"Close Quarters . . ." Jessica Sole is given no room as she attempts to find a way around a defender in this picture.
Kara Menke drives to the basket as she attempts to get around defenders. Kara usually is the object of attention for most opponents this season, but has responded with good scoring and rebounds numbers for the Lady Raiders.
The L-N girls' basketball team earned the number six seed for the Conference tournament last week. In their first game they had a repeat showdown with Silver Lake and then managed a "make-up" game with Axtell on Saturday. They lost to Silver Lake in the tournament, but won the Axtell game on Monday evening. Game summaries:
L-N – SILVER LAKE: 26-37: The Lady Raider had a tough start to the tournament games, scoring only seven points in the first 16 minutes of play against Silver Lake. However, in the second half of play, L-N outscored Silver Lake 18-14, but could not overcome the early deficit.
L-N 4 3 13 6 - 26
S-L 11 12 6 8 - 37
Turnover numbers were about even for the two teams but Silver Lake held a large rebounding edge to work with.
Addi McCloskey had six points, 3 steals and five deflected passes in the Raiders effort. Kara Menke led in scoring with 7 points and Hanna Skinner had six points.
Game stats: (FG, FT, RB., Pts.)
Addi McCloskey 2-7, 0-0, 3, 6
Jessica Sole 1-4, 1-2, 1, 4
Vali Koehler 1-3, 0-0, 1, 4
Hanna Skinner 2-5, 2-2, 3, 6
Kara Menke 2-7, 3-6, 6, 7
Josie Hajny 0-1, 0-0, 1, 0
L-N team total: 8-27, 6-10, 17, 26
S-L team total: 13-38, 11-22, 29, 37
L-N – AXTELL: 40-28: This game on Monday night could maybe be called a "Foul" game. You see, a total of 38 fouls were called on both teams (L-N 16 and Axtell 22). In spite of that, however, the Lady Raiders put together the middle two quarters of play to earn the 12 point victory.
L-N 7 15 7 11 - 40
Axtell 7 6 4 11 - 28
Game statistics are sometimes interesting. In this game, Axtell had many more fouls and more steals. However, rebounds were even at 30 each and L-N deflected 24 Axtell passes to only 8 deflection for Axtell.
The determining factors seemed to be the percentage of shot made. L-N had 50 percent (15-30) of their free throw go through the hoop and field goal shooting, while not outstanding was better than Axtell's. (Both teams made 10 field goals, but L-N had 5 of them being 3-pt. shots.)
Game stats: (FG, FT, RB., Pts.)
Addi McCloskey 2-5, 0-2, 2, 6
Sydney Biltoft 1-4, 2-2, 1, 5
Brook Combs-Glebe 0-1, 0-0, 2, 0
Jessica Sole 1-4, 2-4, 3, 5
Vali Koehler 1-5, 1-4, 0, 4
Hanna Skinner 2-5, 4-9, 8, 8
Kara Menke 3-8, 4-5, 8, 10
Josie Hajny 0-2, 2-4, 3, 2
L-N team total: 10-34, 15-30, 30, 40
Axtell total: 10-45, 7-21, 30, 28
Reader Comments(0)