Carthage College 2009-10 Women’s Basketball Preview

GENERAL

Name of school	Carthage College
Location	Kenosha, Wis.
Founded	1847
Enrollment	2,475
Nickname	Lady Reds
School colors	Red, white and black
Home arena	Tarble Arena
Capacity	2,385
Affiliation	NCAA Division III
Conference	CCIW
President	F. Gregory Campbell
Athletics director	Robert Bonn
Assistant athletics director	Steve Marovich
Senior woman administrator	Leanne Ulmer
Athletics Phone	262-551-5942

HISTORY

First year of women’s basketball	1901
Overall all-time record	520-443
Years in NCAA/last	1/1996
Last post-season opponent, year	Wheaton, 1996
Result	L, 72-71
CCIW championships	1996

SPORTS INFORMATION

Sports information director	Steve Marovich
SID office phone	262-551-5740
SID home phone	262-551-5547
SID fax	262-551-5926
Athletics fax	262-551-5995
Hotline	262-551-5388
E-mail	stevich@concentric.net
Athletics web site	http://www.carthage.edu/athletics
SID mailing address	2001 Alford Park Drive Kenosha, WI  53140

LOCAL MEDIA

Kenosha News

Dave Marran, Sports Editor

715 58th St./Kenosha, WI  53141

262-656-6290; 262-657-4946 (FAX)

E-Mail:  sports@kenoshanews.com

Racine Journal-Times

Susan Shemanske, Sports Editor

212 4th St./Racine, WI  53403

262-631-1750; 262-631-1780 (FAX)

E-Mail:  racine.sports@lee.net

WRJN-AM Radio (1400)

John Weiser, play-by-play

4201 Victory Avenue/Racine, WI  53405

262-634-3311

E-Mail:  jweiser@carthage.edu

COACHING STAFF

Head coach	Tim Bernero
Record at school (years)	71-57 (5 years)
Career record (years)	71-57 (5 years)
Women’s basketball phone	262-551-5713
Best time to reach	10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
E-mail	tbernero@carthage.edu
Assistant coach	Denae Fisher
Part-time assistant coach	Rachel Schlesinger
Graduate Assistant coach	Katie Jarger
Head athletics trainer	Laurie Jensen

TEAM INFORMATION

	Total	Home	Away	Neutral
2009 overall record	18-9	6-2	7-5	5-2
CCIW record	9-5	5-2	4-3	----
Conference finish		3rd
Final ranking last year		N/A
Poll		N/A
Starters returning/lost		1/4
Letterwinners returning/lost		8/7

2009-10 SCHEDULE

DATE	DAY	OPPONENT	TIME/RESULT	LOCATION
Nov. 17	Tue.	Monmouth	7 p.m.	Monmouth, Ill.
Nov. 21	Sat.	Beloit	2 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Nov. 24	Tue.	Aurora	6 p.m.	Aurora, Ill.
Nov. 28	Sat.	University of Chicago	3 p.m.	Chicago, Ill.
Nov. 30	Mon.	Lake Forest	7:30 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Dec. 4	Fri.	Calvin	7:30 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Dec. 11	Fri.	Robert Morris (Ill.)	7 p.m.	Chicago, Ill.
Dec. 14	Mon.	Concordia (Wis.)	7:30 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Dec. 21	Mon.	Coe	6 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
		Oglethorpe Holiday Classic
Dec. 28	Mon. Mon.	Carthage vs. Hope Piedmont vs. Oglethorpe	6 p.m., EST 8 p.m., EST	Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
Dec. 29	Tue.	Consolation/championship	1/3 p.m.	Atlanta, Ga.
Jan. 5	Tue.	*Wheaton (Ill.)	7:30 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Jan. 9	Sat.	*Illinois Wesleyan	2 p.m.	Bloomington, Ill.
Jan. 12	Tue.	*Elmhurst	7:30 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Jan. 16	Sat.	*Augustana (Ill.)	5 p.m.	Rock Island, Ill.
Jan. 19	Tue.	*North Central (Ill.)	7:30 p.m.	Naperville, Ill.
Jan. 23	Sat.	*Millikin	2 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Jan. 26	Tue.	*North Park	7:30 p.m.	Chicago, Ill.
Jan. 30	Sat.	*Illinois Wesleyan	5 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Feb. 2	Tue.	*Wheaton (Ill.)	7:30 p.m.	Wheaton, Ill.
Feb. 6	Sat.	*Augustana (Ill.)	5 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Feb. 9	Tue.	*Elmhurst	7:30 p.m.	Elmhurst, Ill.
Feb. 13	Sat.	*North Central (Ill.)	5 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Feb. 16	Tue.	*North Park	7:30 p.m.	Kenosha, Wis.
Feb. 20	Sat.	*Millikin	2 p.m.	Decatur, Ill.
		CCIW Tournament
Feb. 26	Fri.	Semifinals	6/8 p.m.	TBA
Feb. 27	Sat.	Championship	2 p.m.	TBA

*CCIW games

Times listed are Central Time

Home games in bold

Schedule Notes:  The Dec. 11 Robert Morris (Ill.) game will be played at Loyola University’s Joseph J. Gentile Center.

Radio/Internet Broadcasts and “Live Stats”:  Selected Carthage women’s basketball games broadcast on WRJN-AM Radio (1400) and/or available on the Internet at http://www.carthage.edu/ais/media/love/streaming1.html …“live stats” for all home games are available at http://www.carthage.edu/athleticspages/livestats/xlive.htm

TEAM INFORMATION

R/L	Name	Pos.	Yr.	GP-GS	Scoring	RB	FG Pct.	Honors
L	Katie Jarger	F	Grad.	27-27	12.1	5.2	.522	Second-team All-CCIW
L	Lisa Gartelos	C	Grad.	26-18	9.1	4.2	.500	Third-team All-CCIW
L	Carlie Janowiak	G/F	Grad.	27-27	4.2	5.3	.333	Third-team All-CCIW
L	Shana Lieberman	G	Grad.	27-17	5.3	2.3	.296
L	Katherine Burshiem	C	N/R	27-0	4.7	3.8	.386
R	Heather Gilmore	G	Sr.	27-26	7.3	2.9	.475
R	Rosie Dorn	F	Sr.	27-9	6.7	3.9	.491
R	Dani Ripkey	G	So.	27-1	5.3	1.9	.412
R	Katie Klemke	G	Sr.	27-10	4.5	1.2	.386
R	Drewann Pancratz	G	So.	26-0	3.4	1.7	.412
R	Taylor Tondelli	G	Jr.	26-16	6.04	0.4	----	Played in 2007-08

Top Newcomers

Name	Pos.	Yr.	Hometown (High School)	Honors
Caris Alan	G	Fr.	Elgin, Ill.	Honorable mention All-Upstate Eight
Cailee Corcoran	F	Fr.	Oak Lawn, Ill. (Chicago-Marist)
Lauren Hyser	F	Fr.	Belvidere, Ill.	All-Northern Illinois Conference 10
Diana Jacklin	F	So.	Berwyn, Ill. (Morton West/Florida Gulf Coast)	Three-time All-West Suburban League Gold

CARTHAGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NOTES

2009 Season Review

Another year and yet another step closer.  This time, the Carthage College women’s basketball team (18-9, 9-5, CCIW) was a mere two hours away from achieving one of its goals—a trip to the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Championship 

Carthage made its sixth appearance in seven years at the CCIW Women’s Basketball Tournament in 2009.   After finishing third in the regular-season conference race, the Lady Reds were paired up with Wheaton College (Ill.) in the semifinals, a team that had already defeated Carthage twice.  The third time, however, things worked out a little better.  Carthage took a 27-25 lead at 1:02 and led by four points at the half, 29-25.  A three-pointer by Katie Jarger to open the second half made it 32-25, and the Lady Reds took a nine-point lead, 34-25, at 19:04 on layup by Heather Gilmore.  After that, it was all Lady Reds.  Carthage made it a 15-point game, 46-31, at 12:00 on three-pointer by Katie Klemke and a 17-point game, 48-31, at 10:59 on a layup by Dani Ripkey.  The lead went to 20 points, 53-33, at 9:37 on a three-pointer by Ripkey.  Another three by Ripkey at 8:12 bumped the lead to 23 points, 56-33.  Carthage led by as much as 24 points, 60-36, at 5:21, and the Lady Reds went on to win by 15, 65-50.

“It was an interesting game,” said Carthage coach Tim Bernero (89-66, 6 years), “as they usually are when you play a team three times.  It’s not that Wheaton didn’t play hard, but we made the adjustments in the second half. and really turned the whole game around.  In the first half, their defense was so good, we couldn’t get out offense going.  We did a better job in the second half of isolating Lisa Gartelos in the post.  Dani Ripkey had a great second half on the outside, and we know she’s capable of that.  We knew that winning a tournament game wasn’t out of reach—we just had to put together a solid effort.  Now, we’re one win away from the NCAA tournament.  If we win, that would be incredible.  We’re happy to playing a game that means that much.  It’s a dance contest now.  If you win, you keep playing.”

The Lady Reds lost to conference-champion, top-seeded and No. 1 Illinois Wesleyan University, 75-55, in the next day’s tournament-championship game.  The Titans led by 10 points at halftime, 35-25.  Illinois Wesleyan went up by 12, 37-25, at 19:15 second half.  The Lady Reds closed to within eight on two occasions, 37-39 at 18:14 and 39-31 at 16:33, before the Titans went back up by 12, 43-31, at 15:43.   IWU went up by 17, 50-33, at 13:22, and   Carthage got no closer than 12 points the rest of the way, 54-42, at 8:22 and 58-46 at 5:59.

“The game turned the last three minutes of the first half,” said Bernero.  “We scrambled around, dug in and got to within four points, but they ran off the last few points to get it to10 at halftime.  Once you get behind Illinois Wesleyan by 10 points or so, it’s tough, because they’re so potent, offensively.  To get back into a game against them, you have to be flawless, defensively, and execute your game at the other end.  While we were never out of it, I don’t know that we were ever in a position to win it in the second half.”

Playing as road warriors while the beautiful new Tarble Arena was under construction, Carthage went 7-3 over its non-conference schedule before opening Tarble Arena with a non-conference game against Clarke College on Jan. 5, 2009.  The all-new facility, on the site of the former Carthage Physical Education Center, features a parquet floor, arena seating for 2,385 fans with all red seats and theatre-style chairs on one side, a giant video board and state-of-the-art sound and lighting equipment.  The video board and the ability to darken the house during pre-game introductions added a level of excitement unique to NCAA Division III arenas.

Three Carthage players were named to the 2009 All-CCIW team.  Katie Jarger (graduated-senior, Chicago, Ill./River Forest-Trinity) was named second-team All-CCIW.  Jarger was ranked eighth among CCIW scoring leaders (12.4 points thru the end of the regular season), first in free-throw percentage (.892), sixth in field-goal percentage (.518), 10th in blocked shots (0.60 per game) and tied for 15th in rebounding (5.4 per game).  Carlie Janowiak (graduated-senior, Aurora, Ill./Waubonsie Valley) and Lisa Gartelos (graduated-senior, Lisle, Ill.) earned third-team all-conference honors.  Janowiak was tied for second in assists (4.04 per game) and ranked 17th in rebounding (5.2 per game), while Gartelos was eighth in field-goal percentage (.500).  Also lost to graduation will be Shana Lieberman (Arlington Heights, Ill./Hersey, 5.3 points, 2.3 rebounds).

Jarger went over the 1,000-point career scoring mark in the Lady Reds’ 77-46 win over North Central College on Jan. 24 at Tarble Arena in Kenosha, Wis.  Jarger, the 18th Carthage player to reach that scoring plateau, is ranked 12th on the all-time Carthage scoring list (1,124 points).  She also set a CCIW season record with a .915 free-throw percentage (43-47) in conference games and a Carthage mark with an .895 percentage overall (68-76).

“We leaned on our four seniors in 2009,” said Bernero, “because those are the kind of players the rest of the team can learn from.  They were four different personalities, which is what makes coaching fun.  It’s always hard to see your seniors go.  We have some really good returning players next year.  Our junior class is very talented, played a lot this year, and next year, they’ll have the freedom and opportunity to see what they can accomplish.   Next year’s team will be a different group of personalities and maybe a different style of play, but our goals every year are to win the CCIW title and get into the NCAA tournament.  This year, we got to within two hours of reaching one of those goals.”

2010 Season Preview

Head coach Tim Bernero loses seven-of-15 letterwinners and four starters from last years’ 18-9 team that reached the title game of the CCIW Women’s Basketball Tournament.  Lost to graduation are second-team All-CCIW forward Katie Jarger, third-team All-CCIW guard/forward Carlie Janowiak and third-team all conference center Lisa Gartelos, along with guard Shana Lieberman.

Leading returnees include guard Heather Gilmore (Sr., Des Moines, Iowa/Pleasant Hill/University of Iowa, started 26-of-27 games, 7.3 points, 2.9 rebounds), forward Rosie Dorn (Sr., Chicago, Ill./Wilmette-Regina Dominican/Eastern Illinois University, played in all 27 games, made nine starts, 6.7 points, 3.9 rebounds), guard Dani Ripkey (So., Deerfield, Ill., played in all 27 games, 5.3 points), guard Katie Klemke (Sr., Glenview, Ill./Glenbrook South, played in all 27 games, 10 starts, 4.5 points, .386 three-point field-goal percentage) and guard Drewann Pancratz (So., Schaumburg, Ill., played in 26-of-27 games, 3.4 points, .412 three-point field-goal percentage). 

Guard Taylor Tondelli (Jr., Downers Grove, Ill./South), who attended Carthage two years ago and played in 16-of-24 games, is also back with the team in 2009-10.  Guard/forward Cory Bazany (So., Elgin, Ill./Burlington Central) and guard Allison Groessl (So., Park Ridge, Ill./Maine South) are also expected to contribute.

Newcomers are guard Caris Alan (Fr., Elgin, Ill., honorable mention All-Upstate Eight Conference), forward Cailee Corcoran (Fr., Oak Lawn, Ill./Chicago-Marist), forward Lauren Hyser (Fr., Belvidere, Ill., Rockford Register-Star All-Northern Illinois Conference 10), NCAA Division I transfer forward Diana Jacklin (So., Berwyn, Ill./Morton West/Florida Gulf Coast University, All-West Suburban League Gold and Chicago Sun-Times all-area three-straight years), and forward Kayla Timm (Fr., Rockford, Ill./Winnebago).

“We played a lot of people last year,” points out coach Bernero, “so a lot of our returning players have significant experience.  We’ll see different roles for some of those people, since several of them played behind our graduated seniors.  So, several players this year now have an opportunity to step up and contribute in a more-significant way, and that’s exciting for all of us.  I think this team has a chance to be just as good as last year’s team, if not better.  It’ll be a different style, however.  Last year, we were a little more reliant on a half-court game, but this group should be more athletic and more fast-paced.  The style change could be a little more for me than for them, but it suits the personnel on this year’s team.  To match the accomplishments of last year, I think we’ll have to play at a faster pace on a consistent basis, and to play with an intensity that puts our opponents on their heels.  If we maximize our athleticism and impose that on the other team, we have a chance to be pretty successful.”

Carthage opens the season at Monmouth College on Nov. 17.  Other non-conference games include Beloit College, Aurora University, the University of Chicago, Lake Forest College, Calvin College, Robert Morris University (Ill.), Concordia University (Wis.) and Coe College.  The Lady Reds also take a holiday trip to Atlanta, Ga., in on Dec. 28-29, 2009 to play in the Oglethorpe University “Holiday Classic.”