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Raiderettes

1st year

BEST YEAR EVER To STATE

FOR RAIDERETTES: 21 3 Basketball

Tournament
The girls basketball team closed its season at 21 - 3. Coach Poltack in his
first year as head coach at Mead and Coach Gilbreath in her first year as
assistant, led the girls to a very successful season. The girls' first game of
the Conference Tournament was against Louisville. The Raiderettes then
defeated Palmyra to win the Conference Tournament. The confident
Raiderettes then proceeded to the sub-district touranment and were to play
the Waterloo Panthers. The Raiderettes conquered the Panthers and then
went on to defeat Brownell Talbott to win their sub-districts. Their next game
would be the district finals, this is the time that they had been waiting for
all year. They were to play the Scribner Trojans, a very tough team. Coach
Poltack prepared the girls for this game with hard work and some new
strategies. The Raiderettes defeated the Trojans in a very exciting game
that night. They had now achieved their second goal of making it to the
State Tournament. They now had to set a new goaL winning the State
Tournament. Their first game was against Doniphan. The Raiderettes won
that game and moved on to the semi finals in a game against Kearney
Catholic. Kearney Catholic was rated second in the state and would be
a tough match. The Raiderettes played a good game but couldn't overtake
the Stars. This was a disappointing end to a very good season. The members
of the varsity team were, Anita Luetkenhaus, Christine Hutmacher, Shelly
Asper, Staci Hass, Lisa Nygren, Ronda Treptow, Kris Hass, Kim McKay, Debbie
Nelson, Joie Mueller, Sheri Huddle, & LeAnne Gustafson. Other players on
J.V. were, Katie Gehrman, Dawn Shook, Denise Push, and Diane Steen. Some
team stats are as follows: field goal percent - 41%; free throws - 54%;
average defensive rebounds- 23; average offensive rebounds- 12; average
assists - 11; and average steals - 7. Some leaders in these categories were
as follows: leading scorer - Staci Hass - 326; leading rebounder - Staci Hass
- 212; leading assists - Anita Leutkenhaus - 131; leading free throw
percentage - Lisa Nygren - 68%; leading steals - Anita Luetkenhaus - 46.