Cats Finish 2010-2011 BB Season with Haul of Hardware
Championships and Runner-Up Finishes A'Plenty
Launch the media gallery 1 playerHighly Successful 2010-2011 Boys Basketball Season completed.
Following a .500 season in 2009-2010, expectations were high for this years Hemingford Bobcat Basketball team. The team struggled in the early season, winning just two games in December, while dropping five. The boys finished the month with a win in the semis at the Mitchell Holiday Tourney though, and finished in second place, losing to a Mitchell team by eight points that they would later beat by eight in February.
January was a turn-around month for Coach Randy Hiemstra’s Bobcats though, as they went on a winning spree, capturing eleven of their next twelve games, including Tourney Championships at the Bridgeport Post-Holiday and in Hemingford at the Panhandle Activities Conference Tourney.
The Bobcats had wins against several good teams, allowing them to reach the finals for the first time in many years of the Western Trails Conference Tourney at WNCC in Scottsbluff, where they dropped the final to C1 District Champion Kimball 43-68.
The Cats then lost in a re-match with Kimball at home in regular season play, before having an off night against a 6-13 Morrill Lions team.
With some additional effort in practice and on the playing floor, the Cats rebounded with wins over Crawford 39-36 and Bridgeport 49-37 before falling just a little short in their last game. A three point loss to Bayard 48-51 in the Sub-District Final.
2010 – 2011 will always be remembered as a great team success, but many individual players helped to make it a success.
Scoring honors went to Tyler Swanson, who hit for 386 points and a 15.4 per game average. Nick Wood scored 207 points and averaged 9.4 points, while Freshman Blake Hansen scored 209 points while averaging 8.4 points. Chance Campbell scored 191 points, and Kyle Kumpf scored 162.
Rebounding leader was Swanson with 207, followed by Nick Wood with 136, Chance Campbell with 122, and Blake Hansen with 109.
Wood was the leading shot-blocker for the Cats with 23, followed by Campbell with 13, Casey Stangle with 11, and Swanson with 9.
Swanson, a senior, also lead the team in steals with 80, followed by fellow senior Chance Campbell with 75. Wood had 55 take-aways, and Hansen had 52.
The assist leader was Chance Campbell with a pile of them at 129. Swanson had 90 assists, and both Hansen and Kyle Kumpf had 29 each.
Swanson lead the team with 60 three-point goals, while Nick Wood had eleven.
The seniors will be missed after their four hard years of work, but several first and second year men also stepped up. With some important off-season shooting practice, and weight-training, 2011-2012 could be a very good year too!
The Cats were Coached by Head Coach Randy Hiemstra and assisted by Joe Collins and Taryn Wood.
GREAT JOB CATS !