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Posted Monday, March 17-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team finished their seson Friday with a 58-52 loss to GHEC. The coaching staff was very proud of the effort of our team. We finished our season with a 19-10 record. One of the reasons we had a successful season was our senior leadership. Bruce Tanhoff, Justin Doyle, Brian Barnett, Adam Gaspar, Ryan Hassing, and Tom Montag were excellent leaders for our team. Here are some statistics for the season.
As a team we shot 48% from the field and 25% from the 3 point line. We shot 57% from the free throw line. Our team averaged 65.5 points per game and gave up 57 per game. Our indivdual leaders were Justin Doyle for field goal percentage 55%. D.J Wesley for 3 point percentage 33%. Justin Doyle and Joe Fink tied in rebounds with 192 each. Bruce Tanhoff led in assists with 150 and steals with 75. Justin Doyle led in blocks with 63. Joe Fink and Brian Barnett tied in free throw percentage with 67%. Bruce Tanhoff led us in points 426 for a 14.7 average.
Thank you to all of the players in our program for all of the effort you gave during the season. I am especially proud of the way we handled ourselves on the court and after the games with FCA. Our parents should be proud of all of our players and coaches for representing our school well.
Go Crusaders!!!
Coach Landkamer
Posted Wednesday, March 12-
The Loyola boys won a subsection semifinal game against St.Clair 68-50 on Tuesday night. Bruce Tanhoff led the team with 19 points, 8 assists and 6 steals. D. J. Wesley added 13 points including some great defense on St. Clair's Sam Adams. Jackson Bartlett came off the bench and added 14 points. Our team now moves on to the sub section final on Friday night at 8:00. We will be facing GHEC who is currrently 25-2 and ranked in the top 5 in the state. Our players are looking forward to the challenge. Our basketball program will now have played in 8 subsection finals in the past 10 years. Our overall record is now 19-9. We hope to see many Loyola supporters at Gustavus on Friday night!
Coach John Landkamer
Posted Monday, March 10-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team opened the playoffs with a 77-50 win against Madelia. Bruce Tanhoff led the Crusaders with 17 points and 7 rebounds. Joe Fink added 15 points and 5 rebounds. D.J Wesley had 10 points and 5 steals. Rob Tanhoff gave us a spark off the bench with 7 points and 9 rebounds. This win puts our record at 18-9. We play tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. vs St. Clair. We hope to pack the gym and give these boys a great playoff atmosphere. This will be an exciting game between two good teams.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Wednesday, March 5-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team finished the regular season with a 52-49 loss to LCWM. We trailed by 14 with 11 minutes to go. We fought back and cut the lead to two with 10 seconds remaining. LCWM made one free throw and we were unable to get off a shot. We finish the regular season with a 17-9 record. We are excited to begin the playoffs on Saturday at home at 7:00 p.m. We will face the seventh seeded Madelia team. Here are some final regular season statistics for some of our players. Bruce Tanhoff led our team in several categories. 383 points for a 14.7 average. 136 assists and 135 rebounds. Justin Doyle has 309 points for an 11.9 avg. 176 rebounds and 57 blocked shots. Joe Fink has scored 304 points for a 11.7 avg. Joe led our team with 177 rebounds, 6.8 per game. We hope to have a great crowd on Saturday to support these great kids!
Coach Landkamer
Posted Monday, March 3-
The Loyola boys basketball team beat USC 60-46 on Friday night. The Crusaders led 37-15 at halftime. This was our best half of the year. We had several players play very well. Joe Fink had 16 points and 10 rebounds. Bruce Tanhoff and Justin Doyle both had 10 points. Rob Tanhoff and Adam Gaspar both scored 6 points off the bench. That win gave us a record of 10-6 in the conference. We finished in third place behind NRHEG and FBA. Our overall record is 17-8. We play tomorrow night at home against LCWM. This should be a good game . LCWM is 16-8 on the season. We have received the second seed for the playoffs and will host Madelia this Saturday at 7:00 at Fitzgerald gym. We hope to see many fans at both games. Our team is fun to watch. We led our conference in scoring this year.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Tuesday, February 25-
The Loyola boys Basketball team won last night against Alden Conger 76-57. Justin Doyle had his best career game scoring 29 points and hauling down 11 rebounds. Bruce Tanhoff also scored 23 points. Rob Tanhoff played very well off the bench with 7 rebounds 8 assists and 3 steals. Joe Fink had 8 points and 7 rebounds. This win brings our overall record to 16-8. Friday night we host USC. This is parents night and we hope to see many people to cheer on the blue and gold.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Monday, Februay 24-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team dropped a 56-50 decision to Fairbault Bethlehem Academy on Friday night. The Crusaders had a very strong second half but could not quite get over the hump. Justin Doyle and Jackson Bartlett both had excellent second halves with 13 and 10 points a piece. The boys play tonight at home against Alden Conger. We also play home Friday against USC. We close out the regular season on the following Tuesday at home against LCWM. Our first playoff game will be March 8th at home. I will give more information when I find out who we will be playing. Come and cheer on these boys as we wind up the regular season.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Friday, February 15-
The Loyola Basketball team won two games this week defeating Medford 82-61 on Tuesday and Randolph 81-67 on Thursday. Our team is playing very well with several players contributing to our success. Last night against Randolph we had 12 different players score. Jackson Bartlett, Bruce Tanhoff, Joe Fink, Brian Barnett, Justin Doyle , and D.J Wesley were a combined 22-25 from the field. We were able to give everyone plenty of playing time which is awesome. We have only five games left in the regular season. Next up is JWP tomorrow in Janesville. This should be a great game. Both teams are tied for second place in the conference along with NRHEG. Our overall record is 15-6 and 9-4 in the conference. We hope to see many people at Janesville on Saturday to cheer us on!
Coach Landkamer
Posted Tuesday, February 12-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team won a tough road game at Waterville on Monday 57-55. Joe Fink hit three free throws in the final minute to seal the win. Bruce Tanhoff had 14 points and 5 assists. Fink had a great game with 13 rebounds and 10 points. Justin Doyle had 12 points and Brian Barnett added 9 points. Tonight we travel to Medford for another road game. Please join us Thursday for Senior night against Randolph and join us on the court after the game for FCA.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Monday, February 11-
The Loyola boys basketball beat Blooming Prairie on Friday night by a score of 84-67. The Crusaders trailed by 7 points at the half, but had an amazing second half outscoring Blooming 46-22. The Crusaders had several players have excellent games. Bruce Tanhoff had 22 points, 8 assists, and five steals. Joe Fink had 19 points and 11 rebounds. Brian Barnett added 9 points and 9 rebounds. D.J. Wesley had 16 points and Justin Doyle added 10 points. Off the bench, Jackson Bartlett added 8 points, and Rob Tanhoff made his way back into the lineup with 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Our team has a difficult week ahead. We play four games this week, three of which are on the road. Tonight we travel to WEM and Tuesday we travel to Medford. Thursday will be a home game against Randolph. This game will be senior night. Our seniors have been great leaders all year. Our seniors include Bruce Tanhoff, Justin Doyle, Brian Barnett, Adam Gaspar, Tom Montag, and Ryan Hassing. Our final game of the week will be on Saturday at JWP. Our current record is 12-6 (6-4)conference.
Coach John Landkamer
Posted Monday, February 4-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team lost to NRHEG on Friday 73-64. It was a very good game between two good teams. Justin Doyle led the Crusaders with 24 points including 18 in the second half. Our team now will play on Friday at home against Blooming Prairie. Today's game vs Alden Conger has been postponed until Feb. 25th. We currently have an overall record of 11-6. At this point of the season we have the second best record in our sub section. GHEC is 13-1, St. Clair is 10-10, and MLBO is 9-8. We are entering the home stretch of the regular season and hope to have everyone healthy for the playoffs. Come and watch these young men play an exciting brand of basketball.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Tuesday, January 29-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team won an important road game at St. Clair on Monday 66-57. The Crusaders were led by Bruce Tanhoff who had 17 points, 7 rebounds nad 7 assists. Jackson Bartlett had a strong game off the bench with 9 points and 13 rebounds. Joe Fink had 13 points and D.J. Wesley added 12 points. This puts our team in a strong position to have a home playoff game. We are currently 11-5. We travel to JWP tonight and our next home game is on Friday against NRHEG. Bruce Tanhoff has been named KEYC-TV prep athelete of the week. It will air this Thursday on the 10 o'clock news. Congratulations to Bruce!
Coach Landkamer
Posted Friday, January 25-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team finished their tough stretch of four games in five days. We started last Friday with a 71-65 loss to a very good Fairbault BA team. Justin Doyle led the team in scoring with 20 points. Bruce Tanhoff added 18 points. We had a very good comeback after being down 12 points at halftime. On Saturday we traveled to Sleepy Eye to face St. Mary's. We were behind at the half by three points. The second half we outscored them 36-20 to win 66-53. Bruce Tanhoff led us in scoring with 21
points. On Monday we faced a very athletic Belle Plaine team. We jumped out to a 13-0 lead and led by ten at the half. Belle Plaine came back to tie the score in the second half. We hade some key free throws down the stretch and held on to win 64-57. Joe Fink had 17 points and 15 rebounds. Bruce Tanhoff had 23 points 6 rebounds and 6 assists. Last night we traveled to USC and lost 62-43. USC played very well and I think our legs were a little tired. Our record now stands at 10-5 overall and 5-3 in the
conference. Our seniors are on retreat for the rest of the week. We will have two JV games this week. We play both Thursday and Friday at Loyola at
7:00. It would be great to see people come and support the JV. Our next varsity game will be next Monday at St.Clair. This is a big game for both
teams that will have implications for the playoff seedings. We hope to see many Loyola fans over in St.Clair to see this game. Former Loyola coach Dan
Ireland is the St.Clair coach. Both teams will be prepared for a fun game.
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Coach John Landkamer
Posted Wednesday, January 16-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team continued to play well on Tuesday. We defeated Randolph 91-54. Twelve different players scored for Loyola. Bruce Tanhoff scored 22 points in the first half and finished with 28 points. Justin Doyle added 14 and D.J Wesley had 13. We now face the toughest part of our schedule. We travel to Fairbault BA on Friday and Sleepy Eye St. Mary's on Saturday. We then turn around and play Belle Plaine at home on Monday and travel to USC on Tuesday. This is an impotrant stretch of games for us. We currently are 8-3 overall and 5-1 in the conference. Friday's game is for first place in the conference. FBA is an excellent team with some very good atheletes. Our team is playing very well and we are looking forward to the challenge.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Monday, January 14-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team defeated Medford 85-46 on Saturday evening. Eleven different players scored for the Crusaders. The team did a great job
of sharing the ball during the game. We shot free throws very well during this contest 27-38. This week we hit the road for three straight away
games. We travel to Randolph on Tuesday. This weekend will be a tough test for our team. Friday we travel to play Fairbault BA, and Saturday we travel
to Sleepy Eye to take on St. Mary's. We are excited to compete with these great teams. Our record to date is 7-3 (4-1) in the conference. Our next
home game will be next Monday against Belle Plaine.
Go Crusaders!
Coach Landkamer
Posted Thursday, January 10-
The Loyola Boys Basketball team won a wild game against Blooming Prairie on Tuesday 70-68. The Crusaders held a two point lead at the half. Blooming
shot the ball very well making 11 three point shots in the game. The boys were able to hit some key free throws down the stretch to help the team win.
Bruce Tanhoff led the team in scoring with 21 points. Joe Fink had a great all around game with 16 points, 7 rebounds, and 6 assists. Justin Doyle added 14 points. Unfortunately for our team, Rob Tanhoff broke his hand during the game. Rob will miss the next four weeks with the injury. Rob was playing very well for our team, so other players are going to have to raise their level of play. Our next game is this Saturday at home vs Medford. We hope to see many people at the game Saturday to support our team. Join us after the game for the FCA huddle!
Coach Landkamer
Posted Tuesday, January 8 -
The Loyola Boys Basketball improved their season record to 5-3 after a 65-43 win over WEM on Friday night. The Crusaders played one of their best games of the season. Bruce Tanhoff led the team with 18 points 10 rebounds and 6 assists. Joe Fink added 13 points and Justin Doyle added 11 points. D.J Wesley had 5 steals in the game. The Crusaders look for their first road win of the season when they travel to Blooming Prairie on Tuesday, Jan 8th. Blooming has an athletic team and is currently 6-2 overall. Our next home game will be Saturday Jan 12th at 7:30 against Medford. We hope to see many people come and support these great kids.
Coach Landkamer
Posted Thursday, January 3 -
The Loyola Boys Basketball team recently competed in the Bethany Holiday Tournament. The Crusaders finished in fourth place. We opened the tournament with a 13 point win against LCWM. We played MVL in the semifinals and lost to a good team 71-58. We then played NRHEG for third place and fell 59-52. Congratulations to D.J Wesley and Bruce Tanhoff who were both named to the All Tournament Team. This tournament was good for our team. We played some great competition which will make our team better. Our next game will be held Friday January 4th against WEM. Come and support the blue and gold and join us for FCA after the game!
Coach Landkamer
Posted Wednesday, December 19 -
The Loyola Boys Basketball team played an exceptional game last night against a very good JWP team. The Crusaders built a 13 point halftime lead behind the sharp shooting of Joe Fink. The Crusaders continued to expand their lead in the second half and won the game 65-47. Several players contributed to the great performance. Fink led the Crusaders in scoring with 18 points. Bruce Tanhoff had a great all around game with 13 points and six assists. Justin Doyle did a good job of rebounding collecting 10 in the game. Rob Tanhoff played very well off the bench with six rebounds and four assists. The team is now 3-0 with all the wins in our gym. It is great to play well in front of our fans. We have a great road test on Friday when we travel to play NRHEG. They have a very talented group of players. Our team will again be playing in the Bethany Holiday Tournament. Our first game will be on Thursday December 27th. We will be playing LCWM at 8:30 in the North gym. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!! Go Loyola!!
Head Coach John Landkamer
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The Loyola Boys basketball team played an excellent first half in last night's 60-35 win over Le Center. The Crusaders held a 43-11 halftime lead. The boys did an excellent job of causing turnovers and getting fast break points. We had twelve different players score in the game. It was a great team effort. The Crusaders are off until next Tuesday Dec 18th. We will be playing a very talented JWP squad who is also unbeaten. It should be an excellent game. We hope to see many people in the stands and after the game for our FCA. Come out and support these great kids!
Head Coach John Landkamer
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The Loyola Boys basketball team opened its season with a 72-64 win over New Ulm Cathedral. Senior post Justin Doyle led the Crusaders with 18 points and 16 rebounds. Both teams played hard and ran the floor well. It was a typical first game of the season with both teams having things to work on. The Crusaders play again Tuesday December 11th at 7:30 against
LeCenter. This is another home game for us. Come to the game and cheer on the blue and gold. Please join us on the court after the game for a Fellowship of Christian Atheletes huddle. It was great to see so many
people at the first huddle. This really helps us come together as a school community.
Former Loyola basketball player Bret Brielmaier is starting for the university of Arizona. He led the team in rebounds in a recent victory over #9 Texas A&M. Congrats to Bret on being name captain of this years team!
Coach John Landkamer
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The 07-08 Loyola Basketball team opens their season on Friday November 7th with a home game against New Ulm Cathedral at 7:30. The boys have been practicing for a week and we have already had three scrimmages. We were able to scrimmage MLBO, Maple River, and Mankato West. This was great for our team because it showed us what we need to work on to improve. This years team consists of six seniors and nine juniors. Our team recently picked captains and they are Bruce Tanhoff and Joe Fink. We feel these two young men will provide excellent leadership throughout the season. We will be an exciting team to watch because we will play an uptempo style of play. The players on our roster are great kids and will give an excellent effort. The following players are on this years team.
Seniors- Bruce Tanhoff Juniors- Joe Fink
Justin Doyle D.J. Wesley
Brian Barnett Rob Tanhoff
Tom Montag Tom Meixl
Ryan Hassing David Pfau
Adam Gaspar David Sandmeyer
Chris St. John
Ethan Doyle
Jackson Bartlett
We look forward to contine our strong tradition of Loyola Basketball. We hope to see many Loyola fans at our games cheering on the blue and gold! Coach John Landkamer
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