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reporter@storml... on Tue, 03/18/2014 - 10:17am
Four Buena Vista pitchers combined to hold Nebraska Wesleyan to three hits while the offense scored in four of the final five innings and the Beavers went on to complete the three-game series sweep at Nebraska Wesleyan with a 6-0 win on Sunday.
Eight different players had at least one hit as BVU finished with 12. In the three games, the Beavers recorded 35 base hits.
Brandon Wessels registered a game-high three hits while also scoring twice and driving in one. Weston Foxx and Eric Gurbacki each followed with two hits with Foxx driving in two.
Newell-Fonda point guard Renee Maneman
was the premier player in the area this season.
She averaged 15.4 points, 5.6 assists,
4.5 steals and 5.0 rebounds a game.
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reporter@storml... on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 10:35am
BY JAMIE KNAPP
There are many criteria to judge basketball players on. Scoring, all-around play, leadership, winning. And while she didn’t score as many points as others, Renee Maneman possessed all of those traits.
She was the unquestioned leader of a team that personified winning and had the rare ability to make everyone around her better. It is for all of those reasons that the Newell-Fonda senior point guard is a repeat selection as The Times Player of the Year for 2014.
Her coach, Dick Jungers, measured Maneman’s impact on the Mustangs’ team this season.
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reporter@storml... on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 10:32am
N-F guard Maneman premier player in area
St. Mary’s Demers cited for third year in a row
You don’t make it to the state tournament without having great players. The one team who did this season had many of them.
Newell-Fonda rolled through the regular season with only two losses, won the Twin Lakes Conference title and collected a second consecutive runner-up finish at the state tournament.
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reporter@storml... on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 10:28am
Two players from conference champion Newell-Fonda headlined the list of selections to the Twin Lakes Conference girls basketball first team, it was released.
Seniors Renee Maneman and Claudia Larsen were chosen to the first team. They were joined by Jasmine Demers of Storm Lake St. Mary’s, Haley Birks and Michaela Graffunder of South Central Calhoun, Faith Troshynski and Elle Herzberg of Manson Northwest Webster, Elle Ruffridge and Hannah Stafford of Pocahontas Area, and Makayla Ernst of East Sac County.
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reporter@storml... on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 10:27am
The Iowa Newspaper Association announced its 2014 all-state girls basketball teams for Class 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A and three area players were selected.
Newell-Fonda seniors Renee Maneman and Claudia Larsen, and Storm Lake St. Mary’s senior Jasmine Demers were all voted to the Class 1A first team.
Maneman was chosen as a guard, Larsen as a forward and Demers as a utility player.
Alexis Conaway of MOC-Floyd Valley was named “Miss Basketball.” Conaway led her team to the Class 3A state championship as they defeated cross-town rival Unity Christian 63-57.
Newell-Fonda seniors Claudia Larsen and Taiyler Schrank
hoist the state runner-up trophy after last Friday’s
loss to Burlington Notre Dame in the championship game in Des Moines.
TIMES photos by JAMIE KNAPP
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reporter@storml... on Tue, 03/11/2014 - 9:52am
Burlington Notre Dame denies Newell-Fonda first-ever girls basketball title
Nikes rally from 12 down in third period to win, 57-54
BY JAMIE KNAPP
It was looking more and more like Newell-Fonda’s time to win a girls basketball state championship had finally arrived.
Newell-Fonda seniors Dillon Anderson, Gabe Podraza, Brady Bohe and
Dalton Anderson accept their state tournament trophy
after Monday’s game.
TIMES photos by JAMIE KNAPP
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reporter@storml... on Tue, 03/11/2014 - 9:48am
No. 1 seed Mustangs defeated by No. 8 seed West Lyon
N-F outscored 30-11 in fourth stanza of 72-57 loss
BY JAMIE KNAPP
Once West Lyon started getting stops on defense, the Wildcats were able to put their frustrations behind them and find a rhythm on offense.
Newell-Fonda’s Renee Maneman and Bedford’s Fallyn Beemer vie
for possession of the ball during the first half of their state
quarterfinal game on Monday in Des Moines.
TIMES photos by JAMIE KNAPP
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reporter@storml... on Thu, 03/06/2014 - 10:50am
Newell-Fonda beats Colo-Nesco 65-34 to advance to fifth state title game
Mustangs to play either Janesville or Burlington Notre Dame in state finals today
Newell-Fonda is blowing through the Class 1A girls state tournament like it’s nobody’s business. Actually, it’s the unfinished business that has the Mustangs playing like this.
Defense will at the forefront when No. 2 Newell-Fonda takes
on West Lyon in the first round of the state tournament on Monday.
TIMES photo by JAMIE KNAPP
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reporter@storml... on Thu, 03/06/2014 - 10:47am
No. 2 Newell-Fonda goes for unprecedented fifth state title at the boys tournament
Mustangs face West Lyon in Monday’s quarterfinal round
BY JAMIE KNAPP
Normally, the No. 8 seed would be a heavy underdog coming into a matchup against the No. 1 seed.
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reporter@storml... on Thu, 03/06/2014 - 10:43am
The Iowa Conference announced its 2013-14 basketball awards and Buena Vista landed a pair of all-conference performers, including the league’s Defensive Player of the Year.
Nick Wuebker was a second team all-IIAC selection and was also tabbed as the league’s Defensive Player of the Year. Wuebker ranked fourth in rebounding during IIAC play at 7.9 per game. In 14 conference games, he posted four double-doubles and grabbed a career-best 13 rebounds in a win at Simpson early in the year.
