St. Edward's Yohn earns second-team all-state honors

Olivia Lett of Pana and Megan Considine of Byron were the only unanimous choices to the Class 2A all-state girls basketball team, which was announced Thursday.

Lett and Considine were named first team on all 15 ballots cast by a statewide panel of sports writers and broadcasters and compiled by John Radtke of the Daily Herald.

Momence senior Candace Sykes missed being a unanimous choice by 1 vote.

The remainder of the first team is Liz Watkins of Taylor Ridge Rockridge and Ali Schwagmeyer of Camp Point Central/Augusta Southeastern.

St. Edward junior Katie Yohn was the top vote-getter for the second tem.

Lett, a 6-foot senior signed to play at Southern Illinois, scored over 2,000 points in her career at Pana. This season she averaged 22 points and 4 assists per game and made over 40 3-pointers.

Considine, a 5-8 senior guard, also scored over 2,000 points in her Byron career. This season she scored at a 22.6 per game clip while also averaging 8.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 5.3 steals per game.

University of Alabama recruit Sykes scored 2,274 points in her Momence career as well as grabbing 1,039 rebounds. In her senior season she averaged 21.3 points, 11.5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2.6 blocks per game while also making 70 3-pointers.

Watkins, a 5-11 senior center who has signed to play softball at the University of Iowa, averaged 22 points and 12 rebounds per game this season, finishing her career just shy of 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds.

Schwagmeyer, the fifth senior on the first team, averaged 19 points per game this year for Camp Point Central/Augusta Southeastern.

The Class 2A second team consists of Yohn, Brittany Hasselbring of Kankakee McNamara, Destiny Mitchell of Massac County, Jazzmyn Harvey of Melrose Park Walther Lutheran and Jen Andes of Spring Valley Hall.

Yohn, a 5-10 junior, averaged 20 points, 5.9 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 4.2 steals this season. She will enter her senior year having scored 1,127 career points.

Hasselbring is the only player on either Class 2A team whose team is competing in this weekend's IHSA Final Four. A senior, she averaged 14.5 points per game, dished out 97 assists and had 91 steals while shooting 73 percent from the free-throw line.

Mitchell scored 1,705 points in her Massac County career, averaging 17.5 per game this season to go with 8.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists. She also set the school record with 24 rebounds in a game.

A senior guard, Harvey averaged 15 points, 2.8 assists and 2.3 steals per game for Walther Lutheran. Andes, also a senior, averaged 18 points and 11 rebounds per game for Hall.

There were no unanimous selections to the Class 1A first team, which consists of Anna Jones of Flanagan, Miriam Rutzen of Biggsville West Central, Heidi Dahnke of Martinsville, Emily McLain of Prophetstown, and Brianne Cox of Virden.

Jones, who will play her college basketball at Iowa Wesleyan, averages 18.4 points, 8.8 rebounds and 5.6 assists for Flanagan, which is competing in this weekend's Class 1A Final Four.

It is her second Final Four appearance, having been a member of Flanagan's 2006 fourth-place state team.

Rutzen, a junior forward, averaged 19 points, 11 rebounds and 4 blocks per game for Biggsville West Central. Dahnke, who will play in college at Illinois-Chicago, averaged 18.7 points and 11 rebounds per game as well as 5.6 assists, 4.8 steals and 3.1 blocks. She scored 1,903 career points and had 1,143 rebounds.

McLain, a 5-6 senior guard, scored over 1,800 career points at Prophetstown, averaging 18.5 per game this season along with 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 4.5 steals. Cox also scored over 1,800 points in her Virden career as well as grabbing over 900 rebounds. This season she averaged 20.5 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.

The Class 1A second team consists of only one senior, three juniors and a sophomore.

Kewanee-Weathersfield's Natalie Fargher is the lone senior on the second team. She averaged 19 points and 8 rebounds per game. The three juniors are Ashley Coffey of Biggsville West Central (17 ppg, 10 rpg), Megan Stringer of Final Four qualifier Moweaqua Central A&M (12.6 ppg, 6.3 rpg) and Erin Downey of Shiloh (18.8 ppg, 10.2 rpg).

Sophomore Kelly Buresh of Annawan rounds out the second team. She's scored over 1,000 points in her career, and this season averaged 21.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game.

Class 2A honorable mention -- Courtney Lindfors (So., Addison Driscoll), Julia Robert (Sr., Rochester), Kassie Jones (Jr., Champaign St. Thomas More), Hannah Ohl (Jr., Bismarck-Henning), Ann Nottingham (Jr., Shelbyville), Marley Hall (So., Warsaw/West Hancock co-op), Chelsea Prosser (So., Eureka), Haley Jones (Sr., Knoxville), Elizabeth Kelly (So., Carlinville).

Class 1A honorable mention -- Tiffany Williams (Jr., Gallatin County), Paige Spietz (So., Brimfield), Stephanie Denius (Sr., Oakwood), Hillary King (Jr., Decatur Lutheran), Rachelle Jack (Sr., Biggsville West Central), Mallory Weber (Jr., Salt Fork), Courtney Smith (Jr., Benton).