through the big Borowicz (Matt) kid and we will have someone as
tall to defend.”
Crookston was led in scoring by their leading scorer on the season Josh
Baldock with 16 points while Chapman was also in double figures with 11
points.
Freshmen - Crookston defeated Frazee 55-26

Carter Denison with a jumper over a Frazee player
Shane Chapman looks to pass to a teammate
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|
1st HALF |
2nd HALF |
FINAL |
|
CROOKSTON |
37 | 36 | 73 |
|
Frazee |
19 | 29 | 48 |
|
For Crookston |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists/Steals |
|
Josh Baldock |
16 | 5 | 5 steals |
|
Shane Chapman |
11 | ||
|
Tim Desrosier |
9 | 3 | 4 assists/3 steals |
|
Brandon Lyczewski |
9 | ||
| Papou Maiga | 8 | ||
| Carter Denison | 5 | 3 | |
|
William Pankow |
4 | ||
|
Matt Bjorgo |
3 | ||
| Ben Curran | 2 | 4 assists | |
| Alex DeBoer | 2 | ||
| Chris Larson | 2 | ||
| Dan Mykleseth | 2 | 4 |
|
For Frazee |
Points |
| Matt Woodard | 16 |
| Daniel Janu | 9 |
| Storm Green | 5 |
| Matt Brower | 4 |
| Dylan Stender | 4 |
| Beau Hanson | 3 |
| Forrest Jackson | 3 |
| Logan Dahlgren | 2 |
| Cody Nordquist | 2 |
CROOKSTON GIRL’S HOCKEY SEEDED SECOND FOR SECTION 8A TOURNAMENT
The
Crookston Pirate Girl’s Hockey team received the second seed for the
Section 8A Tournament that will start on Thursday. The seeds went as
expected with Warroad, the number one ranked team in the state getting
the Section’s number one seed.
1. Warroad
2. Crookston
3. East Grand Forks
4. Thief River Falls
5. Park Rapids
6. Lake of the Woods
Thursday- February 11th - 1st Round
Lake of the Woods at East Grand Forks 7:00 PM
Park Rapids at Thief River Falls 7:00 PM
Monday - February 15th - Semi-Finals at Warroad
6:00 PM - Warroad vs winner of Park Rapids/TRF
8:15 PM - Crookston vs winner of EGF/LOW
Thursday - February 18th - Championship at Warroad
7:00 PM
UMC ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT TO HOLD TWO FAMILY FUN NIGHTS AT FRIDAY AND SATURDAYS BASKETBALL GAMES
The University of Minnesota, Crookston
athletic department announced today they will hold two family fun events during
the women’s and men’s basketball games on Friday, February 12 and Saturday,
February 13 against Minnesota Duluth and Bemidji State. On February 12, “Pink
Zone” Hawaiian Night will be the theme against the Bulldogs. Champions Forever
will amaze the crowd on February 13 when they perform their Spin-tacular
Basketball Show.
“Pink Zone Hawaiian Night”- Golden Eagle Fans are invited to wear
their favorite pink Hawaiian apparel and fill Lysaker Gymnasium. Participants
will be eligible for great prizes throughout the evening’s basketball games.
WBCA “Pink Zone” is an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in
women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. Game times are scheduled for
6:00 p.m. for the women and 8:00 p.m. for them men against Minnesota Duluth. For
more information on WBCA “Pink Zone” visit the WBCA website at http://www.wbca.org/pinkzone.asp.
Champions Forever- UMC-FCA and FCA Plus are excited to sponsor the
Crevier family and the Spin-tacular Basketball Show on Saturday, February 13 at
Lysaker Gymnasium. The performances will take place at halftime of the women’s
and men’s basketball games against Bemidji State University. Game times are
set for 6:00 pm and 8:00 p.m.
Are you ready to be inspired? Bruce Crevier is a "Four Time Guinness World
Record Holder" for basketball spinning and has traveled all over the world
performing and sharing a message of hope to this generation! You will be
motivated and inspired!! Bruce and Diane and their family of 12 children use
Basketballs, Unicycles, Music and Fun!! Bruce's programs are fit to audiences in
any age range in any setting! They invite you to be a part of this Spin-tacular
event! (Excerpt from the Champions-Forever website) For more information on the
Crevier family and the Spin-tacular Basketball Show, visit the Champions-Forever
website at http://www.champions-forever.com/.
“Bruce and his family are truly amazing performers. They have incredible
basketball skills and unbelievable talent,” says Natasha Kuhle, Assistant
Athletic Director/Senior Woman Administrator (SWA). “This will be one of the
most entertaining and inspirational nights of the year at the UMC Sports Center.
Bring the whole family out for a fun-filled night of basketball excitement and
fun.”
SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 6,
2010
CROOKSTON PIRATE WRESTLERS 3RD AT THE NORTHWEST INVITATIONAL MEET IN
FERTILE
The Crookston Pirate Wrestling team had two open weights and were
missing Ben Genereux, Javier Portillo and Mariano Portillo as the
seniors were taking their A.C.T. tests, but they had a Champion in
Anthony Caputo and four second place finishes to finish third in the
Northwest Invitational held in the Fertile-Beltrami Gym.
1. Badger-Greenbush-Middle River - 211
2. Thief River Falls-143.5
3. Crookston-126
4. Roseau-118
5. Mahnomen-Waubun-113
6. Park Rapids-101
7. Melrose-59.5
8. Fertile-Beltrami-54
9. Red Lake County Central-52
10. Warren-Alvarado-Oslo-20

Cody Weiland in control of his semi-final match. He won 8-2.
Wyatt Hanson close to a pin in his first match
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|
CROOKSTON |
Opponents/Results |
Place |
|
103 lbs |
Cody Weiland |
W - Darious Sikorski (Roseau) Pin :20 W - Ben BaumGartner (Park Rapids) 8-2 L - Isaac Novacek (B-G-MR) Pin 2:41 |
2nd |
|
112 lbs |
Nate Merten |
Bye W - Steven Henderson (Fertile-Beltrami) 5-1 L - Jacoby Bergeron (B-G-MR) Tech Fall 23-8 |
2nd |
|
119 lbs |
Wyatt Hanson |
W - Ben Welin (Warren-A-O) Pin 1:25 W - Jarek Ludwick (Roseau) Pin 3:16 L - Sam Twistol (TRF) 16-5 |
2nd |
|
125 lbs |
Cody Erickson |
L - Chaz Abrahamson (TRF) Pin 3:23 L - Skylar Price (B-G-MR) Pin 1:09 |
DNP |
|
130 lbs |
Open |
||
|
135 lbs |
Alex Dillabough |
L - Kyle LeDuc (TRF) Pin 1:13 Bye L - Diego Hernandez (Melrose) Pin 1:20 Bye |
5th |
|
140 lbs |
Blake Bergeron |
Bye L - Tanner Sovde (B-G-MR) 10-5 W - August Short (MW) 11-2 W - Braden Kruger (Roseau) Pin 3:41 |
3rd |
|
145 lbs |
Anthony Caputo |
Bye W - Hunter Lindberg (Fertile-Beltrami) Pin 1:38 W - John Krueger (Ros) 8-6 |
CHAMP |
|
152 lbs |
Blake Erickson |
L - Forrest Drury (Park Rapids) 10-2 L - Tyler Crabtree (Roseau) Pin 3:57 |
DNP |
|
160 lbs |
Cody Oslund |
L - Logan Alten (TRF) 5-1 L - John Westman (B-G-MR) 6-3 |
DNP |
|
171 lbs |
Josh Edlund |
L - Craig Williams (TRF) Pin 4:58 W - Keith Warren (Mah.- Wau.) Pin :56 W - Timm Ingle (BGMR) 9-1 L - Travis Larson (RLCC) L 8-1 |
4th |
|
189 lbs |
Justin Altepeter |
L - Tyler Johnson (RLCC) Pin @ 5:14 L - Keaton Laymon (Warren-A-O) Pin 3:29 |
DNP |
|
215 lbs |
Brody Davidson |
W - Ben Kucera (TRF) Pin :20 W - Colton Brown (Melrose) Pin 4:14 L - Cole Christianson (BGMR) 11-5 |
2nd |
|
285 lbs |
OPEN |

Nate Merten wraps up his opponent in his semi-final match
Brody Davidson turns his opponent onto his back right before a pin
HAWLEY GIRL'S BASKETBALL DEFENSE IS TO MUCH FOR THE PIRATES TO HANDLE IN
A 41-16 LOSS
The Hawley defense is much of the reason why the Nuggets are ranked #5
in the State and a 17-0 record coming into their game with Crookston at
Concordia College in Moorhead and the Crookston Pirates can attest to
the defense as Crookston was held scoreless for the first seven and a
half minutes of the game and Hawley wins the 18th game of the
season, 42-16 over Crookston.
It was all Nuggets in the first half and particularly Erica Amann who
scored 11 of the first 13 points for Hawley who led 13-0 before Ashleigh
Erdmann put a close in shot with 10:37 left in the first half. The
Pirates had won five of their last six games and mainly because of
defense, but the defense they seen tonight was at a higher level and
besides turning the ball over, Crookston couldn’t buy a basket when they
were able to set up an offense. Crookston was trailing 21-2 with 3:30
left in the first half and made a little push with a Kelsey Grunewald
three point shot and a Rachel Wold layup on a pretty give and go to make
it 23-7 at half time with the Nuggets in the lead. “We struggled early
with their defense,” said Crookston head coach Lon Boike, “we didn’t
find their shooters, particularly Amann and we didn’t box out, but after
the first five minutes I thought we played well defensively, but
couldn’t get anything going offensively. It would have been nice to get
it down to 10 or so at half-time and get some momentum going into the
second half, but that didn’t happen.”
Despite Crookston’s Rachel Wold scoring the first basket of the second
half, it was much like the first, but this time the big scorers for the
Nuggets during the season, Jessy Noreen and Amy Stoa doing the damage
and other then a couple back-to-back baskets by the Pirates Mackenzie
Sandstrom, the Nuggets were up 40-16 with four and a half minutes to go
in the game and only one more basket, by Hawley would be scored in that
time, while Hawley held Crookston in single digits in both halves and
Hawley wins easily 42-16 to go 18-0 on the season. “Hawley is a very
good ball club,” said Boike, “I’m disappointed we didn’t play better
offensively, but there were no easy shots, they had their hands up and
contested every shot. They showed why they are undefeated and ranked
fifth in the state and I think we would play better if we met them
again, which would be in the Section championship and that would be
good, but they were certainly better tonight, but our kids played
hard.” Crookston had only one starter score in the game as Rachel Wold
led the Pirates in scoring with seven points. Crookston falls to 10-9 on
the season and will host East Grand Forks on Tuesday night. Hawley is
18-0 and Amann was the only Nugget to score in double figures with 15.

Ashleigh Erdmann boxes out a Nugget player
Sara Bjerk fights for a loose ball
(Pictures by Dave Emanuel of
Wildfire Photography)
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|
1st HALF |
2nd HALF |
FINAL |
|
CROOKSTON |
7 | 9 | 16 |
|
Hawley |
23 | 19 | 42 |
|
For Crookston |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists/Steals |
|
Rachel Wold |
7 | ||
|
Mackenzie Sandstrom |
4 | ||
|
Kelsey Grunewald |
3 | ||
|
Ashleigh Ermann |
2 | ||
|
Lauren Graham |
0 | 4 |
|
For Hawley |
Points |
|
Erica Amann |
15 |
| Jessy Noreen | 9 |
| Allie Sannes | 5 |
| Amy Stoa | 4 |
| Katie Grefsrud | 3 |
| Roni Neumann | 2 |
| Allison Petermann | 2 |
| Drew Sannes | 2 |
UMC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CAN'T STOP HOT SHOOTING MUSTANGS IN A
93-67 LOSS IN MARSHALL
Southwest Minnesota State who had lost four straight games to the
University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC), but the Mustangs were hot from
the outside, scoring a season high 93 points in a 93-67 win over the
visiting Golden Eagles.
Southwest Minnesota State was hot to start off the contest, hitting
their first seven 3-point shots that blew open an early 12-10 Mustang
lead over UMC. The Golden Eagles were trailing by 20 at one time in the
first half, but baskets by Jamie Zelinsky (Jr-Park Center) and Laurie
Tyson (Fresh-Rosemount) did give a little spark toward the end of the
first half, but they still trailed 45-31 at half-time. The second half
was all Southwest Minnesota State, as they continued their hot shooting
from the outside and built up a 34 point lead with over seven minutes to
go in the game and cruising to a 93-67 win over the visiting Golden
Eagles.
Southwest Minnesota State’s 93 points were a season high as they
improved their record to 14-8 overall and 8-7 in the Northern Sun
Conference. UMC, who lost both conference games on the weekend are now
8-13 on the season and 6-9 in the conference and will host
Minnesota-Duluth and Bemidji State next Friday and Saturday.
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1st HALF |
2nd HALF |
FINAL |
|
|
UMC |
31 | 36 | 67 |
|
SW Mn State |
45 | 48 | 93 |
|
For UMC |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists/Steals |
| Jamie Zelinsky | 16 | 7 | 3 assists |
| Bri Zabel | 13 | 6 | 3 assists |
| Diana Taddy | 12 | 5 | |
| Gina Jaroszewski | 8 | ||
| Laurie Tyson | 5 | 5 | |
| Brittani Wiese | 5 | ||
| Treasure Clemons | 2 | ||
| Anastasia Molnar | 2 | ||
| Alisha Moritz | 2 | ||
| Kelsey Van Ackeren | 2 |
UMC MEN'S BASKETBALL SLOW START COSTLY IN LOSS AT SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE
Southwest Minnesota State scored the first seven points in the game, but UMC
with Dustin Rahja and Jason Servaty hitting three's and Trent Graves get a
basket in the blocks and the Golden Eagles trailed 11-8 with 14:41 left in the
first half. Southwest Minnesota State would then score seven more in a row
and then could do no wrong for the rest of the half claiming a 48-23 lead at
intermission. Neither team scored much with UMC shooting 31% for the game and
only three-three point baskets. UMC drops to 3-18 overall and 0-15 in the
Northern Sun Conference and will host Minnesota-Duluth and Bemidji State on
Friday and Saturday. Southwest Minnesota State is now 13-8 overall and 8-7 in
the conference.
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1st HALF |
2nd HALF |
FINAL |
|
|
UMC |
23 | 27 | 50 |
|
SW Mn State |
48 | 27 | 75 |
|
For UMC |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists/Steals |
| Adam Hendricks | 17 | 3 blocks | |
| Jason Servaty | 8 | 3 assists | |
| Darin Weeks | 8 | 14 | 3 assists |
| Matthew Heier | 7 | ||
| Mike Larsen | 3 | 3 | |
| Dustin Rahja | 3 | 4 | |
| Trent Graves | 2 | ||
| Broderick Schmidt | 2 |
GRAND FORKS KNIGHTRIDERS BOY'S SWIMMERS FINISH SEVENTH AT UND MEET
The Grand Forks KnightRiders finished in 7th Place in the University of
North Dakota High School Swimming Invitational. The Minot Magicians won
the eight school meet by nearly 100 points over runner up Mandan.
Grand Forks through a co-op with Crookston, has three Crookston
swimmers, Isaac and Luke Loegering and Jacob Lutz and the KnightRiders
are coached by Brent Newman "Today's
meet was our first opportunity of the season to swim hard two days in a
row. We had a little bit of a let off from last night's dual to today's
meet. It's not unexpected at this time of the year considering the
amount of training and stress the guys are enduring. Today was an
important learning experience for the guys to adjust to how things work
at state where you need to swim your fastest for prelims and then
finals, which occur over the course of two days. We had some quality
swims today but not necessarily faster times. We're confident that will
come around as we head into the final weeks of the season." FOR
ALL THE RESULTS,
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FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 5, 2010
CROOKSTON BOY'S BASKETBALL STOP FIVE GAME LOSING STREAK, BY BEATING
CLIMAX-FISHER
The Crookston Pirate Boys Basketball team desperately needed a win,
after losing nine of their previous ten games, coming into the game
Friday night against the Climax-Fisher Knights. Crookston jumped out to
an early lead and kept on adding to the lead the rest of the game in a
71-42 win at the Crookston High School Gymnasium. Climax-Fisher was
without their leading scorer, Kevin Michael, who injured his ankle
Thursday night in the Knights game against Mahnomen.
Crookston took advantage of the absence of the Knights leading scorer as
they used a various full court and half court defenses that forced the
Knights into many turnovers allowing Crookston to jump out to an 13-4
lead in the first three and a half minutes of the game. Climax-Fisher
settled down and went on a 6-0 run over the next 90 seconds to get
within a 13-10 deficit. When it looked like the Knights had settled
down, Crookston applied more defensive pressure and went on a 7-0 run
behind two points apiece by Josh Baldock, Carter Denison, Brandon
Lyczewski and a free throw by William Pankow. The Pirates continued to
slowly build on their lead over the final eight minutes of the half
including six straight Pirates points by 6’4 Junior guard, Tim Desrosier.
“Coach told me in practice to do what I do well and just drive to the
hoop and not to worry.” said Desrosier in a postgame interview on KROX
Radio, “I was feeling it and kept going to the basket.” Crookston took
their biggest lead of 15 points (34-19) into halftime. “We had a number
of kids that were aggressive, we had some nice post moves and played
pretty well.” Said Pirate Coach Greg Garmen, “We played aggressively,
had some nice post moves and we didn’t think about it, we just went and
played. We were happy with our play and wanted to keep it going into the
second half. After the month of January we had, I will be happy with
any lead we have at half time.”
The two teams played even in the first nine minutes of the second half
as they still had a 15 point lead (46-31). Once again the Pirates were
sparked by Desrosier who scored four quick points to spark a 13-2 run
over a four minute span. Dan Mykleseth, Papou Maiga, and Lyczewski
added two points a piece while Ben Curran added a three pointer in the
run. Coach Garmen went deeper to the bench and had solid performances
by Alex Deboer and Zach Cymbaluk who had five points apiece. “We had
some guys that played some extended minutes and everybody played pretty
well.” Said Garmen, “When we get good minutes from our players off the
bench that will mean good things for us.” Crookston coasted the rest
of the game to a 71-42 victory. 15 Pirates played with 11 of them
scoring in the game. “It was a relief to get this win.” Said Garmen,
“We needed this one and we need every win we can get for seeding
purposes. We need to get it going and try to move up in the standings.
It is good to get off the slide after the month of January.”
Crookston snaps a five game losing skid as they improve to 8-9 on the
year, while Climax-Fisher drops to 2-13.
J.V. – Crookston won 64-47
Freshman – Crookston 61-38

Tim Desrosier pulls up for 2 of his 12 points
Brandon Lyczewski lays in two of his six points
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1st HALF |
2nd HALF |
FINAL |
|
Climax-Fisher |
19 | 23 | 42 |
|
CROOKSTON |
34 | 37 | 71 |
|
For Crookston |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists/Steals |
|
Tim Desrosier |
12 | 6 | 2 assists/2 steals |
|
Josh Baldock |
11 | 3 assists/3 steals | |
|
Carter Denison |
6 | ||
|
Papou Maiga |
6 | 7 | |
| Brandon Lyczewski | 6 | ||
| Dan Mykleseth | 6 | ||
|
Ben Curran |
5 | 3 assists/2 steals | |
|
William Pankow |
5 | 3 blocks | |
| Zach Cymbaluk | 5 | ||
| Alex DeBoer | 5 | ||
| Shane Chapman | 2 |
|
For Climax-Fisher |
Points |
| Evan Carlson | 17 |
| Jacob Sylvester | 9 |
| Blake Pester | 6 |
| Dirk Tinham | 4 |
|
Cory Halvorson |
4 |
CROOKSTON PIRATE RALLY FOR A 2-2 TIE WITH SUPERIOR, WI.
Last night
it was the #6 team in Minnesota Class A that the Crookston Pirates faced and
beat 1-0 and tonight they scored the last two goals in the game to tie the #5
team in Wisconsin High School, the Superior Spartans.
Superior did not have a shot on net in the first period until 13 minutes had
expired, but their first shot resulted in a goal from the point on a power play
as the Spartans leading scorer Mitch Kontny shot through a lot of traffic was in
and the Spartans had one shot and led 1-0. The Pirates quickly took another
penalty and the Spartans struck again on only their second flurry of the game
and Kontny fed Kellen McCoshen with a pass in the right circle and he snapped
off a quick shot that beat Pirate goalie Nick Biermaier on another power play
goal and the Spartans had three shots on goal, two for two on the power play and
a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period. “Crookston came at us for a trap
forecheck that through us off a bit and we had to change things up right away,”
said Superior head coach Jason Kalin, “we got the power play working toward the
end of the period and had good puck movement during that time.” The Pirates were
coming off an emotional 1-0 win over rival Thief River Falls last night and the
coaching staff could tell, “When you play back to back and put everything on the
line like we did last night you know they were going to be tired,” said
Crookston head coach Jon Bittner talking about his squad, “It was a battle out
there and we spotted them those two goals.”
Crookston took the only two penalties of the second period and although they
staved off Superior’s power play this time, it did take away from the Pirate
offense and they had managed only two shots on goal for the first 10 minutes of
the period. The local lads seemed to get charged up late in the period when Mark
Bittner rang a shot from the point off the cross bar with just over two minutes
left in the period and a few seconds later, Crookston senior Alex Edevold was
given a pass about the Superior blue line and he skated in a few strides and let
a wrist shot go that was top shelf and Crookston was on the scoreboard with 1:51
to go in the period and even though they were out shot 9-6, Crookston had cut
Superior’s lead in half at 2-1 after two periods. “It was kind of a muckers
game,” said Jon Bittner, “it certainly didn’t have the flow like it did last
night in Thief River, where we expended a tremendous amount of energy.”
It didn’t take long for Crookston to tie it up when Mark Bittner could be heard
barking for a pass and teammate Nick Regeimbal put it right on the tape and
Bittner snapped off a shot that beat the Spartan goaltender to tie it 2-2
just 56 seconds into the third period. As it was the whole game, shots were at a
premium as the two teams had only eight total between them in the third period
and both goalies were stellar and sent it into overtime. Crookston’s Regeimbal
did ring another one off the cross bar as he leaned on a blast from the blue
line, but it was not to be and overtime was at hand.
Crookston had a power play just a minute into the extra frame and didn’t
materialize much as Superior kept everything to the outside. Crookston would be
whistled for a penalty with exactly two minutes left in the overtime, so the
Spartans played with the man advantage the rest of the way and they managed four
shots on goal in that two minute span, but Biermaier after giving up a couple
late first period power plays was solid the rest of the way and the teams
settled for a 2-2 tie. “Superior is a young team without a lot of seniors and
for us it turned into a mucking and grinding out and we had three more pipes
tonight,” said Bittner, “I was really pleased with the gutty effort of our
team.” Crookston is now 6-14-2 and has three games left of their regular season
and all Section 8A games starting at Park Rapids on Tuesday night. Superior is
ranked #5 in the State of Wisconsin and is 11-8 on the season. “We got a little
sloppy at times tonight,” said Superior head coach Kalin, “we were passing up
opportunities right in the middle and top of the circle and we didn’t work for
rebounds like we normally do, but give credit to Crookston too, they are a nice
team that works hard and it was a good hockey game.” Superior will now play
Jamestown (N.D.) at the Crookston Sports Center on Saturday afternoon at 3:00
PM.
JV - Superior beat Crookston 2-0 with Crookston’s Kollin Erdman having 55 saves
in the game.

Alex Edevold scores the first Pirate goal by with a shot in the upper right hand
corner of the net
(Picture by Dave Emanuel of Wildfire
Photography)
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | OT | FINAL | |
| Superior | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| CROOKSTON | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |

Mark Bittner skates across the red line past a Superior
player
(Picture by Dave Emanuel of
Wildfire Photography)
1st Period
13:03 - Superior - Mitch Kontny (Chris Bishop)
(PP)
15:23 - Superior - Kellen McCoshen (Mitch Kontny,
Chris Bishop) (PP)
2nd Period
15:09 - Crox - Alex Edevold (2) (Mark Bittner, Zach Mercil)
3rd Period
:56 - Crox - Mark Bittner (3) (Nick Regeimbal)
Overtime
No Scoring

Nick Biermaier deflects a shot with Alex Prudhomme (20) in front
| Saves | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | OT | Total |
| Joel Pettingill-Superior | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| Nick Biermaier-Crookston | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
UMC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL STARTS CONFERENCE WEEKEND WITH LOSS AT MANKATO
The University of Minnesota, Crookston Women’s Basketball team
continued Northern Sun play tonight as they traveled to Mankato, Minn.
to take on the Mavericks of Minnesota State. Golden Eagle Brittani Wiese
(G, 5-7, FR, Albertville, Minn.) dropped a season-high 22 points but
Minnesota State won each half by four points to take the victory 76-68.
The Golden Eagles were led by Wiese’s 22 points. She was 8 of 16 from the field, 4 of 6 from long range and 2 of 3 from the free-throw line. Jamie Zelinsky (G, 5-11, JR, Brooklyn Park, Minn.) added 15 points and earned a team-high seven assists, a game-high two blocked shots, and a game-high eight rebounds. Kelsey Van Ackeren (G, 5-9, SR, St. Cloud, Minn.) followed Zelinsky with 11 points while Bri Zabel (F, 6-0, JR, Northfield, Minn.) closed out the top Minnesota, Crookston scorers with 10 points. Minnesota State was led by Liz Trauger’s game-high 28 points. She was followed by Lauren Barber who scored a career-high 20 points.
The Golden Eagles fall to 8-12 overall, while the Mavericks, who were the coaches favorite to win the conference have struggled this year but improve to 12-9. Minnesota, Crookston returns to the court tomorrow to play Southwest Minnesota State University. Tip-off is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.
|
1st HALF |
2nd HALF |
FINAL |
|
|
UMC |
34 | 34 | 68 |
|
MSU-Mankato |
38 | 38 | 76 |
|
For UMC |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists/Steals |
| Brittani Wiese | 22 | 6 | |
| Jamie Zelinsky | 15 | 8 | 7 assists/2 steals |
| Bri Zabel | 10 | 5 | |
| Kelsey Van Ackeren | 11 | ||
| Gina Jaroszewski | 3 | 4 | |
| Diana Taddy | 2 | ||
| Laurie Tyson | 5 | 6 |
UMC MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAY THE FIFTH RATED TEAM IN THE NATION IN MANKATO
The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Men's Basketball team, 3-16 on the
season and 0-13 in the Northern Sun Conference will be challenged tonight when
they face the Mavericks of Minnesota State-Mankato, who are ranked #5 in NCAA
Division II and are sporting a 19-1 overall record and 12-1 in the conference.
Game time in Mankato is about 8:00 PM.
|
1st HALF |
2nd HALF |
FINAL |
|
|
UMC |
23 | 32 | 55 |
|
MS-Mankato |
53 | 52 | 105 |
|
For UMC |
Points |
Rebounds |
Assists/Steals |
| Matthew Heier | 15 | 4 | 2 steals |
| Adam Hendricks | 10 | 3 | |
| Jason Servaty | 9 | ||
| Damarius Cruz | 8 | ||
| Mike Larsen | 5 | ||
| Darin Weeks | 4 | 5 assists | |
| Trent Graves | 2 | 5 | |
| Arol Longar | 2 |
UMC CLUB HOCKEY SQUAD TAKES GAME ONE FROM MINNESOTA
STATE-MANKATO CLUB TEAM
The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Men's Club Hockey team
had four goals in the first period on their way to an 11-1 win over
visiting Minnesota State-Mankato Club Hockey team at the Crookston
Sports Center. The two teams complete the weekend series on
Saturday night at 7:00 PM.

UMC BASEBALL FALLS IN BOTH GAMES OF A DOUBLEHEADER AT THE METRODOME
AGAINST
BEMIDJI STATE
Despite having no outdoor practices, the University of Minnesota,
Crookston (UMC) baseball team opened up their season with a pair
of losses against Bemidji State in the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
It was also the first games of the season for Bemidji State who scored
in every inning but the first in game one and two Beaver pitchers
combined on a four hit shutout 7-0. In the second game Bemidji State
scored three times in the first inning, but the Golden Eagles came back
with four runs in the bottom of the first inning, three on a Devin Croal
(Soph-Coon Rapids) inside the park home run. Bemidji State tied
the game with a run in the fifth inning and then scored four times in
the top of the seventh to make the final 8-4. UMC starts off the
season 0-2 and neither are counted as Northern Sun Conference games and
UMC is off now until February 28th when they will play Northern State at
the Metrodome.
GAME #1
GAME #2
THURSDAY - FEBRUARY 4,
2010
REGEIMBAL’S GOAL IN LAST SECONDS LIFTS PIRATE BOY’S HOCKEY TO 1-0
WIN AT THIEF RIVER FALLS
The Crookston Pirates Boy’s Hockey team was coming off their most
crushing defeat of the season when they lost in overtime to East Grand
Forks on Saturday during the Grand Opening of the Crookston Sports
Center. That loss was quickly erased as Nick Regeimbal’s power play goal
with 23 seconds left in regulation turned out to be the only goal and
Nick Biermaier had a 30 save shutout as the Pirates upset the #6 ranked
Thief River Falls 1-0 in a Section 8A game at the Ralph Engelstad Arena.
The game started with much of the action in the Crookston end, as the
Prowlers took advantage of two Crookston back to back penalties, but
were turned away numerous times and it was Crookston that had the best
opportunity in the first period when freshman Connor Morgan was coming
in on a two on one and fired a shot from the left circle and beat All
State goalie, Zane Gothberg, but it rang off the pipe to remain
scoreless late in the first period and although outshot 10-3, the
Pirates and Thief River Falls were 0-0 going into the first
intermission. “It was a little déjà vu when Conner hit the pipe,” said
head coach Jon Bittner, “in the game in Crookston against TRF, Morgan (Terpstra)
hit a cross bar early in that game too, so you began to wonder a little
bit, but we didn’t say anything to the team after the first period. We
did some adjusting on the forecheck and it worked.”
The second period was much like the first with Thief River Falls near
doubling Crookston in shots and it was the first line center for the
Prowlers, Matt Lindquist who had a breakaway with about seven minutes
left in the period, but was stoned by Crookston senior goalie Biermaier
to keep it a scoreless tie and now Thief River Falls had outshot the
Pirates 21-9 through two periods. “It was a chess game out there,” said
Crookston head coach Jon Bittner, “there were moves and counter moves
going on and making adjustments and our kids picked up on it and helped
on our forecheck. We tried to get a player or players down to the net
and drag their forwards down too and it started to work a bit in the
second period.”
The first four minutes of the third period had both sides skating
shorthanded and at one time the Pirates had their top scorer, Morgan
Terpstra and stalwart defenseman Mark Bittner in the penalty box, but
again Biermaier came up with some more key saves. Crookston appeared to
get stronger in the third period, putting some quality shots and some
tantalizing opportunities, which included Pirate senior Micheal Awender
doing some good forechecking in the offensive zone and down tight
sliding a pass through the crease to fellow senior Jared Johnson who had
a wide open net and tried to go to the far side of Gothberg and missed
the net and a golden chance to get the first goal. Thief River Falls
would take a hooking penalty with 2:05 left in regulation and give
Crookston their second FULL power play of the game and the Pirates used
about all of it when the struck gold with the extra man, as defenseman
Alex Prudhomme was up in the play and found Regeimbal open with a pass
and ‘Reggie’ put a high shot over the glove of the Prowler goaltender
for the first goal of the game and just 23 seconds left in regulation.
“Alex Prudhomme was just walking across the point and he kind of fumbled
with it a little bit, but made a nice backhand saucer pass to me and I
got my head up and shot and with Morgan (Terpstra) causing havoc in
front causing some problems for Zane (Gothberg) and he couldn’t see and
it went in,” said Regeimbal. “It felt good as I probably had a hundred
chances tonight and didn’t score and I wanted to make sure on this one
that I had my head up and I saw an opening and just shot.” Prudhomme
actually was playing defense and wasn’t supposed to be where he was to
set up the winning goal. “Alex was actually not a forward on that power
play, but sometimes it’s hard to hold a stallion back and we thought he
would be better served on the backside with Mark Bittner, but he went up
and Ryan Bittner went back and ended up being a scoring opportunity. I
really didn’t see the goal, because I don’t have my glasses on and I
didn’t know if it was in or not and all of sudden everyone starts
cheering and then I came in cheering too, a little late, but it was a
good time.”
Crookston did out shoot Thief River Falls 12-9 in the third period, but
the Prowlers ended up have the shots advantage 31-20. “Thief River had a
lot of shots right away,” said Biermaier, “there was a lot of screening,
but my defense did a heck of a job of pulling out players in front and
clearing the puck and that is all you can ask as a goalie.” When did
Biermaier start feeling that something special could be happening
tonight? “With about six minutes left in the third period I was thinking
about a win. After Reggie scored the goal it just became hectic. You get
nervous and we get an icing call and they get a faceoff with 13 seconds
left in our end and I just prayed that Morgan ties the puck up in our
corner, which he did to run time off, which he did.”
Crookston was short of numbers for the game tonight as the Edevold
brothers, Alex and Ryan were unable to dress up for the game, as they
father Mark fell down a flight of stairs at a Pirate hockey parents
night on Wednesday and he was transferred quickly to a Fargo Hospital
last evening. The two Edevold sons accompanied their mother and sat
vigil with their father overnight and this morning until the danger sign
passed and Mark was going to be all right. The Crookston School District
has a policy that if a player does not have a pre-approved absence they
can’t participate in any extra-curricular event that night, so both Edevold’s had to sit tonight’s game. “This is for the Edevold’s,” said
Coach Bittner, “this is for Mark and Jackie and Alex and Ryan Edevold.
This is for them and all our fans back in Crookston, who have come out
to watch all the time and the big crowd last Saturday against East Side
and all players past too, this one is for all of you and we felt very
emotional about that.”
Crookston is 6-14-1 on the season and a huge win in the Section with
three Section games left, but first the Pirates will host Superior,
Wisconsin tomorrow night at the Crookston Sports Center. “This is
certainly a huge win for us,” said Biermaier, “beating Thief River
Falls, who we know is going to be at the top in the Section is a dream
come true actually. We decided that we have to kick it in gear if we
want to go anywhere.”
With the loss Thief River Falls drops to 14-6 on the year and will host
Lake of the Woods on Saturday afternoon.
JV - Thief River Falls won 6-0

Nick Regeimbal shoots past a TRF player
The Pirates swarm their goalie, Nick Biermaier after the win
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
FINAL |
|
|
CROOKSTON |
0 |
0 |
1 | 1 |
|
Thief River Falls |
0 |
0 |
0 | 0 |

Nick Biermaier makes one of his 30 saves on this break away shot
1st Period
No Scoring
2nd Period
No Scoring
3rd Period
16:37 - Crox - Nick Regeimbal (6) (Alex Prudhomme) PP
|
Saves |
1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total |
|
Nick Biermaier-Crookston |
10 | 11 | 9 | 30 |
|
Zane Gothberg-Thief River Falls |
3 | 6 | 11 | 20 |
CROOKSTON GIRL'S HOCKEY BEAT EAST GRAND FORKS 4-1 TO SECURE #2
SEED
In a battle of two of the top teams in Class A Girls Hockey, the #4
ranked Crookston Pirates beat the #8 ranked East Grand Forks (EGF)
Greenwave 4-1 at the Crookston Sports Center. The game was for the
second seed in the Section 8A Girls Hockey Playoffs, the second seed
will also get a first round bye.
In the first period the Pirates controlled the play for the first 10
minutes and at one point outshot EGF 6-2. Crookston had their best
opportunity with six minutes remaining when Shannon Kaiser received a
pass in front of the net and tried a one timer, but the Greenwave
goalie, Tamara Twite came up with a big save. The big save didn’t phase
Kaiser as she took a pass from Emily Meyer in front of the net and as
she was falling to her knees and slapped the puck past the goalie to
give the Pirates a 1-0 lead, which they would take into the first
intermission. “Sometimes when you get the prettiest shot at the net it
doesn’t go in and then you get a shot that isn’t as pretty and you get
the goal.” Said Pirate Coach Tim Persson, “Shannon has been due for some
of those as she has been working so darn hard and she stayed with it and
shot the puck and it went in. She can shoot the puck from her knees or
even off of one leg, she has the knack to do it.”
In the second period, Crookston scored early and often as Kaiser took a
pass from Meyer again and scored her second goal of the game to give
Crookston a 2-0 lead. Sophie Lien would add another goal 32 seconds
later as she was right in front of the net and slapped a shot past the
EGF goalie to give the Pirates a 3-0 lead. 33 seconds later Crookston’s
Meyer scored the third Pirate goal in a 79 second span to give the
Pirates a 4-0 lead. “That first line (of Kaiser, Meyer and Broekemeier)
have cycled the puck down low and somebody was in front and boom they
score.” said Persson, “Sophie Lien took advantage of a lucky bounce as
her shot bounced over the goalies stick and went in. She put the puck
on the net and made something happen.” Neither team scored in the final
13 minutes of the period as Crookston took a 4-0 lead into the second
intermission. “I thought we dominated the play in the first two
periods.” Said Persson, “I thought we took the play to them most of the
time and had more quality scoring chances than they did.”
In the third period the only goal came with under four minutes left in
the game when EGF’s Leah Jensen poke checked the puck away from a Pirate
and skated in on a break away and made a nice move to score the only
Greenwave goal of the game. “I thought Rachel (Biermaier) was going to
make the stop as she came out on her and looked to play it perfect.”
Said Persson, “She gave Leah about six inches and that is all Leah
needed to put the puck away.”
The Pirates would hold off the Greenwave in the final minutes and held
on to a 4-1 victory to seal the 2nd seed in the Section 8A
Girls Hockey playoffs and will receive a first round bye. “I am happy
with how the game played out as we played very well.” Said Persson, “I
thought the game was a pretty physical as we lost Kailey Biermaier in
the first period, we lost Leah Dufault and Mandie (Persson) in the
second period so we were down to two defenseman at one point. But we
will have time for a little rest.”
The Pirates improve to 16-8 on the year and will host Fargo South on
Tuesday, February 9. East Grand Forks drops to 13-9-1on the year.
J.V. – EGF won 5-2

Shannon Kaiser tries a one timer shot
on the EGF net
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
FINAL |
|
|
East Grand Forks |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
CROOKSTON |
1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |

Emily Meyer with a wrist shot as an EGF player tries to block the shot
1st Period
11:35 - Shannon Kaiser (29) (Emily Meyer)
2nd Period
3:10 - Shannon Kaiser (Emily Meyer, Jessica Broekemeier)
3:42 - Sophie Lien (1) (Brianna Breiland)
4:29 - Emily Meyer (11) (Jessica Broekemeier, Shannon Kaiser)
3rd Period
13:10 - Leah Jensen (unassisted) PP
|
Saves |
1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total |
|
Tamara Twite-East Grand Forks |
10 | 8 | 7 | 25 |
|
Rachel Biermaier-Crookston |
9 | 7 | 7 | 23 |
CROOKSTON WRESTLERS SHUTOUT EAST GRAND FORKS 79-0
The Crookston Pirate Wrestling
team improves their dual record to 11-2 on the season with a
whitewashing of East Grand Forks/Sacred Heart in a match held at the
Sacred Heart High School 79-0. "We certainly weren't trying to get a
shutout when it started," said Crookston head coach Chad Hitchen,
"things just worked out that way as the Green Wave forfeited five
matches and they didn't have much movement in their lineup and Gajeski
stayed at 135 pounds to face Mariano and we got a pin there, so it was
all in the matchups which favored us in the match."
Crookston does have a couple ineligible wrestlers, but a pleasant
surprise when Justin Altepeter, a senior wrestled his first varsity
match of the season at 189 pounds and he defeated Aaron Mehling by a pin
in the first period. "That was rewarding for Justin," said Hitchen, "he
weighed in at 191 pounds (wrestlers get a two pound allowance after the
new year) and he started the season at 217 pounds, so he has dropped 26
pounds and when someone sacrifices like that for the team, it's nice to
see him being rewarded with a win." Altepeter was in the same weight
area as Brody Davidson, so he was unable to wrestle at 215 pounds or
heavyweight, but after a season of cutting weight he get's into the
lineup and a spot that Crookston has had open numerous times during the
year. Crookston will now take a more inexperienced squad to the
Northwest Invitational in Fertile on Saturday, as three seniors, the
Portillo twins and Ben Genereux will be taking ACT tests on Saturday, so
the Pirates Jacob Egeland and Cody Erickson will get a chance in
the tournament and Crookston will be open at 130 pounds and heavyweight
for the tournament.
|
|
CROOKSTON-79 |
East Grand Forks-0 |
Results |
Winner |
|
103 lbs |
Cody Weiland |
Eddie Bushaw | 1:06 | Crox |
|
112 lbs |
Nate Merten |
Alex Vanyo | 17-1 TF | Crox |
|
119 lbs |
Wyatt Hanson |
Justice Steckman | 2:50 | Crox |
|
125 lbs |
Ben Genereux |
Alex Yanish | 14-5 | Crox |
|
130 lbs |
Javier Portillo |
Chase Harlow | 17-2 TF | Crox |
|
135 lbs |
Mariano Portillo |
Casey Gajeski | 2:42 | Crox |
|
140 lbs |
Blake Bergeron |
Open | Forfeit | Crox |
|
145 lbs |
Blake Erickson |
Open | Forfeit | Crox |
|
152 lbs |
Anthony Caputo |
Open | Forfeit | Crox |
|
160 lbs |
Cody Osland |
Brent Hagen | 1:46 | Crox |
|
171 lbs |
Josh Edlund |
Open | Forfeit | Crox |
|
189 lbs |
Justin Altepeter |
Aaron Mehling | 1:39 | Crox |
|
215 lbs |
Brody Davidson |
Brandon Thompson | 1:23 | Crox |
|
285 lbs |
Ethan Pilger |
Open | Forfeit | Crox |
GRAFTON SPOILERS HOLD OFF PIRATE GIRLS BASKETBALL RALLY FOR A 55-53 WIN
The Crookston Pirate Girls Basketball team got behind early and had to
play catch up the rest of the night and couldn’t get over the hump as
they lost to the Grafton Spoilers 55-53 in Grafton. There are a few
differences between Minnesota and North Dakota basketball. In North
Dakota there is a shot clock and they play four quarters instead of two
halves like Minnesota.
Grafton started the game by going on a 9-2 run and the Pirates would
battle back the rest of the first quarter as they outscored the Spoilers
11-7 the rest of the quarter to get back within a 16-13 score at the end
of the first quarter.
In the second quarter the Pirates would trail by ten points with a two
minutes left before they made a run and cut the deficit to four points
(31-27) at halftime. “The end of the half was kind of like BGMR,” said
Pirate Coach Lon Boike, “We were down by ten and cut it down to four
points and were feeling pretty good going into halftime.”
In the third quarter the Pirates were outscored 12-8 and trailed 43-35
going into the fourth quarter. Grafton would build an 11 point lead and
once again the pesky Pirates would battle back to get within five points
with a minute to go in the game. Grafton called a timeout and the
Pirates came out in a 1-3-1 half court trap and forced Grafton to use
their last time out. Crookston came out again in the half court trap
after the time out, forcing Grafton to throw the ball away. The Pirates
took advantage as Kristin Remick hit a three pointer to bring the
Pirates within a 55-53 score with less than 30 seconds left in the
game. Crookston’s defense came up big once again as a Pirate stole the
ball from a Spoiler, but missed the lay up that would have tied the
game. Crookston was forced to foul, sending a Grafton player to the
line to shoot two free throws (Crookston had ten fouls – giving Grafton
two shots in the double bonus) and the Spoiler missed both attempts and
Crookston grabbed the rebound and called a time out. The Pirates were
trying to get the ball into Lauren Graham (who had 21 points in the
game), but the ball was tipped out of bounds and Crookston inbounded the
ball and tried to get the ball back inside to Graham. The pass into
Graham was tipped around and the clock ran out and Grafton held on to a
55-53 victory over the visiting Pirates. “We were never able to take
the lead. They would take a big lead then we would get back to within
one or two points, then they would take a big lead again and we would
get back within a couple of points.” said Boike, “It wasn’t one of our
best games, but we worked extremely hard as the girls were exhausted
after the game. We gave ourselves a chance to win and did everything
the right way at the end of the game and again gave ourselves a chance
to win.”
Crookston falls to 10-8 on the year and will play the #5 ranked team in
Class AA Hawley at Concordia-Moorhead on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. Grafton
improves to 13-4 on the year and beat East Grand Forks 57-55 on January
22.
J.V. – Grafton won 50-45
Freshman – Grafton won 32-29

Lauren Graham goes up for 2 of her 21 points The Pirates
play tough defense late in the game
(Pictures by Dave Emanuel of
Wildfire Photography)
|
|
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
FINAL |
|
CROOKSTON |
13 | 14 | 8 | 18 | 53 |
|
Grafton |
16 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 55 |
| For Crookston | Points | Rebounds | Assists/Steals |
| Lauren Graham | 21 | 5 | 4 assists |
| Kristin Remick | 11 | ||
| Rachel Wold | 9 | 7 | 3 steals |
| Sara Bjerk | 6 | 3 assists | |
| Kellee Koenig | 4 | ||
| Mackenzie Sandstrom | 2 |
|
For Grafton |
Points |
| Asya Nelson | 15 |
|
Brooke Gaustad |
12 |
| Cassie Thompson | 9 |
| Samantha DeSautel | 8 |
| Alyson McMartin | 6 |
| Hanna Thompson | 5 |
WEDNESDAY - FEBRUARY 3,
2010
UMC FOOTBALL SIGNS 12 PLAYERS TO NATIONAL LETTERS OF INTENT ON SIGNING DAY
The University of Minnesota, Crookston Golden Eagle Football program
announced today that 12 players have signed a National Letter of Intent
to play for the Golden Eagles during the 2010 season. (At release
time)
This is the eighth recruiting class for Coach Stassen and his coaching
staff. “The University of Minnesota Crookston Football staff is very
pleased with the 2010 signing class,” says Head Coach Shannon Stassen.
“We have added many quality students to our roster and they are
excellent football players as well.” Stassen adds, “We are
thankful to the faculty and staff here at the University of Minnesota,
Crookston who are so instrumental to the recruiting process. Every
student that visits campus goes away feeling impressed by the extra
effort our faculty and staff gives to them.”
All signees are contingent upon admission to the University of Minnesota, Crookston and compliance with NCAA rules, including certification by the NCAA Eligibility Center.
Neiko Pascua OLB 5-11
200 lb Mandan, N.D.
Pascua is a 5-11, 200 lb, outside linebacker from Bismarck
High School in the Western Dakota Athletic Conference. He was an
All-Conference Honorable Mention selection. Pascua’s high school team
took state runner-up honors in 2007 and was North Dakota State Champions
in 2008 and 2009. Pascua plans to major in health sciences (pre
dentistry) at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of
Charles Pascua and Ericka Richardson.
Ryan Kitzhaber DL 6-3 250 lb Withee, Wis.
Kitzhaber is a 6-3, 250 lb, defensive lineman from Owen-Withee High
School in the Morgan Mueller Conference. He was recognized as a Second
Team All-Conference selection as a junior and a First Team
All-Conference selection as a senior. At the conclusion of his senior
season, Kitzhaber was honored as a First Team All-Region and All-State
Honorable Mention athlete. Kitzhaber plans to major in criminal justice
at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of Lisa
Kitzhaber.
Andrew Steinfeld RB 5-9 175 lb Green Bay, Wis.
Steinfeldt is a 5-9, 175 lb, runningback from Green Bay Southwest
High School in the Fox River Classic Conference. He was recognized as a
Second Team All-Conference linebacker in 2008 and runningback in 2009.
On the mat, he was recognized as a First
Evyn Johnson WR 5-10 150 lb Cavalier, N.D.
Johnson is a 5-10, 150 lb, wide receiver from Cavalier High School.
Johnson plans to major in health sciences at the University of
Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of Kelly and Jean Johnson.
Garrett Peterson OL 6-4 280 lb Marinette, Wis.
Peterson is a 6-4, 280 lb, offensive tackle from Marinette High
School of the Bay Conference. He was a three-year starter and earned
All-Conference Honorable Mention honors. Peterson also received his team’s
Ironman Award. Peterson plans to major in sport and recreation
management at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of
Scott Peterson and Jill Brissette.
Steven Perry DB 6-0 170 lb Poplar, Wis.
Perry is a 6-0, 170 lb, cornerback from Northwestern High School of
the Heart of the North Conference. He was a four-sport letter winner for
the Tigers earning letters in football, basketball, baseball and track
& field. Perry was a three-year starter in football earning
All-Conference honors as a cornerback. He was also All-Conference
Runner-Up as a quarterback and was a part of a team that reached the
state semi-finals. Perry plans to major in criminal justice – law
enforcement at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of
Don and Mary Perry.
Garrett Homb DL 6-5 220 lb Scales Mound, Ill.
Homb is a 6-5, 220 lb, defensive lineman from Scales Mound High
School. He played football in Wisconsin for Benton (Wis.)/Scales Mound
(Ill.) in the Six Rivers Conference. He was recognized as an Honorable
Mention player his sophomore season. As a junior, he was a First Team
All-Conference offensive player and a Second Team All-Conference
defensive player. Homb was a Telegraph Herald All-Area Second Team
member and a First Team All-Conference offensive and defensive player
following his senior season. In the classroom, Homb is a member of the
student council, Future Farmers of America and is class president. Homb
plans to major in agricultural business at the University of Minnesota,
Crookston. He is the son of Paul and Sherry Homb.
Hunter Carter DB 5-11 170 lb Lisbon, N.D.
Carter is a 5-11, 170 lb, defensive back from Lisbon High School in
East Region 1AA. He is a three-year football letterwinner. He was
selected as the Most Valuable Special Teams Player in 2008. In 2009, he
earned team captain and Hardest Worker honors and went on to be selected
as an All-Region football player. Carter is a four-year class vice
president at Lisbon High School. Carter plans to major in agricultural
systems management (farm and ranch management). He is the son of Brandi
Griffith and Scott Carter.
Shane Rasley WR 6-2 180 lb Deer River, Minn.
Rasley is a 6-2, 180 lb, wide receiver from Itasca Community College
of the Minnesota College Athletic Conference. He is a 2008 graduate of
Deer River High School of the Polar League North Division. Rasley was
named All-Conference Honorable Mention at both Itasca and Deer River.
Rasley plans to major in natural resources (wildlife management) at the
University of Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of Richard Danielson
and Angela Rasley.
Luke Williams QB 6-0 185 lb Port Moody, British Columbia
Williams is a 6-0, 185 lb, quarterback from Centennial Secondary
School in the Eastern Conference (B.C. High School Football League). As
a sophomore, he was named a top offensive player and team captain.
Williams was a co-captain and received the Top Player Award as a junior
and was a team captain and a Provincial Champion in his senior season.
Williams plans to major in sport and recreation management at the
University of Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of Louise and Jeff
Williams.
Ben Viaene LS/LB 6-1 180 lb Hortonville, Wis.
Viaene is a 6-1, 180 lb, long snapper/linebacker from Hortonville
High School of the Bay Conference. He was a four-year letterwinner in
football. Viaene plans to major in agricultural systems management at
the University of Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of David and Kelly
Viaene.
Jordan Ross FB 6-2 250 lb Coquitlam, British Columbia
Ross is a 6-2, 250 lb, fullback from Gleneagle Secondary School in
the AAA Eastern Division. He was awarded the Unsung Hero Award in 2007
and 2008 and the Outstanding Lineman Award in 2008-2009. Ross was named
a Provincial All-Star player following the 2008 and 2009 season. Ross
plans to major in criminal justice at the University of Minnesota,
Crookston. He is the son of Shannon Lloyd.
Institutional Letters of Intent
Brant Moore LB 6-0 195 lb Inver Grove Heights, Minn.
Moore is a 6-0, 195 lb, outside linebacker from Simley High School
in the Classic Suburban Conference. He was recognized as a team MVP and
an All-Conference Honorable Mention football player following his senior
season. Moore plans to major in business management at the University of
Minnesota, Crookston. He is the son of Melvin Moore and Robyn Yorker.
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