THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, March 10, 1995 TAG: 9503090191
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 21 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY LEE TOLLIVER BEACON SPORTS EDITOR
LENGTH: Medium: 67 lines
THE KEMPSVILLE GIRLS basketball team, 28-0 heading into Saturday's state quarterfinals, has placed all of its starters and two substitutes on the All-Beach District girls basketball team as picked by the coaches.
Senior center Carrie Johnson and junior guard Charlette Fayton made the first team. Junior forward Kristin Cholewa and sophomore guard Erin Duckett made the second team.
Sophomore forwards Carrie Heath and Toni Patillo and junior guard Lori Henn received honorable mention.
Coach Greg Dunn was voted coach of the year.
Salem point guard Misty Colebank was voted the player of the year after leading Salem into the Beach District semifinals in a season coach Larry Bowman thought would be a rebuilding one.
``We were 18-6 this year and probably would have been 6-18 without her,'' Bowman said of Colebank. ``She's the general out there and we want the ball in her hands 75-80 percent of the time.
``We had to ask her to shoot more this year. In the past, we had the kind of players where she could be a true point guard.''
Kempsville's Dunn called Colebank the best defensive player in the league and she proved his point by taking a league-leading 19 charges this season. She also had 3.5 steals a game.
Offensively, Colebank had 14.5 points, 4.5 assists and 5.5 rebounds a game.
Joining Colebank, Johnson and Fayton on the first team are Ann Marie Bowdoin of Kellam, Katie Walters of First Colonial and Lee Anne Lillefloren of Green Run.
Joining Cholewa and Duckett on second team are Shannon Drury of Cox, Kelly King of Salem, Tamara Valentine of Tallwood, Carolyn Zanelli of Bayside and Rasheda Rogers of Princess Anne.
Bowdoin - a senior forward - closed out her season with the Knights with 1,275 career points and a full scholarship to Liberty University. She averaged an area-leading 22.5 points a game and 9.5 rebounds. She played nearly every minute of every game.
``We had to have her out there on the court,'' first-year coach Steve Strausbaugh said.
Lillefloren - a senior center - was second in the area in scoring with 19.7 points a game and added 10.2 rebounds an outing.
Johnson was sixth in the area in scoring with a 16.2 average and led the Chiefs in rebounding with 8.1 a game and blocked shots with 3.2. Fayton averaged 11.2 points and was one of the Chiefs top defensive players with 4.5 steals a game.
Walters - a junior guard for the Patriots - was ninth in the area in scoring with a 14.9 average. ILLUSTRATION: ALL-Beach DISTRICT GIRLS BASKETBALL
Misty Colebank
Charlette Fayton
Carrie Johnson
Ann Marie Bowdoin
Katie Walters
Lee Anne Lillefloren
[For a copy of the roster, see microfilm for this date.]
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