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Just put me in the game, coach

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »

CHS grad Kailey Kellner lets fly during a college basketball game. (Photo courtesy Jennifer Kellner)

Welcome back to the floor.

As she plays her sophomore season at D’Youville College in New York, Coupeville grad Kailey Kellner has seen her minutes bounce all over the place.

She’s far from the only Spartans player to be experiencing this, as their coaches, at least from the outside, seem to be experimenting a bit, mixing and matching lineups.

The key is to stay ready, whether you get three minutes on the floor or a season-high 24, like Kellner did Saturday.

Facing off with league-leading La Roche in Pittsburgh, the former Wolf used her time well, popping for eight points, hauling in three rebounds, dealing out four assists and snatching a steal.

While it wasn’t quite enough to fuel an upset, as the home town powerhouse escaped with a 78-67 win after the game was tied with eight minutes to play, Kellner’s play will hopefully pay off with more-consistent minutes.

Her points came courtesy a long jumper and a pair of three-balls, the second of which knotted the game at 55-55 two minutes into the fourth quarter.

D’Youville is chasing a playoff berth, sitting at 4-7 in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference play, 7-11 overall.

The Spartans are tied for seventh in a 10-team league, a game off the sixth, and final, playoff berth with seven regular-season games left to play.

Other than La Roche and Hilbert sitting in a tie atop the standings at 10-2, the standings are jammed fairly tightly.

D’Youville is both two games out of shooting all the way up to fourth, and two games away from crashing into dead last place, making the remaining games ultra-important.

The Spartans kick off a three-game home stand next Wednesday, Jan. 30, with Medialle College coming to Buffalo.

Kellner, who is one of seven players on a 13-woman roster to have played all 18 games this season, is averaging 2.3 points a night.

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Wolf grads light up college courts

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on January 5, 2019| Leave a Comment »

CHS grad Kailey Kellner lets fly in a recent college basketball game. (Photo courtesy Jennifer Kellner)

Coupeville, taking control of women’s college basketball, coast to coast.

Playing on different sides of the country Saturday, Wolf grads Makana Stone and Kailey Kellner both put together strong games.

While one of their teams rolled to a big win, and the other was nipped at the buzzer, the spirit of CHS basketball lives large across the USA.

How Saturday played out:

 

Cruise control:

Stone tossed in 10 of her 13 points in the first quarter as Whitman College buried host Lewis & Clark College early, rumbling to a 77-46 win in Oregon.

The victory lifts the Blues to 3-0 in Northwest Conference play, 9-3 overall.

Whitman, which started a four-game road trip Saturday after not playing since Dec. 21, gets a major test next week.

Stone and Co., currently in a three-tie for first place in league play, face Whitworth (3-0, 8-4) Tuesday, Linfield (2-2, 6-7) Friday and George Fox (3-0, 10-2) Saturday.

Saturday’s game was a nice palate cleanser, as the Blues roared out to a 47-20 lead at the half, then gave their bench players plenty of floor time after the break.

Stone finished with 13 points, five rebounds, two steals and two assists while playing just 22 minutes on the night. It was her second-shortest stint of the season.

For the year, the Whitman junior has 195 points, 99 rebounds, 22 assists, 18 steals and 17 blocked shots.

 

Heartbreak city:

Kellner singed the nets in New York for seven points, including a key three-ball which helped D’Youville College sprint out to a 12-point halftime lead, but the Spartans couldn’t hold on at the end.

A game which see-sawed back and forth in the final two minutes, with D’Youville tying the bout on a pair of free throws with seven ticks left on the clock, ended on a layup.

Unfortunately for Kellner and Co., that final basket came off of the fingertips of a visiting Penn State-Altoona player, giving the Lions an 83-81 squeaker.

The league loss drops D’Youville to 1-3 in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference play, 4-7 overall.

The Spartans, who are back in action Wednesday against Penn State-Behrend (4-3, 5-8). sit in 8th place in their 10-team conference.

After a relatively mild first quarter, which ended with Penn State up 19-18, the game took huge swings over the next two frames.

D’Youville used a 26-13 surge in the second to build a large lead, then saw most of it crumble away thanks to a 26-15 Penn State run in the third.

Clinging to a one-point lead entering the final frame, the Spartans were outscored 25-22 down the stretch.

Kellner also snagged three boards Saturday, topping all D’Youville bench players in points and rebounds.

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Kellner returns to hard-court life!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on December 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Kailey Kellner was in action Sunday, after a three-week break from her sophomore college basketball season. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s been awhile.

When Coupeville grad Kailey Kellner and her D’Youville College women’s basketball teammates stepped on the floor Sunday in Buffalo, New York, they might have been forgiven for not recognizing their home court.

The Spartans have been on a three-week winter break, allowing for trips home, but also possibly adding a bit of rust to the ol’ jump shot.

Their foes, Clarkson University, had just played Saturday, and were back in a mid-season groove, bouncing D’Youville 80-61.

The non-conference loss drops the Spartans to 4-5 on the season.

Kellner played well, however, netting four points and yanking down five rebounds in 14 minutes of action.

She was one off the team high in the carom-collecting biz, as teammate Sara Fields pulled in six rebounds.

Kellner added a steal and an assist as she checked off most of the boxes on the stat sheet.

Clarkson, which was led by a game-high 29 points from junior guard Molly Stewart, AKA “The Pride of Livonia, NY,” led 15-11 after one quarter, then stretched the lead out from there.

The crippler for D’Youville was a 25-15 run by the visiting Golden Knights in the third quarter.

Now that they’re done with their holiday break, the Spartans plunge into the meat of their schedule.

D’Youville has a final non-conference game against Buffalo State Wednesday, Jan. 2, then plays its final 15 regular-season contests against Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference rivals.

The Spartans, 1-2 in league play, start that conference run with a game Jan. 5 against Penn State-Altoona.

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Stone rock-solid, but Saints inspired!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , , on December 8, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Wolf grad Makana Stone scored 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds Saturday while facing the #4 team in NCAA D-III women’s basketball. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

You have to play the best to be the best, but sometimes that means absorbing a loss or two.

The Whitman College women’s basketball team scrapped all night Saturday, but despite a splendid 16-point, 13-rebound effort from Coupeville grad Makana Stone, could not take down the #4 team in the country.

That squad is Thomas More College, which went to the NCAA D-III Final Four last year, won a national title in 2016 and entered play Saturday with a 10-0 record.

And, powered by 33 points from Madison Temple, the Saints lived up to their rep, holding off Whitman 80-63 in the final game of the Kim Evanger Raney Classic in Walla Walla.

The non-conference loss snaps a four-game winning streak for the Blues, and drops them to 6-3 on the season.

Stone held up well in the spotlight, leading her team in points and grabbing five more rebounds than any other player on the floor.

She also played a season-high 39 of 40 minutes.

For her efforts across two games (she had 25 points and five rebounds Friday against Colorado College), Stone was named to the All-Tournament team.

She was joined by teammate Mady Burdett, while Temple was picked as tournament MVP.

Whitman hung tough with Thomas More, leading early in the game and only trailing 15-12 at the end of the first quarter.

The deficit stretched out to eight at the half, but a 21-21 third quarter stalemate kept hope alive for the Blues.

It wasn’t to be, however, as the Saints proved to be strong closers, wrapping things with a 21-12 surge across the final 10 minutes.

Stone, who leads her squad in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots, has 158 points, 78 rebounds, 13 assists, 14 steals and nine blocks on the year.

She’s shooting 68-121 from the field and 22-30 at the line.

Whitman is off for a week-and-a-half, not returning to play until it travels to California for the UC Santa Cruz Classic Dec. 20-21.

The Blues are scheduled to face Williams College and Northwestern at the tourney, then are off until Jan. 5, when the league season kicks into high gear.

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Kellner spurs Spartan win!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s Kailey Kellner, here with parents Tim and Jennifer, knocked down a pair of three-balls Sunday to help D’Youville College win a basketball thriller. (Photo courtesy Kellner family)

Things are on the upswing in New York.

Coupeville grad Kailey Kellner and the D’Youville College women’s basketball team are off to a 3-2 start on the season after pulling out a 69-66 thriller Sunday against Cazenovia College.

That’s a marked turnaround from a season ago, when the Spartans finished 5-20 and claimed only one non-conference victory.

Now, D’Youville has already tripled that number, giving them a boost heading into their first round of Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference games.

During Kellner’s freshman season, the Spartans finished ninth in the 10-team league. Right now, they boast the second-best record of any team from the conference.

D’Youville will get a big test this coming Wednesday, Nov. 28, when it hosts defending league champ Hilbert, which sits at 5-2 in non-conference play.

Winning tightly-contested games, like the Spartans did Sunday, bodes well for the future, though.

The two squads went toe-to-toe, shot-to-shot, swapping razor-thin leads at every break.

D’Youville was up by a single point, 17-16, at the end of the first quarter, while Cazenovia rebounded to claim a 35-34 advantage at the half.

The Spartans poured in 22 third-quarter points, their best showing of the game, to edge ahead 56-55 heading into the fourth, then clamped down on defense to close out the win.

Kellner was a big part of the win, coming off the bench to drop a season-high seven points in 16 minutes of action.

She knocked down a pair of long three-balls, slid a key free throw through the net at the end of the second quarter and also snagged two rebounds and made off with a steal.

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