Boomer Spring League Week #4

March 4, 2014 - Tonight we face two of the stronger teams in the league, Jay County and Winchester,  also these are our first games at the high school. Our opponents played here last week.

Game 1 - Berne Bears 27   Jay County 8
As a coach I believe we got off to a slow start in this game. However, the halftime score was 15 - 2, so our defense certainly was successful. Kristen Wynn led all scorers with 13 points and was 3 for 5 at the free throw line. Jocelyn Willis anchored our defense with 7 steals to go with 8 points and 4 rebounds. We kept their shooters in front of us all night and contested every shot!

Game 2 - Berne Bears 29   Winchester - 18
This is the first team we have played that prepared for our half court trap. They broke through our trap quite a few times and hit some outside shots. Carlie Sealscott and Makayla Hamrick controlled the paint defensively and had 7 and 5 rebounds respectively. Peyton Pries scored in transition and in the half court with crossover drives to the basket to lead us with 10 points. Kristen Wynn scored 6 points. Jocelyn Willis shot 3 for 4 from the free throw line.

                                                           Peyton drives for two!

                                                           Warning: Bear Crossing!

Boomer Spring League Week #3

February 25, 2014 - The 3rd week of our league had us playing Blackford 4th grade and Blackford 3rd grade.

Game 1 - Berne Bears 43  Blackford 4th  19
Kristen Wynn led all scorers with a career high 20 points. Jocelyn Willis added 8 points and 8 rebounds. Peyton Pries scored 7 points with 3 rebounds and 3 assists. Carlie Sealscott had 6 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals, and 2 assists. Makayla Hamrick added 2 points with 6 rebounds.

Game 2 - Berne Bears 43  Blackford 3rd  10
Carlie Sealscott scored a career high 16 points with 7 rebounds and 3 steals. Jocelyn Willis added 12 points.
Our team defense was terrific once again!

                                                Kristen Wynn

                                          Carlie Sealscott using her tremendous speed to score.

                                                                      Bears on three!
                                                 

Boomer Spring League week #2

On February 18, 2014 we played against Bluffton and Winchester.

Game 1 - Berne Bears 39  Bluffton Future Tigers 8 - Our half court trap helped us get out to a 24-2 lead at halftime. Peyton Pries filled up the stat sheet with 6 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, and 4 steals. Jocelyn Willis had 16 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 steals. Macy Pries led us in steals with 7. Kristen Wynn had 12 points and 4 rebounds.

Game 2 - Berne Bears 28  Winchester Fourth  5 - Once again our defense was outstanding. Winchester did not score a single point until 7 minutes remained in the second half. Carlie Sealscott had 4 points, 8 rebounds, and 7 steals. Jocelyn Willis led all scorers with 16 points and added 8 rebounds. Kristen Wynn had 6 points and 5 steals.

2014 Boomer City Tip-off Tournament

On February 8, 2014 we traveled to Jay County for a doubleheader tournament against Hagerstown.

Game 1 - Berne Bears 25  Hagerstown 13 -  We started the game with a 15-2 run and never looked back.
Jocelyn Willis led all scorers with 14 points, Carlie Sealscott added 8 points. Peyton Pries led us in rebounds with 7 and Makayla Hamrick led us with 5 steals.

Game 2 - Berne Bears 28  Hagerstown 21 -  Peyton Pries and Jocelyn Willis scored 10 points each. Makayla Hamrick and Jocelyn Willis were our rebounding leaders with 7 each. Kristen Wynn lead us with 6 steals.

                                          Our First Championship!

Boomer Spring League week #1

Finally, after 2 weather postponements, our season begins on February 6, 2014.

Game 1 - Berne Bears 48  Bluffton Future Tigers 12

Game 2 - Berne Bears 42  Jay County 9

An excellent start, our defense proves to be very effective!

December 2013 - Work Begins...

Practices began in late December in preparation for the "Spring" league at Jay County on Feb. 10, 2014.
Our roster for our new, yet unnamed team:

#1 Macy Pries

#2 Callie Neuenschwander

#3 Kristen Wynn

#4 Makayla Hamrick

#5 Carlie Sealscott

#11 Peyton Pries

#23 Jocelyn Willis

#24 McKenzie Sturwold

Some early ideas for our new team name were: South Adams Select (too pretentious) - Berne Blaze - Berne Dragons. Finally it was decided.

Other Logos

A SALUTE TO THE TEAM WE BORROWED OUR NAME FROM

October 2013 - Where it all started.

We got our start as the 4th grade Jr. Lady Starfires. Thank you to Coach Freeman for getting us started.

Our first organized basketball experience was the Fall Boomer League at Jay County High School. We were together for all of two practices before our first doubleheader gameday. We lost both games that day to Jay County and MG Elite.

Conditioning and fundamentals became the focus of our practices thereafter and positive results followed. The next four weeks we were undefeated with key victories over Blackford and eventual league champion MG Elite by a score of 20-8. Defensively, we held them to 1 point in the first half.

The regular season was now complete. Despite our 0-2 start, we were now 8-2 and entered the postseason tournament as the number 3 seed. On tournament day, we advanced to the semi-final round and lost a very tough game against number 2 seed Jay County by the score of 26-25. The last possession of the game had us inbounding the ball under our own basket with 4 seconds left in the game. Makayla Hamrick passed the ball inbounds to Vivian O'Dell who then passed to Jocelyn Willis. Jocelyn shot a contested 15 footer to win the game which fell off the rim and our season was over. We finished with a 9-3 record.