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Volume 24 Issue No. 19 April 6 2017-2018

Charter members of the Minnesota High School Basketball Hall of Fame (including, in some cases, their representatives) were introduced at a Timberwolves game March 26. Your charter Hall of Famers By Bruce Strand Karvonen as a player and high school coach.

The inaugural class of the Minnesota High School Bas- Randy Breuer, 57, was mentioned as the U’s first great big ketball Hall of Fame was introduced to the Minnesota man. “Well, if you don’t count Kevin McHale or Mark Timberwolves crowd at halftime of the game against Olberding or guys like that,” he quipped. Memphis on March 26. Dean Verdoes, captain of the 1960 giant-killing Edgerton Earlier that afternoon, they were formally inducted, each team inducted as a group, spoke about the road to state, of them spinning anecdotes while interviewed by Dave which was much longer then (six games) than now, and Lee of WCCO, in a ceremony in the Courts at Mayo how he befriended a great Richfield athlete, Bill Davis, Clinic Center, near Target Center. whose team the Dutchmen beat at state, about which Da- vis would quip, years later, that it was a good thing Edg- Lindsay Whalen, for instance, recalled how her mom had erton won, because “otherwise no one would remember to bribe her with Burger King goodies to get her to attend us.” her first basketball camp; her first love had been hockey. It was a delightful couple of hours for the inductees, their Faith Johnson-Patterson joked about how her paths kept families, and other basketball lovers to view probably the crossing that of fellow inductee (and close friend) Janet Hall of Famers: continued on Page 2 Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 2 Inaugural BB Hall of Famers assembled Hall of Famers: continued from Page 1 most remarkable group of Minnesota prep basketball greats ever assembled.

Players inducted were Hutchinson’s Lind- sahy Whalen, a Gophers all-American, four-time WNBA champion with the Lynx and two-time Olympic gold medalist; Janet Karvonen, leader of three state champ teams at New York Mills and first Minnesotan to score 3,000 points; Khalid El-Amin, leader of not only Minneapolis North’s three-peat in the 1990’s and but also an NCAA champion with U Conn; Randy Breuer, 7-3 pil- lar of two Lake City state champions whose 1979 record of 113 state tourney points still stands, then a Gopher star and NBA player; Hibbing’s Kevin McHale, 6-10 Gophers and Boston Celtics luminary, named one the NBA’s top 50 players of the 20th century; Mark Olberding, a 6-8 prep legend with Melrose who went on to a 12-year pro career All 10 living members of Edgerton’s 1960 team, and the wid- in the ABA and NBA; Ron Johnson, 6-8 star ow of coach Rich Olson, attended the inductions, and posed of two New Prague state champs, the first afterward with their trophy. Front (from left):Jim Roos, Dar- 2,000-point scorer in state history, and later rell Kreun, Marlys Olson, Tom Warren, Larry Schoolmeester. a Gophers All-American; and Jim McIntyre, Back: Bob Dykstra, Bob Wiarda, Dean Veenhof, Dean Ver- legendary Minneapolis Henry 6-10 star of does, LeRoy Graphenteen, Daryl Stevens. Deceased are the 1940’s (43 points in one state tourney Rich Olson (coach), Jim Rath (assistant coach), Norm Mui- game) who became an outstanding Gopher lenburg, Darwin Fey, and Doug Vanderbeek (manager.) center. Bruce Strand, Minnesota Basketball News

Johnson and McIntyre are deceased. Also unable to attend All ten living members of the Edgerton team were on were McHale and Olberding, who sent representatives. hand, along with the widow of coach Richie Olson. Two players, both coaches, and the team manager are de- Coaches inducted were Bob McDonald, who had three ceased. (See photo caption). state champion teams with Chisholm and logged a state record 1,012 wins; Faith Johnson-Patterson, who had One of the four surviving member of the Grand Meadow eight state championship teams (five at Minneapolis teams was on hand to represent them: Beulah Ankeny, 98, North, three at DeLaSalle) and 14 state trips in a 17-year who lives in Stewartville. span; and Myron Glass, who took 15 Rochester Lourdes girls teams to state tournaments and was 8-for-8 in state Also inducted was Dorothy McIntyre of the Minnesota championship games. State High School League, brevered as the tireless pio- neer in establishing girls sports in the state after Title IX Two teams were inducted — the Edgerton 1960 squad was enacted in the early 1970’s. that went 27-0 and earned legendary status as the small- est school to ever win the one-class tournament, beating The new Hall of Fame has been in the works for seven Chisolm, Richfield and Austin; and the Grand Meadow years. Committee chairman is Joel Maturi, former Go- girls of 1929 to 1939, who assembled a 94-game winning phers athletic director. The Minnesota Timberwolves and streak in a bygone era of six-girl teams that was aban- Lynx are partners in the project. A permanent display at doned before World War II. Target Center is planned. The web site address is: mnhsbasketballhall.com. Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 3 Cut from high school team, Tucker wound up a college hoops captain By Bruce Strand rediscovered “how much fun basketball was, without the pressure” of trying to impress coaches. “I Don’t give up on your dream. But if you do get dis- became a normal high school student, and got my couraged, check out this story about a White Bear Lake first job, as usher at Marcus Theatre,” Tucker said. graduate. Jade Tucker’s number one passion, basketball, was snatched away from her during her senior year, four UW-Superior has won the UMAC basketball the last years ago. Or so it seemed at the time. “My senior year, three years although they lose right away in the NCAA- after tryouts, he told me that he had no III playoffs. In that setting, Tucker spot for me on the team,” Tucker said. worked her way up. Superior has a JV, ideal to break in. Her junior year, The six-foot post was one of two seniors she got into the varsity rotation, off the cut by coach Jeremy Post from a team bench, averaging 3.2 points. “My se- that would finish the year 25-4. “My nior year I was voted a captain,” she world collapsed,” Tucker says now. said. “Another girl had graduated early and I took her spot as a starter.” She pulled the basketball posters off the walls of he room, and stuffed all her The left-hander averaged 6.1 points memorabilia and trophies into a bag. “I and 4.5 rebounds, shooting 51 percent, didn’t want to see them any more.” She for a 23-5 team that was rotating 10 had played since elementary school. players, with games of 14, 11 and 13 “Not have basketball any more, I was points during wins in January. devastated. I missed it so much, especially not being around a team for the Zach Otto-Fisher, head coach this year first time.” after assisting Mulhern last year, re- Jade Tucker, UW-Superior gards Tucker as “the type of student And yet, Tucker stuck with it. And she UW-Superior photo athlete we tell recruits and parents recently wrapped up a very satisfying about. I wish we had 15 Jade’s to rep- college career as a captain on a good small-college team, resent our team and community.” He Wisconsin-Superior. “Every practice, every game, these praised her for organizing summer leagues, “picking last four years, have all been a bonus for me,” Tucker people up” on bad days, and regularly staying after said, reciting her stock answer when people mentioned practices to hone skills that needed work. to her this season that it must be hard knowing basketball will soon be over. Post, the White Bear Lake coach, says now, “I’m very happy for Jade. She is one of the best kids I have ever Tucker is grateful that UW-Superior coach Don Mul- coached. Some kids peak in ninth grade, and some don’t hern, whose attention she had attracted in AAU ball the come into their own until after high school.” Post said previous summer, stood by her. A couple days after the he had several scholarship athletes at the same position shock of being cut, she e-mailed Mulhern to tell him the that year, adding, “I told her not to give up on her dream news, adding that she would understand if he no lon- to play college basketball, because she absolutely was ger wanted to recruit her. Nothing doing, Mulhern re- good enough.” sponded. “I told her, Absolutely, yes, I still want to you to come,” Mulhern recounted. “I knew she was a good Majoring in Social Work, Tucker has a 3.7 GPA and has athlete with potential — and a good student.” Mulhern’s made Dean’s List each semester. She’s especially inter- instincts proved correct. “She is the epitome of the stu- ested in the reproductive justice field of social work, dent athlete,” said Mulhern, who coached Tucker three and hopes to be “working on policy and legislation.” years before moving to St. Catherine’s in St. Paul. She will don the cap and gown and walk with her class in May, and graduate in August. And when she fills out Mulhern urged Tucker to find a place to play. She job applications, she can, happily, list “captain of her joined the White Bear Lake intramural league and college basketball team” on her resume. Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 4 KDHL: Courtside at state since ’48 By Bruce Strand

For 71 consecutive years, there’s been one constant pres- ence at the state boys basketball tournament: KDHL Radio out of Faribault.

“KDHL went on the air in 1948 and broadcast the tournament, and we’ve done it ever since,” said Gordy Kosfeld, who was marking his own 30th anniver- sary calling games this year. “It’s been a tradition and I sure wasn’t going to be the one to Gordy Kosfeld (middle) and Roy Koenig of KDHL in Faribault followed break it.” the action of Russell-Tyler-Ruthton vs. Mayer Lutheran. Bruce Strand, Minnesota Basketball News Starting with that 1948 tourney, with Bemidji beating Hopkins 38-29 in the finals (about explained. So, unless it’s a team like Lakeville North, a decade before the tournament starting appearing on whose games they broadcast in Section 1AAAA, or TV) the Mighty 920 has called 161 boys championship Apple Valley, whom they see every year at state, the games and over 1,100 games overall. duo starts getting familiar with the teams at the opening tip-off. Occasionally KDHL has had a local team to cover: Faribault three times, Bethlehem Academy four times, There are questions Kosfeld is always asked, as a long- Waterville-Elysian-Morristown three times, and Ken- time chronicler of the state boys tournament. yon-Wanamingo twice. They called state final losses by Faribault in 1965 (Minnetonka), Bethlehem Academy Best team? “I’d have to say Minneapolis North, win- in 1993 (Maple River), and W-E-M in 2000 (Litchfield), ning those three in a row with Khalid El-Amin.” then finally called a local winner when Kenyon-Wana- mingo beat Hayfield in 2001. (They also had Owatonna Best play? “No question — when Blake Hoffarber made five times, but Owatonna had its own station then, now that shot from the seat of his pants,” Kosfeld said, refer- merged with KDHL.) ring to the Hopkins player who sent the 2005 state title game against Eastview to overtime with a last-second But even while broadcasting metro-area teams and the shot from almost flat on his back. Hopkins then won in little burgs from all corners of the state, KDHL always the O.T. “I remember that both the Hopkins and East- signed up plenty of sponsors, and the station is always view kids, when they came out for the overtime, were willing to slot eight hours to prep hoops for four days all grinning about it. That’s what you like to see.” every March. “You can’t do this without sponsors, of course,” said Kosfeld, who sells the ads. “I’ve had a lot (He’s not alone in this assessment; the Hoffarber shot of the same sponsors every year.” And it’s not just lo- won that year’s ESPY from ESPN as Play of the Year.) cal people listening in. KDHL goes “way out,” Kosfeld said, including the metro area and western Wisconsin. What about the ending of Class 4A game this year, he was asked, with Daniel Oturtu of Cretin-Derham Hall Kosfeld had a longtime broadcast partner, Mike Mor- dunking in the final second, off a alley-top pass, to beat rissey, who passed away in 2015. Joining Kosfeld at Apple Valley 79-78? “It was an incredible finish, wasn’t the mic the last five years has been Roy Koenig, for- it?” Kosfeld agreed. “I guess the better team won, and merly of the Owatonna station, who said it was “an what a play in the final seconds! It would definitely honor to join in the fun.” The duo switches off being rank up there, but Hoffarber’s shot from his fanny can’t the lead announcer. As for advance prep — well, they be beaten.” don’t do any. “I spend all my time selling ads,” Kosfeld Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 5

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Forty of the state’s outstanding senior Coaches: Todd Henrickson and boys will compete in the 36th annual assistant Tracy Hinsz, Barnesville Minnesota High School All-Star Bas- ketball Series, a coaches association Anthony Davis, Hopkins event, this weekend. Duoth Gach, Austin Owen King, Caledonia On Friday at St. Cloud State, the Blue Luke Martens, Apple Valley and Green teams will duel at 7 p.m., Beijan Newbern, Maranatha followed by Gold vs, Maroon at 8:45 Christian p.m. Daniel Oturu, Cretin-Derham Hall Mitchell Plombon, St. Cloud On Saturday at Macalester College Cathedral in St. Paul, Friday’s losing teams will Nathan Rund, Fergus Falls meet at 2 p.m., followed by the win- Noah Slagter, Willmar ners meeting at 3:45 p.m. Ethan Youso, Virginia A dunking exhibition will precede each of the games and a half-time 3 point BLUE ROSTER shooting contest will take place on both dates. Coaches: Mark Tuchscherer and ssis- Sy Chatman represents state tant: Matt Hoelz, Champlin Park Tickets at the door are $8 for adults and Class 4A champion Cretin- $6 for senior citizens and students (5 & Derham Hall. Damani Hayes, Mankato East under are free). Bruce Strand, MN Basketball News Michael Jones, Woodbury Marc Kjos, Lake City Selections were made from nomina- Trey Lance, Marshall tions provided by each athlete’s coach (must be a mem- Ryan Larson- Cretin-Derham Hall ber of the MBCA) and includes athletes who are avail- Jarvis Omersa, Orono able and have committed to participate in the event. Jake Phipps, Anoka Josiah Strong, Champlin Park Zach Theisen, Osseo MAROON ROSTER Odell Wilson, Minneapolis North Coaches: John Moore and assistant Michael Swann, GREEN ROSTER Benilde-St. Margaret’s Coaches: Tim Staloch and asssistant Casey Pack, Sy Chatman, Cretin-Derham Hall Maple Lake Joe Dunn, Benilde-St. Margaret’s Joe Hedstrom, Hopkins Justin Balcome, Alexandria Gabe Kalscheur, DeLaSalle Javonni Bickham, Minnehaha Academy Trever Kaiser, Dassel-Cokato Jarius Cook, Park Center Noah Kannegiesser, Hancock Quentin Hardrict, Columbia Heights Cody Landwehr, Sauk Rapids-Rice Tayler Johnson, Minneapolis North Anders Nelson, Edina Tyler Lewko, Lakeville North Nate Seelye, Grand Rapids Nolan Malo, Owatonna Brevyn Spann-Ford, St. Cloud Tech Michael Schaefer, St. Cloud Cathedral Eric Tiedman, Jordan Matt Todd, Monticello Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 7

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Forty of the state’s outstanding senior girls will compete in the 36th annual Minnesota High School All-Star Bas- ketball Series, a coaches association event, on Saturday.

Games at Carleton College in Northfield will be played at 1 and 3 p.m. Players will wear their high school uni- forms, divided into home and away.

Tickets good for both games will cost $10 per adult and $5 per student, with 12 and under free.

Parents of girls in grades K-4 are invited to a free youth clinic staged by the all-star players, Rebekkah Brunson and Lindsay Whalen of the Lynx, and the Timberwolves and Lynx Basketball Academy, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Carlton.

All-star team coaches are Kasey Krekling and Fred Kindschy of Hayfield, Bob Southworth and Bill Stuewe of St. Peter, Kris Hamling and Monica Beighley of Eastview’s Megan Walstad was guarded by Grand Rapids, and Molly Kasper and Bri Zabel of East- Hopkins’ Angie Hammond in the state finals. view. Both will play in all-star games. Bruce Strand, Minnesota Basketball News The following players were chosen, listed alphabeti- cally by team: Mayer Lutheran — Mya Chmielewski Byron — Ayoka Lee Minneapolis South — Morgan Hill Centennial — Sydney Stapleton Minnehaha Academy — Terra Rhoades Chicago Lakes — Carmen Backes Minnetonka — Megan Walker and Kayla Mershon Cromwell — Teana Hakamaki Moorhead — Sam Haiby Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton — Natalie Steichen Mountain Iron-Buhl — Mary Burke New London-Spicer — Shea Oman Eastview — Megan Walstad Northfield — Grace Touchette Fergus Falls — Katelyn Strand Norwood Young America Central — Bren Fox Goodhue — Sydney Lodermeier and Kali Grimm Grand Rapids — Heaven Hamling Orono — Maddie Loder Hayfield — Carrie Rutledge Princeton — Julia Bjurman Hopkins — Angie Hammond Red Wing — Tayzha Buck Hermantown — Taylor Vold Sartell-St. Stephen — Megan Sieben Hutchinson — MaKenzie Rensch Sauk Centre — Maesyn Thiesen and Kelsey Peschel Lac qui Parle Valley — Kelsea Lund Sauk Rapids-Rice — Bailey Becker Lakeville North — Taylor Brown Sleepy Eye — Madi Heiderscheidt Lyle-Pacelli — Kristi Fett Southwest MN Christian — Brooklyn De Kam Mahtomedi — Emma Grothaus Watertown-Mayer — Monika Czinano Maranatha Christian — Jaclyn Jarnot Wheaton — Emma Schmidt Maple Grove — Autumn Milnar Woodbury — Rachel Hakes Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 11 Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 12 Pacesetter Newsletter Minnesota Basketball News April 6 Page 13

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