March 9th

at Minnesota State University-Mankato

Indians win 59-41

Coach’s Comments (Ryan Hulke):

I don’t know where to start, we were good in so many areas and everyone stepped up to make big plays throughout the game.

St. Clair’s defensive game plan was to take away Madi and Bri, well they went for 25 points on the night so I was happy to see they just didn’t stand around and remained active on the offensive end.

We needed others to step up and score and obviously Madi K took over that roll. Madi started the second half on a 8-0 herself by getting to the basket multiple times and making tough shots. in addition she took over our PG duties most the game and added 6 rebounds and 3 assists.

Mac grabbed multiple defensive boards in a crowd of people and to watch her to go up and snatch those boards from the 6’0 St. Clair girls was awesome. Just  to see her fight and the will to grab boards for us was huge. Mac also added a big and 1 in the second half which gave us some life once again.

Sarah Ibarra had a great first half hitting two threes, but unfortunately found herself in foul trouble early in the second half.

Mya also found foul trouble late in the first half and early in the second but obviously when she was in the game she was a difference maker in the paint for us grabbing six boards and contesting St. Clair’s big and their dribble drives all night.

Hanna Himmelman hit a big 3 and a contested layup for us in the first half and once again filled her role off the bench in Hanna like fashion.

Mariah Miller gave us great minutes filling in for Sarah and Mya’s foul trouble just being her scrappy self and was always around the ball and battling on the block defensively. Mariah has given us these minutes all year and is a big part of our success.

So as you can see this was a big time team effort and the best part was our defensive mindset and our ability or want to completely buy-in to our defensive game plan. St. Clair literally has 20 man sets, 10 zone sets and 8 out of bounds plays and these girls put in the time in the film room to know and recognize them all by formation and name. There wasn’t a set called by St. Clair (who doesn’t run a motion offense and will continually run sets) that these girls didn’t know. I couldn’t be more proud of these commitment to get to know St. Clair and everything they do.

Once again we are back in the State Tournament and these girls are not just okay with being there, they want to win games and we should expect to win games.

Madi Heiderschiedt 14 pts, 4 assists
Madi Krueger 14 pts, 9 rebounds
Brianna Polesky 11 pts, 8 rebounds
Sarah ibarra 8 pts, 4 assits and 4 steals

Indians improve to 26-4

March 6th

at Gustavus Adolphus College

Coach’s Comments (Ryan Hulke):

“I am extremely proud of this group and how they’ve came together the last three weeks and will do whatever it takes to get a win and keep moving on. We are unselfish and are playing within our roles and we are one game away from the state tournament. We continue to just play with grit and we battle through other teams runs and stay mentally focused the whole game.

Coming into the game BOLD had inches and physical size on us at every position but we outrebounded them by three and only gave up 10 offensive rebounds the whole night. “We really talk about two things before every game, rebounds and turnovers and for us to out rebound them and only give the ball away 10 times is a recipe for success.”

Looking at the Section Finals Friday we can’t look at what we did vs St. Clair in December when we beat them by 31. They were a team just figuring out their system, adding a transfer player, and their underclassman roles. We need to come in with the same mindset we have Tuesday night because once again we are giving up a lot of size. It will be a battle until the end. ”

Madi Heiderscheidt 19 points, 6 assists and 5 steals
Sarah ibarra 16 points, 10 rebounds
Brianna Polesky 16 points, 5 rebounds, 4 steals

Bold finishes year 23-6

Sleepy Eye now plays at 6 pm at Minnesota State University Mankato Friday vs St Clair

March 2nd

at St. Peter High School

Madi Heiderscheidt 27 pts and 6 rebounds
Brianna Polesky 10 points and 4 steals
Sarah ibarra 10 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists

Indians are now 24-4 and play Tuesday at 6 p.m. and Gustavus vs BOLD

February 27th

at Sleepy Eye

Coach’s Comments (Ryan Hulke):

We came out and established ourselves right away and jumped on Central to grab a 18-0 lead with 9 minutes to play. Obviously as the girls started to figure out we were the more dominate team and they relax a little bit, but we forced them into 20 first half turnovers which resulted in 22 first half transition or points of turnovers. We were also 7 of 16 from the three points line in the first half so that helps also. We did exactly what we needed to do in a eight vs one seeded matchup. We came out focused and ready to play playoff basketball and coasted from there.

Madi Heiderscheidt 31 points, 10 steals and 6 assists
Sarah Ibarra 12 points, 8 rebounds
Brianna Polesky  8 points, 4 steals, 4 assists
Mya Ibberson 2 points, 8 rebounds and 6 blocks

Indians (23-4) now play Cedar Mnt Comfrey Friday at 6 pm at St. Peter HS