Gators make it three in a row

2009-10 Boys and Girls Combined East Husker Conference All-Sports Standings

1. Wisner-Pilger 75 2. North Bend 64.5 3. Tekamah-Herman 62 4. Oakland-Craig 56.5 5. Logan View 55.5 6. West Point-Beemer 53.5 7. Stanton 45 8. Lyons-Decatur 34.5 9. Scribner-Snyder 31.5 10. Pender 28 Boys standings Girls standings

In the four years that the North Bend Eagle has been tabulating all-sports standings for the East Husker Conference, three times have Wisner-Pilger and North Bend occupied the top two spots in the combined standings.

This year marks the Gators’ third straight EHC all-sports crown, and their 11.5-point cushion over runner-up North Bend is the largest victory margin in the four-year history of the all-sports award.

Wisner-Pilger only won two conference events, taking first in the volleyball regular season and tournament, but top-3 finishes in football, boys and girls basketball and boys and girls track and field boosted Wi-Pi to the top of the heap.

North Bend, largely buoyed by championships in girls basketball and girls track, is second in the combined standings. Tekamah-Herman’s third-place finish in the combined race is the purple Tigers’ highest ever finish.

After finishing fourth the previous two years, Oakland-Craig claims the boys all-sports title with its top-ranked football team and a runner-up finish in track.

How it was scored

Points were awarded in each sport based on regular season standings and the number of teams that participated in the sport. So if all 10 teams competed in a sport, the conference champion received 10 points, second place nine points, third place got eight, and so on. If there were only seven teams in a sport, the winner got seven points, the runner-up six, and so on. The only exception is golf, which counted for half the points as the other sports.

Basketball, volleyball: Regular season East Husker Conference standings were used.

Wrestling, cross country, golf, track and field: Points were awarded based on the school’s finish at the conference meet. In cross country and golf, only full teams counted in the team standings.

Football: With the advent of district play and statewide scheduling several years ago, conference play in football came to an end. Points were awarded based upon the Eagle’s final East Husker Conference ratings. These ratings, published on the northbendeagle.com web site, were compiled after considering each team’s record, head-to-head match ups against other EHC teams, common opponents, and strength of schedule.
Oakland-Craig was named the mythical conference champion after putting together a 7-1 season.

Softball: With only four conference teams competing in softball, the East Husker does not officially recognize the sport or hold a conference championship. However, the four teams, North Bend, Tekamah-Herman, Logan View-Scribner-Snyder and Wisner-Pilger, all play each other, so the Eagle was able to compile regular season standings based on those games. Only single, regular season games were counted. As in other sports, tournament games or other multi-team formats were not included in the standings.
The unofficial 2000 conference softball standings looked like this: 1. Logan View -Scribner-Snyder (3-0), 2. Wisner-Pilger (2-1), 3. North Bend (1-2), 4. Tekamah-Herman (0-3).
Logan View and Scribner-Snyder, who co-op in softball, were awarded the same number of points.

Tournaments: Top-four finishes in the conference tournaments were also recognized. Teams were awarded four points for winning a conference tournament, three points for runner-up, two points for third and one point for fourth place.
These bonus points were awarded for the conference volleyball and basketball tournaments and the conference wrestling dual tournament.

'09-'10 EHC Boys all-sports standings

FB CC BB BBT W WD TF G Total 1. Oakland-Craig 10 3 5 2 6 2 9 3.5 40.5 2. Wisner-Pilger 8 4 9 4 2 - 8 2 37 3. Logan View 5 6 6.5 1 4 - 10 4 36.5 4. Tekamah-Herman 7 - 10 3 3 3 3 5 34 5. Stanton 9 1 6.5 - 7 - 5 3 31.5 6. North Bend 4 2 3.5 - 9 4 6 1 29.5 6. West Point-Beemer 3 5 1 - 9 4 6 1 29.5 8. Scribner-Snyder 6 - 8 - 1 - 4 1.5 20.5 9. Pender 2 - 3.5 - 5 - 1 2.5 14 10. Lyons-Decatur 1 - 2 - - - 2 0.5 5.5 sport abbreviations: FB- football; CC- cross country; VB- volleyabll; VBT- volleyball tournament; G- golf; SB- softball; BB- basketaball; BBT- basketball tournament; W- wrestling; WD- wrestling dual tournament; TF- track and field

'09-'10 EHC Girls all-sports standings

VB VBT CC G SB BB BBT TF Total 1. Wisner-Pilger 10 4 1 - 3 9 2 9 38 2. North Bend 7 - 2 - - 10 4 10 35 3. Lyons-Decatur 9 2 - - - 8 3 7 29 4. West Point-Beemer 6 3 5 - - 2 - 8 24 5. Tekamah-Herman 8 1 - - 1 7 1 2 20 6. Logan View 4 - 4 - 4 4 - 3 19 7. Pender 2 - - 0.5 - 6 - 6 14 8. Stanton 3 - - 1 - 5 - 5 13.5 9. Oakland-Craig 1 - 3 1 - 3 - 4 12 10. Scribner-Snyder 5 - - - 4 1 - 1 11