Marion Girls Basketball

Special year for Marion girls sports

This has been an extraordinary year for the girls sports teams at Marion High School. And it keeps getting better.

Every girls team at Marion has won their Wamac Conference title and qualified for the state meet. Every single one, since the beginning of the school year until this very moment.

The volleyball team captured a Wamac title and qualified for state. The cross country team won a Wamac title and placed sixth at state. The bowling team finished third at the state tournament, and the only reason they did not win a conference title was because there are not enough bowling teams in the Wamac to have one.

Now the Marion High School girls basketball team will be playing in the Class 4A state tournament with an opening-round game against Harlan Wednesday morning at 11:45 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

"It's been a really fun year," said Corby Laube, the athletic director and girls basketball coach at Marion. "We've had a really good run with girls athletics.

"It's really neat the way they support each other," he said Monday morning. "And sometimes success breeds success. That confidence from one sport can carry over to another."

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Marion selling state basketball tickets

Marion High School will be selling tickets for their game against Harlan in the first round of the girls Class 4A state basketball tournament next week in Des Moines.

Tipoff is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena.

Tickets cost $10. Make checks payable to Marion High School.

Tickets can be purchased at the main office at Marion from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Monday and from 7 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday.

Tickets can also be purchased before the game at the arena.

Rice, Laube lead All-Wamac hoops

Chloe Rice and Mia Laube, a pair of talented sophomores who have led the Marion Indians to the Class 4A state basketball tournament, have been named unanimous selections on the Wamac Conference West Division all-star team.

Marion sophomore Caitlyn Smith was named to the second team. Freshman Maddie Knapp and junior Isabella Sade received honorable mention.

Corby Laube of Marion was named the West Division Coach of the Year.

WAMAC WEST DIVISION
First Team

* Mia Laube, Marion; * Chloe Rice, Marion; * Allie Wooldridge, Center Point-Urbana; * Arika Wooldridge, Center Point-Urbana; * Alyssa Wiebel,Benton Community; Maci Griffith, Vinton-Shellsburg; Madie Bacon, South Tama; Olivia Brecht, Center Point-Urbana.

* unanimous

Second Team

Caitlyn Smith, Marion; Tristin Ludwig, Independence; Erin Navara, Clear Creek Amana; Tieranny Keahna, South Tama; Leah Van Weelden, Benton; Julie Hollensbe, Williamsburg; LaMia Sisk, Center Point-Urbana; Sarah Morkel, Independence.

Honorable Mention

Marion - Maddie Knapp, Isabella Sade.

Coach of the Year - Corby Laube.

Marion girls make 4A state tourney

ELDRIDGE – Caitlyn Smith scored 18 points to lead the seventh-ranked Marion girls basketball team to a 48-40 win over No. 6 North Scott in a Class 4A regional final Tuesday at North Scott.

Smith popped in four 3-pointers for the young Indians.

Marion (19-4) will face third-ranked Harlan (20-2) in a state tournament quarterfinal game at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, March 2 in Des Moines.

Chloe Rice added 11 points for Marion.

Olivia Schmidt scored 15 points to lead North Scott, which finished 18-5.

MARION (48): Knapp 0 1-2 1, Rice 5 1-1 11, Smith 5 4-5 18, Wright 2 0-0 6, Laube 2 0-2 4, Willette 2 0-0 5, Herold 0 1-2 1, Sade 1 0-0 2, Jordan 0 0-0 0. Totals 17 7-12 48.

NORTH SCOTT (40): R.Rucker 2 3-4 9, K.Rucker 3 1-3 7, Loussaert 1 1-2 3, Bogner 0 0-0 0, Schmidt 6 2-2 15, Van Blaricom 0 0-0 0, Moeller 2 0-0 6, Claussen 0 0-0 0. Totals 14 7-11 40.

Halftime – Marion 27, North Scott 25. 3-point goals – Marion 7 (Smith 4, Wright 2, Willette), North Scott 5 (R.Rucker 2, Moeller 2, Schmidt).