There was a time where grouchy area basketball fans would once mutter something like the following: How crazy is it that Rochester and Tippecanoe Valley would not meet until the semistate?
Along with Bethany Sewell and Randy Wynn, they comprise Rochester girls basketball coach Tony Stesiak's coaching staff. They bring different experiences to coaching, but they have won before, and they got to share in the Lady Zs' Class 3A regional title Saturday night.
That was the song playing over the speakers as the Rochester High School girls basketball team emerged for their postgame pep rally after winning the Class 3A RHS regional Saturday.
To Rochester girls basketball coach Tony Stesiak, Tippecanoe Valley 6-0 sophomore forward-post player Anne Secrest is in rare company.
She has both the athletic ability and basketball instincts of a once-in-a-decade player. And Stesiak and the Lady Zs will have to try and figure out how to stop her, or at least slow her down, when Valley and RHS meet in the Class 3A northern semistate at Warsaw High School at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Taylor Medina scored 15 points to lead three players in double figures, and the Rochester defense held North Judson to just nine points in the second and third quarters combined in a 54-38 win Tuesday.
Logan Primerano scored nine of his game-high 19 points during a decisive 13-0 run in the fourth quarter, and Seth Adelsperger added 17 points, 12 rebounds and seven blocked shots as the visiting Peru boys basketball team defeated Rochester 52-43 Friday.
Bev Jennings, 87, of Rochester, went home on February 23, 2015. She was born in North Muskegon, Michigan, to George and Beatrice Olsen Mecher. She was the fourth daughter born to the union. Thursday, February 26, 2015
Dorothy May Henning Thews, 86, of Culver, died Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, at Miller's Merry Manor, Culver, surrounded by her five children. Wednesday, February 25, 2015
