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Blackjacks bank on 3 returning starters for improvement Allison Estling, Ayiana Hastad and Hayley Anderson lead the way for Dawson-Boyd BY MICHAEL LYNE West Central Tribune
DAWSON — The Dawson-Boyd girls basketball team will lean heavily on its three returning starters for its 2023-24 campaign after it lost its top scorer and one of its top defensive players from the 2022-23 season. Dawson-Boyd had a 6-13 record in Camden Conference action and was 9-19 overall last season. The Blackjacks lost to Lac qui Parle Valley in the Section 3A-North quarterfinals. “Three of our seniors — Allison Estling, Ayiana Hastad and Hayley Anderson — are returning starters who have played many minutes for us and we will look to them to, once again, lead the team,” said Blackjacks head coach Rachel Hakanson, who enters her third season and will be assisted by Terry White. “I am looking forward to seeing who else will step up and fill the shoes of our former seniors.” Estling, a 5-foot-5-inch guard and captain, averaged 8.6 points. Hastad, a 5-8 guard and captain, averaged 7.4 points per game. Anderson, a 6-0 forward, averaged 7.2 points per game. No other players averaged more than five points per game outside of Kate Dahl, who led the Blackjacks with 11.4 points per game as a senior forward. Dawson-Boyd will also be without Chelsie Husby — one of its top defenders from last season — who graduated. Estling, Hastad and Anderson make up just half of Dawson-Boyd’s senior class.
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Dawson-Boyd junior guard Allison Estling passes the ball during a game against the Renville County West Jaguars on Joe Brown / West Central Tribune Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, at Renville County D-B junior Hayley Anderson, right, tries to rip the ball away from LQPV’s Ayanna West High School in Renville. Gipson during a Section 3A-North quarterfinal game on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023 Also in that group is 5-9 forward Taylen at Montevideo. Jorgenson, 5-5 guard Paige Conover and 5-5 guard Rachel Jorgens. The remaining five athletes on the Blackjacks’ roster features one upperclassmen and four underclassmen. Lindsey Lund, a 5-7 forward, is the sole Thursday, January 4 Friday, February 2 junior on the roster. Game 7:30PM….Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Game 7:30PM….Ortonville The underclassmen are as follows: Tracy Area High School Gym Ortonville High School Monday, December 4 sophomores Alyssa Swedzinski (5-5 Monday, January 8 Game 7:30PM….KMS Public Schools Thursday, February 8 guard) and Jordin Strand (5-3 guard); Game 7:30PM….RCW KMS High School Game 7:30PM….Lac Qui Parle Valley Dawson-Boyd High School freshman Alivia Estling (5-10 forward); Dawson-Boyd High School Friday, December 8 and eighth-grader Claire Stratmoen (5-2 Thursday, January 11 Game 7:30PM….Ortonville Friday, February 9 guard). Game 7:30PM….Minneota Dawson-Boyd High School Game 7:00PM....................Benson Minneota High School - Viking Gym “I am hopeful that we will have a deepBenson High School Tuesday, December 12 er bench this year with a good mixture Friday, January 12 Game 7:30PM….Lac Qui Parle Valley Monday, February 12 of older and younger players,” Hakanson Game 6:00PM….Fulda Lac Qui Parle Valley High School Game 7:30PM….CCS Fulda High School said. Community Christian School of
DAWSON BOYD BLACKJACKS Girls Varsity Basketball Schedule 2023-24 2023
Friday, December 15
Game 7:30PM...................CMCS Dawson-Boyd High School
Monday, December 18
Game 7:30PM...................Benson Dawson-Boyd High School
Thursday, December 21 Game 7:30PM….Lakeview Dawson-Boyd High School
Wednesday, December 27
Game 2:00PM….Westbrook-Walnut Grove SMSU
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Tuesday, January 2
Game 7:30PM….Montevideo Dawson-Boyd High School
Tuesday, January 16 Game 7:30PM….YME Dawson-Boyd High School
Thursday, January 18
Willmar
Thursday, February 15
Game 7:30PM….CMCS Central Minnesota Christian School
Game 7:15PM….Canby Canby High School
Tuesday, January 23 Game 7:30PM….MACCRAY Dawson-Boyd High School
Friday, January 26
Game 7:30PM….KMS Public Schools Dawson-Boyd High School
Tuesday, January 30 Game 7:30PM….Canby Dawson-Boyd High School
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