SPORTSBEAT by Peter Jakey: Fleming selected for national basketball team

After an outstanding performance in the USA Junior nationals all-state high school basketball competition, Jenny Fleming, a junior at RCHS, has been invited to participate in the prestigious USA Junior Nationals ?International Sports Festival? in Columbus, Ohio in July. She was one of a 150 basketball players invited to Eastern Michigan University to try out for the team. ?They went down there for practices, rebounding and shooting drills,? said Paul Stempky, her varsity basketball coach at RCHS. Fleming was one of 15 players selected to play for Team Michigan USA.

?They will play against other states,? said Stempky. ?It is a week long tournament and she?ll be coached by college coaches now. ?They will play two games a day, all week long,? said Stempky. The teams will come from all over the nation. Stempky has told Jenny?s parents, Jerry and Darla, they?ll look at conducting a fundraiser later in the year, because the hotel costs will add up quickly. ?She is really looking forward to it,? Stempky added. ?It couldn?t have happened to a better person.?

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On Sunday, Leilani Kortman wrestled in Onaway at the Up North Girls Meet. It was an all girls wrestling tournament that is put on by the USGWA. Girls from all over the state come to Presque Isle County to compete. Kortman took first place in here weight class as she pinned both of the wrestlers in her weight class.

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From Tuesday?s basketball notebook: ?There was an announcements between the third and fourth quarter about a vehicle that was blocked in. My first thought: ?Who would want to leave!? There could have been an emer

gency at home, but there were a lot of vehicles blocked in and were not going anywhere until after the game. The parking lot behind the school was packed. I ended up by the buses.

?Here is a glance at some numbers from Tuesday?s hoops-fest in Rogers City:

? 24: The number of rebounds collected by Rogers City?s Scott Kowalewsky. Huron head coach Karl Grambau did not have any records available for rebounds, but it ranks right up there, he said.

? 27: A career best scoring for Posen?s Jordan Hincka. He had 18 of those points in the second half.

? 12: It was a season low turnover number for the Vikings.

? 12-4, 12-0, and 6-2: Those were some of the significant and not so significant runs. The Hurons opened the game with a 12-4 run, but Posen countered with a 12-0 run at the beginning of the second half. The other run came from Posen after the ball went behind the stage curtains. People always chuckle when the rhythm of a game is stopped in Rogers City because a ball, and the player going to retrieve it, disappear.

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