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CONTENTS 4: Bloomer’s Isabella Jenneman back on the diamond after quick recovery from ACL tear 7: Five questions with new Eau Claire Memorial girls soccer coach Olivia Hanson 8: Posterized: Menomonie’s Devin Williams 10: Fall Creek’s Marcus Cline showing why he’s a Division I baseball talent 12: Former Menomonie Mustang Chase Davidson returned to area with Steel 14: Virginia’s NCAA title has ties to Eau Claire thanks to the Bennetts ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LOOMER — It was just a routine pop-up down the first base foul line. Bloomer first basemen Isabella Jenneman was shading over into foul territory to make the catch. Camped under it, the ball hit her glove, then she felt a jolting pain rush through her knee. “I could feel it pop as it twisted,” Isabella said. “Instant pain and it just swelled up.” Looking on, Isabella’s mother, Becky, said she could feel her daughter’s pain. Twenty-five years earlier, she went down grabbing her knee in a high school basketball game, and now, she watched as her daughter lay on the ground, crying as her knee quickly began to swell up. “It kind of looked like a balloon,” Isabella said. “I couldn’t walk on it.” Her coach, Keith Poirier, came out of the dugout to check on his star slugger. “I waited for her to get up and she didn’t get up,” Poirier remembered. “She said her knee hurt, but I told her to walk it off, but it was a lot more serious than it looked. You wouldn’t have believed it was just one of the most innocent plays ever.” Her father, Brady Jenneman, said the moment was “heart sinking.” He watched as his daughter tried to hobble back to her base. Not realizing the severity of what had just transpired, Isabella bandaged up her knee and decided to bare through the pain for the rest of the inning. Between innings, it became too much and she decided she needed to come out. “She said she felt like her leg was in two pieces,” Becky Jenneman said. After the game, a 9-3 victory over Cumberland on May 8, 2018, the Jennemans decided they needed to take their daughter to the hospital. X-rays on her knee came back negative, but doctors wanted to run some more tests. There, Isabella’s fears were confirmed. Just like her mother 25 years prior, Isabella tore through her ACL. “I instantly started crying,” Isabella said. “I knew softball was over with and I didn’t know if I would make it back to basketball right away.”
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Bloomer’s Isabella Jenneman stands vigilant at first base during a softball game at Eau Claire North on April 8.
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Bloomer’s Isabella Jenneman swings during a softball game at Eau Claire North on April 8.
ACL tears are one of sports most dreaded injuries. Typically rehab takes about a year before athletes are back to normal. The doctors told her she would need at least eight months to get back to sports. “Her biggest fear was that she wasn’t going to be able to play sports again,” Becky said. So, Isabella got to work rehabbing. “The first six weeks I had to be on crutches, and that was the longest six weeks of my life,” she said. “I just
wanted to get off of them, they weren’t comfortable, I couldn’t move around well.” Once she was back on her feet, the therapy really got started. “I was kind of rushing myself honestly,” she said. “My therapist even said I was going a little too fast. … I just wanted to get back.” She was determined to get back for the start of basketball season, two months before her original eightmonth timetable.
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Bloomer’s Isabella Jenneman looks for a shot while Regis’ Teryn Karlstad defends on Thursday, Feb. 14, in Eau Claire.
“She had it in her mind that she was not going to miss basketball or softball this year,” Becky said. On November 20, Isabella proved the doctors wrong and walked out onto the court at Elk Mound for Bloomer’s season season opener. Again, her father watched nervously as his daughter ran up and down the court. He said it was a physical game and Isabella was playing tough in the post. And then, she lost her footing and fell to the ground. “My heart jumped out of my chest,” Brady said. For a moment, it looked like Isabella had come back too quickly. But, she rose back up, shook out her knee, and finished the game unscathed, leading the Blackhawks to a 4130 victory over Elk Mound with a team-high 10 points. “I almost had tears in my eyes,” Becky said. “We knew how hard she worked. She wanted it, and she got it.” After a successful basketball season, Isabella turned her attention to softball as the Blackhawks took a trip down to Florida to get in some preseason games in late March. “The first game you could tell that she was apprehensive about the knee and pressing a little bit at the plate,” Poirier said. “She didn’t have a really good first game out there, kind of let it all mentally come in and she broke down a little bit.” She went 0 for 3 with a walk and three strikeouts in the first game, a 6-5 loss to Dublin Jerome. After the game she called home and spoke to her mother who encouraged her to put her brace back on to help get over the mental hurtle of stepping back out onto the field. She didn’t listen. Once again, she took the diamond without the brace. This time though, the results were different. She started the game 1 for 3 with a run and a walk. Tied 8-8 in the bottom of the ninth against La Crosse Aquinas, her four-spot came up in the order. With Rylee Luzinski looking in from second, Isabella rocked a walk-off double to take the 9-8 victory. The hit was vintage Isabella. Last season, she hit four home runs and had 25 RBIs before the injury. This year, she’s expected to be the Blackhawks’ slugger and once again hit fourth and play first. Now, 11 months after she fell to the ground grabbing her knee, Jenneman says she is ready for one last season and a chance to lead the Blackhawks to a conference title and a trip to Madison.
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FIVE-POINT BUCKSHOT WITH EAU CLAIRE MEMORIAL’S OLIVIA HANSON By Jack Goods Just four years ago, Olivia Hanson was running up and down the Eau Claire Memorial soccer field as a player. Now, she’s already the head coach of the program before even graduating from UW-Eau Claire, taking over for Scott DeRusha this season. She’s experienced an incredibly quick rise, first joining the Abes as a JV assistant three years ago. She spent one year last season as head JV coach before getting another promotion. The former Big Rivers player of the year is now in charge of a team that’s won seven straight conference titles at 21 years old. Hanson is our featured member of the prep scene in this month’s Five-point Buckshot, a monthly Q&A with an influential person in the Chippewa Valley prep sports community. With your limited time as an assistant, do you find there’s a lot to learn about being a head coach? The nice thing is that I’ve gotten to work with so many different coaches. I’ve kind of gotten to experience different styles in the way that I’ve developed my philosophy. It’s been quick. When you look at it it’s really been only four years, but the amount that I’ve learned in that short period of time has been immense. I guess time doesn’t exactly determine knowledge. Do you feel it is easy to connect with players since you were in their shoes recently? Seeing that I was an Old Abe, I bleed purple, honestly I’ve been an Old Abe since I graduated, I think that helps me make a connection with not only the girls and the school but the community as well. I’ve had so many different opportunities, even outside of school. Many young coaches who get their first break start with a rebuilding program, but you inherit an established one. Seems like you really lucked out. I have inherited a very supportive group of people. Between the family and girls and the overall program, everyone has been there to support me with everything and anything I needed, as well as my assistant coach and my JV coach. It’s more of a family aspect. With prior experience working with the previous staff, is there anything you’re expecting to change? A lot of the things I have stepped into, I agree a lot with what Scott has done in the past. We’re going to do a different formation this year, kind of just testing things out because I didn’t get to work with the girls. He was a phenomenal coach. I’m definitely stepping into some big shoes there. Every time you get a new coach you just take a new perspective. How difficult is it balancing student teaching and being a student with coaching? My cooperating teacher has been really good about making my schedule work, which has been really nice. But yeah, finding a balance is really helpful. It’s going to be a good transition because I’m going to be looking for a job in the Eau Claire district, so it will be a nice little practice before the real thing. It’s multitasking at its finest, but who isn’t doing that?
Staff photo by Spencer Flaten Eau Claire Memorial girls soccer coach Olivia Hanson (middle, pointing) instructs players during a practice on April 12 at Memorial.
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Cline’s scorching-hot start showing why he’s Division I-bound BY SPENCER FLATEN LEADER-TELEGRAM STAFF
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here was no shortage of Division I college baseball programs vying to secure the services of Marcus Cline. Minnesota. Central Michigan. North Dakota State. Gonzaga. Valparaiso. Just a few of the schools that wanted to have the Fall Creek infielder suit up in their colors. His play to start his senior season is showing exactly why he was such a hot commodity. Through the Crickets’ first six games this spring, he hit .688 with four extra-base hits and 14 RBIs. Through 16 at-bats, he was only retired five times. He’s also worked the count regularly. He drew seven walks in the team’s first five games, good for an average of over one per game. “I’m just relaxed at the plate,” Cline said. “Just waiting for my pitch, looking to take it up the middle or go with it wherever it goes.” He had high expectations coming into the spring, but hitting nearly .700 exceeded even what he thought his start to the year could be. And it’s not just at the plate where he’s impressing. In those first six games, he pitched to a 3-0 record with a 0.47 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 14.2 innings. While he’s more at home at the plate, Cline said he’s got a good feel for his pitches — his repertoire includes a fastball, curveball, changeup and slider — to start the year as well. That much has been evident so far. “He’s comfortable in any situation,” Fall Creek coach Mike Johnson said. “Already as an 18-year-old kid, he’s been in so many baseball situations that he handles it all with class. And that rubs off on his teammates, too.” Being a standout varsity player is noth-
ing new for Cline. He was an honorable mention all-district selection last year, and was a second team All-Western Cloverbelt Conference pick as a sophomore after earning honorable mention as a freshman. The recruiting interest began two years ago at a prospect camp in Madison. It intensified after he joined the GRB Rays travel baseball program last summer, bringing him all over the country to play in front of scouts and college coaches. In the end, he decided to play for Wisconsin’s only Division I program: UW-Milwaukee. “I really liked the team chemistry that they had there, and they’re getting a new field, which is nice,” Cline said. “I feel like it was a place where I can fit in right away and make an impact as a freshman.” He’s seen an increase in his power at the plate this spring, the result of a lot of work over the offseason. He hit two triples and a home run in the first five games, meaning a third of his hits to start the year were for extra bases. “I got all the power I could out of my swing,” Cline said. “It comes from the lower half and upper half. It all works together.” In addition to leading by example — although most players would be hardpressed to replicate the scorching-hot form Cline is in — the four-year varsity player is part of a solid leadership group that has helped the Crickets start the season unbeaten. “I think when he made the decision to go to UW-Milwaukee, he just became more relaxed. He hasn’t been trying to do too much with each plate appearance, and again, that rubs off,” Johnson said. Fall Creek began the season as the No. 10-ranked team in Division 3, and have proved why with wins in their first six games. With a two-way player as solid as Cline to lead the way, the Crickets see a lot of potential in the next couple of months. “I want to keep going and keep getting even better,” Cline said.
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Fall Creek’s Marcus Cline surveys the field during a game against Osseo-Fairchild on April 16 in Osseo.
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Former Mustang gets chance to come home, path to staying close BY JACK GOODS LEADER-TELEGRAM STAFF Chase Davidson’s chance of a dreamlike return to the Chippewa Valley seemed dashed a few weeks into the Chippewa Steel’s first season. The former Menomonie Mustang was moved back to the area in the offseason when his previous team, the Johnstown Tomahawks, traded him to the recently relocated franchise. He appreciated his opportunity to move away, discover his independence and learn the ropes of the junior hockey circuit with Johnstown, but said if he was going to be traded anywhere he was hoping for a homecoming. But a week and a half into the season, his time with the Steel was cut short. Steel general manager and head coach Al Rooney informed him the team would be moving on. “After that I didn’t really know what to do,” Davidson said. “Should I even keep playing?” Thankfully he did, and after the Steel parted ways with Rooney in November, Davidson decided to give new interim head coach Carter Foguth a call. “I knew they had some defensemen that were hurt and he had let a couple of guys go,” Davidson said. “I thought it would be a good opportunity because he originally liked me.” Unbeknownst to Davidson, Foguth was looking for someone who fit exactly his description, a veteran defenseman, as he worked to change the roster midway through the year. Foguth was about to call him the same night Davidson took the plunge. “We were young on the back end, so I was definitely looking for a guy like Chase who had not only played a lot in the league previously but just his style of play,” Foguth said. “He was a bigger, shutdown defenseman that played hard and was tough to play against. That’s what I was looking for.” So in December Davidson returned to get his homecoming after all, which concluded April 6 when the Steel closed their season against the Minnesota Magicians. He returned refreshed and ready to make one final statement in juniors. After Davidson was cut, he took a few weeks away from the game to reassess, which included a bowhunting trip. Then he found a new home, spending 17 games with the South Shore Kings of the National Collegiate Development Conference, a division of the United States Premier Hockey League made up of teams from the Northeast United States. While playing out of Foxboro, Mass., Davidson notched a goal and three assists and tuned up the mental side of his game.
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“I think going out to that other league helped me get some confidence back,” Davidson said. The results on the ice weren’t spectacular in the Steel’s first season in the area. Chippewa went 19-38-2-1, but Davidson personally provided what Foguth expected. He wasn’t a heavy point-producer, notching a goal and five assists in 32 games, but still made an impact defensively. “He was exactly what I was looking for when we originally reached out to him,” Foguth said. “That’s exactly what we needed.” One perk of playing so close to your hometown is not needing a billet family, as Davidson instead commuted from his family home. With that, two of his worlds were colliding. “You almost have to kind of balance things,” he said. “When you’re at home you’re so used to hanging out with your normal friends and seeing your family all the time. During the season, the hockey’s really your first priority. That’s one thing I really had to adjust to.” It took a bit of luck to get Davidson back in the area, but he’s staying close for the next few years on his own volition. The towering blueliner announced his commitment to UW-River Falls on March 20, putting him only 43 miles from Menomonie. He believes getting that second chance in the NAHL this year benefited him as he looked for his college home.
“Their coaching staff has been great,” Davidson said of his decision. “Their rink and athletic facility is probably one of the nicest in all of DIII hockey. ... Obviously being close to home, they’ve got a good business program and I know a few guys on the team. Tuition, you can’t beat the tuition.” He’s spending the rest of the spring and the beginning of the summer in the area training and working for his mom in the insurance business at American Family Insurance. With his decision to play in the WIAC, Davidson will have the opportunity to truly return home when the Falcons travel to Fanneti Ice Arena to meet UW-Stout in Menomonie. It’s a rink filled with memories, some on the ice and others in the stands. “I grew up going to all the Stout games,” Davidson said. “I remember way back when when they used to pack the rink and they would have bonfires in the parking lot. It was crazy.” As for the Steel, they’re moving forward with Foguth after taking the interim tag off of him earlier this month. The young roster he bolstered with Davidson is now filled with players with NAHL experience. “I got to kind of get my feet wet in terms of how I run things and the way we want to do things around there,” Foguth said. “I’m excited for next year to start out with those guys and work our way up and see what we can do.”
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Virginia head coach Tony Bennett celebrates after cutting down the net following the championship game against Texas Tech, Monday, April 8, 2019, in Minneapolis.
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f you watched the college basketball championship game on April 8, you probably saw the camera focus in on Dick Bennett and wife Ann in the stands from time to time. They, of course, are the parents of Virginia Coach Tony Bennett, who guided the Cavaliers, somehow
through miracle after miracle, to the NCAA title with an 85-77 overtime win over Texas Tech in the Twin Cities. That brought the game close to home. Yes, this is the same Dick Bennett who came here at age 29 to take the Eau Claire Memorial job and go on to lay the foundation for his successful collegiate career. And yes, this is the same Tony Bennett who attended grade school here. Dick Bennett came here from New London,
where he had fashioned a nice team in his first coaching assignment. For Bennett, the Old Abe job offered a challenge – to keep it at a top state level and take it to the next step. He did that. But it was a stepladder job. His first team in 1972-73 went 16-5 but was shocked in regional play by Chetek 55-53.
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year later, in what many consider one of the greatest teams in school history, the Abes went 20-2, but were stunned by a last second basket in the sectional at Marshfield and lost to Marshfield. The 1975 team went 21-1 and finally made it to the state tournament, but lost its opener in disappointing fashion to Janesville Craig, coach by former city star Stan Dufrane. And his final Abe team in 1976 went 17-1 during the regular season but wasn’t considered a title threat with its tallest regular standing 6-2. But fate was on Bennett’s side this time. Tim Bakken’s 20foot bank shot with five seconds to go beat Sussex Hamilton in the opener and the next night, it was Kirk Etten’s 10-footer from the baseline with four seconds left that upset towering Belloit. The Old Abes were in the finals but looking up, they saw 6-9 Kurt Nymphius, who would go on to a long NBA career, and unbeaten South Milwaukee looking down at them. It was the type of situation that Bennett thrived on. To no one’s surprise, South Milwaukee built its lead to 11 in the second half. Here come the Abes. Etten’s basket with 6:55 to play actually gave them the lead at 41-40. Nymphius erased that in a matter of seconds with a 3-point play to make it 43-41. Memorial had the answer. Bakken’s 22-foot jumper tied it at 43-43 with 5:50 to play and the Abes put the ball on ice. They had a chance several minutes later but a missed free throw boomeranged into Nymphius’ winning basket from short range with 46 seconds to play. The Abes, who had captured the hearts of the fans with their David-vs.-Goliath effort, missed a couple shots in the fading seconds. They lost – at least on the scoreboard. But the gutsy effort made them winners elsewhere. Destined for bigger things, Bennett was off the next season to UW-Stevens Point to launch his collegiate career that would eventually take him to the Final Four with Wisconsin’s Badgers. But that may not have happened if he had taken his father’s advice. After the Abes’ crushing sectional loss to Marshfield in 1973, the locker room was full of tears. A distraught Bennett wiped his away and said: “My dad was just in here with two words of advice,” he said. After seeing the condition his son was in, Dad told Son, “Quit coaching.” It was one of the few times he disobeyed his father. And basketball is better off for it.
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