Created: Thursday, March 4, 2010 9:54 a.m. CST
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Five Mustangs earn All-Bluegrass honors

Three members of the Murray boys’ basketball team and a pair of Mustang girls’ basketball players were recently named to the All-Bluegrass Conference Basketball Teams.


Freshman Austin Halls was a unanimous selection to the boys’ squad, while fellow freshman Cody Scroggie was tabbed to the Second Team. Mustang senior Remington Siefkas was a Honorable Mention selection.


Halls led the Mustangs with 26.5 points, 7.8 rebounds, 6.7 assists and 4.6 steals per game. Scroggie averaged 12.7 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.4 steals per game. Siefkas added 8.2 points and 6.4 rebounds per contest.


Halls was the lone non-senior named to the First Team and Scroggie was the only freshman on the Second Team.


Murray tied with Lamoni for the league championship with an 8-1 Bluegrass record.


The girls’ team did not have a First Team selection, but senior Amber Rider was tabbed to the second Team and freshman Ashley Rider was named Honorable Mention.


Amber Rider averaged 9.1 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 3.7 steals per game. Ashley Rider had 6.2 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 2.1 steals per contest.


The Mustangs finished sixth in the league with a 3-6 mark.

2009-10 All-Bluegrass Conference
Boys Basketball
First Team
Matt Lowe*, Sr., Seymour; Clint Wetterling*, Sr., Melcher-Dallas; Austin Halls*, Fr., Murray; Alex Carr, Sr., Lamoni; Sterling Sherman, Sr., Lamoni; Colton Gwinn, Sr., Mormon Trail; Cody Korthaus, Sr., Moulton-Udell.
Second Team
Matt Maxfield, Sr., Melcher-Dallas; Cody Scroggie, Fr., Murray; Cordell Towers, Jr., Lamoni; Rhett Boles, Sr., Lamoni; Chase Wik, Soph., Lineville-Clio; Colton Probasco, Sr., Moulton-Udell; Brett England, Soph., Diagonal.
Honorable Mention (Murray Only) - Remington Siefkas, Sr.

Girls Basketball
First Team
Lindsay Hoehns*, Sr., Twin Cedars; Kylee Stansberry, Sr., Moulton-Udell; MacKenzie Clark, Sr., Moulton-Udell; Amber Quick, Jr., Lamoni; Katie Thornton, Sr., Melcher-Dallas; Taylor McBroom, Jr., Mormon Trail; Katelynn Tracey, Fr., Moravia.
Second Team
JoAnna Wells, Sr., Melcher-Dallas; Brittany Graham, Sr., Lineville-Clio; Amber Rider, Sr., Murray; Brandi Goodale, Sr., Diagonal; Keeley Brunner, Jr., Lamoni; Madison Probasco, Soph., Moulton-Udell; Alee Hugen, Fr., Twin Cedars.
Honorable Mention (Murray only) - Ashley Rider, Fr.
* - Unanimous Selection

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