Sports for the week of December 29, 2004

Boys host MACCRAY after holiday action

The Panther boys varsity and B-squad basketball teams will open compete in the Wabasso Holiday Tournament Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 29-30.

Wabasso, Red Rock Central and Russell-Tyler-Ruthton are the other participants besides Tracy/Milroy/Balaton.

The boys’ next home game is against MACCRAY Thursday, Jan. 6.

Girls advance in tourney

Tracy/Milroy/Balaton beat Holy Family 60-53 to advance in the Norwood-Young America Holiday Tournament Tuesday.

The Panther girls play Shokopee for fifth place in the eight-team tournament Wednesday. TMB, who lost their tournament opener with Albany, is now 6-2 on the season.

The led 18-10 at the end of the first period 33-24 at intermission and 51- 42 after three quarters of play.

Tessa Nelson led TMB with 17 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks. Alyssa Kirk had 16 points, and Emily Miller 9. Jenna Schaar scored 8 points to go with her 7 assists.

The Panthers pulled down 27 rebounds to 22 for their opponents, had 6 steals to 14, 14 assists to 10 and had 5 blocked shots. Holy Angels had 8 turnovers.

Holy Family 10 14 18 11 53

T/M/B 18 15 18 9 60

T/M/B-Schaar, 3,2/2,8; Nelson, 8,1/3,17; J. Tholen, 1,0/0,3; Kirk, 4,4/4,16; Domine, 3,1/1,7; Miller, 4,0/0,9. Totals 23,8/10,60.

HFC-Friestleben, 8,1/6,20; Koens,3,2/2,9; Stuki, 2,0/2,4; A. Friestleben, 4,0/0,12; Campbell, 3,0/1,6; Barens,1,0/0,2. Totals, 21,3/12,53.

Albany prevails in Norwood opener

The Panther girls basketball team lost the first game of the Norwood-Young America Holiday Tournament to Albany, 54-51 Monday.

Albany, the eighth-ranked team in its class, improved to 8-1.

“We played a good game against a very good team,” said Co-Coach Rick Haberman.

The Panthers got off to a slow start and were behind 17-13 at the end of the first period, before out-scoring their opponent by a point the rest of the way.

Tessa Nelson led the Panthers with 15 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists and 7 blocked shots. Jenna Schaar added 13 points and Alyssa Kirk 11.

The Panthers grabbed 29 rebounds to 26 for Albany, had 12 assists to 12, 9 steals (Tholen 4) to 10 and turned the ball over 18 times to only 15 for Albany.

The Panther B-squad beat Waconia 49-42.

T/M/B 13 7 16 15 51

Albany 17 8 15 14 54

T/M/B-Schaar,5, 3/4, 13; Nelson, 5, 5/10, 15; Tholen, 3, 1-4,7; Kirk, 3,3/4,11; Domine, 1,2/2,4; Miller, 0,1/2,1. totals 17, 15/26,51.