Bigfork stuns Littlefork-Big Falls, 76-50

The pictures are in the wrong order, so go backwards!

The girls won a big game against conference and section rival Littlefork Vikings last night in Bigfork. They won easily by 26 points and just keep getting better and better as each game goes on. Bigfork had four players scoring in the double digits. Kind of hard to guard that many scorers!

Annalise Klamm was high scorer with 21, Nicolle with 17, Jenna with 15, Megan with 10, Jordan with 6, Karla with 4 and Rachel with 3. The girls will play a tough Chisholm team at home on Thursday. This will be a big game as both are preseason favorites to be at the top in the Section 7A north race.

Both C & B squads both won their games tonight also!

Here are pictures of a successful trap by Rachel Kacon and Jenna Beckner, with Beckner on the winning side!

JV pictures from Cotton game, 11/28

Here are some photos from the JV game against Cotton. Bigfork JV won 64-13.

1st Game of Season ~ Bigfork v. Cotton

Well the girls had their first game of the season and all was well! Shelby is out for six games and Adrianna is out for a few also.....Annalise Klamm, a freshman, made her varsity debut in a powerful way, leading the way with 17 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 5 steals! Great job little Lise!

The score at the half was 26-17 and the final score was 62-31, with Bigfork doubling their score. Karla Pula had a good night with 11, Jenna with 10, Jordan with 8, Nicolle and Megan with 6 each and Rachel rounding out with 4. The girls got their kinks out in the first half and came together in the second, playing great team ball.

They play at Tower-Soudan on Thursday, 11/30. Last year we beat Tower both regular season games but lost to them in the first round of playoffs by one point. It was a heartbreaker. Time for payback!

The JV also had a big win last night beating Cotton's JV 64-13! Wow....everyone played and I believe almost everyone scored. Coach Prato was very happy.

In other action in Section 7A, Nashwauk beat Tower, MIB beat Deer River and Littlefork beat Orr.

Rollover on way into town

I dropped Shelby off this morning on my away into Grand Rapids to get a "deer guard" put on my Explorer. (I've hit approximately 6 deer in the 14 years that we have been here) I went up Hwy. 38, which is a beautiful, but a very curvy, drive. I came around a corner and I saw a small pickup upside down in the ditch and two people running towards the truck. I stopped to see if I could help but there was already another guy down in the ditch with the young lady. Miraculously, she survived without a scratch. I don't know how, but she did, plus she missed landing in a small pond by 100 feet. A friend of hers just happened to stop while I was there and took her in his arms to comfort her. There wasn't anything that I could do, so I left the scene. On my way into town I passed 9 emergency vehicles on the way to accident. I was just happy to see that she was okay. It really made me think about when Shelby gets her license though and driving up Hwy 38. I think I will make her go up Hwy 6, forever!

Lots of kids stayed for open gym again, which is a great thing! Yesterday I thought of a wonderful idea for a team picture of the basketball team this year. This is the team picture of the volleyball team....we took this picture at the beginning of the season before the rest of the girls were moved up to varsity.

I found just what I was looking for at Walmart today, so hopefully I can get the girls on board and get a picture taken with my "idea"...I'll post it when I get it done...here's the volleyball picture.

Until tomorrow....

Basketball Meeting Today

The girls had their meeting today and good numbers showed up....have some new girls playing this year and a couple moving back to Bigfork from Arizona after about 4 years. Both played when they lived here before and both were good ball players. It will be interesting to see how they play ball in Arizona!

Lots of boys and girls staying after school to lift weights and shoot around on their own. The senior girls are pumped and ready to go....that is a good sign! When the coach asked what record will you settle for this year out of 26 games, 23-3? One senior said we will only settle for 26-0! They certainly have the ability this year and it's good to hear they are thinking that way before practices have even started.

I had to order Shelby new ankle braces tonight. We are going to try some different ones that seem more sturdy than the ones from last year. She wore those out during AAU anyway! She got an invitation to play AAU for the MN Stars next spring. It is by invitation only and an "elite" club so it will be interesting. We sent the paperwork in as they want to get their rosters in line this month.

Nothing more to add today...

Section 7A Championship Volleyball Game

Last night I went to the Section 7A Championship volleyball game pitting Littlefork-Big Falls against Cook, whom we lost to in the semi-final match. It was bittersweet watching this match and knowing that our girls should have been playing on that court and watching our friendly rivals, Littlefork, take the trophy home again and go to the Big Dance at the Xcel two years in a row....

We were pretty sure going in that LFBF would take it and they did. They survived a close 4th match, but pulled it out when it counted. We hope they do well next week at State!

The next match was Virginia against Pine-River Backus. Virginia lost their bid to the State Tournament last year against this same team, but came out last night and took it pretty easily. They are fun teams to watch and we were happy to see Virginia move on. One of the girls on the Virginia team went to volleyball camp this past July with our girls, so they were rooting for her. She had a good night. We also really enjoyed Virginia's band....they were wonderful!

Only one of our girls and her mom came to watch the 7A match as they were still too upset from our loss to Cook. We are already talking about next year and what we need to work on and who can fill the three spots that the seniors will be leaving...it will be tough, but we have some very committed girls waiting for their chance. It will be another good year for volleyball in Bigfork next year!

The Players....

These are the "players" from last year....could be a few girls moved up or have more playing time. *starters last year

Seniors ~ we can finally say we have seniors on our roster now!

#25 *Nicolle Worcester ~ 9.4 ppg
#14 *Jordan Beach ~ 6.3 ppg
#22 Karla Pula ~ 3.9 ppg

Juniors ~

#21 *Jenna Beckner ~ 13.3 ppg
#15 Christy Anderson ~ 5.9 ppg (may not play this year, won't know till practice starts)
#23 Rachel Kacon ~ 5.5 ppg
#11 Kara Knudsen


Sophomores ~

#3 *Shelby Goble ~ 14.4 ppg

Freshmen ~

#31 *Megan Powell ~ 8.4 ppg
#5 Annalisie Klamm ~ 5.7 ppg (mainly played JV last year)
#24 Adrianna Ivanovic ~ 4.7 ppg (mainly played JV last year), will be out for the first few weeks, broke the growth plate in her foot.....has lots of growing yet to do! Yippee!

This picture was taken when the girls played Northland Remer at the Target Center in Minneapolis last February.

Will add more on the girls and their tournaments/team camp/AAU stuff from this past summer.

27 Days and Counting....

My first posting on my first ever blog. I am the assistant volleyball coach at Bigfork High School in Bigfork, MN, love photography and LOVE watching my daughter and her fellow teammates play volleyball and basketball at Bigfork High School.

Our volleyball season just ended this past Tuesday evening (October 31, 2006) as we lost in the semi-final match against the Cook Gophers, 1-3. We had beaten this team in our last regular season match and should have beaten them again, but came up short as we had too many service errors. We had a very exciting season, overcoming a few obstacles that made the team stronger. It was sad to see the season end, especially for our three special seniors. We are going to miss their exceptional athletic abilities on the volleyball court next season!

Now is the countdown until the first girls basketball game at Bigfork this season. We should have a great season as we ended up last year 18-9, without a single senior for the past two years. The girls had a busy summer, with five of them playing AAU basketball for the Minnesota Gym Rats, and the rest playing for the team in summer tournaments and team camps.

The girls that played AAU ball, started practices in late March through April and then started playing in tournaments in Minneapolis/St. Paul every other weekend. Their teams made it to the MN AAU State Championship games in May and then went on to huge tournaments in Menominee, WI, Minneapolis, MN and Chicago, IL. They played ball against some of the toughest teams in Minnesota, plus teams from all over the country at the Nike Summer Showcase in Chicago. They've all learned alot from the experience and it will be fun to see how their skills have all improved once they start playing basketball for their high school team, the Bigfork Huskies.

Their first game is at home against the Cotton Cardinals. We lost to them last year on the road by 6 points. We had our opportunities but came up a little short. They lost their star player last year and we've only gotten stronger, so we should beat them at home this year.

Shelby called me from school and said that our starting point guard, Jenna Beckner, rolled her car last night and totaled the car. Luckily she was wearing her seatbelt and had no major injuries, just a sore arm, thank goodness.

Most of the girls are staying after school to start lifting weights on their own and to try and get some shooting time during open gym. They've only just gotten done with volleyball and are ready to get in shape for basketball practice that begins November 13th. A very dedicated group of young ladies!

I'll post more later on "The Players" on this year's team and how the team fared last year, plus some of the girls statistics from last year.