Klein earns second weekly Horizon League honors
Kailey Klein has doubled her pleasure in the Horizon League Conference.
The Cleveland State sophomore guard has earned her second Horizon Player of the Week honors after recording her first career double double. Klein, aka the Cherry Comet, scored a game-high 30 points with 11 rebounds to lead Cleveland State to a 77-64 win over Youngstown State on Saturday in the Wolstein Center in Cleveland.
CSU coach Kate Peterson Abiad said, “Kailey found ways to get open today and really took another big step offensively. She has such a versatile game and is difficult to guard.”
The former Hall all-stater made 11 of 18 shots from the field, including 3 of 5 on three-pointers, and made 5 of 6 free throw attempts.
The preseason All-Horizon League pick is among the league leaders in nearly ever stat: second in scoring (17.9 ppg), third in free throw percentage (.840), sixth in offensive rebounds (2.2) and eighth in steals (1.89).
Klein earned her first Player of the Week honors on Dec. 31.
• Another former Hall Lady Devil in action is Vanessa Cruz. She’s a freshman guard for Lincolnland College in Springfield, where the Loggers are 15-7.
• Former St. Bede standout Katie Carls has started all 23 games for the Saints (12-11) of St. Francis University in Joliet. The sophomore point guard is averaging 3.5 assists and 8.3 points.
• Brooke Jensen, a 2007 Princeton High School graduate, has played in 17 of 18 games with seven starts, for Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky. The freshman forward is averaging 5.3 points and 4.4 rebounds for the Eagles (9-9).
Track
Two area athletes set school records in indoor track.
Freshman Lauren Guna-wan of Neponset, a Bureau Valley product, was one of three St. Ambrose Univer-sity vaulters to break the school record in the pole vault by jumping 8-10, bettering the old mark by four inches. The St. Ambrose trio took first place in the Illinois College Snowbird to lead the Bees to their first ever indoor track win over 10 other teams.
“We knew coming into the season it would just be a matter of time before Lauren was in the record books,” SAU coach Dan Tomlin said. “She hasn't jumped her highest yet. She keeps raising the bar and working on perfecting her vault, and will be looking at 10-feet pretty soon.”
Gunawan also was part of the fourth-place 4x400 relay that scored four points to put SAU over the top, edging 130 Greenville 130-127.
Augustana junior Evan Holschbach of Princeton set a school record in the 300 meters for Augustana College with a second-place 36.03 in the Vikings’ Midwest Invitational. Senior John Thompson of Ladd qualified for the NCAA Division III national meet in the pole vault with a second-place 15-5.
• Other area athletes competing for Augie are juniors Jeff Scoma (hurdles), Alex Hartz (sprints) and senior Laura Luloff (mid-distance) of Princeton and senior Wes Jackson (pole vault) of Mineral. Princeton’s Jordan Inskeep is a sophomore hurdler for North Central College in Naperville and Scott Howard is a junior vaulter at Wisconsin-Parkside. Geno Verucchi (St. Bede) is a freshman hurdler for Carthage College.
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