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WEST POINT — Guardian Angels Central Catholic turned away Cedar Catholic here with a 50-30 win over the Lady Trojans to improve to 14-2 on the season and drop Cedar to 9-7.
It was the third straight loss for the Lady Trojans, after dropping a game the night before to fellow Mid State Conference member Wayne and a game on Jan. 21 to 15-1 O’Neill St. Mary’s.
“We’re really in a tough part of our schedule against some very good teams,” coach Craig Wortmann said. “We’re learning some things on the fly and live in games. Not every team is going to be a Guardian Angels, they are a great team. We did some good things here in this game and we’ll take those things, build on them and add the things we didn’t do so well and work on them and just try to be better next time.”
The Lady Bluejays took a lead from the opening tip and got out to an 11-6 advantage at the end of the opening fram, then stepped it up in the second stanza.
“We played really well here, especially in the first half,” said GACC coach, Jerry Stracke. “We did some good things on offense, but we really played good defense. I like where we are getting defensively, this team works very hard all the time.”
Addison Walter answered a GACC long ball early in the second half with a long ball of her own to make the score 33-15.
The teams traded free throws, two by GACC and a couple from Katelyn Arens for the Trojans who was fouled after grabbing an offensive rebound.
A steal and layup by the Lady Bluejays’ Izzy Kreikemeier and back-to-back buckets by Bailey Geths, one on a shot off the block and one on an offensive rebound and put back, widened the gap to 41-17.
A lay up by McKinlee Lammers broke the scoring run.
The Lady Trojans ended the third with a Lammers drive to the basket and the teams headed for the final quarter with the Bluejays in front, 46-23.
Cedar Catholic battled throughout the final eight minutes, but couldn’t gain an ground on the Lady Bluejays.
The night before the loss to GACC, the Lasy Trojans were upended by the Wayne Lady Blue Devils.
Cedar jumped out to an 11-6 lead at the end of the first quarter and led 11-3 after a Bailey Hochstein bucket late in the frame.
Addison Frank sank a three before the horn sounded and Wayne got back to within the 11-6 score at the end of the quarter.
The Lady Blue Devils closed the gap to 15-14 at the intermission before the Lady Trojans got up 19-15 in the third after a Katelyn Arens bucket inside.
Elle Powicki converted 1-of-2 shots from the foul line as Wayne would score the next five points to take its first lead of the contest, 22-19. Powicki added another charity toss with 41.4 seconds remaining in the period to make it 23-19 heading into the final eight minutes.
Walter hit Anisten Wortmann inside for a Cedar Catholic bucket to make it 27-24, but Haley Kramer, who led all scorers with 19 points on the evening, hit an 18-foot jumper for the Lady Blue Devils to open a 7-0 run.
Wayne kept the heat on the rest of the game and the Lady Trojans fell.
O’Neill St. Mary’s came to Hartington to the Werner Activities Center Jan. 21 and left with a hard-fought five-point win that could have gone either way.
Neither team showed much offensively at the beginning of the contest, but the Lady Cardinals claimed a 7-2 at the end of the first period.
The Lady Trojans battled back in the second eight minutes, then taking an 18-15 lead into the break’ Cedar added a point to the lead in the third but St. Mary’s put up 20 points in the final stanza to tie then pass Cedar Catholic and grab the win.
Wortmann and Walter were the lone Lady Trojans in double digits offensively with 12 and 10 points respectively.
Cedar 6 6 11 7 — 30 GACC 11 20 15 4 — 50 CEDAR (9-7): Bailey Hochstein 1 0-0 2; McKinlee Lammers 2 1-2 5; Savannah Pick 2 0-0 4; Katelyn Arens 0 3-4 3; Lauren Bernecker 0 2-2 2; Anisten Wortmann 3 0-0 6; Camryn Loecker 1 0-0 3; Addison Walter 1 2-2 5.
GACC( 14-2): Abi Toline 1 1-2 3; Izzy Kreikemeier 5 4-4 15; Kate Jansen 1 0-0 2; Kara Ridder 1 0-0 2; Kennedy Baumert 1 0-0 2; Bailey Gerths 3 0-0 6; Charlie Dinslage 2 0-0 4; Julie Ridder 1 1-2 3; Adyson Luebbert 5 3-3 13. Cedar 11 4 4 11 — 30 Wayne 6 8 9 18 — 41 CEDAR (9-6): Bailey Hochstein 2 0-0 4; Savannah Pick 0 2-2 2; Katelyn Arens 4 0-2 8; Anisten Wortmann 4 2-4 10; Addison Walter 2 2-2 6. WAYNE (9-9): Haley Kramer 7 2-2 19; Elle Powicki 1 2-6 4; Readan McGuire 1 1-2 3; Audrey Lutter 0 2-2 2; Addison Frank 1 4-6 7; Alexis Legler 0 1-2 1.
