PONCA – Just like the basketball conference tournament was split into two divisions, First Team and Honorable Mention Lewis and Clark All-Conference representatives were announced.
According to a release, the Lewis and Clark basketball conference is made up of 16 teams.
Lewis Division (top eight teams) champions were #1 Ponca over #3 Wakefield, 51-22 in Girls Championship game while #6 Winnebago defeated #4 Laurel-Concord-Coleridge, 48-44 in the Boys title game.
State Tournament teams from the Lewis and Clark Conference were Ponca girls (C2 state qualifier); Wynot girls (D2 state qualifier) and Wynot boys (D2 state qualifier).
Area Teams: Complete Girls/Boys.
Lewis Division:
Tri County Northeast (Allen/Emerson-Hubbard) girls: senior Jordyn Carr (First Team All-Conference) and sophomore Rhyanne Mackling (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Tri County Northeast (Allen/Emerson-Hubbard) boys: senior Nathan Oswald (First Team All-Conference) and senior Garrett Blanke (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Hartington-Newcastle girls: junior Alivia Morton (First Team All-Conference) and sophomore Mani Lange (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Hartington-Newcastle boys: senior Jake Peitz (First Team All-Conference) and senior Bennet Sievers (First Team All-Conference).
Laurel-Concord-Coleridge girls: senior Kinsey Hall (First Team All-Conference), junior Haley Christiansen (Honorable Mention All-Conference) and sophomore Mallory Eriksen (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Laurel-Concord-Coleridge boys: senior Evan Haisch (First Team All-Conference), junior Jake Rath (First Team All-Conference) and senior Lucas Rasmussen (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Ponca girls: junior Samantha Ehlers (First Team All-Conference), junior Gracen Evans (First Team All-Conference) and junior Ashlyn Kingsbury (First Team All-Conference).
Ponca boys: sophomore Dalton Lamprecht (First Team All-Conference), senior Zach Fernau (Honorable Mention All-Conference) and senior Taylor Korth (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Wakefield girls: junior Alex Arenas (First Team All-Conference), sophomore Jordan Metzler (First Team All-Conference) and senior Aishah Valenzuela (First Team All-Conference).
Wakefield boys: junior Cade Johnson (First Team All-Conference); junior Eliseo Sarmiento (First Team All-Conference) and senior Armando Villa (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Clark Division:
Randolph girls: junior Erin Engel (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Randolph boys: senior Jacob Calder (First Team All-Conference) and senior Collyn Beal (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Winside girls: senior McKenna Russell (Honorable Mention All-Conference).
Winside boys: junior Dean Krueger (First Team All-Conference).