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December 16, 1999
Deibele plans to stay at Sleepy Eye HighBy JIM BASTIANJournal Sports Writer NEW ULM -- Dean Deibele -- the head football coach at Sleepy Eye High -- said that there is "nothing to the report" he will step down from his coaching position. "Every year, you think about where you are or what you want to do but, right now, I do not have any plans of stepping down," he said. "Things could change and all this and that, but right now, it would be pretty tough letting go." Deibele said his quarterback this season -- Jimmy Eckstein -- is being looked "at hard by St. Olaf. Their head coach is very interested in him." He said that Loren Havemeier is looking at St. John's "along with some other schools. It all depends on how his hockey season goes. I did get a call from the St. Olaf hockey coach. Scott Macho (who played high school hockey in New Ulm) is an assistant coach there and they want to take a look at Loren." Cole Deibele is looking at several colleges and "all three are looking at a college where they can play three sports." HOUNDS NEED MORE DEFENSIVE INTENSITY: New Ulm Cathedral basketball coach Dan Wolfe said his team "needs to play with more defensive intensity in the second half of games." Cathedral fell to Wabasso 69-51 when they gave up 44 second-half points. "We played very well the first half and executed well on both offense and defense," said Wolfe, who will see his Hounds host Sleepy Eye High tonight. "We had a 12-8 lead after one quarter; they changed up defenses in the second quarter. We struggled a little bit with that and were down by three points at halftime. And against a veteran Wabasso team, in their gym, we felt pretty good about that. We felt that we were right on the doorstep." But that changed, according to Wolfe, when in the third quarter, "we did not come out with the intensity level on defense in the quarter that we needed. We did not execute defensively and that affected our offense. We went down by 10 points after three quarters and that became a 12-point lead. Then,it became a struggle. The last three minutes of the game, we had to trap and double-team and when you do that, you give up some cheap baskets. The final score does not concern me, but what does is that we did not have the intensity that we needed." Wolfe commented that he felt "we had proved to ourselves that we can compete on a level with Wabasso, who is one of the (Tomahawk) conference favorites. And I thought that playing them would have given us some confidence to go into the second half and play as hard as we could. But the exact opposite happened; they scored on their first three possessions and they got the momentum." Wolfe said the first three minutes of the first and third quarters "are pivotal times in basketball games and we did not come out in that first three minutes of the third quarter." Wolfe was happy with the Hounds' offense, particularly the play of point guard Will Moeller, and Joey Schugel -- a first year starter on the varsity. "Will has handled the change to point guard very well this season (Moeller played point guard every year except last year when Casey Lux played there.) and Joey has played like a veteran in the first two games instead of a first-year varsity player. Our guard play has been good." Wolfe said that Mike Hall has also played well. "In the first two games, he has a total of 16 rebounds," Wolfe said. "He has also blocked some shots for us. Plus, Kyle Neubauer and Dave Groebner have played well off the bench. Both give us depth." SCHMIDT SETS GUSTAVUS CAREER MARKS: New Ulm's Luke Schmidt set two career records and three season records for the Gustavus Adolphus men's basketball team. Schmidt, who is finishing up his studies and is also an assistant coach at Gustavus, has the most career field goals (1,324) and career blocks (160). He also scored 604 points in a season -- a record -- and has the top two field goal seasons of 245 and 229. He also was first, second and third in season blocks with 54, 53 and 53, and had nine blocks in one game. Schmidt is fifth in career scoring at Gustavus with 1,607 points, those coming in only three seasons as he played at Carleton his freshman season before transferring to Gustavus. SHOT SELECTION DOOMS CHARGERS: Minnesota Valley Lutheran head basketball coach Craig Morgan said one of the reasons for the 75-67 loss to McLeod West was the Chargers' shot selection. "Our shot selection was not very good in the first half," he said. "We did better in the second half with that. The Bussler boys (Nate and Travis) were just awesome; they stepped it up and they were in a zone." The Chargers managed only four second-quarter points, which led to the loss. "I have been telling our kids that we have to get the ball inside," Morgan said. "We were shooting from outside and missing, and while our kids were boxing out, the long shots caused long rebounds, which they got and scored on. We played decent defense, but it was that matter of shot selection. We were cold. We are a team that will live or die from the outside shot and Tuesday night, we died."
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