Baxter’s Dee named second team all-state by IPSWA

Baxter junior Eli Dee scored 30 or more points 13 times this past basketball season. He reached 40 or more twice and set a new school record with 50 points against GMG in December.

His scoring efforts were just one of the reasons Dee was named second team all-state by the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association.

The IPSWA all-state teams were released to the public at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday. The organization voted for 10 players on a first, second and third team in all four classes.

Dee ranked third in Class 1A in scoring at 29 points per game. He also averaged 4.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.7 steals per contest.

Dee shot 52 percent from the floor, made 41.3 percent of his 3-point attempts and buried 89 percent from the free-throw line.

His 666 total points ranked fourth in 1A and set a new school record. He drilled 57 3-pointers and his 114 made free throw led the class.

In a 45-point game this season, Dee was 16-of-16 from the foul line. In a 42-point effort, he was 6-of-6 from 3. He also made six 3s and scored 35 points against 2A West Marshall.

Dee’s most impressive efforts came against some of the best teams in the state. He put in 25 against Ankeny Christian Academy, scored 21 against Dunkerton and piled up three 30-point games in four tries against conference rivals Collins-Maxwell and Colo-NESCO.

Dee also was voted to the 1A Substate 5 squad by the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association.

Joining Dee on that team were Montezuma’s Brady Boulton, Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Drew Eilers and Michael Boyd, Dunkerton’s Dylan Marquart, Iowa Valley’s Caleb Haack, North Mahaska’s Asher DeBoef and Waterloo Christian’s Eli Evans.

Boulton, Eilers, Boyd, Marquart, Haack and DeBoef all joined Dee on the IPSWA all-state squad.