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Monday, November 19, 2012

Villa Duchesne Girls Basketball Will Be New-Look Squad In '12-'13

Saints lose seven seniors from last year, but believe new team chemistry will keep team on winning track.

A fairly humorous moment occurred at Villa Duchesne girls basketball practice recently, when head coach Jane Ellen Kuenzle tried to name all the players on her team off the top of her head. The coach tried as best she could to remember everybody on the roster, and even named several players twice, but even a veteran coach like Kuenzle couldn't remember all the new names on her team without taking a look around Villa's beautiful Kenefick Gymnasium to remind her who was actually on the team this year. "We have a lot of new girls up on varsity this year," Kuenzle said. "I think we've only got four girls coming back that have played for me before, and one of them was injured last year. So, this team is a whole lot different than last year." …

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Patch MVP: Three In A Row For Villa, as Golfer Morgan Gast Wins In A Landslide

Junior three-sport standout took ninth at Class 1 state golf tournament, helping the Saints finish second overall as a team.

Well the voters seem to love Villa Duchesne, because this is the third straight week that a Villa student-athlete has won our Patch MVP Athlete of the Week award. Field hockey star Maggie Grzeskoviak was the first, then cross country phenom Hannah Deines made it two in a row. And now, thanks to a landslide victory in the voting, golfer Morgan Gast is this week's Patch MVP of the Week. The Villa Duchesne junior is a three-sport standout for the Saints, who also plays basketball and soccer. But it was her performance on the links this season that earned her a Patch MVP nomination this week. And Gast was at her best in the biggest tournament of the year -- the Class 1 state meet at the Meadow Lake Acres Country Club in New Bloomfield, MO, -- …

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