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YME should be real competitive
The Sting must battle some of the state’s top teams in the Camden BY TOM ELLIOTT
That might have been the case last season, when YME went 4-16, MADISON — The including 3-13 in the Yellow Medicine East girls basketball team just conference. The Sting scored 50.6 points per might play in the best Class A conference in the game, which was fourth best in the South Divistate. sion and seventh best in The Sting have to the Camden overall. They deal with the Minneota allowed 60.0 points, only Vikings and Tracy-Mil9.4 points more than roy-Balaton, Lakeview, they scored. That’s usualCanby and Russell-Tyly not how this goes. ler-Ruthton in the CamThey are off to an den Conference South 0-2 start in 2021-22. Division. But again, it’s who you Minneota is defendplay. They opened with ing state Class A champ a 66-48 loss at BOLD, a after going 25-0, includserious Section 2A coning 16-0 in the Camden tender. Then, YME got its South. first look at T-M-B, which It means that even was 14-2 in the Camden if YME is performing South last season, and competitively, the record lost 69-48. might not reflect how And, it doesn’t get any well the Sting are playing. easier. The Sting play West Central Tribune
Minneota and R-T-R on Dec. 7 and 9, respectively, with both games in Granite Falls. The roster features three seniors, including 6-foot center Shelby Mortenson, 5-8 guard Yansi Flores and 5-9 forward Janessa Bakkelund. Ruby Bones, a 6-0 forward, leads the junior class that includes Stella Schuler, a 5-7 guard, and Hannah Stark, a 5-9 junior forward. Also on the varsity roster for head coach Ryan Schultz and assistant Lucas Christoffer are two eighth-graders. There is Bayli Sneller, a 5-4 guard, and Hope Stark, a 5-8 guard. Expect YME to give teams good games every night.
YME’s Hannah Stark (32) throws up a lob pass to teammate Ruby Bones (10) during a Section 3A-North play-in game against Dawson-Boyd on March 15, 2021 at Granite Falls.
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YME’s Shelby Mortenson puts up a shot over a Dawson-Boyd defender during the first half of a Section 3A-North play-in game March 15, 2021 at Granite Falls.
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