7 seniors headline Bonduel’s roster

Behind Hayley and Emily Sorenson, the Bonduel girls basketball returns varsity experience but not a lot of scoring.

Bonduel lost top scorer Taylor Weier (13 points per game) to graduation but returns its other four starters and seven of its top eight scorers.

The Sorensons averaged 20 points per game last winter, but senior Kailee Pedersen was the only other player to to average at least 5 points per contest.

“We’re definitely looking for scoring pretty much out of everybody,” Bonduel head coach Jerry Reinke said. “Sure, we’ll probably be more balanced, but hopefully we’ll be able to score enough.”

Hayley Sorenson tore an ACL in the spring during her AAU season, which forced her to miss both the track and volleyball seasons. She hopes to be playing early in December, according to Reinke.

Senior guard Danee Collier started all 24 games last season, and junior guard Brynn Reinke played in every game. Collier posted nearly 5 assists and 4 steals to go with her 4 points per game last year.

“Once I get those seven seniors back, plus the juniors and some sophomores that are very capable of playing, I’m hoping that the depth will really create a lot of competition in practice, which would make us better,” Reinke said.

Scoring in the post could be difficult for the Bears, who went 14-10 last year and 8-6 in the Central Wisconsin Conference-8. Weier was the tallest player on the roster at 6 foot.

This season, Hayley Sorenson is the tallest, listed on the roster at 5-foot-10, with five other players, including Emily Sorenson, at 5-9.

“We are losing a lot of our height, so probably we’re going to have to work on our outside shooting and working on the post,” Emily Sorenson said.
Sorenson and Pedersen, who each made eight 3s last season, are the team’s second- and third-best deep threat. Reinke hit 42 percent of her 50 attempts last winter. No other player on the team made more than two on the season.

The team will try to get up and down the court quickly, using its speed throughout all five positions to score some easy baskets.

“We’re fast and we’re good at defense,” Sorenson said.

She expects the team to compete for a conference championship, which Amherst and Wittenberg-Birnamwood shared last year. The Bears were fourth.

“This is kind of bitter sweet because it’s our last time playing together and it’s going to suck not playing with these girls at the end of the year,” Sorenson said.

Bonduel opens its season with four consecutive home games, starting Nov. 15 against Gillett.