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Kailey Klein continues to have a great year by leading the Horizon League in scoring at 19 points a game and helping her team to a 15-10 overall record and 9-5 in conference play.

She is in the running for the Player of the Year in the Horizon league as she has scored 33 points on three occasions this season and has been named Player of the Week twice.

But it’s Klein’s work in the classroom that she is also getting recognition, for now. The sophomore business major was been named as the U.S. Army Scholar Athlete of the Month.

Klein, who boasts a GPA of 3.40, was previously named the U.S. Army Scholar Athlete of the Week in November.

Klein will make a homecoming trip to Chicago this week when the Lady Vikings Cleveland State travel to face the University of Illinois-Chicago on Thursday. They’ll stay in town to face Loyola University two days later.

Track

Two Bureau County athletes have been on the fast track for Augustana College this winter in the collegiate indoor track season.

Junior Evan Holschbach of Princeton ran on the Vikings’ mile relay team that turned in the third fastest time (3:19.16) in NCAA Division III this year in Augie’s Leif Ericson Meet.

The Vikings won 15 events in the Leif Ericson, including the first-place effort by senior John Thompson of Ladd, who eclipsed the national qualifying standard in the pole vault for the second straight week at 15-5 3/4. He cleared 16-0 the week before. Mineral’s Wes Jackson went over the bar at 15-0 3/4.

The Augie tracksters, including juniors Jeff Scoma (hurdles), Alex Hartz (sprints), senior Laura Luloff (mid-distance) and sophomore Angela Baumgartner, all of Princeton, will run in today’s CCIW Indoor championships in Kenosha, Wis.

Other area athletes competing are St. Bede’s Andrew Foote, a sophomore for North Central College, and Princeton’s Scott Howard, a junior pole vaulter at Wisconsin-Platteville.

• Three Bureau County athletes competed for St. Ambrose Uni-versity. Freshman Lauren Gun-awan (Neponset/Bureau Valley High School) cleared 8-foot in the pole vault. Former Bureau Valley teammate Danny DeVenney, an SAU sophomore, competed in the weight throw (37-9 1/2), the shot put (35-5) and the 55-meter hurdles (8.95). Hall product Alex Flores (Ladd) was third in the 3000 meters (9:41.22).

Basketball

• Brooke Jensen (Tiskilwa) and Asbury College Eagles are hosting the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament in Wilmore, Ky. The freshman out of Princeton High School is averaging 4.7 points and 3.4 rebounds per game for the 12-15 Eagles.

• St. Bede grad Katie Carls of Spring Valley scored 17 points for Saint Francis University in a 74-68 loss on Feb. 19 to Robert Morris. The Saints tip off the Chicago-land Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament on Tuesday.

Football

• Former Princeton Tiger Bran-don Nyman, a junior at Illinois State, has walked on to the Red-birds football team during spring camp. He is playing strong safety.

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