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Alfredson Named To Academic All-District Team
Mustangs Make 18 3-Pointers In Rout Of Midland
Mustangs Announce Three Additions For 2012-13
Alfredson Is GPAC Player Of The Week
Mustangs Cool Off Surging Northwestern
Trask Named GPAC Player Of The Week
Mustangs Ranked No. 2 In NAIA Pre-Season Poll
Coaches Tab Mustangs For Second Place Finish In GPAC Pre-Season Poll
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Fifth-ranked Morningside stretched its winning streak to five games with a 68-58 women’s basketball victory against Dakota Wesleyan University on Wednesday in Mitchell, S.D.
The win raised the Mustangs’ record to 19-6 overall and 13-3 in the GPAC to stay one-half game off the pace of league leader Concordia University.
The Mustangs pressured Dakota Wesleyan into a dismal 33.9 percent shooting performance and outrebounded their hosts by a slight 38-37 margin.
Chelsie Trask poured in a game and season’s high 27 points for the Mustangs. Trask, who finished two points shy of her career high, made nine of 16 field goal attempts, including five of eight shots from beyond the 3-point arc, and converted four of five free throw attempts.
Trask was joined in double figures by Hanna Blum, who contributed 10 points off the bench. Brittany Alfredson was next with eight points and Bobbi McManaman had six tallies.
Alfredson grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Mustangs to their rebounding advantage and paced the Mustangs on the boards for the seventh time in the last 10 games.
Shelby Beaudette led the Mustangs with seven assists.
Morningside will travel to Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday for a 2 p.m. game against Nebraska Wesleyan University.
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 Brittany Alfredson have been named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-District 5 College Division Women’s Basketball Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
She will be placed on the national ballot for the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Teams.
Alfredson, a 5-11 senior guard from Moville, Iowa, has a 3.66 cumulative GPA with a major in elementary education. She is the Mustangs’ second leading scorer and top rebounder with averages of 9.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per contest.
Athletes must be of at least sophomore academic status, be a starter or significant reserve, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher to be eligible for Capital One Academic honors.
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Morningside staged one of its most impressive offensive halves in school history when it coasted to a 102-52 women’s basketball triumph against visiting Midland University on Saturday.
The Mustangs scorched the nets at a sizzling 73.5 percent shooting pace in the first half when they raced to a 68-17 lead by the intermission. Morningside was especially impressive from beyond the 3-point arc with 14 treys in 19 attempts for 73.7 percent.
Chelsie Trask led the way by scoring all of her game-high 21 points in the first half, all on 3-pointers.
Morningside head coach Jamie Sale cleared his bench early in the second half as the Mustangs finished with their largest victory margin of the season. The Mustangs finished with 18 3-point field goals to finish one shy of a school record.
The Mustangs cooled off in the second half to finish the contest with a shooting mark of 55.1 percent. Midland, which shot just 31.8 percent in the first half, finished at 38.6 percent.
Aside from Trask, the Mustangs had three other players score in double figures. Brittany Alfredson scored 14 points behind a perfect six-for-six shooting performance from the field. Kalene Anderson and Nicole Rauner added 11 and 10 points, respectively. Bobbi McManaman and Ashley Schroeder just missed double figures with nine points each.
The freshman Schroeder also had a game-high eight rebounds to lead the Mustangs to a 36-34 advantage on the boards. Her nine points and eight rebounds were both season highs.
Randi Ebert dealt a game and career-high nine assists and Donell Betts had a game and season’s high five steals.
Morningside raised its record to 18-6 and climbed to 12-3 in the GPAC to move within one-half game of league leader Concordia University.
The Mustangs will play at road game at Dakota Wesleyan University on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
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Morningside College women’s basketball head coach Jamie Sale has announced the names of one transfer and two high school recruits who will join the Mustangs for the 2012-13 season.
The transfer is Ashlynn Muhl, a 6-0 forward from Taunton, Minn., who transferred to Morningside at the semester break from NCAA Division II Southwest Minnesota State University, where she was a member of the school’s volleyball team. The high school recruits are Jessica Tietz, a 6-1 forward from Bancroft, Neb., and Jordyn Wollenburg, a 5-10 forward from Gretna, Neb.
Muhl will have freshman eligibility with the Mustangs. Muhl is a 2011 graduate of Minneota High School, where she finished her career as the second leading scorer and third leading rebounder in school history with 1,615 career points and 1,045 career rebounds, respectively. She was a four-year varsity letterwinner and a three-time All-Camden Conference and Marshall Independent All-Area performer. Muhl scored in double figures in 74 of 76 games over the final three seasons of her high school career, including 30 games with 20 points or more.
Muhl was the Marshall Independent’s 2011 Player of the Year after she led Minneota to a 25-2 record and a Class A state tournament appearance as a senior. She averaged 18.4 points and 13.2 rebounds per game and drilled 58.2 percent of her field goal attempts en route to honorable mention all-state recognition. Muhl had season’s highs of 33 points and 23 rebounds when Minneota lost against eventual state champion Marantha Christian Academy in the opening round of the state tournament.
She averaged 20.9 points and 12.8 rebounds per game as a junior and also averaged a double-double as a sophomore with norms of 17.5 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. Muhl shot a career-high 62.8 percent as a junior with 208 field goals in 331 attempts. She went for career highs of 44 points and 26 rebounds against Dawson-Boyd as a junior.
Tietz is a senior at Bancroft-Rosalie High School, where she is a two-time first-team All-Lewis & Clark Conference performer and will graduate as a four-year varsity letterwinner. She is averaging 19.9 points, 9.2 rebounds, 2.2 steals, and 1.6 blocked shots per game so far this season.
As a junior, Tietz was the honorary captain of the Lincoln Journal Star’s 2011 Class D-1 all-state team and was a second-team Omaha World-Herald all-state selection. She averaged 23.0 points and 11.5 rebounds per game and set school single-season records with 507 points, a 23.0-point scoring average, and a field goal percentage of 67.6 percent.
Tietz averaged 11.4 points and 8.2 rebounds per game as a sophomore en route to honorable mention Class C-2 all-state honors from the Omaha World-Herald and Lincoln Journal-Star. She averaged 3.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game as a freshman for a Bancroft-Rosalie team that won Nebraska’s Class D-1 state championship with a 27-1 record.
Wollenburg is a senior at Gretna High School, where she is a four-year starter and a two-time first-team All-Eastern Midlands Conference performer. This season she is averaging 12.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.8 steals, and 1.9 assists per game. She has made 58 of 120 field goal attempts for 48.3 percent and 33 of 39 free throw attempts for 84.6 percent.
Wollenburg averaged 13 points, seven rebounds, two assists, and two steals per game as a junior en route to second-team Class B all-state honors from the Omaha World-Herald and honorable mention all-state recognition from the Lincoln Journal-Star.
The recruits will join a Morningside program that has made nine consecutive NAIA II National Tournament appearances and won NAIA II National Championships in 2004, 2005, and 2009.
 Brittany Alfredson, a 5-11 senior guard from Moville, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball Player of the Week.
Alfredson averaged 15.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 2.0 steals per game and drilled 10 of 13 field goal attempts for 76.9 percent to lead the Mustangs to victories against Northwestern College and Doane College last week.
She scored a game and career-high 18 points, led the Mustangs with eight rebounds, and had a game-high four steals in last Saturday’s 78-68 overtime win at Doane. Earlier in the week she had 12 points and a team-high eight rebounds in a 76-74 triumph at Northwestern when the Mustangs snapped the Red Raiders’ 11-game winning streak.
Alfredson is averaging a career-high 9.4 points and 7.0 rebounds per game and has been the Mustangs’ leading rebounder in 13 of their 22 games, including 10 of the last 14 games. Morningside has a 12-1 record when Alfredson has been the Mustangs’ leading rebounder.
Alfredson has drilled 20 of 32 field goal attempts for 62.5 percent and converted 16 of 18 free throw attempts for 88.9 percent over the last five games.
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Morningside cooled off the hottest team in the GPAC women’s basketball race with a 76-74 victory against Northwestern College on Wednesday in Orange City, Iowa.
The Red Raiders, ranked seventh nationally in the latest NAIA Division II poll, had an 11-game winning streak snapped and suffered their first loss since a 68-52 setback against the same Morningside team earlier this season on Nov. 22 in Sioux City.
Morningside, ranked No. 9 in the nation, climbed to 15-6 on the season and moved into a tie with defending NAIA II National Champion Northwestern for third place in the GPAC standings with 9-3 league records. Concordia leads the league with a 10-2 record, followed by Briar Cliff at 9-2.
The Mustangs had to rally from an 11-point second half deficit to pull the game out. Morningside took a 38-36 lead into the intermission, but Northwestern came out smoking in the second half and outscored its guest 17-4 over the first three minutes to open a 53-42 lead with 17:10 left in the contest.
Morningside answered with a 15-3 run of its own and regained the lead at 57-56 on a 3-pointer by Nicole Rauner with 12:14 to go.
Down 70-69 inside the five-minute mark, the Mustangs took the lead for good when Chelsie Trask made a pair of free throw with 4:51 left to put the Mustangs up 71-70.
Shelby Beaudette led the Mustangs with a season’s high 21 points to finish two shy of her career scoring high. Beaudette knocked down four of seven 3-point field goal attempts and led the winners with four assists.
Trask was next with 18 points, followed by Brittany Alfredson with 12, Hanna Blum with 11, and Nicole Rauner with eight.
Aside from providing the Mustangs with an 11-point performance off the bench, Blum also grabbed a career-high nine rebounds to share game honors with Northwestern All-American Kendra De Jong. Alfredson added eight caroms, but it wasn’t enough to prevent a slight 38-35 Northwestern rebounding advantage.
De Jong led Northwestern, 15-5, with 22 points and Kami Kuhlmann joined her in double figures with 17 tallies.
Morningside will travel to Crete, Neb., on Saturday for a 2 p.m. game against Doane College.
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 Chelsie Trask, a 5-9 junior guard from Rockford, Iowa, has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Women’s Basketball Player of the Week.
Trask averaged 19.3 points per game in the Mustangs’ three contests last week. She made 15 of 30 field goal attempts, five of 10 3-point field goal attempts, and 23 of 25 free throw attempts. Trask scored a season’s high 23 points in Morningside’s 68-52 win against Northwestern College on Nov. 22 and also had 23 points in a 77-76 loss against South Dakota School of Mines & Technology on Nov. 26. Trask scored 12 points when Morningside defeated Black Hills State University 69-58 on Nov. 25.
Trask, the Mustangs’ leading scorer with an average of 16.9 points per game, raised her career scoring tally to 960 points to put her 40 points shy of becoming the 21st women’s basketball player in Morningside history to reach the 1,000-point career milestone.
Morningside will take a 5-3 record and a No. 13 NAIA Division II national ranking into a Wednesday home game against No. 6 Grand View University.
 Morningside is ranked second in the nation in the 2011-12 NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Pre-Season Poll released on Oct. 24.
The Mustangs return 12 letterwinners, including three starters, from a team that finished 29-6 last season and reached the Final Four at the NAIA II National Tournament. Morningside has won three NAIA Division II National Championships in the last eight years and has made nine consecutive NAIA II National Tournament appearances.
The Mustangs will open the 2011-12 season on Saturday, Nov. 5, with a 7 p.m. home game against Mount Mercy College, which is ranked 25th in the pre-season poll.
Morningside is one of four teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) ranked in the NAIA II Top 25. Aside from Morningside, Northwestern College is ranked first, Briar Cliff University is fifth, and Concordia University is 22nd.
Click here for the complete NAIA II Women's Basketball Pre-Season Top 25.
 Morningside is picked for a second place finish in the GPAC Women’s Basketball Coaches Pre-Season Poll.
The Mustangs return 12 letterwinners and three starters from a team that posted a 29-6 record last season and reached the semifinals of the 2011 NAIA Division II National Tournament.
Morningside will open the 2011-12 campaign with a 7 p.m. home game against Mount Mercy College on Saturday, Nov. 5.
Click here for the complete 2011-12 GPAC Women’s Basketball Coaches Pre-Season Poll.
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