Bo Krivohlavek thinks the girls game of the Warrior Basketball Classic will be anything but boring.
“We’ll be pretty guard oriented, but that is what you want in an all-star game,” said Logan View’s Krivohlavek, who will coach the Dark Team with Dan Tietjen of Yutan. “You want to push the ball up the floor. There won’t be a whole lot of defense played, I’m sure. It’s a case that these are the best players in the area so let’s roll the balls out on the floor and see what happens.”
The girls game will start at 6 Saturday night at the Midland Lutheran College Event Center. The boys game will begin at 8.
Krivohlavek, who has compiled a career record of 104-67, and Tietjen, who guided Yutan to a 13-8 record in 2007, selected their team though a player draft.
“We have a lot of East Husker (Conference) girls and it will be fun to have them on our side for once,” Krivohlavek said about the Raiders’ league. “Some of these girls play club volleyball together and now they’ll get to play basketball together after battling against each other for four years.”
The Dark Team’s roster includes Logan View teammates Lisa Bopp and Jenna Peters, Yutan teammates Kendra Johnson and Chelsea Rew, Chelsea LaCroix of Mead, Jenna Wesch of North Bend, Hannah Feller of Wisner-Pilger, Mary Kreikemeier and Jackie Steuter of West Point Central Catholic, Annie Schlautman of Howells, Laura Wilmes of Fremont Bergan and Morgan Smeal of Scribner-Snyder.
Krivohlavek said it will be enjoyable to have some former opposing players on his side.
“The nature of the best in athletics is competition and you gameplan to try and stop a Laura Wilmes or a Jenna Wesch or a Mary Kreikemeier,” he said. “It’s incredibly rewarding to be working with them now. They are all great athletes with great attitudes. It is a lot of fun to work with these kids.”
The Logan View coach is also anxious to coach Bopp and Peters one last time. The two helped the Raiders to a 13-10 record in 2007.
“They truly are two of the best people I’ve been around,” Krivohlavek said. “They will be incredibly successful in college. They were involved in everything around the Logan View community and were ‘take charge’ kind of kids. I don’t have any daughters, but those two are as close as it gets for me.”
Bopp, Peters and their teammates will try and contain a White Team lineup that is also talented. The White lineup includes Fort Calhoun teammates Cara Anderson and Emma Frost-Briley, Midland Lutheran College recruit Courtney Kavan and North Bend guard Sara Bloom.
“On paper, they probably have the best post player under Class A in the state with Anderson. I’m not quite sure how we’ll try to stop her. Maybe by tackling her and hoping the refs won’t blow their whistles in an all-star game,” Krivohlavek said with a laugh. “They’ve surrounded her with a bunch of kids who can stick the 20-foot (jumper).”
Krivohlavek said the game should be entertaining.
“It will be a blast,” he said. “It’s an all-star game and it is for fun, but both teams will want to win.”
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