Klein warms up to the cold climes of Alaska
Kailey Klein is proving to be just as hot in the coldest parts of the United States as she is in the lower 48 states.
Cleveland State’s hot-shot sophomore guard from little Cherry, Ill. matched a career-high 33 points for the Lady Vikings against Alaska Anchorage in the Great Alaska Shootout Tuesday night. She scored 27 points in the second half.
Still it wasn’t enough as CSU fell 80-72 in overtime.
Klein came back with 18 points and seven rebounds against a familiar opponent from home in CSU’s 82-61 win over Bradley University on Wednesday. She left for home named to the all-tournament team.
The Lady Vikings will return to action at home Monday against Ohio University.
• Katie Carls scored 11 points for the University of St. Francis in a 115-26 win over Indiana-Northwest on Nov. 16. The sophomore guard has started in all six games for the Saints (4-2), averaging 8.5 ppg.
• Princeton’s Brooke Jensen has started all eight games for Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky. The freshman center is averaging 7.8 points and 5.9 rebounds for the Eagles.
• LaMoille’s Bret Barkman and Jackie Monroe and Spring Valley’s Alyssa Smoode are hooping it up for Illinois Valley Central College this season. Barkman had 11 points in the Eagles’ loss to Spoon River on Tuesday.
Princeton’s Auystin Miller received a scholarship from IVCC, but is not playing.
Football
Harper College freshman quarterback Garrett Barnas of Walnut went out with a bang, setting Graphic Edge Bowl game and school records in a season-ending 24-22 loss to Iowa Central on Nov. 18 in the UNI Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The Hawks quarterback set records for completions (37), attempts (66) and passing yards (378) in a game.
Barnas threw for TD passes of 9 and 14 yards, finishing his freshmen season throwing for 2,899 yards in just seven games.
“He started off a little slow, but he is a performer,” Harper coach Dragan Teonic told the Daily Herald. “That’s a competitive son of a gun.”
• Barnas’ former Bureau Valley teammate, Preston Jones (Sheffield), a junior linebacker for Augustana College, was named to the Second Team CCIW all-conference.
Volleyball
Augustana sophomore volleyballer Angela Baumgartner of Princeton has been named to the ESPN — The Magazine Academic All-District team as selected by the College Sports Infor-mation Directors of America.
The sophomore biology major has a 3.90 grade point average. In order to be eligible for nomination, the individual student athlete has to be a starter or a significant contributor to her team and must carry a grade point average of at least 3.20 on a 4.00 scale. Augustana is in District Five and that consists of teams from Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Indiana.
Baumgartner played in 127 games and recorded 314 kills for a 2.47 average. She compiled a hitting percentage of .233 (314 kills with 120 errors and 832 total attempts). She was third on the team in kills-per-game average. She led Augustana in total blocks with an average of 0.82 per game (104 total blocks in 127 games). She had 19 digs, three service aces and one setting assist.
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