We all know that when you talk about a baseball family in New Ulm, the first names that come to your mind are the Steinbachs — Terry, Tom and Tim.

And when you talk about a basketball family in New Ulm, there is one name that comes to mind.

Lewis.

Mitch Lewis, the head girls basketball coachat New Ulm High School, finished with 1,131 career points for New Um Cathedral in 1998.

His wife, Maria (Boettger) Lewis, also broke the 1,000-career point total for the Greyhounds in 1997 with 1,022 career points.

And now their daughter, Brooklyn Lewis, has passed them both by with a current career total of 1,546 and counting after her New Ulm High School girls single-game school record of 43 against Worthington last Friday.

All told, the Lewis family has accounted for 3,699 career points — and counting.

And you wonder where Brooklyn — who is currently 15th on the All-Time scoring list for the City of New Ulm — would be and will end up if she had played more than 14 games in her sophomore season that was cut short by injury.

Realistically with more than 20 games left, Lewis could get in the top five of career scorers for the City of New Ulm,

And maybe 4,000 career points for the Lewis family.

EAGLES BOYS GET ROAD HOOPS WIN ON FRIDAY

The New Ulm Eagles boys basketball team earned a road win Friday with a win over Worthington.

“We had a slow start, but we came out in the second half and handled out business,” Eagles head coach Michael Poncelet said. “We were able to cause turnovers and our full-court press was what really led to a lot of good offense. But they were able to have an eight point lead on us in the middle of the first half.”

Poncelet said that his move to a zone defense was something new.

“The guys told me that they have never played zone (defense) in their lives — we do a full-court zone press — and there are some concepts that they just didn’t have as far as rotations go and what to take away,” he said.

“Everyone wants to be so close to guys as opposed to guarding space. They are starting to figure that out and when they are able to take away space, it works out good because we have guys who have long reaches and are active and play with high hands and get into passing lanes and create deflections.”

Now 2-3 on the season, Poncelet said that his team is getting better every game.

“Offensively they have continued on a lot of the good things from last year,” he said. “We are averaging in the mid 70s on offense, which I am happy with, we should be winning a lot of games scoring in the mid 70s, but we still have some growth defensively that we need to do.

“We foul a lot between the 3-point line which is not good defense. We do not foul enough in the paint when guys are getting penetration and we get a little bit soft there. That has led to some negative free-throw ratios which is causing us to not win as many games as we can. If we flip the free throws in games with St. Peter and Belle Plaine, we are there at the end — they just shot more free throws than we did.”

The Eagles are off until the Kwik Trip Holiday Tournament when they play Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial in the first round.

VFW BASEBALL COACH WANTED

If you are interested in coaching VFW baseball in New Ulm this summer you can apply by providing contact information to newulmpost132baseball@gmail.com.