Tribune Notebook: Jam The Gym All-Star games set
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Mar. 25—HECTOR — It has become an annual event that began in 1996 and it's the last chance to see many of the area's best basketball players.
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The Tim Orth Memorial Foundation's Jam The Gym fund-raising event takes pace Saturday at Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart High School. Doors open at 3 p.m., with the opening ceremony scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
Besides multiple all-star games of the area's top high school talent, there is a three-point shooting contest at 3:50 p.m., followed by a Just for Kix dance performance 4:20 p.m. Opening ceremonies are at 4:30 p.m., followed by the final round of the three-point contest. Then, there's a girls basketball all-star game followed by a boys' all-star game.
Returning performers include the Fargo-Moorhead Acro Team, NBA mascots and dunk teams and Shel 'Pops' Higgens. New to the event is the Amazing Sladek and Wacky Chad.
Through the evening, there will be a silent auction, cash prize raffle, concessions and t-shirt sales. Items in the silent auction include everything from a Neal Broten 1980 USA hockey team replica gold medal, a Justin Jefferson autographed football, a Kevin Garnett autographed basketball and Twins tickets, among many other things.
The teams also compete Friday at Gibbon.
Players expected include Willmar's Avery Christensen and Jordan Ellingson and New London-Spicer's Zach Lageson and Griffin Thompson. Girls' participants include NLS's Roxanne Klein and MACCRAY's Brielle Janssen, Emma Thein and Nora Hultgren.
The Tim Orth Foundation has raised more than $4 million since 1996. It was created to "help West Central Minnesota families who have children facing illness or injury" and have substantial medical expenses, according to the website,
Orth was a student at BOLD High School who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in December, 1995. He died on Feb. 14, 1997. The Jam The Gym promotion was founded by Bill Neubauer, one of Orth's coaches, to help raise money. The similar even in the Glencoe area began after a deadly car accident in 1999.
* Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa — Taylor Pieper.
* Benson — Tayte Antolick, Landon Skarsten.
* Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart — chase Butler, Cameron McColley, Brady Rudeen.
* BOLD — Derrick Bahl, Owen Baumgartner, Tyler Ruschen.
* Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg — Hunter Engelke, Kody Tollefsrud.
* MACCRAY — Jaden Dirksen, Peyton Schlagel.
* Minnewaska — Luke Danielson, Marc Gruber, Tristan O'Neil.
* Montevideo — Tosten Christenson, Brody Dack, Jackson Koenen.
* New London-Spicer — Zach Lageson, Griffin Thompson.
* Renville County West — Jon Driggs, Cole Gullickson, AJ Reyes.
* Willmar — Avery Christensen, Jordan Ellingson.
* Yellow Medicine East — Kia Greycloud, Gavin Torvik.
* Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City — Brooke Johnson.
* BLHS — Callie Hable, Lily Hubin, Elizabeth, Ovitt, Chloe Schultz.
* BOLD — Kenley Elfering, Kya Elfering, Lily Henriksen, Zoey Lippert, Erika Martinson.
* KMS — Acelynn Hacker, Leah Wagner.
* LQPV — Caleigh Conn.
* MACCRAY — Nora Hultgren, Brielle Janssen, Emma Thein.
* Minnewaska — Lauryn Ankeny, Olivia Danielson.
* New London-Spicer — Roxanne Klein.
* RCW — Ella Gustafson, Bailee McLagen, Shelby Allex.
* Redwood Valley — Lilyanna Dixon, Melayna Nez.