Ines leads Red Rock Conference girls in field goal shooting percentage! MCC has three of top seven scorers, four of the 11 leaders in steals; Adrian’s Bailey Lonneman seventh was league’s seventh-best rebounder!
Murray County Central senior Ines Rios Ros is at the top of the field goal shooting percentage list of all the varsity girls’ basketball players in the 10-team Red Rock Conference for the recently-competed 2018-2019 winter season.
A foreign-exchange student from Spain, the versatile Rios Ros made 89-out-of-150 of her total field goal attempts in conference games for 59.3 percent, which is well above the second-place performance (34-of-63 for 54.0 percent) by Brooke Naas of Mountain Lake Area / Comfrey and the third-best percentage of 53.6 (45-of-84) by Red Rock Central’s Karli Arkell.
Rios Ros was just three-of-14 (21.4 percent) on three-point shots, but was a remarkable 86-of-134 (64.2 percent) on two-point field goal attempts.
Rios Ros also finished second in the conference in steals, fifth in scoring and seventh in rebounding as she fashioned an incredible all-around basketball season for the Rebels.
MCC, in fact, had three of the top seven scoring averages in the league and had four girls finish among the first 11 in steals.
Senior Montana Beckmann finished third among all Red Rock girls in scoring as she tallied 257 points in 15 conference games for an average of 17.1 points per game.
Hills-Beaver Creek senior Sidney Fick led the conference with 331 points in 16 games, averaging 20.7 ppg. Southwest Minnesota Christian junior Jazylnn Prins was second (319 points in 16 games for an average of 19.9).
Rios Ros scored 197 points in 14 conference games (14.1 ppg) to finish fifth and MCC junior Shelby Christensen was the league’ seventh-leading scorer. Christensen scored 198 points in 15 conference games for an average of 13.2 ppg.
Several other girls from Ellsworth, Heron Lake-Okabena / Fulda, and Adrian finished among the Top 30, including Ellsworth’s Ashlyn Meester (13th, 10.8), HL-O / Fulda’s McKenzie Evers (17th, 9.6), Adrian’s Bailey Lonneman (20th, 9.0), Ellsworth’s Kallie Chapa (22nd, 8.6), HL-O / Fulda’s Chrissy Hermeling (23rd, 8.3), Ellsworth’s Lizzie Chapa (24th, 8.1) and Adrian’s Avery Balster and Ellsworth’s Sierra Smith who tied for 26th with 121 points in 16 conference games for average of 7.6 ppg.
Lonneman was the seventh-leading rebounder in the conference, snagging a total of 131 rebounds in 16 league games for an average of 8.2 rebounds per game. Rios Ros was ninth (7.2), while Smith was 12th (5.8) and Kaili Chapa and HL-O / Fulda’s Kelsey Fuerstenberg tied for 16th as they both averaged 5.1 rebounds per conference game.
Edgerton’s Elizabeth Ockenga (10.4) and Southwest Christian’s Maren Nerem (10.3) were first and second in the league in rebounding.
Prins led the conference in steals (4.2 per game), while Rios Ros was second (3.8), Beckmann third (3.2), Christensen ninth (2.6) and Brianna Schmitz was 11th (2.3) as the Rebels had four of the league’s Top 11. Evers (12th, 2.1) and Morgan Gehl (16th, 1.9) gave the Coyotes two of first 16.
Schmitz (sixth, 2.9) and Kallie Chapa (eighth, 2.6) both were among the Top 10 in assists, while Adrian’s Moriah Bullerman finished 15th with her average of 2.2 assists per conference contest.
Red Rock Central’s Haley Simonson was the league leader in assists with 62 in 15 conference games for an average of 4.1, followed at the top by MLA / Comfrey’s Margo Stoesz (3.7) and Edgerton’s Gabrielle Buckridge (3.6).
In free throw shooting percentage, Fick was at the top with 84 percent (42-of-50) and Ellsworth’s Ashlyn Meester was an impressive fourth, making 33-of-40 free throws for 82.5 percent. Hermeling (sixth, 12-of-15, 80 percent), Adrian’s Jayden Zebe (eighth, 15-of-20, 75 percent) and Lonneman (10th, 26-of-35, 74.3 percent) were also among the best 10.
Kallie Chapa (14th, 17-of-24, 70.8), Christensen (15th, 41-of-59, 69.5), Smith (18th, 28-of-41, 68.3) and Beckmann (19th, 40-of-59, 67.8 percent) were all in the Top 20 in free throw shooting percentage.
Adrian’s McKinley Nelson finished second in the league in three-point field goal shooting percentage (10-of-25 for 40 percent) just one miss behind Hills-Beaver Creek’s Grace Bundesen (10-of-24 for 40.7 percent). Meester (fourth, 12-of-33, 36.4 percent), Bullerman (eighth, 9-of-27, 33.3), Christensen (10th, 15-of-46, 32.6), Lizzie Chapa (12th, 10-of-31, 32.3), Kallie Chapa (13th, 21-of-66, 31.8) and Hermeling (14th, 28-of-88, 31.8 percent) all shot better than 30 percent from three-point range.
In overall field goal shooting percentage — after Rios Ros, Naas and Arkell — Beckmann was ninth (102-of-204 for 50 percent) and both Lonneman (17th, 59-of-128, 47.1 percent) and Christensen (19th, 71-of-163, 43.6 percent) were among the league’s Top 20.
Congratulations goes to the Westbrook-Walnut Grove Chargers on their sub-section championship game victory over Southwest Minnesota Christian at Marshall Monday evening, 74-73. It’s the second sub-section title for the Chargers in the past three years. W-WG will play Dawson-Boyd at SMSU Thursday (8 p.m.) for the Section 3A championship with the winner advancing to next week’s state tournament.
