Monday, April 27, 2009

Warriors to hit the Links

Hey Warrior fans, its been a while since the last post but I finally have something that is worthy of posting on here. Tomorrow the Warrior basketball team will be taking part in the 11th annual golf tournament that will be taking place at Westfield Golf Course. This years tournament is set up like many in the past with groups of 4 playing in a best ball style tournament with every player have their drive used at least once during the round. It should be a great day weather wise and hopefully it will end up being a great day for all the Warriors on the course. The following is a breakdown of the teams that will be participating in this years event.

Team 1
Josh Korth
Luke Doedens
Dan Kratz
Coach Brady Moore

Team 2
David Johnson
Travis Whipple
Max Hintz
Brad Meyer

Team 3
Bryce Welch
Jordan Fischer
Clayton Vette
Coach Mike Leaf

Team 4
Ben Fischer
Jon Walburg
Joel Armstrong
Coach Tom Brown

Obviously some other Warrior players are missing but they are unable to attend due to prior engaments. While I am not positive who won last years tournament I am pretty sure Josh Korth, Brent Reise and Shane Neiss were a part of the winning team. But I could be wrong so do not hold me to it.

Quick update on Jonte' Flowers and his Solna Vikings. Jonte's team lost today and is now down 3-2 in a best of 7 series. Game 6 will be coming up later this week and hopefully Jonte' can lead his team to a couple of wins in a row to end the season.

The results of the tournament will be posted later in the week.

Until next time. Go Warriors!!!!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Alumni Update

Hey Warrior fans well it is time once again for our Warrior alumni update. So here we go.

Congratulations to former Warriors David and Emily Zellmann on the birth of their baby boy, George David Zellmann, born on April 2, 2009. George tipped the scales at 8 pounds, 3 ounces and measured in at 19.5 inches long if I remember right. Welcome to the Warrior family George and we cannot wait to see you in a Warrior uniform some day!!....Former WSU great Zach Malvik has began his comeback to playing professional basketball again after being cleared by his doctor last week to start shooting again. Zach who is looking to play again starting this fall is working out up to 3 times a day while also running workouts for youth basketball players....Congratulations goes out to 2 time national champion, Brent Riese, who is now working for Impact Sports in the sales department back in Madison, Wisconsin...Another congratulations is in order the former Warrior Chad Barfknecht who is opening up his own chiropractic practice in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Chad is a graduate of Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, Iowa...The two time NCAA National Player of the Year, John Smith, has completed his season with the Vermont Frostheaves after losing in a playoff game last week. John will be moving back to Winona in the next couple of weeks and will continue to workout here in Winona looking for more professional basketball opportunities which will be coming to him shortly...Another Warrior great playing professionally is off to a good start as Quincy Henderson is averaging 11.9 points and 9.8 rebounds a game for his Kilsyth Cobras team that is currently 2-3 on its young season..

Well this is all I have at this time but if any of you Warrior fans have updates for me please let me know as we try our best to keep up on all of our Warrior alumni but it can be tough at times having so many of them.

Go Warrriors!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Jonte' Leads Solna to Swedish Finals

Hey gang with our season being over the updates have slowed but I will continually update you with as much news as we can come by. The biggest news coming from our Warrior basketball program is that Jonte' Flowers has lead his Solna Vikings team into the finals of the Swedish Basketball League. Jonte' playing in a decisive game 5 of a semi finals series had a huge game with 33 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals in a 85-73 win. With the victory Solna moves on to play Sundsvall in the finals. All of the finals games will be on the Internet to watch and you can find out more information on the time and days of the finals series by going to the Swedish Basketball League homepage or by clicking on this link where you can also find full box scores on all of Jonte's games in the semi finals: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.svenskabasketligan.se/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSvenska%2BBasketligan%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Also a interview of Jonte', his coach and teammate after the final game of the semi-finals are also available for viewing by clicking on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeVC_YhR04o
And finally I found a couple of other video clips of Jonte' and his team. I guess they are really impressed by his ability to steal the basketball by looking at this clip. They must not have realized they were getting the player who owns Winona State's all time steal record and ranks as as one of the best all time in all of NCAA basketball. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-CMO-itMU Here is another short clip as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNt8S-k55A

We wish Jonte' the best of luck as he starts his series in the Swedish League finals and look forward to watching him bring home another championship.

Go Warriors!!!!