Lady Raiders lose to Shelton and EMF

The Lady Raiders had a rough weekend dropping two game. A trip to Shelton did not bode well for L-N and then the girls suffered a cold first period against Exeter-Milligan-Friend (EMF), but played better for the rest of the game.

L-N – SHELTON: 19 – 56: Raider turnovers and a scarcity of rebounds allowed Shelton to control this game and rack up another win for Shelton. The Raiders just couldn't get their game together and the high point scorer for L-N was Kali Cassell with four points.

L-N 4 3 8 4 - 19

Shelton 17 15 15 8 - 56

Statistics: (Scoring – Rebounds – Fouls) Addison McCloskey 2 – 2 – 3; Kali Cassell 4 – 1 – 2; Bayleigh Bohlen 2 – 0 – 3; Hanna Skinner 0 – 5 – 1; Kara Menke 2 – 7 – 2; Maddy Laughlin 3 – 0 – 1; Codi Cannaday 0 – 1 – 0; Bynn Harrison 3 – 4 – 1; L/N total: 19 – 25 – 13; Shelton total: 56 – 37 – 10.

L-N – EMF – 28-40: EMF came to the Lady Raider's home court on Saturday night. L-N suffered a cold first period, but played the visitors even up for most of the rest of the game.

L-N 3 10 8 7 - 28

EMF 13 8 10 9 - 40

The average basketball game lasts 32 minutes and this night, the Lady Raiders field goal shooting was colder than the outside temperatures to start the game. For the first 12 minutes of the game, the only points came at the free throw line. The first Raider field goal came from Hanna Skinner when the Raiders trailed 3-17.

From that point on, L-N played much better basketball. By the middle of the third period L-N cut the EMF lead to only three points when Kara Menke scored making the score 18-23.

The girls gave up six turnovers in the first half of the first period, but controlled them for much of the rest of the game, committing only half of what they had on Friday night.

Kara Menke led all scorers for the game with 19 points and pulled down 8 rebounds and had 8 steals.

Statistics: (Scoring – Rebounds – Fouls) Addison McCloskey 0 – 0 – 1; Kali Cassell 0 – 0 – 2; Bayleigh Bohlen 0 – 1 – 1; Vali Koehler 2 – 2 – 0; Hanna Skinner 5 – 7 – 0; Kara Menke 19 – 8 – 2; Maddy Laughlin 0 – 2 – 0; Brynn Harrison 2 – 4 – 3; L/N total: 28 – 29 – 9; EMF total: 40 – 49 – 13.