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Iowa PBS presents the 2024 IGHSAU Girls State Basketball Championships live from Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. The Clear Creek Amana Clippers take on the Waverly-Shell Rock Go-Hawks for the 4A title.
Aired: 03/02/24
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>> Welcome In To Downtown Des Moines.
It Is A Triple Header Of Iowa Girls' High School Hoops.
We've Crowned Two Champions In Class 5a And 3a Last Night.
And Today, Three More For 4a, 2a And 1a Right Here On Iowa Pbs.
There's Clear Creek Amana.
You Just Saw The Waverly-Shell Rock Go-Hawks.
Hello, I'm Paul Yeager.
Right Here.
An Excellent Let's Go Court Side With My Distinguished Colleagues Bj Schaben And Laura Leonard Of Their Call.
>> Thank You, Paul.
It Is Time For State Championship Basketball.
This Time, The Class 4a Title Game.
It's The Number 2 Seed Waverly- Shell Rock Against Clear Creek Ama.
With Laura Leonard, This Is Bj Schaben.
Two Unbeaten Teams Ready To Butt Heads.
>> Yeah.
And Fighting For Their First Championship Ever.
It's Going To Be Inside Game Most Of The Game.
Somebody Is Going To Have To Get Hot From The Outside.
>> Let's Take A Look At The Resumes For Waverly-Shell Rock.
The Seventh Trip To State.
They Have Katelyn Eggena.
The Freshman Lizzy Frazell.
Bothered By A Bad Ankle.
For Clear Creek Amana, Straight Trip To State.
Their Offense Can Post A Lot Of Numbers.
Look Out For The Leaders, Lower And Locklear.
Very Dynamic.
Let's Get Introduced More To These Teams.
Here's The Public Address Announcer, Tim Fitzpatrick.
>> Waverly-Shell Rock Fans, Let's Hear It For Your Go- Hawks.
Cca Fans, Let's Hear It For The Clippers.
>> Good Afternoon, Basketball Fans.
It's Now Time To Introduce Our Players And Coaches In Today's 4a Championship Matchup.
First Of All, Here Are Your Nonstarters And Assistant Coaches For The Waiver Shell Rock Waively Shell Rock Go- Hawks.
Number 2, Anaka Ott.
Number 4, Addie Ott.
Number 10, Natalie Beck.
Number 14, Ramey Dahlquist.
Number 20, Megan Heyer.
Number 24, Addie Kruse.
Number 30, Hannah Halbach.
Number 34, Emma Smith.
Number 40, Aubrey Victor.
And Number 42, Brittany Bodensteiner.
Your Assistant Coaches.
Dave Arns, Nick Willenborg, Chelsey Wedeking And Patrick Mulholland.
And Now, Let's Meet Your Nonstarters And Assistant Coaches For The Clear Creek Amana Clippers.
Number 3, Addesyn Campbell.
Number 5, Kiera Rogers.
Number 15, Lena Evans.
Number 20, Melissa Sweeney.
Number 23, Kennedy Stratton.
Number 34, Lexi Moran.
And Number 42, Kelsey Leathers.
Your Assistant Coaches.
Alex Schultejans, Declan Broeg And Sean Patrick.
>> Brad: Arkansas >> And Now, Here Are Your Starters For Waively Shell Rock.
Number 12, Lizzy Frazell.
For Clear Creek Amana, A 5'4" Senior, Number 1, Kaylee Stratton.
At Guard For The Go-Hawks, A 5'6" Senior, Number 22, Brenna Bodensteiner.
For The Clippers At Forward, A 5'11" Sophomore, Averie Lower.
For Waively Shell Rock At Forward, A 5'9" Junior, Number 32, Sidney Bienemann.
For Clear Creek Amana, Number 11, Sam Schrage.
At Forward, For The Go-Hawks, A 6'1" Senior, Number 41, Katelyn Eggena.
For The Clippers At Forward, A 6'2" Senior, Number 44, Bliss Beck.
And A Forward For Waverl-Shell Rock, A 6-Foot Senior, Emma Thompson.
For Clear Creek Amayna, A 5'11" Senior, Number 45, Ava Locklear.
Head Coach For The Go-Hawks Is Greg Bodensteiner.
For The Clippers, Pj Sweeney.
Now, Ladies And Gentlemen, Let Me Introduce Your Officials For Today's 4a Championship Game As Assigned By The Iowa Girls' Athletic Union.
Chad Shellmeyer.
Michael Anderson.
Zack Clarke And Your Bench Official, Dedra Moore.
All Right.
Who's Ready To Win A State Championship?
>> All Right.
Let's Play Some Basketball.
Waverly-Shell Rock, Clear Creek Amana.
What Do The Go-Hawks Need To Do To Get The First State Title?
>> They Need To Handle The Size On The Inside And Find Ways To Score In The Paint.
They Averaged 26 Points In The Point In The Tournament.
They Got To Get Paint Touches Or Post Touches.
They Need To Go To The Glass.
The Offensive Boards.
They Need A Chance For Second Chance Opportunities.
For Clear Creek, They Need To Share The Basketball.
Change Up Defenses.
We Saw Them Do That In The Semifinals.
They're A Straight, Aggressive Man-To-Man Defense.
They Switched Up To A 1-3-1.
>> Locklear's Shot Not There.
The Putback Missed By Beck.
And This Is Going To Be Tied Up.
Possession Arrow Gives It To Waverly-Shell Rock Wearing Their Black Uniforms With Gold Numbers Trimmed In White.
For The Clippers They Have The White Uniforms In Navy Numbers And Trimmed In Black.
We Take A Look At The Lineups For Waverly-Shell Rock.
And For Clear Creek Amana.
Lower, Beck, Schrage, Stratton And Locklear.
Keep An Nigh On Number 12 For Waverly-Shell Rock.
We Talked About This During The Pregame.
Last Second Of The Semifinals, Injured Her Ankle And Was Carried Off The Court.
>> I Mean, It Was Literally The Last Second Of That Ball Game.
And The Way They Got Her Off The Court, She Could Not Put Any Pressure On That Foot, And From Our Understanding Was In A Walking Boot Yesterday.
We'll Keep An Eye On Her And See How She Moves.
Looks Like She's Moving Around Pretty Good On The Floor Right Now.
>> Locklear With Another Rebound.
Ava Will Bring It Up.
Got To Stop Ball.
Locklear At The High Post.
>> How About That?
A Nice Little Flip Pass As Lower Comes Right By Her And Flips Her The Basketball And Gets A Good Path To The Hoop.
>> So Averie Lower, Gets Clear Creek Amana On The Board.
Beck, The Drake Volleyball Recruit Gets The Rebound.
Lower Goes To The Line To Shoot Two.
>> That's What Clear Creek Amana Wants To Do.
Get Out And Run And Push Tempo.
Get The Ball Up The Court As Quickly As They Can.
Look At That Pass From Locklear.
That Is Pinpoint Pass, One Handed Out Of The Diagonal On The Run.
>> Lower, What You Need To Know About This Sophomore At 5'11".
She Can Shoot.
Shoot Some More.
>> And Shoot Again.
>> And Shoot Again.
She Is Terrific From The Field At 59%.
>> Here In The Tournament, 8 Of 13 From Beyond The Arc.
That Tells You She's A Shooter And Feels Comfortable In This Setting.
>> Waverly-Shell Rock On The Board.
Bienemann On The Board.
>> She Had 15 Rebounds The Other Day In The Semis.
She's Put Up 12 And 7 Points Respectively In Their Two Games.
>> Here's Beck On The Block.
Schrage Working Her Way In.
They're Going To Have To Reset With 10 On The Shot Clock.
Here's Lower.
Tough Defense By The Go-Hawks.
Locklear In The Paint.
We'll Go To The Line To Shoot Two.
>> Boy, Clock Winding Down.
That's Kind Of A Bailout Foul.
Didn't Have A Great Angle.
Locklear Didn't As She's Driving Through, And Just With The Body Right There.
Eggena Gets Her.
>> That'll Be Her First.
Locklear Able To Get The Second One Down.
You Can Tell First Ever State Championship For Clear Creek Amana.
Waverly-Shell Rock The Same Way.
A Little Bit Of Nerves For Both Teams As We Work Our Way In.
Eggena Says Forget About The Nerves, I Got This.
>> Wow.
What A Move.
She Just Kind Of Dips One Way Over The Right Shoulder, And Then Comes Back Over The Left Shoulder.
Gets It To The Glass.
That Was One Heck Of A Move.
>> The Three At The Top.
What A Roll For Averie Lower.
Gave Her The Nice Bounce Off The Rim, Off The Board.
That's The Kind Of Shooter She Is.
Shooters Seem To Get That Little Soft Touch Off The Glass.
>> Eggena Goes Back To Her Left.
Can't Get It To Go.
Thompson's Shot Knocked Away By Locklear.
And This Is Going To Go To The Clippers.
>> Boy, Good Inside Rebound.
Thompson Was In There.
Got The Weak Side Board Off The Shot.
She Had Great Position.
Was Not Aware That Locklear Was On The Backside.
A Lot Of Times You Get In There And Give The Pump Fake To Get The Defender In The Air.
>> Lower With The Stepback.
Schrage With The Board.
And Then It's Turned Over.
Frazell Will End Up With It.
The Young Freshman Averaging 11 Points A Game.
Had 21 Points As A Season High Season Against Bondurant-Farrar.
Likes To Play Against Blue And White Colors.
Thompson Will Be Fouled And Will Go To The Line To Shoot Two.
>> Boy, A Lot Of Traffic When The Ball Goes Down Low.
Clippers Are Converging Into The Post.
You Can See On The Backside, They're Playing Behind.
Got A Little Help.
Don't Know If It Was By Design, But Beck Was In There As Well Causing Some Problems.
>> Thompson Misses The First One.
Locklear Picked Up The Foul.
Emma Thompson, The 6-Foot Senior Going To Play Sophomore At Laurist.
>> Coach Said She's Gotten Better Every Single Year.
Bought Into The System And Wanted To Be A Part Of What This Team Was Going To Be.
Knowing They Would Be Good.
Worked Her Way In The Starting Part Of This Team.
This Man-To-Man Defense Not, Last Night We Saw Really Aggressive Defense In The Two Championship Games We Did Last Night.
This Is Aggressive, But It's Kind Of A Controlled Aggressiveness.
It's Not Allowing Them To Put The Ball In The Floor, Get Inside And Get To The Rim.
They're Really Dictating Where Clear Creek Goes With The Basketball.
>> The Clippers Had To Spend A Lot Of Time On That Last Offensive Possession To Get A Clean Look At The Basket.
And Now Lena Evans Will Come Into The Contest.
She'll Check In For Sam Schrage.
Lena Plays A Lot Of Minutes.
The Team's Third Leading Scorer Averaging Nine Per Game, But Has A Slow Start Tournament.
>> You Like To Have Players Like That Coming Off The Bench That Understand They Get A Chance To Sit And Watch The First Few Minutes Of The First Quarter.
Understand The Flow Of The Game.
Kind Of See Some Things That Are Happening And How They Might Be Able To Help.
>> A Steal By Bodensteiner.
Each Team Shooting Right At 29% So Far Here In The Opening Quarter.
Here's A Three By Frazell.
Locklear Down The Court.
Too Much On The Pass.
>> Going For The Post Drive.
The Deep Touchdown Throw.
Overthrew The Receiver For Goodness Sakes.
That Throws You The Strength Of Locklear.
She Is, As Soon As She Gets The Ball In Her Hand, She's Got Eyes Up, And She Saw That Evans Was Out In Front Of Everybody.
Just A Little Too Strong With That.
>> The Ball Is Going To Be Tracked Down In The Corner.
Game For Waverly-Shell Rock.
Here's Eggena.
The Defense Cleared, And Eggena Knocks Down The Shot.
>> Eggena Has The Ability To Stop Quickly, Make A Move And Then Come Back To Center And Get Squared Up.
>> Beck On This End.
What A Move.
Through The Lane To Get The Left Hand Shot Down.
That's Her First Bucket.
>> Has A Few Inches On Brittany Bodensteiner.
Was Able To Separate Herself And Get To The Glass.
>> Eggena Will Work It In.
Going To Be Called For A Travel.
>> It Looks Like They're Wanting To Get Eggena The Ball And Let Her Put It On The Floor And See If She Can Create Something.
You Know, The Defense For Clear Creek Has Done A Good Job Of Not Only Having The One Player On It, But Getting Some Backside Help Or Front Side Make Her Move To The Hoop.
>> Emma Thompson Back In The Game For Bodensteiner.
Here's Locklear.
That's Lower.
Ring It Up.
>> Locklear Was On The Right Side Of The Floor.
She Saw Lower Sitting Over There In The Corner.
Got Herself Into Position On The Baseline And Threw A Bullet Down The Baseline To Lower.
>> Folks, Locklear Was One Assist Away From A Triple Double, In Case You Missed It.
Earlier This Week Against Gilbert.
Had A Couple Of Opportunities To Get It, Her Teammates Just Couldn't Hit A Shot.
But, It Just Speaks To Her Capabilities Out On The Floor.
>> We're Going To Get A Chance To See How She Gets Herself In A Good Angle.
That's A Tough Pass.
The Defense Was Right There.
She Had To Thread The Needle To Get It To Lower.
>> Megan Heye Into The Game With The Ball For Waverly-Shell Rock.
Here's Frazell.
Kind Of At Bay With That Bum Ankle.
Worked It In.
Kept The Pivot And Last Touched By The Clippers.
>> They Are Making It Tough Going To Get The Ball Inside.
Even On The Dribble Penetration.
So I Think Waverly-Shell Rock Is Going To Have To Start Looking For Some Shots From The Outside.
That Kind Of Goes To Brenna Bodensteiner.
They Need To Get Her Open To Get Looks From Beyond The Arc Or At Least Mid Range.
>> Thompson Underneath And Rejected By Locklear.
>> That's What You Like To See.
She Made The Nice Move.
Gave A Pump Fake And Get Locklear In The Air.
>> Schrage Fighting And The Rebound To Thompson.
There's A Half Second Difference Between The Shot Clock And Game Clock.
Let's See If Waverly-Shell Rock Holds For One.
>> Looks Like They Are.
Defense Isn't Forcing The Issue Here.
>> Team Out Of The Northeast Conference.
Went 10-0 This Year, Did Waverly-Shell Rock.
Again, Inside Of Ten Now.
Frazell Has To Go.
Gets The Double Screen High.
The Deep Three.
Wide Of The Mark.
Still A Little Bit Of Time.
Lower Half Court Heave.
A Little Too Much On It.
That'll Bring Us To The End Of The Opening Quarter.
A 5 Point Advantage For Top Seeded Clear Creek Amana.
Let's Go Back To Tim Fitzpatrick For More.
>> Fans, Each Year At The State Basketball Tournament, The Iowa Bankers Association Presents A Student Athlete Achievement Award To A Student Athlete In Each Class Who Excels On The Court, In The Classroom And In Their Community.
The Recipients Receive A $1,000 Scholarship To The College Of Their Choice.
The 2024 Student Athlete Achievement Award Winner For Class 4a Is Emily Vermere From Sioux Center High School In Sioux Center.
>> All Right.
Where Oh Where Do These Two Teams Hail From?
As We Take A Look At A Tradition Like None Other.
The High School Map Here In The State Of Iowa.
You Can See Waverly-Shell Rock, About 120 Miles From Des Moines.
And Clear Creek Amana, Straight Down I-80.
About 108 Miles Away From Des Moines.
>> Well, Clear Creek Amana Is Treating This Week As A Business Trip.
So They Are Here.
They're Driving Back.
Coming Back Over For Each Of Their Games.
And They Thought They'd Switch Things Up A Little Bit This Year Compared To Others.
>> Yeah.
When They've Been Top Seeded Before They Stayed Overnight In A Hotel.
Coach Pj Sweeney Says People We're Going To Do That And Get Rest.
It's Funny.
The Players Throughout The Week Are Saying Coach, Coach, We Want To Get A Hotel.
We Want To Get A Hotel.
Maybe That Might Happen Tonight If They Bring Home The Hardware.
On The Other Side, For Head Coach Greg Bodensteiner.
Nearing The 300 Win Mark.
He's Got 292 Coming Into This One.
And, Of Course, Trying To Bring Home The Schools' First Ever State Championship For Waverly- Shell Rock.
>> He Said When He Took The Job And He Knew His Girls Were Going To Be Coming Up Through The Ranks And Through The Grades, He Goes This Is Something That You Dream Of.
Getting To The State Title Game With Your Two Daughters.
He Got A Little Emotional Talking About It, Which Is Great.
It's Something They've Worked For And Something That Means A Whole Heck Of A Lot To Them.
They're Hoping They Can Bring Home The Title.
>> The Shot Is Short And Locklear With Another Rebound.
She Has Four Here On The Afternoon.
Still A 5 Point Advantage.
Frazell Will Come Up With The Ball.
You Can Tell The Freshman Is Not At Full Speed.
>> She's A Little Tentative.
The Cuts Aren't As Good As They Normally Would Be.
She's Not Cutting As Hard.
She Did Get Off One Shot, And It Looked Okay.
It Didn't Look Like She Was In Pain.
Some Of The Moves Aren't As Crisp As They Normally Are.
>> Still A 5 Point Game.
Beck Underneath.
Can't Get It To Fall.
Waverly-Shell Rock Shooting Just Right At 20% For The Game.
That's 3 Of 15.
>> Yeah.
And They're Not Getting Blown Out.
Neither Team Really Shooting It Very Well.
Defense Has Stepped Up Big Here In This Ball Game.
Both Teams Trying To Get It In The Post And Establish That Inside Game.
And Playing Behind.
They're Getting Their Hands On >> Locklear Able To Knock That One Down.
The Sagna State Recruit Buying It.
>> Yeah.
Shoot It, Rebound, Pass It.
They're Going To Get A Good Recruit.
How Did She Made That Decision And She Said You Know What, The Coach Contacted Me Late And I Went And Made A Visit, And It Just Felt Like Home.
As You Can See What She Can Do.
Dishes The Ball Off And Gets In A Couple More Steps.
Receives The Pass Back And Catches It In Rhythm And Knocks It Down.
>> Everything We've Seen And What Everybody Has Said, Saginau State Is Getting A Steal In Ava Locklear.
>> I Would Agree.
What We've Seen From Her.
Our Sample Size Is Small.
Two And A Half Games, Basically.
Really Like The Way She Controls The Pace Of The Game.
She Handles The Basketball.
Has A Good Looking Jump Shot.
She Battles For Rebounds.
Another Coach On The Floor Saying What Are We Going To Do?
Directing Traffic Out There.
>> Those Were A Couple Of Big Free Throws By Brenna Bodensteiner.
She Had One Free Throw As The Ball Is Knocked Out, Last Touched By The Clippers And Waverly-Shell Rock Gets It Back.
They Have The Starting Five Out On The Floor.
And For Clear Creek Amana, It's Lena Evans And Kennedy Stratton, Bliss Beck, Locklear And Lower.
Here's Eggena In The Paint.
The High Kickoff To Frazell To Reset.
>> Eggena Is Trying To Get Herself Positioned Down Low, And Beck Has Been Right There The Entire Time.
Not Going For Any Of The Fakes.
Just Holding Her Position And Straight Vertical.
>> Now Locklear.
>> The Defense Does Not Look Like You're Up In Their Face Or Anything, But They're Just Doing A Good Job Of Really Keeping Them Out And Not Allowing Them To Score.
However, They Get The Good Cut There And The Easy Bucket.
They Made Them Work For It.
>> The Lead Is Back To Seven.
Eggena On The Drive.
Knocked Away By Beck.
>> Beck With That Volleyball Training Knows How To Time A Jump.
>> I'd Say.
Now This Way, Bodensteiner Denied.
Locklear Out Ahead.
>> Boy, Locklear.
Just Watch Her Eyes As She's Bringing The Ball Down The Floor.
Wants To Get Out And Make A Pass.
Coach Bodensteiner Is Going To Call A Timeout After That.
Here By Waverly-Shell Rock.
18-9 Your Score.
And It Has Been A Block Party For The Clippers.
>> There's The First One By Beck.
Keeping Eggena At Bay.
And Then On The Other Side, Bodensteiner Goes In And Locklear Rises Up And Gets The Block.
>> Let's Go Inside The Clear Creek Amana With Their Head Coach Pj Sweeney.
>> Box Out And Rebound And Continue To Run.
Stay In 41.
>> They Want To Continue To Run.
Box Out.
All Fundamental Things That You Teach Your Players.
You Box Out, You Get The Rebound.
You Can Get Out And Run.
That's A Big Part Of Their Offense Is Getting One And Done And Then Turning And Going The Other Way.
>> Clear Creek Amana Owning The Inside.
They Have Six Blocks So Far.
Ava Locklear With Four Of Them, And Just Two Fouls.
>> They've Done A Good Job When They Are Going For The Blocks.
They're Avoiding Any Kind Of Body Contact, And They're Not Swatting At Anything.
They're Going Up Vertical Hands Straight In The Air.
>> Stratton For Three.
And The Rebound To Thompson.
Now A Foul On Beck.
That Will Be Her First.
>> Beck Just Trying To Make A Play.
Those Are Ones That Coach Doesn't Like To See You Make That Far Away From The Basket.
>> Waverly-Shell Rock Can Rebound.
In Fact, They Lead Class 4a In Rebounding.
In Rebounding Margin.
Here's A Three By Bodensteiner.
How About That?
Brenna Dialing It Up.
>> You Had Talked About The Fact That She Had Kind Of Struggled Here In The Tournament.
For Her To See One Go In Might Get Her Rolling.
>> Eggena With The Tough Defense.
Frazell Ready To Work.
You Can Tell Both Teams Really Want To Get It To The Interior.
>> Yeah.
They're Being Just Very Patient, Trying To Get Somebody Set Up.
>> Here's Thompson.
Got The Inside Move.
Might Have Felt Locklear Behind Her.
The Rebound To Lower To Ahead To Schrage And To Beck Who Finishes.
>> Thompson Was Trailing And Couldn't Get The Block.
You're Right.
Initially, Thompson Felt Locklear On The Backside.
Rushed Her Shot.
Allowed Them To Get The Rebound And Get The Run Out.
>> The Lead At Eight.
This Will Be Turned Over By Waverly-Shell Rock.
>> Again, The Running Game Going.
And Then The Cut As Beck Fills The Lane.
Just Running The Floor And Filling Whatever Lane Is Open.
They're Doing A Good Job Of Finding One Another.
>> Eight Point Advantage.
Here's Lower.
Tough Shot.
Couldn't Get It To Fall.
Rebound Comes To Bienemann.
>> Just Ran A Wave Up Top And Trying To Get Closer To The Hoop And See If They Can Shake Something Loose And Get A Clean Drive.
Instead, Lower Pulls Up And Shoots A Tough Shot.
>> This Shot Off The Mark For Waverly-Shell Rock.
4 Of 21 Here In The First Half.
Locklear Ahead To Stratton.
Can't Get It To Fall.
Locklear With The Rebound And Goes To The Line To Shoot Two.
>> Something Is Going To Happen When You Get Locklear Out 3 On 2 Break.
Makes A Nice Lead Pass.
Couldn't Finish It Off, But She's Right There On The Opposite Side To Grab The Offensive Rebound.
>> So Ava Locklear To The Line.
Bienemann Picks Up Her Second.
And Clear Creek Amana Starting To Get Some Space Here.
The Largest Lead At Nine.
>> You Know, Waverly-Shell Rock Has Had Some Good Looks At The Hoop.
They've Had Some Point-Blank Shots.
Just Haven't Gotten Them To Fall.
Part Of That Is The Presence In The Middle Of The Defense Of Locklear And Beck.
>> Addie Kruse Into The Contest For The First Time For Waverly- Shell Rock.
Brittany Bodensteiner Also Back In.
Inside Of Ten On The Shot Clock.
Bodensteiner Gets It To Eggena.
That Shot Off The Mark And The Rebound Goes To Schrage.
>> Boy, Eggena Just Having A Tough Time Getting Any Kind Of A Look.
Everything Is Contested That She Puts Up.
>> Kick Out To The Corner.
Locklear Gives Way To Lower.
Beck Inside To Schrage, And A Travel Will Be Called On Clear Creek Amana.
Just A Smidge Inside Of A Minute To Play Here In The First Half.
Waverly-Shell Rock Will Go To The Bench.
Megan Heyer Will Check Back In.
Eggena Will Now Rest.
Also Coming In Is Bodensteiner.
Inside Thompson Swatted Away By Beck.
Waverly-Shell Rock Will Keep It.
They'll Have To Reset.
Frazell For Three.
>> And Only White Jerseys Around The Rim That Time As That One Comes Off.
Frazell Had A Good Look At It.
Again, Just A Little Short, And Clear Creek Going To Take A Timeout.
>> Pj Sweeney Wanting To Take A Timeout And Designing A Final Play With 30 Seconds To Go.
Let's Go Inside Of The Waverly- Shell Rock Huddle.
>> We're Fine.
Let's Go.
>> Hey, We've Gotten Good Looks That Haven't Gone In.
This End You Got To Find A Way To Get One More.
One More Stop Here.
Okay?
Find A Way To Get More One And Go To Half And Regroup.
Go-Hawks, One, Two, Three.
>> It's All About Getting The Stops.
You Don't Want To Have Them Score A Bucket Before Halftime And Get All That Momentum Going Into The Locker Room.
They're Looking To Get The Stop And Possibly If They Can Get It Early Enough, Come Down And Get A Bucket Of Their Own.
>> Ten Point Game.
Clear Creek Amana.
Going To Hold For One.
Averie Lower Leading The Way, As She Has Nine.
Ava Locklear With Six.
All From The Free Throw Line.
That's Schrage For Three.
Left It Short.
Locklear Rebound And Putback Is There With The Left Hand.
And That Will Be The End Of The First Half.
Clear Creek Amana Has Doubled Up Waverly-Shell Rock.
24-12 Through The First 16.
Let's Go To Paul Yeager Who Is Standing By.
>> Thank You Very Much, Bj.
Thank You Very Much, Laura For Your Work There.
I Was Just Looking At The First Half Statistics As We Get Ready For Coach Pj Sweeney To Join Us.
He's Walking Across The Court Now.
Standby For That.
Is 4 Of 24, 17%.
We'll Ask Coach About That.
We'll Show You Highlights.
Coach Sweeney, I Was Talking About Your Defense On Waverly- Shell Rock.
You're Holding Them To 17% Field Goal Percentage.
Good Defense.
Is That Is What Is Working For You?
>> Yeah.
Absolutely.
We Talked About Pushing Up The Lane Lines And Making Things Difficult And Pushing Them To Sidelines And Half Court.
They Like To Run The Offense Through The Post.
We're Trying To Push Away From That.
>> Bj And Laura Have Been Talking About The Inside Defense.
What's Working In There?
>> Yeah.
We're Playing Three Quarters And Trying To Frustrate Them And Bliss With Her Length And Athleticism Is Giving 44 Some Fits And Hopefully We Can Continue That Into The Second Half.
>> Real Quick.
Ava Is Having A Good First Half.
>> Yeah.
No Surprise There.
Ava Is A Baller.
You Know, She's Going To Give Us Everything She Has.
I Like Our Chances With Her.
>> Appreciate Your Time.
Thanks, Coach.
>> Thank You.
Head Coach Of Clear Creek Amana.
They Lead At Halftime.
This Is One Of The Ones You'll Want To Watch Over And Over Again.
It's The All-Iowa Dance Team.
>> Ladies And Gentlemen, The All-Iowa Honor Dance Team Is Making Its 43rd Appearance At The Iowa Girls' State Basketball Tournament.
95 High School Dance Teams Are Represented On This Year's Team.
Over 550 Dancers Auditioned In Newton Last Fall For The 252 Positions.
Rehearsals Took Place At Grand View University Beginning Thursday This Week.
All Schools Are Members Of The Iowa State Dance Team Association.
Choreographers Are The Following:The Director Of The All-Iowa Honor Dance Team Is Cathy Inyard.
Spectacular Show Of Talent.
Ladies And Gentlemen, The 2024 All-Iowa Honor Dance Team.
>> The 2024 All-Iowa Honor Dance Team.
>> That's So Good, Isn't It?
Every Single Year.
Cathy, Thank You So Much For Putting All That Work Together.
Emily Brown Doesn't Let Autism Or Her Blindness Define Her.
Through Determination And Persistence, She Has Found Joy In Trying New Things And Celebrates A Long List Of Accomplishments.
>> Emily Has That Glow Around Her Of Like I'm Here.
>> Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
>> She Walks In The Room And Everyone Is Like Wow.
I Like Her.
>> Hi, Everyone.
This Is My House.
I'm Emery Brown, And Let's Go Through It.
What You Saw Over There Was My Cat.
And She's Going To Come With Us, Hopefully.
There It Is.
I Can't See.
I'm Visually Impaired.
I'm Blind.
Fully Blind To Be Exact.
Because I Am On The Autism Spectrum.
You Don't See That When I Sing.
I'm In My Happy Place.
It Feels Special.
It's Peaceful.
It Feels Like I Can Be Myself.
I Sang For Our Former President, Barack Obama In 2016 At North High School.
And It Felt So Great To Actually Tell People I Can Do Anything.
If You Want To Be Happy, Do What It Is That Makes You The Happy Person.
>> Emily Wanted To Take Dance Class When She Was Younger.
She Likes To Dance, Especially When She Gets To Make Noise With Her Feet.
She Was Told No.
We Also Had To Wait To A Point In Emily's Development She Was Ready To Do That.
>> Believe Me.
I Understand What Discrimination Is Like.
You Can't Do This.
Well, Can I Try It?
Can't Do, And Then I'll Show You My Techniques Of How I Can Do Stuff.
I Have Lots Of Training From The Iowa Department For The Blind In Des Moines That Has Helped Me Throughout My 26 Years Of Life.
>> When Emily Was A Baby, She Was A Very Good Baby.
Everyone Was Saying Yes, She Has An Eye Disorder, But They're Not Telling You The Receive Involvety Of What's Going On.
Slowly It Starts Unfolding Into This Good Baby Turns Into A Very Upset Baby.
>> At First It Was Hard.
I Will Admit.
Like When I Was Trying To Ask For Something, I Couldn't.
So I Threw Fits.
I Hit Myself, Threw Myself On The Ground.
I Screamed And Cried.
>> I'm Really Proud Of Emily For All Of The Things She's Accomplished.
She's Overcome A Lot Of Issues With Even, You Know, Being Scared To Try New Things.
It Can Be Scary.
>> Let Me Win.
But If I Cannot Win, Let Me Be Brave In The Attempt.
That's Right.
Special Olympics.
We Found This Amazing.
It's A Pageant For People With Special Needs.
And Then My Favorite Part Is Passion Presentation.
And It's Like A Talent Portion.
And For Me, Mine Was Singing.
And I Did "At Last" At Last, My Love Has Come Along.
>> Emily Loves To Do Pageants.
She Loves To Sing.
Her Heart Is To Prove To Others She Has Abilities.
>> I Did The Iowa And Illinois Miss Heart Of The Usa Because I Wanted To See What It's Like Doing A Pageant With People Without Special Needs.
I'm Like You Know What, It's Time To Integrate.
My Theme, You Guessed It, Dirt Track Racing.
I Always Have A Huge Heart For Dirt Track Racing.
I Love The Feel Of It, The Vibration.
>> We Are Here To Show The World Just Because An Individual Has Special Needs Doesn't Mean That You Cannot Give To Others.
Doesn't Mean That They Don't Have Something Extremely Special To Share With The World.
>> So I'm Hoping In The Future I Want To Be A Singer And Show People My Life's Story.
And I Want To Tell Them How Far I Came On This Journey.
I'm Excited To See Where This Journey Goes.
>> What An Extraordinary Young Lady.
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When We Come Back, We're Going To Take A Look At The First Half Highlights And Get You Ready For Half Number Two.
This Is Class 4a Clear Creek Amana By 12.
>> Halftime.
Clear Creek Amana Leads Waverly- Shell Rock 24-12.
Let's Take A Look At The First Half Highlights.
From Our On Site Sports Desk At Wells Fargo Arena In Downtown Des Moines.
In This First Half, It Was A Lot About Defense.
A Lot Of Blocks And Inside Play.
Wait A Minute.
There Wasn't Any Inside Play.
Eggena Goes In And For Waverly And Tries To Score.
She Was Held To Four Points.
We're Showing You It's Not Been Easy For Katelyn Trying To Make The Shots.
Then There's Defense.
There's The Block From Behind By Locklear.
Then A Drive By Bodensteiner.
Again, Locklear Another Block.
She Had Four.
The Team Has Eight.
Then Ava Lower With A Couple Of Big Buckets.
There's The Nice Pass From Ava To Ava And The Score.
That's How The First Half Has Looked.
Joining Us Now Is Waverly-Shell Rock Head Coach Greg Bodensteiner.
At Half, You Can Read The Statistic Sheets Like The Rest Of Us Can.
How Do You Get Better Open Shots?
>> They're Playing Fantastic Defense.
You Got To Give Them Credit.
We Have 17 Shots For The Two Post Players But Not The Shots We Needed To Get.
We Got To Play Together And Over Dribbled Some And Didn't Execute Our Offense As Well As We Needed To.
I'd Like To Get Up 17 More Shots But In The Flow Of Our Offense.
>> We Talked In Our Pregame About Your Two Post Players.
I'm Guessing That's Part Of The Recipe In The Third Quarter.
>> Yeah, For Sure.
They Got Great Post Players.
They Took Advantage Of That In The First Half.
We're Going To Have To Find A Way In The Second Half To Get Our Kids In The Spot With The Ball In Their Hands And Have An Advantage To Get A Chance To Score.
>> Coach, I Appreciate Your Time.
That's Head Coach Of Waverly- Shell Rock Go-Hawks Greg Bodensteiner.
We Asked Him Earlier With His Handicap In Golf Is.
I'll Let Laura Tell That Story.
I Want To Thank All The Coaches From All The Teams For Their Insight And Providing Us Some Information.
We Certainly Thank You For Helping Us Put On A Better Tournament And Hope You Enjoy It At Home.
We'll Go Back To To The Court.
Bj Schaben And Laura Has Called 5a And 3a And Continue Forget, We Have Two More Games To Go.
2a And 1a.
First, Let's Find Out How This Plays Out.
What's His Handicap, Laura?
>> It's Pretty Good.
He's Like A Scratch Golfer.
Pretty Good.
You Want Him On Your Team If You're Playing The Best Ball.
>> All Right.
He's Going To Hit The Back Nine For This One For The Second Half.
The Good Thing For Waverly- Shell Rock, It's Only A 12 Point Deficit.
>> They're Not Out Of This Ball Game.
If They Can Find A Way To Get The Post Touches.
You Heard Coach Say They.
They Want To Get The Ball Inside And Get Better Looks And Get It Within The Flow Of The Offense.
They Forced A Few Things In That First Half.
>> For Clear Creek Amana, Ava Locklear, We're Getting Very Close To Being On Quadruple Double Alert.
>> It's Crazy.
She Has 10 Rebounds, 7 Points.
She Has A Ton Of Blocks.
She Is Nearing That Triple Double.
Could Be A Quadruple Double.
They've Held Waverly-Shell Rock To 4 Of 16 Or Excuse Me, 4 Of 24 For The Game.
That's Some Good Defense Right There.
>> So Let's Go To Tim Fitzpatrick.
>> Sidney Bienemann, Katelyn Eggena, Emma Thompson.
For The Clippers, Kaylee Stratton, Averie Lower, Bliss Beck And Ava Locklear.
>> All Right.
Let's Play Some Basketball.
It Is 24-12.
Waverly-Shell Rock Wearing The Black Uniforms Down By 12.
Here's Eggena Working It On The Block.
Deflection There As It'll Come Into The Hands Of Averie Lower.
Out Ahead To Stratton.
Clear Creek Amana On The Attack Up By 12.
Shot It Near 40% In The First Half.
Waverly-Shell Rock Just 1 Of 11 In The Second Quarter.
A Tough Rebound For Sidney Bienemann.
She's Joined By Bodensteiner, Thompson And Eggena.
Waverly-Shell Rock In Dire Need Of Some Buckets Just To Get Them Going.
>> Looks Like They're Trying To Overload A Side And Maybe Set Up A Two Player Game.
>> Eggena Trying To Go High.
The Height Of Bliss Beck Listed At 6'2".
>> Height And Length.
She Gets The Arms Up, And That's A Very Tough Defender To Have To Shoot Over The Top Of.
And Again, I'll Go Back.
I Know It's Going To Sound Like A Warn Out Record But Give A Little Pump Fake.
Get The Defenders In The Air.
They're Going To Go For The Pump Fake And Try To Get A Block.
>> Three Second Violation Called Against The Clippers.
A Record, Not A Cd?
>> A Record.
Vinyl.
>> Well, I Guess That's Coming Back In Style Now.
>> I Think It Is Coming Back In Style.
Worn Out Dvd.
Cd.
How About A Cassette Tape?
>> Oh, No.
Eggena Trying To Reset Her Team From 15.
Can't Get The Roll And The Rebound To Locklear.
That Is Her 11th Rebound Of The Game.
>> And They're Definitely Trying.
Great Pass.
Great Lead Pass, Just Couldn't Finish.
>> Beck.
A Couple Of Times And The Third Time Is The Charm Will Go To The Line With An And One.
>> It's Always That Third Time When You Miss That First One.
You Get Your Own Offensive Rebound.
It Comes Up Short.
Defenders Scrambling In There Trying To Get A Block.
Trying To Get A Steal And Ends Up Fouling You, And You End Up Making The Basket And Get The And One.
>> Knocks Down The Three-Point Play.
It's A 15 Point Clear Creek Amana Lead.
>> This Is Not The Start That Waverly-Shell Rock Was Looking For.
>> Thompson Just Has It Taken Away By Lower.
>> Double-Team Has Come All Night Long When The Ball Goes Into The Post Player.
>> Lower At The Top.
That's A Three.
>> Might Have To Get A Timeout After That One.
>> The Clippers Are Putting It On The Floor Here Tonight.
>> Got To Get The Return Pass Back Door Quicker.
She Got In There And Eggena Was Able To Pass The Ball And Reposition In The Post.
>> Lower With The Steal And Finish.
How About That?
Averie Lower Now With 14 In The Game.
And A Timeout Going To Be Taken By Waverly-Shell Rock.
>> Lower Has Been Very Active Here In The Second Half.
Gets Around The Screen.
Defender Falls Down.
She Pulls Up Beyond The Arc.
Knocks It Down And Helps Out Defensively.
Comes In From Behind.
Gets A Steal.
And The Layup.
That Forces A Timeout.
>> As We Take A Look At It.
32-12.
A 20 Point Lead.
Behind The Scenes The Girls Athletic Union Has A Wall Listing Of This Year's Tournament Participants.
Players Are Encouraged To Find Their Name, Snap A Picture And Share It On Social Media With A The Hash Tag Iowa Girl.
All Part Of The Fun Here At Wells Fargo Arena Throughout The Week.
And In The Class 4a Title Game, Clear Creek Amana With A 20 Point Advantage.
And The Last Basket By Waverly- Shell Rock Was With 3:45 Left In The Second Quarter.
So It Has Been A Draught.
>> Yeah.
They Just Need To Be Patient Here.
They Need To Get Some Points Here On This Possession.
The Defense Is Dictating What They're Doing.
They're Standing Around A Little Bit.
Nice Aggressive Take.
Every Time The Ball Goes On The Floor, They're Collapsing.
They're Digging Down And Getting Steals.
>> Here's Schrage.
Thompson Will Pick Up The Ball.
That Ball Was Partially Deflected.
And For Waverly-Shell Rock, When You're Down By 20, You Got To Go.
>> Yeah.
You Got To Go.
Eggena Is Doing A Good Job.
She's Getting Posted, And She's Getting Front Position.
They Just Need To Get The Ball Into Her.
They Did.
Just A Little Too Strong With The Shot Off The Back Iron.
They're Not Getting Shots To Fall.
>> Now 4 Of 28 From The Field For The Game.
>> You Know, They Are Getting Some Decent Looks.
>> The Shot Off The Mark.
Stratton With The Rebound.
Going To Be Blocked Underneath.
And Thompson Will Scoop It Up.
>> Just A Hustle Play.
Bodensteiner Gets Up And You Can See Her Saying Ouch.
That Hurt.
Got Her Fingers, I Think, As She Let Fly With That Three Ball.
Go To The Line.
Five Points To Lead All Go-Hawks.
The Senior.
Going To Play Basketball At Wartburg And Golf.
The Daughter Of Head Coach Greg Bodensteiner.
>> She Faired Pretty Well In The Golf Tournament This Past Spring.
Will Be Competing Again.
She's A Pretty Good Golfer Herself.
>> Yeah.
Finished Seventh At State Golf.
And At The Line For Three As Waverly-Shell Rock Will Go To The Bench.
Megan Heyer Will Come In.
And Checking Out Is Lizzy Frazell.
Unable To Knock One Down.
>> Some Much Needed Points For Waverly-Shell Rock.
They Needed To Get Something On The Board.
We Heard Them Talk About It In The First Half.
Get A Stop.
You Need A Stop Right Here To Start Turning The Tide.
>> Locklear.
Wide Of The Mark On The Shot.
This Will Give It Right Back To Waverly-Shell Rock.
>> Clear Creek Amana Doing A Great Job On Offense.
Moving The Ball Around.
Being Patient.
Trying To Find An Opening.
They've Been Able To Cash In.
>> Thompson Working Against Locklear.
Will Go To The Line To Shoot Two.
>> Thompson Did A Good Job.
Once She Got It In There, She Made The Move And Then Waited.
Able To Get The Contact Down Low And Get To The Free Throw Line.
>> Emma Thompson.
Came Into The Game Averaging About Nine.
And This Will Be Her Second Point.
Frazell Will Come Back In.
She'll Check In For Brenna Bodensteiner.
It's Heyer, Frazell, Eggena And Thompson.
Lena Evans Will Check In For The First Time As Locklear Will Collect The Rebound.
Evans Joined By Stratton Along The With Beck.
Lower, Who Launches And Locklear.
Rebound Here To Waverly-Shell Rock.
Thompson Will Go In.
>> Just Covering Up So Well.
And A Timeout.
Get Them Out Of That Predicament.
Save That Possession.
Can't Afford To Give Up Possessions At This Point.
>> Let's Go To The Waverly- Shell Rock Huddle.
>> Run Reverse?
What Do You Know?
Let's Go.
Go-Hawks!
>> Just A Quick Play.
>> Well, And Hope It Works.
That's What You're Looking For.
You Talked About It.
They Have To Be Efficient Now.
They Got To Go.
They Got To Get Things Going In Motion.
Need A Quick Bucket Here.
>> Just Garner A Little Momentum.
Megan Heyer Will Put It In Play.
>> Look At That Defense.
Just Pressuring Out.
>> The Shot Too Hard And The Rebound Comes Down To Locklear.
Evans Will Run It In And Get The Bucket.
>> Wow.
She Made A Little Hesitation Move Right Around The Free Throw Line.
Cradled That Ball As She Stripped Through The Defenders And Got It To Roll Up Over The Rim.
>> Thompson.
Bienemann.
>> Again, The Presence Of Beck On The Inside.
Just Knowing She Was There With That Length Made Bienemann Overshoot The Bucket.
>> And Beck Will Finish It Down On This End.
>> Oh, And There's A Quick Steal.
>> Stratton Trying To Get It Away.
Waverly-Shell Rock Will End Up With It.
>> Stratton Just Flies All Over The Court.
>> Thompson Has It Denied.
Frazell Inside.
The Layup Not There For Waverly- Shell Rock As Bienemann Couldn't Cap It Off.
>> Just Nothing Falling For Waverly-Shell Rock.
>> Here's Locklear.
The Dump Down To Beck.
Going To Stay With The Clippers.
21 On The Shot Clock.
As Kennedy Stratton Will Come Back Into The Game.
>> This Is A Good Look At Evans Cradling The Ball.
Hesitation Move To Get Through The Defense.
And Again, Beck.
Things Are Opening Up In The Middle Now For Clear Creek.
The Drive.
The High Shot.
Can't Get It To Fall, And The Rebound To Bienemann.
>> They're Spreading The Floor For Eggena.
>> She Tried To Back In.
>> Nothing There.
You Know, As She Did Go In Against Beck, Locklear Just Stayed Right There, Too.
Just Hanging Out.
Just Knowing If She Made The Move To The Baseline She Would Be There To Put That Double- Team On.
So Good Team Defense.
>> Class 4a State Championship.
Clear Creek Amana.
Waverly-Shell Rock Going For Their Schools' First Ever Title.
And Clear Creek Amana Has Been Dialed In This One Defensively.
Waverly-Shell Rock Just With One Field Goal In The Second Quarter.
They Haven't Had One Yet In The Third.
>> Just Tough Going.
Every Time They Get Into The Paint, There Is A Hand In The Face.
There's Some Kind Of Defender There Really Just Like That.
Getting The Hand Up, Blocking It.
Finally Get A Bucket Right Before The Horn Goes Off.
>> Maybe That'll Give Them A Little Momentum As Bodensteiner Is Able To Cap Off That Shot.
Puts The Score At 36-18 Through Three Quarters Of Play.
As We Have Eight Minutes To Go.
They're Making T-Shirts At Wells Fargo Arena.
You May Have Seen Them At The Girls State Volleyball, Soccer Or Bowling.
This Year Is The First Year Pressing Team Designs.
Fans And Families And Coaches Have Stopped By.
Some Buying T-Shirts For Their Entire Team.
That Looks Good.
>> It Looks Great.
It Looks Good On You.
You're Welcome.
>> Why Thank You.
All Part Of The Atmosphere Here At The State Basketball Tournament.
You Know, With Eight Minutes To Go Here, We Want To Tell You That You Can Catch Live Streaming For Not Only This State Championship Game But The Two Remaining On You Tube, X, Facebook And Www.Iowapbd.Org.
Multiple Ways To Be Able To Watch State Championship Basketball.
I Know Gene Burger Has Done So Much For The Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union.
Last Night She Was Honored.
I'll Tell You What, Laura, This Is An Event.
And All The Girls' Championships Are Events.
They're Marked.
It's Something To Behold And Be A Part Of And A Special Part Of The State.
Gina Has Up'd Her Game And She Announced Her Retirement As The Executive Director.
>> When She Came On To The Staff And Came Into The Union, She Knew She Had A Lot Of Ideas.
Things She Wanted To Implement.
I Think She's Done A Fantastic Job Of Doing That.
Getting Things, The Color Pink Is With The Iowa Girl.
Not Just Basketball But Everything.
They Give Out The Pink T- Shirts.
The Girls Really Want Those Things.
The Pageantry.
Everything That Goes Along With All The Tournaments.
Makes The Iowa Girl Feel So Special When They're Competing.
>> There Have Been A Number Of Division I College Coaches Coming Through The Tournament This Week.
Each One Of Them Has Said This Is Unique To Girls' Basketball.
And It's So Special, And Iowa Is A Treasured Spot Because Of The State Tournament.
I Mean, Just The Pageantry That's Involved With It.
The Game Has Really Been Up'd.
It Is An Event.
>> It Is An Event.
You Can Tell By The Crowds That Are Here Today.
The Crowds We Had Last Night For The Two First Two Championships.
It's A Place To Be In The Last Weekend Of February, First Weekend Of March.
Where Ever It Falls On The Calendar.
You Know You Want To Get To The State Tournament So You Can Come Down And Experience What These Girls Have Experienced All Week.
>> Emma Thompson Able To Get The Basket.
In Fact, A Lot Of Familiar Faces Throughout The Week.
A Lot Of Families Take Vacations.
Spend A Lot Of Time.
Go To Each And Every Game.
It's Been A Fun Week.
>> You Know, Back In The Days Of Six On Six, People Would Buy The Package Tickets, And They Would Spend Each And Every Day Over At Vet's Auditorium And Just Be There Religiously.
People That Had Held Tickets For 50 Years.
My Goodness.
As We Made The Transition To Five On Five, The Crowds Kind Of Dwindled A Little Bit.
Full Force.
And Here Supporting Basketball, Softball, Whatever It Might Be.
Everybody Is Back Supporting The Iowa Girl.
>> Stratton In The Back Court.
Evans.
She's A Fighter, Isn't She?
>> My Goodness.
She Was Not Going To Give Up On That.
She Puts Ball On The Floor.
She Is So Tough To Stop When She Puts Her Head Down And Drives.
Here's The Battle On The Boards.
Thompson Doing A Good Job Of Getting Position.
Using A Couple Of Dribbles To Reposition Herself And Go Up Strong.
That's A Bucket They've Needed To Try And Get Them Going On The Inside.
>> Well, One Thing We Haven't Seen Out Of Clear Creek Amana, At Least In This Championship Game.
We Did See It For A Half In The Their 1-3-1 Defense.
They've Applied It To North Polk The Other Day And Was The Difference In The Game.
>> I Agree With That.
We Talked To Coach About It.
He Said Well, We Knew We Had It In Our Back Pocket.
This Was The Time To Use It.
I Said Had You Used It Prior To This?
Yeah, We Used It At The Beginning Of The Season.
After Christmas Break Decided To Go To The Man To Man Aggressive Type Of Defense.
Staying With Your Opponent.
Getting Out In The Passing Lanes.
We Knew We Needed To Switch Things Up In That Ball Game.
We Played It.
We Practiced It.
We Were Very Comfortable Implementing That In That Ball Game.
I Do Think It Won Them The Game.
>> Thompson Towing The Line With Seven Points.
Second One Doesn't Go Down, But A Tough Rebound By Bienemann.
With The Ball.
>> Every Time They Go Inside, Two And Three Defenders For Clear Creek Right There.
>> Waverly-Shell Rock Showing Some Grit.
Especially On The Offensive Glass.
>> They Got To Do Something With These Second And Third Chance Opportunities.
>> And The Foul Going To Be Called Here On Kennedy Stratton.
>> They Know They're At The Little Halfway Here In The Fourth Quarter.
Don't Have Much Time Left.
They've Got To Find Some Quick Buckets.
That's Going To Be Very Hard To Do Against This Clear Creek Amana Defense.
They've Kind Of Stepped Up A Little Bit Defensively And Turned Up The Heat.
>> Schrage Coming Back Into The Contest.
Here's A Three Ball That Rolls Rebound By Bienemann.
>> They've Had A Lot Of Cracks At It.
>> Lower Picks The Pocket.
Here's Beck.
Good Ball Movement.
Lower For Three.
Yes.
>> Lower Doesn't Need Much Time At All.
Clear Creek Going To Call A Quick Timeout.
The Ball Movement On That Was To Perfection.
It Went Inside, Back Around And Back To Lower.
They Swing It Around The Outside.
Inside, Up Top And Down Into The Corner.
Another Pure Shot From Lower.
>> Let's Go To The Clear Creek Amana Huddle.
>> Hey, We've Got To Box Out.
The Last Two Minutes We've Been Down There Because They're Boxing Out And Rebounding Us.
They're Outworking Us.
Every Single Shot That Goes Up, Put A Body On Somebody, Go Get We Got 4:12.
Finish The Deal.
Good Defensive Possessions Down Here.
Play With The Lead.
You Don't Have It, Try To Pound The Ball Inside.
Let's Go 32 Offensively.
32 Offensively.
Set Good Screens.
Don't Force It.
Look For The Doubles.
Look For The Doubles.
Here We Go.
Here We Go.
>> Don't Make Mistakes.
Don't Force Anything.
And Most Importantly, Rebound.
That Was A Very Big Point Of Emphasis.
I Agree.
You Can't Give Them That Many Opportunities.
>> That Looks Like Fun.
Clear Creek Amana, They Are Getting Rebound Out Of Ava Locklear.
17 Points And 9 Points.
A Point Away From A Double Double.
Through The First Half, She Had Four Assists, Four Blocks.
Second Half, Not As Prolific, If You Will, In Those Two Categories.
Picking Up The Foul Is Going To Be Stratton.
That'll Be Her Second.
>> You Know, When Coach Sweeney Took Over, He Said In His Precoaching Days He And His Wife Went To A Game And Said Let's Go To A Game.
Clear Creek Was Kind Of Down And Hadn't Had Very Good Teams For A While.
Went And Saw Benton Score 100 Points On Clear Creek.
That Night His Wife Said Go Get Your Coaching Endorsement.
You Love Basketball.
Why Not You?
They've Had Such Good Success Softball Wise.
Why Not Have That Success With Basketball?
So He Did.
He Got His Coaching Endorsement And Has Come In And Rebuilt, Like His Business, Rebuilt This Team.
>> Yeah.
He's A Contractor.
Think About That.
He Wanted To Get Involved.
Saw Too Much Of A Revolving Door With Clear Creek Amana And Now They're On The Doorsteps.
In Fact, Going Through The Front Door And Picking Out Furniture For The Schools' First Championship.
As Ava Locklear Gets The Double- Double With The Bucket Right There.
11 Points, 17 Rebounds.
>> That Shot She Muscled Up.
Had A Couple Of Defenders On Her.
This Is What Locklear Can Do When She Gets Inside.
Got A Good Little Lob Pass Up Through The Arms Of Eggena.
Got A Couple Trips Around The World And It Fell Through.
>> So To The Line With Brenna Bodensteiner.
>> Boldin Signer Has Been Limited To The Free Throw Line.
She Had Not Been Able To Get Good Looks From Distance.
She Is The One That Is That Threat Out There.
>> Want To Remind You The Class 2a State Championship Will Come Your Way Next Here On Iowa Pbs.
As It Will Be Panorama Taking On Dike New Hartford.
North Linn Will Be Squaring Off Against Newell Fonda.
We'll Have That Call Later On Pbs.
>> Trying To Go High Low And Kicking It Back Out Over The Top Of The Head Of Locklear.
>> Yeah.
How About This?
Ava Locklear Just Two Rebounds Away From Setting The Single Game Rebound Record, Which Was Set Back In 2013.
>> By Someone You Might Know.
>> Yeah.
>> Jess Schaben From Harlan Has That Record Right Now.
>> Playing Professional Volleyball Right Now In Omaha, Nebraska, As Part Of The New Pro Volleyball League.
I'm Sure She's Okay If This One Went Away, Especially With The Type Of Player That Ava Locklear Is.
>> I Think It Would Be, Yeah, Locklear You Go Okay, I'll Tip Caps To You.
I'll Tell You What, You've Had Quite A Tournament.
>> Now Sitting With 18 Is Locklear.
Thompson.
Eggena Will Fire.
>> Boy, They Just Have Not, They Have Had Really Bad Shooting Luck Here Tonight.
>> Here's Locklear.
Can't Get The Shot.
Gets Possession Arrow Will Make It Go To Waverly-Shell Rock.
The Go-Hawks Are Going To Go To The Bench.
>> Get To The Other Players In Who Have Worked Hard All Season Long.
Get An Opportunity To Play A Couple Minutes In The State Tournament.
>> Megan Heyer With Addie Kruse.
Britteny Bodensteiner In.
Handling The Ball Here Is Natalie Beck, A Sophomore.
She's Joined On The Floor By Ramey Dahlquist.
The Clippers Also Going To Their Bench.
There's A Look At Jeanne Burger, Executive Director Here At The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
>> Just Kind Of Overlooking The >> Let's See If Locklear Can Get That Rebound.
Not On That Shot.
>> She Actually Might Be Close To Breaking The Tournament Total Record For Rebounds As Well.
>> And Pj Sweeney Is Going To Keep Locklear Out There.
He's Very In Tune With The Stat Sheet.
Is Coach Sweeney.
As The Other Day, They Knew That Locklear Was Close To A Triple-Double.
This Ball Is Going To Be Knocked Back In.
Waverly-Shell Rock Will End Up With It.
Inside Of A Minute To Play.
It's Been All Clear Creek Amana From The Opening Tip.
As That One Comes Down, Locklear Up With It.
And Now A Timeout.
That Is Her 19th Rebound.
Huge Hand From Clear Creek Amana And The Bear Hug From Coach Sweeney.
>> Every Time You Talk To Coach Sweeney About Ava Locklear, He Goes Ava Is Ava.
She Just Does What She Does.
And She's A Player That She's Number Two In 3a In Rebounding, Number Four In Assists.
She Is The Swiss Army Knife.
She Can Do A Little Bit Of Everything.
>> So Out On The Floor Is Kiera Rogers, Addison Campbell, Melissa Sweeney, Kelsey Leathers And Lexi Moran For Clear Creek.
Waverly-Shell Rock Back To The Bench.
Hannah Halbach Checks In For The First Time As The Rebound Comes Down To Rogers.
>> Go-Hawks Have To Feel Like There's Been A Lid On The Basket.
>> Addie Ott On Defense.
Shell Rock.
The Final Seconds Here.
43-25 Clear Creek Amana.
As They Count It Down.
So Clear Creek Amana Bringing Home Their Schools First Ever State Title In Basketball.
How About That?
Clear Creek Amana From The Opening Tip To The Very End Controlled This Game, Winning It 43-25.
>> Boy, They Are Going After Those Pink Shirts.
That's Exactly What They Came Down For.
They Wanted To Win A State Title.
They Wanted The Pink Shirts And Wanted To Stay In A Hotel Tonight If They Can Do That.
Coach Sweeney Said This Is A Business Trip.
We Have To Take Care Of Business.
And I Say They Sure Took Care Of Business Here In This Championship Game.
>> Averie Lower Leads The Way With 17.
11 Each For Beck And Locklear.
Let's Go To The All Tournament Team Announcement.
>> Class 4a All Tournament Team.
Presenting The Award Is Brent Johnson, President Of The Iowa Farm Bureau.
Joining Him Are Members Of The Ighsau Board Of Directors.
Ruses Adams, Jennifer Dunnels, Zack Clarke, Travis Fleshner And Tonya Mull.
Here's Your Class 4a All- Tournament Team.
From Clear Creek Amana, Bliss Beck.
From Waverly-Shell Rock, Katelyn Eggena.
From North Polk, Abby Tutel.
From Bishop-Helan, Malena Snoozy.
From Clear Creek Amana, Avery Lower.
And Your Class 4a All- From Clear Creek Amana, Ava Locklear.
>> So There's Your All- Tournament Team.
Capped Off By Ava Locklear Who Now Is In Officially The Record Books For A State Tournament.
>> Total Rebounds Over Three Games.
43 Total Rebounds For Locklear.
Just Broke The Record Of Grace Bafely Who Is Now Playing For Northern Iowa.
She Had 40.
>> What A Great All-Tournament Team Selection There.
Of Course Locklear Joined On Her Team By Bliss Beck And Also Avery Lower.
Who Led All Scorers In The 4a Championship Game With 17.
>> Boy, What A Game By Bliss Beck.
She Had 8 Rebounds, 6 Blocks, 11 Points.
How About That Game.
>> Fans, The Iowa Pork Producers Would Like To Present The Top Producer Award For The 4a Championship Game.
Presenting The Award Is Taylor Anderson Of The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
This Year's Top Producer Of The 4a Championship Game.
From Clear Creek Amana, Averie Lower.
>> So The Sophomore Expecting Big Things Over The Summer.
Obviously Gaining Some Attention Now From Division I Coaches.
I Think She's Going To Have A Huge Summer Of Recruiting.
Playing At A High Level With The All Iowa Attack.
Look Out For Her This Summer.
>> The 2024 Class Runnerup, The Waverly-Shell Rock Go-Hawks And Head Coach Greg Bodensteiner.
Your 2024 Class 4a Champion.
The Clear Creek Amana Clippers And Head Coach Pj Sweeney.
>> Laura, How About That?
Clear Creek Amana.
A Lot Of Success On The Softball Diamond.
Now Their First Ever Championship In Basketball.
>> I'll Tell You What, It Was A Rebuild When Coach Sweeney Took Over.
When He Took Over, They Were 5- 16.
The First Year He Was There, 13- 9.
Continued To Build From That Point On.
And Here They Are.
State Champs.
First State Championship In Girls' Basketball.
>> Well, The Championships In 4a Are Complete.
Just Two Championships Remaining.
That's It For Laura Leonard And Myself.
Let's Turn It Over To Paul Yeager Who Is Standing By.
>> Excellent Work As Always Bj And Laura.
I Think We Cut Off Bj Because He Should Have Kept Saying And He Was About To Say Two State Champions Have Come From The Same Conference.
It Really Was The Dominant Conference This Year.
Solon And Clear Creek Amana As Well.
Johnston Won The Title Last Night.
Two To Go Here In 2a And 1a.
We'll Be Back In A Couple Of Minutes There As Another Great Opportunity For Basketball To Come.
So Hang On.
We're Just Getting Started Here On Iowa Pbs As Your Girls' State Basketball Triple Header Continues.
The Question Becomes, Who Will Be Crowned The 2a And 1a Championships.
The Second Game Tips Off Here In A Few Minutes On Statewide Iowa Pbs.
Thank You So Much For Watching.
That Is It From Wells Fargo Arena For Class 4a.
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