Lady Raiders drop two games

The Lady Raiders met up with two Class D-1 teams with good records last week. They ended up with fewer points in each game. Game summaries:

L-N – DESHLER: 25-53: L-N allowed Deshler an 8-0 lead before Kara Menke scored the first points for L-N. The Lady Raiders just could not get any offense throughout the game as the basket seemed to have a lid on it. L-N did force more turnovers than they gave up, but they did Not produce the desired points needed.

Kara Menke hit almost 50 percemt of her field goals and led the Raiders in scoring with 15 points. Two other Raiders scored in the game.

Statistics: (Scoring – Rebounds – Fouls) Addison McCloskey 0 – 2 - 4; Kali Cassell 0 – 2 - 2; Bayleigh Bohlen 0 – 4 - 2; Maya Fanning 0 – 0 - 1; Vali Koehler 0 – 2 - 3; Kara Menke 15 – 6 - 0; Josie Hajny 5 – 2 - 2; Maddy Laughlin 0 – 2 - 1; Brynn Harrison 5 – 1 - 1; L/N total: 25 – 24 - 16; Deshler total: 53 – 47 - 16.

L-N - DILLER-ODELL: 35 – 51: This is a game that can best be shown with the box score:

L-N 1 19 9 6 - 35

D-O 21 7 8 15 - 51

There were great swings in scoring, even in short periods of the game. The girls got beat up pretty good in the first and fourth periods, but did well in the middle periods.

In that first quarter the Lady Raiders couldn't buy a field goal and took only ten attempts. The small number of field goal attempts came about because of the ten turnovers the Raiders suffered in this first period. D-O had an 11-0 scoring run in 3 1/2 minutes. The lone point for L-N came on a Maddy Laughlin free throw.

L-N took a big step in the middle periods. At one point had a 7-2 scoring run. Brynn Harrison got the Raider scoring started with about a minute gone in the second period. Vali Koehler contributed two points, but Kara Menke scored 15 of her game team high 21 points in the second period, including a three point shot with the buzzer going off at the end of the period.

The Raider defense continued doing a good job in the third period. In the fourth period, L-N continue to do well except for a one minute span where D-O went on an 8-2 scoring run.

The Raiders had a 42-28 edge in rebounding and made 7 – 11 free throws but just could not overcome the turnovers suffering about twice the number D-O had. Kara Menke recorded another double/double with 21 points and 14 rebounds.

Statistics: (Scoring – Rebounds – Fouls) Addison McCloskey 2 – 4 - 3; Kali Cassell 0 – 1 - 0; Bayleigh Bohlen 0 – 2 - 2; Vali Koehler 3 – 1 - 3; Kara Menke 21 – 14 - 3; Josie Hajny 0 – 2 - 0; Maddy Laughlin 1 – 5 - 0; Brynn Harrison 8 – 7 - 1; L-N total: 35 – 42 - 11; Diller-Odell total: 51 – 28 - 8.

The girls play Blue Hill at home on Tuesday and Silver Lake at home on Friday before action in the TVC Tournament.