Third time isn’t charm for North

It wasn’t easy but East beat North for the third time this season, topping the Stars 71-66 in the substate semifinals on Friday night.  The Black Raiders will play either West or Abe Lincoln next week for the right to go to the state tourney.
It was a great basketball game.
The key moment was in the [...]

Heelan v. Dutch Moved

It’s official.  The 3A substate final between the Heelan Crusaders and the MOC-Floyd Valley Dutchmen has been moved.
Instead of Tuesday, March 3, the game will be played on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 pm.  The game will still be at the Tyson Events Center.
The game was moved to Wednesday because of the conflict with the [...]

Too much Cougill for Le Mars

Heelan Head Coach Tom Betz realized that the Le Mars Bulldogs did not have anybody that could handle Crusader Senior Brennan Cougill.  The future Iowa Hawkeye scored 31 points and forced 2 Bulldogs to foul out  and Heelan pulled away from Le Mars 74-56.  The win moves Heelan into a substate final against MOC-Floyd Valley.
Cougill [...]

Ceasar leads North to State

No upset on Tuesday night; Jalyssa Caesar made sure of that.
The senior nearly outscored the Titans as North cruised to a state tournament appearance, crushing #15 Lewis Central 69-33 in Mapleton, IA.
Ceasar had 31 points, scoring 15 baskets and simply dominated the basketball game.  Lewis Central tried several different things to stop North.  They tried [...]

Heelan rolls over Storm Lake

It was over before it started.
Heelan scored the game’s first 17 points and the Crusaders easily defeated Storm Lake 80-31 on Monday night in the first round of district action at the Pit.
Tanner Ferguson hit 4 three-pointers in the first half and led Heelan with 20 points.  Brennan Cougill was unstoppable in the paint, putting [...]

North Girls Advance

East Head Coach Dan Pomerenke was hoping his team would give North somewhat of a test in the regional semfinals on Saturday night.  They didn’t.
The second ranked Stars blew past the Black Raiders, scoring the game’s first 11 points and winning 71-32.
North (20-1) got a game high 21 points from Josee Jansen, who hit 4 [...]

East ends regular season with win

Things haven’t been extremely rosey this last week for the East boys’ basketball team but the Black Raiders did beat North on Friday night 72-65 at the East gym.
The Stars did a great defensive job against Jordan Gentry — for the first half, anyway.  Gentry erupted for 12 points in the third quarter and then [...]

Get ready for a lot of Hoops

Here’s our upcoming broadcast schedule for High School and College Basketball.  Nine games in nine days:
Friday, 2/20:  North @ East.  This is the regular season finale for both teams and could be a preview of the substate semifinals a week later.  The Black Raiders have stumbled a bit lately, losing to West last Saturday.  Nevertheless, [...]

Heelan wins rematch with East

In January, Heelan probably overlooked the Black Raiders before playing 4A #1 Marion Linn-Mar and stumbled into a loss against their arch-rival.  On Tuesday night despite losing 4 players to suspension, Heelan didn’t over look East this time.
The Crusaders overcame an early first quarter deficit to beat East 73-60 at the East Gym.  Brennan Cougill [...]

Its Cougill Time! Heelan beats North

After Heelan thumped North a month ago at the Pit, you knew the Stars would come to play in the rematch.  They certainly did but #2 Heelan survived a scare and won on Friday night 59-54.
Brennan Cougill was the difference for the Crusaders, scoring a game high 23 points, hitting key free throws down the [...]