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The Lone Tree Reporter, Thursday, March 3, 2005 SPORTS P00g,7 Lady Lions end season in [Splinters Regional Semi-Finals From the Bench So, the Lone Tree girls' sea- By Coach Tom Dickey Contributing Writer The Lone Tree Lady Lion basketball team, after starting the season with a 2-6 record, ended the season on a 11-5 run with a district championship and a trip to the regional semi- finals vs. Ft. Madison Aquinas. Unfortunately, the Lady Lions met Ft. Madison on their best offensive night of the sea- son and lost 64-53. Aquinas shot 54% from the field and had 3 girls in double figures for the first time all season. The Lady Lions got off to a slow start, getting behind 20-9 before closing the gap to five points. Aquinas stretched the lead t o 12 points, at halftime. Twice in the second half Lone Tree was able to cut the lead to 7 points but just couldn't get the critical shot to fall and gain the much needed momen- tum. The Lady Lions were led by their leading scorers all season; Kylie Ronan with 21 and Amy Smith with 20. Amy also gar- nered 15 rebounds to end her brilliant career. Amy ended her career with 1,113 points and 543 rebounds. Amy was named unanimous first-team all-con- ference for the second consecu- tive season. Amy is a great talent that played a big part in our success over the last three years. Dur- ing the last three seasons, teams Amy played on finished 3rd and 1st in the conference and won a district title. Amy will go down as one of the best players to ever wear a Lady Lion uniform. Kyli¢ Ronan again had anoth- er stellar season. Kylie was able to break the 1,000 pt. barri- er for her career and is on pace to shatter our all-time scoring record currently held by for- mer 1st team all-stater Megan Ripperton. Kylie was also named unani- mous first team all-conference for the second consecutive sea- son. Kylie-was also named IGCA first team all-district for the second consecutive season. Kylie will be the lone senior next year leading her young teammates into what should be another exciting season for the Lady Lion basketball team. Also receiving all-conference honorable mention were sopho- mores Brittany Danielson and Danielle Forbes. Coach Johnson and I are very proud of the improvement our young team made over the course of the season. We lost a lot of close games throughout the season. Out of our 11 losses 9 were by 11 points or less. Despite the losses, we always felt that we would be a tough tournament team at the end of the season. We certainly represented ourselves well in the tourna- ment. Next year with our returning experience and another good class of freshmen coming in, we expect to have very good freshman/ sopho- more and varsity squads. The players and coaches all will have to work very hard during this next offseason if we hope to go beyond the regionat semi- finals next year. The Lady Lion players and coaches would like to thank the parents, fellow students, and the people of Lone Tree for their great support throughout the season. Come back next year and watch a very exciting and athletic Lady Lion basket- ball team. We can't wait until next sea- son! The Lady Lions ended with a 13-11 overall record and were 7- 7 in the SEISC North Division. Little Lion Wrestlers roar at tourney on home turf By Nancy Viner Contributing Writer On Sunday, February 20th, 23 Little Lions got to show off their stuff for the home crowd during their annual wrestling tourney. There were 226 wrestlers and thanks to the many wonderful volunteers, things moved pret-: ty efficiently from start to tim- ish. The Little Lions had 5 cham- pions, 5 second place, 10 third, and 5 fourth place finishes. Champions were Jake Viner (lst grade), Travis Gillham (2nd grade), Keaton Kane (3rd grade), Ty Robertson (3rd grade), and Austin Ronan (6th grade). Second place finishers were Michael Schmidt (Kinder- garten), Niko Gosnell (Kinder- garten), Alex Yedlik (2nd grade), Taylor Tucker (3rd grade), and Jackie Moore (7th grade). Third place finishers were Logan Carter (Kindergarten), Levi Tripses (Kindergarten), Koby Moore who tied for 3rd (2nd grade), Levi Saterfield (3rd grade), Trenton Gosnell (3rd grade), Ty Robertson who wrestled up in the 5th/6th grade division also (3rd grade), Tyler Gosnell (Sth grade), Con- nor Larew (Sth grade), Dillon Buline (Tth grade), and Devon Griffin (Sth grade) who had to settle with 3rd although he tied for 1st place. Based on the criteria scale used for tie-breaking situa- tions, Devon unfortunately got the 3rd place trophy instead of a 1st place one. It was an even Photo by Jeff Quigley Little Lion Jake Viner goes for a pin dudng the touma- ment on Sunday, February 20. Viner was the first grade champion at the tourney. more difficult reality for his dad, Doug Griffin, who was called upon in the wall chart room to distinguish the four places in Devon's bracket. "Each of the wrestlers had 2 wins and I loss. It was so hard to come to the conclusion that Devon would come away with a third when he tied for 1st." Fourth place finishers wer Keaton Kane who also wrestled up in the 5th/6th grade divi- sion (3rd grade), Jenny Sexton (4th grade), Austin Brenneman (3rd grade), Max Larew (Sth grade), and Zach Larew (8th grade). It was a great day of wrestling for the Lone Tree Little Lions. Many will still continue to go to tournaments for a few more weekends. One highlight for the younger bunch is the Super PeeWee State Tournament to be held in Waterloo on March 13th. Stay tuned for more exciting results in these final weeks of the season. Once again, thank you very much to all of the volunteers who helped Friday night, Sat- urday night, and all day Sun- day. Without your help,the Lit- tle Lions could not have had as successful a tournament as they did. There were many compliments and appreciation for everyone's hard work. son came to an end last week. These young ladies wound up, against all odds, with a win- ning record for the season. When you consider that Lone Tree only had one senior and one junior and all the rest were freshmen and sophomores who were very short on experience, the girls should be commended for doing well. I know some people say there is no such thing as a 'moral vic- tory.' However, after losing rather badly to Highland in the game at the U. S. Cellular Cen- ter in Cedar Rapids in Decem- ber, the Lions came back to bat- tle Highland down to the wire in the second half of the sea- son. The 52-50 victory that Highland finally got was one of its closest games all yeaI: Also, congratulations to the Highland girls on making it all the way to the State Tourna- ment. It's Highland's first trip to the State Tournament. Speaking of State Tourna- ments, congratulations, also, to the Highland wrestlers for their performance at the wrestling tournament. The Huskies came in 10th in Class 1A and had four medal win- ners. The Lone Tree boys are in District Tournament play right now. They had a game with Keota Monday night. The win- ner of that game is probably going to meet Iowa Mennonite at the end of this week. The Lions (as has almost everybody else) have had some trouble with Iowa Mennonite during the last few years, but this would be a great time to get an elusive win over IMS. Go Lions!!!! -OW- On the Iowa scene, the Hawks . finally won a road game in the Big Ten. Even pessimistic old me didn't see any way they could lose at Penn State unless the bus broke down and they just didn't get to the arena. I also told some people that, if Iowa lost that game at Penn State, Alford shouldn't even get on the plane to come back to Iowa City. He should just rent a car, drive to someplace in Indi- ana, call his wife and have her get a moving company go pack up their stuff and get it out of Iowa City. For once, apparently, the Hawks loosened up and just let things flow. They jumped out to a big lead. They led by 27 at the half. They held onto the lead in the second half and won by 22. They didn't blow a lead in the last three or five or seven min- utes. Yes, Penn State closed the gap a little bit in the second half, but it was still a 22-point win. Any player or coach will tell you that when you have a giant lead like that it is hard to stay as focused and turn a 27 point halftime lead into a 54 point win. Iowa has two games left, play- ing Ohio State at home in the middle of this week and then traveling to Michigan for a game on Saturday. TheBY ROnLone RifeT?ee  :: i" Reporter Ohio State has a pretty good team and manhandled the Hawks in Columbus early in the Big Ten season. Even in the aftermath of Saturday's win I have no reason to expect Ohio State to leave Iowa City with a loss. Also, although Michigan has been struggling, I wouldn't bet on Iowa in Ann Arbor Sat- urday. I hope I'm wrong. The Iowa women finished the home schedule in great style last week, blasting Illinois. As usual, the Three Blind Mice in the striped shirts almost let things get out of hand in action underneath the basket. I will never be able to understand how play that almost draws blood is allowed under the bas- ket while just barely touching a player out front draws a foul. There was one instance in that game where Jamie Cavey looked as if she had decided "Enough of this garbage. I got the rebound and I'm going to score even if it means breaking somebody's neck." Cavey had gotten an offen- sive rebound and was sur- rounded by orange-shirted Illi- ni who were pushing her bodily and hacking her arms with theirs. She finally just straight- ened up, threw a few elbows to clear them out of the way Pad put the ball up and through um hoop. Barb Chiles, who sits next to me at the games, said, "Holy smoke. Where's THAT Cavey been all year?" Now comes the Big Ten Tour- nament. It starts in Indianapo- lis on Thursday and will be tel- evised on Fox Sports Chicago. Iowa will play Michigan on Thursday night at 7 p.m. The winner will then play either Penn State or Ohio State on Fri- day. They played in Columbus on Sunday. Those two were tied for 2nd-3rd coming into action on Sunday and I'm writing this before I fired out who won. Iowa (assuming the Hawks beat Michigan on Thursday night) will get the loser. The softball team has gotten off to a good start. They went into last weekend with a 5-1 record and won the first two games in the tournament at Louisville, Kentucky. The soft- ball team will ffmally get home to play near the end of March and the baseball team will finally get home on April 1. Oh, yeah. There is also a wrestling tournament going on in Iowa City this weekend. The Big Ten tournament will be held on Saturday and Sunday. If you still want to watch high school wrestling the State Dual Meet Championships will be wrestled in Cedar Rapids at the U. S. Cellular Center.