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Early winter
In other winter sports updates: Raejana Wright, a 2019 Rib Lake High School graduate, is averaging 3.9 points and 2.8 rebounds in just over 12 minutes per game for the Barton College women’s basketball team. Those numbers are highlighted by an 11-point, five-rebound outing in the team’s seasonopening 81-49 win over Georgia College on Nov. 12. She played 20 minutes in that game and added three steals.
The Bulldogs are off to a 6-1 start, starting with six straight wins, before their two-year 19-game home winning streak ended Saturday with a 78-74 loss to their Conference Carolinas nemesis Belmont Abbey.
Steven Petkau, a 2020 Rib Lake graduate, is averaging 16.9 points per game through eight contests for the men’s basketball team at Emmaus Bible College in Dubuque, Iowa. He’s averaging 35.3 minutes per game, shooting at a strong 47.2% clip from the field (48 of 102) and shooting 39.5% from 3-point range (17 of 43). He’s 22 of 25 from the free throw line. The 6-5 sophomore is averaging five rebounds per game and has 18 assists, 19 steals and seven blocked shots.
He scored 31 points on 10-of-16 shooting from the field, including five of 10 from 3-point range, in a 79-60 win at Maranatha Baptist University on Nov. 20 and scored 21 points in the Eagles’ most recent game, a 102-63 win over Moody Bible Institute, on Saturday.
The Eagles are off to a 2-7 start.
Medford 2020 graduate Jake Rau was named this week’s Minnesota College Athletic Conference Wrestling Athlete of the Week honor. Rau, a heavyweight wrestler for Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids, Minn. was honored for his successful classroom and athletic performance. Rau recently visited the nation’s capital where he was offered athletic and academic scholarships to cover the majority of his college education at American University.
In the Nov. 6 Cobber Invitational at Moorhead, Minn., Rau wrestled two wrestlers from U-Mary in 285-pound matches. He was defeated 8-2 by Dominic Tudor and 7-5 by Gerardo Jaime. The Vikings were scheduled to compete Wednesday in Thief River Falls against Northland Community and Technical College in what is being called the Battle of the North: Volume 2. Northland won the the 2019 Volume 1 matchup.
AJ Adleman, a 2020 Medford graduate, holds an 8-0 record as a goalie for the 23-0 Helena Bighorns in North American 3 Hockey Tier III Junior League. In his eight starts, Adleman has allowed just 13 goals for a 1.68 goals-against-average and he has a .935 save percentage with 186 saves on 199 shots faced. He has one shutout, which came in a 10-0 win at Sheridan on Sept. 11. He had 18 saves in that game.
The Bighorns hold a 2.5-game lead over the second-place Gillette Wild (202) in the Frontier Division. The team’s regular season extends into early March.
