MAB MONTHLY November 2011 FREE RegionRegion BasketballBasketball PreviewPreview OverOver 7070 PagesPages Featuring:Featuring: DunelandDuneland GreaterGreater SouthshoreSouthshore GreatGreat LakesLakes NorthwesternNorthwestern IndependentsIndependents NorthwestNorthwest CrossroadsCrossroads && PorterPorter CountyCounty GirlsGirls andand BoysBoys Previews!Previews! Also….TheAlso….The AllAll TimeTime GreatestGreatest TeamsTeams inin NWINWI History,History, ShannaShanna Crossley,Crossley, CrownCrown PointPoint SoccerSoccer andand More!More! www.midamericabroadcasting.com MAB MONTHLY Page 3 MAB ONLINE MAGAZINE MAB Staff family November is here, and believe it or not, we are have the fall sports season pretty much in the rear view at this point. Other than the Hank Kilander football tournament and the volleyball finals, fall sports have pretty Webmaster much concluded and now we are on to the winter. Broadcaster Thus, the focus of this month’s MAB Monthly. 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Staff Writer Sales Contact Information Phone: 219-973-7990 Website: www.midamericabroadcasting.com Also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and My Space MAB MONTHLY Page 4 Inside this issue: Shanna (Zolman) Crossley: A Legend On and Off the Court 6 All Time Greatest High School Basketball Teams in NWI 9 MAB Golf Guide 19 Indiana Top 25 Girls All Time Career Scoring Leaders 20 Indiana Top 25 Boys All Time Career Scoring Leaders 21 Vision Point Athletes of the Month 22 Editorial: The Demise of the Double Round Robin in the DAC 24 Duneland Conference Preview (Girls) 26 Duneland Conference Preview (Boys) 32 Greater Southshore Conference Preview (Girls) 38 Greater Southshore Conference Preview (Boys) 42 Great Lakes, Northwestern, EC & Bowman Preview (Girls) 46 Great Lakes, Northwestern, EC & Bowman Preview (Boys) 50 Conference Previews P. 6 P. 9 Begin P. 26 MAB MONTHLY Page 5 Inside this issue: Northwest Crossroads Conference Preview (Girls) 54 Northwest Crossroads Conference Preview (Boys) 58 Porter County Conference Preview (Girls) 62 Porter County Conference Preview (Boys) 66 MAB 2011-2012 High School Basketball Broadcast Schedule 70 Crown Point Wins First Boys Soccer Championship 72 369 Wins and Counting 75 State Champions Crowned 76 Did you Know? 76 MAB November Broadcast Schedule 77 2011-2012 Basketball Sectional Assignments 78 P. XX Broadcast Schedule P. CC MAB MONTHLY Page 6 Shanna (Zolman) Crossley: Legend on and Off the Court By Rich Sapper, MAB Monthly Staff Writer (reprinted from Indiana Basketball Magazine) In the annuals of high school sports history in Indiana, it seems that the most compelling stories always come from the small towns. Sure the big cities have their share of press and there seem to be more state champions and top tier athletes in and around Marion County than anywhere else in the state, but it is the small town stories that really capture the imagination. Wasn‟t the fact the Milan High School was David to Muncie Central‟s Goliath the reason why the story is still told to this day? MAB MONTHLY Page 7 Likewise, this story without the deep tournaments carried her scoring prowess has humble beginnings in runs that many of the other and especially her mastery of small town of Syracuse, Indi- players in the top ten did. the charity stripe to her game at the collegiate level. Her ana. Shanna (Zolman) Not only does she hold Crossley was born to Kem NCAA single season and ca- state records, but she still holds reer free throw shooting re- and Lynette Zolman and free throw shooting records at grew up on a steady diet of cords still stand as do a bevy the national level. Those marks of school scoring and shoot- commitment to her faith, of 70 consecutive free throws, family and the game of bas- ing records. Crossley, in fact, a 95.4% single season and th ketball that propelled her to is 9 all time in scoring for 93.5% career free throw shoot- the Lady Vols, a feat that the heights she has ing percentage will likely never achieved. On her website, would be magnificent in any be touched. It was this attention Division I program, but is her bio states that her first to detail and the fundamentals job was cutting lawns, but it especially impressive as a that make her one of the all- school with the history of was cutting through oppos- time greats. ing defenses where she made Tennessee. a name for herself. The outstanding per- It seemed a foregone formances on the court led her conclusion that Shanna Shanna made a name to become one of the most for herself as a scorer, but would play professional bas- heavily recruited players in the ketball after college, and observers of her career country and she landed would recall her as a true all the San Antonio Silver Stars to Tennessee playing for legen- would make that a reality by around player and consum- dary Coach Pat Summit. She mate team mate at Wawasee High School. It is scoring, Join us each week however that will always be for MAB Weekly associated with her high school career. It is likely that no one will ever break her Wednesdays from career scoring record of 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. 3,085 points. That total is 216 more than that of the player whose record she broke: Seeger‟s Stephanie MAB Weekly will White, and the closest recent bring you the best in high school, college and player, South professional sports talk, guests and more! Bend Washington‟s Skyler Diggins, missed the mark by 295 points. What may be Tune in each week on even more impressive, www.midamericabroadcasting.com and Shanna completed the task www.sportsjuice.com MAB MONTHLY Page 8 drafting her with the second WNBA players headed ball camps, through charity pick in the second round of the to Europe and played work and through the Fel- 2006 WNBA Draft. Crossley for Tarsus in Turkey. She re- lowship of Christian Ath- would play for the Silver Stars turned to the states and has letes. While her legacy on during the 2006, 2007 and missed the 2011 WNBA sea- the court is what gave her the 2009 season, sitting out 2008 son after tearing her ACL for platform, it is her legacy off with an injury. She averaged the second time in her career. it that will make the greatest 6.6, 9.2, and 5.0 points per As she rehabbed, she spent impact. game in those seasons primar- the season working with the ily as a bench player and con- marketing and broadcast side tinued to shoot well from the of the business for the Shock Editors note: This is a reprint of free throw line. She also par- and all reports are that she an article that Mid America ticipated in the 2007 and 2009 expects to return in 2012. Broadcasting’s Rich Sapper wrote for the 2011-2012 Indiana WNBA Playoffs with the Sil- Girls High School Basketball ver Stars. Regardless of whether she plays another minute of Magazine. To order your copy with previews of every team, visit In the 2010 off season, basketball the legacy of indianabasketballmagazine.com. she was traded to Crossley is forever cemented the Tulsa Shock where she be- in the lore of Indiana girl‟s came a part time starter, start- basketball. She uses this ing 16 of the 30 games she platform as a role model competed in for the team. The to give back to the com- 2010 season also saw her munity through various score 9.7 points per game. In community service or- the offseason, she like many ganizations, her basket- To order the 2011-2012 Magazine Visit Indiana Basketball Magazine online at www.indianabasketballmagazine.com MAB MONTHLY Page 9 The All-Time Greatest High School Basketball Teams In Northwest Indiana History by Hank Kilander, MAB Monthly Staff Writer 1)ECW 1971- (29-0) State Champs- (Coach John (Tennessee Tech) and Ryan Harding (Central Flor- Molodet) Hard to argue with their 95 plus per game ida) were also “Velt” standouts whose only loss was scoring average. They dominated from day one. All to Martinsville. five starters (Pete Trgovich (UCLA), Tim Stoddard (NCSTATE), Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman 4) ECW -1960 (28-2) -State Champs (Coach John (Louisville) , Darnell Adell (NC State) and Ruben Baratto)- The Senators rolled behind Bob Cantrell Bailey (Montana State) went D1. They survived (Michigan), Phil Dawkins (Purdue), Ron Divjak some scares in the tournament by West Side, Michi- (Michigan State), Darryl Williams (Indiana State) gan City and Clark.