All North Star conference basketball team includes three Vikings

Transfer student Whitney Meeder earned all-conference team honors from the coaches of the North Star League in her first and only season in a Posen Viking uniform. Meeder, who played for Alpena High School before transferring to the Class D school, helped Posen (14-9) win its second consecutive district title this fall. No player on the Viking squad seemed to enjoy the championship-clinching moment more than Meeder. Posen had its tournament run come to an end at Newberry in the regional semifinals against Rapid River, which lost Tuesday in the quarterfinals to Carney-Nadeau, 39-29.

MEEDER HAD the best freethrow shooting percentage among the five starters, hitting on nearly 60 percent of her shots, and her 327 total points was a team best. Meeder’s scoring average was 14.86 a game. She was first on the team in steals with 3.64 a game and second in rebounds (6.05 per game) and assists (2.91). Two sophomores received second team all-conference recognition.

Mary Calhoun, a veteran of two full seasons on the varsity, and Roxann Hincka earned the postseason honors and should help the Vikings challenge for more district titles in the coming seasons. Hincka had a team-high 238 rebounds for the Vikes and averaged 10.35 a game. Her best rebounding performance of the season came in the first meeting with Arenac Eastern and the district championship game against Johannesburg-Lewiston where she collected 18 on both occasions.

HINCKA WAS second in points with 225 on the season and ave

raged nearly 10 points a game. Her best performance came in the playoffs, again against Joburg, when she netted 21. Calhoun was second in steals (78), assists (73), third on the squad in points (218), and fourth in rebounds (125). Calhoun’s best scoring outpoint of the 2004 season came in a league battle at home against NSL champ Mio when she finished with 24 points. It was part of a three-game stretch where she scored 14 against Hale and 21 against Arenac Eastern. The highest scoring output of the season for the Vikings was in the district title game when they poured in 74 in a 20-point win against Joburg.

The highest scoring game of the regular season came against Arenac when the girls put in 72. It also was the game that they allowed the least amount of points, 29.