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Good show
The Gopher women defeated a good Northern Iowa team 75-63 tonight. The Panthers finished 3rd in the Missouri Valley last year, they have 4 starters back, and they are picked to finish 3rd in the MVC again.
And there's more good news. Katie Ohm came off the bench to lead Gopher scorers with 15 points. Emily Fox had a points/assists double-double, the first since Lindsay Whalen, with 13 and 10. Brittany McCoy scored 11, Kelly Roysland 10, and Korinne Campbell came off the bench to score 8 with 10 boards.
The Gophers used a quick tempo to take a 20-5 lead, but Northern got back within 25-20. The Gophers made it 34-26 at the half, but Northern again closed the gap to 40-37. An Ohm 3-pointer gave the Gophers a 55-47 lead at 6:20 and they held a double-figure lead the rest of the way.
Next up: Charlotte at the barn on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Personally I feel like I should be supporting Kelly Roysland this year, though I admit that tonight I went to the Gopher volleyball game instead. The Gophers defeated Illinois fairly easily.
PS. It has come to my attention that the Gopher volleyball team has signed one of its greatest classes ever. 6-2 Lauren Gibbemeyer from Cretin, a middle blocker, is rated the #4 senior in the country, and Brook Dieter of Kennedy, an outside hitter, is rated #5. And yet Hailey Cowles of Eden Prairie was the MN and Metro player of the year. She did everything for EP but was recruited as a defensive specialist (libero). And there's a 4th girl from Ohio who is rated #88 in the nation. The Gophers return junior Jessy Jones (once rated as the #13 recruit in the nation), sophomores Rachel Hartmann (#11), Katie Vatterodt (#18) and Kyla Roehrig (#20), and freshman Rachelle Hagerty (#19). Roerig, whose sister played basketball at Michigan State (in the national championship game in 2004), has become the Gophers’ leader in kills. Hartmann is the regular setter, displacing Kelly Bowman after Bowman earned all-America honors as setter in the Gophers’ Final Four season of 2004. Bowman was rated #4 in the nation as a recruit, but in her final 2 years she has just been a do-everything player: #2 in digs, #5 in kills, #2 in assists. What a great player. I was surprised, however, that there are just 3 MN women on the team now, so it is nice that that is about to change. And the Gophers should be improved in the next couple-3 years, not that they aren’t a power right now.
When not playing volleyball, Gibbemeyer is an outstanding hoopster for the Cretin girls, not one of the top 25 seniors in the state, probably, but a solid all-conference type of player.
Marc
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