Hastings Tribune 2011-12

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Part-time Writer Hastings, NE

B3SportsHASTINGS TRIBUNEMonday, Dec. 12, 2011

BOYS BASKETBALL

Adams Central 75,Wood River 40

WOOD RIVER — Adams Centralbeat Wood River 75-40 Saturday.

Christian Hodson led the Patriotswith 14 points. Brady Barrett added11 points, and Jake Fowler hadnine. Blake Overmiller and JesseAckerman finished with sevenpoints each.

Adams Central . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 17 10 26 — 75Wood River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 15 8 11 — 40

Adams Central (75)Jake Fowler 9, Derek Shuck 6, Tyler Kirkegaard 4, Brady

Barrett 11, Ryan Bruna 3, Blake Overmiller 7, Adam Hunt4, Lathan Smidt 3, Matthew Brown 5, Christian Hodson14,Levi Cermak 2

Wood River (40)Rojas 3, Woitalewicz 6, Erpelding 8, Mayfield 6, Rennau

9, Abbott 8,

Silver Lake 39,Red Cloud 31

RED CLOUD — The Silver Lakeboys basketball team defeated RedCloud 39-31 Saturday.

Jayden Grabill led Silver Lake with16 points. Journey Ericsson andSeyler Monroe added seven pointseach for the win.

For Red Cloud, Blake Brumbaughled with 13 points. Teammate SkylarBrumbaugh added seven points.

Silver Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 6 9 10 — 39Red Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 5 5 13 — 31

Silver Lake (39)Cat Perez 4, Journey Ericsson 7, Jayden Grabill 16,

Seyler Monroe 7, Zach Polk 5Red Cloud (31)

Jared Sibley 4, Dakota Delka 3, Skylar Brumbaugh 7,Dillon Burgess 4, Blake Brumbaugh 13

Aurora 52,Minden 47

MINDEN — The Minden boysbasketball team fell to Aurora 52-47Saturday.

Derek Kissinger led Minden with20 points. Teammate ChristianSchwenka added 15 points, whileteammate Carson Blum tallied 10points.

Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 16 14 10 — 52Minden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 6 16 6 — 47

Aurora (52)David McDonald 10, Seth Schnakenberg 7, Ben

McQuiston 9, Nate Bell 2, Trey Allen 8, Cole Ashby 7, AlexHunt 4

Minden (47)Isaac Carlson 1, Carson Blum 10, Thomas Sinsel 2,

Jonas Lovin 2, Christian Schwenka 15, Derek Kissinger 20,Mitchell Muller 2

Sutton 38,Lincoln Christian 30

LINCOLN — The Class C-2 No. 3Sutton boys basketball team defeat-ed Class C-1 No. 2 Lincoln Christian38-30 Saturday.

Lance Spongberg led Sutton with17 points. Sutton trailed 12-2 afterthe first quarter before rallying.Sutton was down 23-22 enteringthe fourth quarter but outscored theCrusaders 16-7 in the final period.

Sutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 9 11 16 — 38Lincoln Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 2 9 7 — 30

Sutton (38)Reid Wiebe 4, Mitch Carlson 5, Austin Rath 4, Lance

Spongberg 17, Sam Griess 6, Reed Stone 2

Lincoln Christian (30)Cole Dworak 6, Levi Gibson 11, Brandon Schipman 2,

Trevv Colson 2, Leighton Chiconie 4, Logan Power 5

Bruning-Davenport/Shckley 65,Lawrence-Nelson 21

NELSON — The Bruning-Davenport/Shickley boys basketballteam defeated Lawrence-Nelson65-21 Saturday.

Kendrick Holeman led BDS with18 points. Ryan Tegtmeier added 11points. Teammates MichaelHouchin and Grant Norder had 10points each.

For Lawrence-Nelson, EmetFanning, David Kimminau and TJKahman led with six points each.

BDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 19 20 12 — 65Lawrence-Nelson . . . . . . . . . . .2 8 7 4 — 21

BDS (65)Luke Christensen 8, Michael Houchin 10, Kendrick

Holeman 18, Ryan Tegtmeier 11, Regan Ahrens 2, EvanRemmers 2, Justin Wallace 2, Grant Norder 10

Lawrence-Nelson (21)Daniel Schroer 3, Emet Fanning 6, David Kimminau 6, TJ

Kahman 6

Deshler 37,Southern 36

DESHLER — The Deshler boysbasketball team defeated Southern37-36 Saturday.

Luke Dlouhy led Deshler with 24points.

Southern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 10 6 11 — 36Deshler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 6 14 7 — 37

Deshler (37)Josiah Burger 1, Luke Dlouhy 24, Lane Baker 2, Clay

Jones 2, Trevor Taylor 2Southern (36)

Creenan 11, Shallow 8, Zyclauk 2, Murphy 6, White 7,Dern 2

David City 76,Fillmore Cental 53

GENEVA — The Fillmore Centralboys basketball team fell to DavidCity 76-53 Saturday.

Kyle Karcher led Fillmore Centralwith 21 points. Danny Losekeadded seven points.

David City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 15 19 24 — 76Fillmore Central . . . . . . . . . . . .17 12 15 9 — 53

David City (76)Austin Havlena 21, Pete Danielson 12, Reid Danielson 2,

Bob Mingit 5, Kurt Veskra 24, Jake Veskra 8, Tyler Schrid 4Fillmore Central (53)

Dillon Graham 6, Kurt Karcher 7, Danny Loseke 8, KyleKarcher 21, Nick Hayes 5, Colin Monteforte 6

Sandy Creek 53,Gibbon 43

FAIRFIELD — The Sandy Creekboys basketball team defeatedGibbon 53-43 Saturday.

Andrew Kuta led Sandy Creekwtih 20 points. Teammate MitchHinrichs added 19 points for thewin.

Gibbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 12 12 7 — 43Sandy Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 14 14 11 — 53

Sandy Creek (53)Scott Hild 6, Mitch Hinrichs 19, Andrew Kuta 20, Jared

Taylor 8Gibbon (43)

Ryan Milks 9, Rylee Reinena 17, Nick Follmer 5, LukeSchuster 9, Dakota Kenton 3

Thayer Central 54,Fairbury 51

HEBRON — The Thayer Centralboys basketball team defeated

Fairbury 54-51 in overtime Saturday.No other information was avail-

able. Fairbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 11 7 6 9 — 51Thayer Central . . . . . . . . . . .6 6 15 15 12 — 54

Wilber-Clatonia 63,Superior 42

WILBER — The Superior boysbasketball team fell to Wilber-Clatonia 63-42 Saturday.

Wes Clyde led Superior with 14points. Teammate Ty Betka added12 points.

Superior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 10 10 7 — 42Wilber-Clatonia . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 15 18 17 — 63

Wilber-Clatonia (63)Lucas Homolka 7, Canter Zlab 7, Michael Gushard 3,

Tanner Zlab 23, Drew Tenopir 3, Neil Emergh 14, ChandlerOliver 4, Lucas Bowers 2

Superior (42)Nathan Wilt 2, Wes Clyde 14, Ty Betka 12, Taylor Robb

6, Brandon Simonsen 8

Smith Center 59,Northern Valley 22

SMITH CENTER, Kan. — SmithCenter defeated Northern Valley 59-22 Saturday.

Kale Terrill led the Redmen with10 points. Payton Buckmaster andGrady Brooks had eight pointseach. Trey Molzahn finished withseven points.

Northern Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 2 6 11 — 22Smith Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 16 20 2 — 59

Northern Valley (22)Tyson Callaway, Jordan Baird 7, Hunter Chandler 3, Ian

Vincent 2, Daniel Field 4Smith Center (59)

Alex Hobelmann 6, Trevor Overmiller 3, Kale Terrill 10,Nathan Cox 4, Payton Buckmaster 8, Trey Molzahn 7, ZachLinn 6, Kody Molzahn 2, Grady Brooks 8, Weston Rothchild5

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Silver Lake 40,Red Cloud 28

RED CLOUD — The Silver Lakegirls basketball team defeated RedCloud 40-28 Saturday.

Mackenzie Skupa led Silver Lakewith 25 points. Teammate KilaTimm added eight points for thewin.

For Red Cloud, Bailey Lewis ledwith 17 points.

Silver Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 11 10 10 — 40Red Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 7 10 8 — 28

Silver Lake (40)Josie Parr 5, Mackenzie Skupa 25, Sydney Meyer 2, Kila

Timm 8Red Cloud (28)

Emily McCleary 2, Bailey Lewis 17, Regan Fisher 2,Dolly McDole 2, Katie McCleary 3, Cinthia Lukes 2

Sandy Creek 69,Gibbon 32

FAIRFIELD — The Sandy Creekgirls basketball team defeatedGibbon 69-32 Saturday.

Asheee Harms led Sandy Creekwith 15 points. Montana Hinrichshad 13 points. Mikaela Shaw added10 points, while teammate ConnerLowery tallied nine points for thewin.

Gibbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 9 11 6 — 32Sandy Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 22 14 8 — 69

Sandy Creek (69)Conner Lowery 9, Tori Wheeler 2, Kellie Bohlen 2,

Montana Hinrichs 13, Ashlee Harms 15, Kylee Morris 4,Taylor Hinrichs 3, Morgan Dickson 3, Mikaela Shaw 10,Dylan Woodbury 2

Minden 64,Aurora 40

MINDEN — The Minden girls bas-ketball team defeated Aurora 64-40Saturday.

No other information was avail-able.

Aurora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 12 8 12 — 40Minden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 13 13 17 — 64

Deshler 46,Southern 30

DESHLER — The Deshler girlsbasketball team defeated Southern46-30 Saturday.

Jenscena Hansen led Deshlerwith 14 points. Lauren Schmidt andCarlee Schardt added nine pointsfor the win.

Southern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 2 8 13 — 30Deshler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 11 10 10 — 46

Deshler (46)Jenscena Hansen 14, Lauren Schmidt 9, Carlee Schardt

9, Kelsey Durflinger 6, Mackenzie Mohrmann 6, AprilMaschmann 2

Southern (30)Erica Dorn 8, Jeryn Creek 6, Kelsey Buss 5, Jilll Mallam

3, Kailtyn Shepardson 3, Megan Borzekofski 2, ShelbyCreek 2, Keirtyn Zvelanek 1

Bruning-Davenport/Shickley 32,Lawrence-Nelson 24

NELSON — The Bruning-Davenport/Shickley girls basketballteam defeated Lawrence-Nelson32-24 Saturday.

Shelby Garland led BDS with 11points. Jennifer Mick had eightpoints for the win.

For Lawrence-Nelson, KelseyBiltoft led with 14 points and 10rebounds. Teammate KasandraFanning added nine rebounds.

BDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 9 11 6 — 32Lawrence-Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 4 12 5 — 24

BDS (32)Ashley Hinrichs 4, Jennifer Mick 8, Jaycie Hoins 2,

Shelby Garland 11, Tara Pavelka 3, Matyson Kleinschmidt4, Cynthia Mick 2

Lawrence-Nelson (24)Kenzee Kucera 4, Carlie Mazour 2, Kasandra Fanning 1,

Kelsey Biltoft 14

Superior 63,Wilber-Clatonia 50

WILBER — The Superior girls bas-ketball team defeated Wilber-Clatonia 63-50 Saturday.

Haley Gebers led Superior with 26points. Jeff Mickelsen had 10points. Teammate Holly Boweradded eight points for the win.

Superior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 24 19 12 — 63Wilber-Clatonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 5 13 25 — 50

Superior (63)Kayla Klatt 2, Haley Gebers 26, Taryn Betka 2, Jett

Mickelsen 10, Holly Bower 8, Amy Hofts 6, Chelsea Renz3, Lyndsay Brown 6

Wilber-Clatonia (50)Brittany Placek 8, Kathleen O’Toole 16, Bridget Murkle

12, Lacey Homolka 8, Cortney Krauter 6,

Fillmore Central 65,David City 19

GEVENA — The Fillmore Centralgirls basketball team defeatedDavid City 65-19 Saturday.

Juli Capek led Fillmore Central

with 14 points. Christa Scott had 11points. Heather Broman tallied 10points. Teammates Macy Jones andAudrey Malone added eight pointseach for the win.

Fillmore Central led 39-4 at half-time.

David City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 4 8 7 — 19Fillmore Central . . . . . . . . . . . .17 22 13 13 — 65

Fillmore Central (65)Brooke Rasmussen 2, Heather Broman 10, Emilie

Krienert 3, Audrey Malone 8, Maggie Malone 4, MacyJones 8, Christa Scott 11, Juli Capek 14, Rachel Hoarty 2,Bridget Lundberg 2, Lauren Hopken 1

David City (19)Rerucha 4, Buskirk 1, Chmelka 2, Broman 8,

Vandenberg 4

Doniphan-Trumbull 54,Harvard 30

HARVARD — The Doniphan-Trumbull girls basketball teamdefeated Harvard 54-30 Saturday.

Jordyn Brummund led D-T with 14points. Kaylee Glover and KatiePfeiffer added 12 points each.Teammate Mollie Kohmetscher tal-lied 10 points for the win.

For Harvard, Alison Engle led with18 points. Teammate MichelleHachtel added nine points.

Doniphan-Trumbull . . . . . . . . . .10 16 13 15 — 54Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 7 7 9 — 30

Doniphan-Trumbull (54)Katie Pfeiffer 12, Jordyn Brummund 14, Mollie

Kohmetscher 10, Elyssa Kohmetscher 4, Ashton Mazour 2,Kaylee Glover 12

Harvard (30)Alison Engle 18, Michelle Hachtel 9, Brenda Segura 2,

Jennifer Callahan 1

Fairbury 41,Thayer Central 39

HEBRON — The Thayer Centralgirls basketball team fell to Fairbury41-39 Saturday.

Jasmine Kovacs led ThayerCentral with 12 points. KinseyTietjen had 10 points. TeammateBridgette Baden added eightpoints.

Fairbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 18 10 2 — 41Thayer Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 13 4 8 — 39

Fairbury (41)Ashlee Siebe 2, Amelia Stone 2, Jersen Cromer 15,

Jordan Johnson 10, Jess Sand 3, Ashton Feldkamp 3,Paige Husa 6

Thayer Central (39)Jasmine Kovacs 12, Madison Reece 5, Bridgette Baden

8, Kelsey Long 4, Kinsey Tietjen 10

WRESTLING

Crete invitationalCRETE — The Adams Central

wrestling team finished in secondplace at the Crete invitationalSaturday as the Patriots garneredeight medals.

Senior Christian Barry led thePatriots as he earned the goldmedal by defeating Ralston’s NickMcGrath 3-0 in the 126-poundchampionship. Barry was awardedthe outstanding wrestler award forhis efforts. Barry, a returning statechampion, also had an excitingsemifinal match — defeatingSyracuse state medalist SkylerTeten 5-4. Barry scored the winningtakedown in the waning moments

of the match to advance to the titlematch.

Three other Patriots reached thefinals, as brothers Dylan and CodyGilliland and Logan Klein all earnedsilver medals. Dylan was seededsixth entering the tournament; heupset the third-seeded wrestler andthe second-seeded wrestler toreach the finals at 113 pounds.Cody also upset two seededwrestlers before falling in the cham-pionship match at 145 pounds.

Derek Lonowski (132) and JackBarry (152) both placed third.

Lonowski defeated three formerstate qualifiers en route to his fin-ish. Jack Barry dropped his firstmatch of the day before winningthree straight matches.

Alex Meier (184) and ErrichHolston (120) each placed fourth forAC.

Adams Central finished with 128.5teams. Syracuse won with 173.Thayer Central placed 10th with 46points and was led by TrevorHartley, who placed second at 182pounds.

Adams Central will wrestle in theFlatwater Fracas Friday andSaturday in Grand Island at theHeartland Event Center.

Team Results1, Syracuse 173; 2, Adams Central 128.5; 3, Seward

115; 4, Fairbury 105; 5, Nebraska City 98,; 6 Tri County 95;7, Crete 80.5; 8, Ralston 79.5; 9, Waverly 65.5; 10, Wilber-Clatonia 59; 10, Thayer Central 46; 11, Ashland-Greenwood 43; 12, Falls City 23.

Osceola invitationalOSCEOLA — The Fillmore Central

wrestling team placed third at theOsceola Invitational with 136.5.Harvard placed 10th with 55 points.Howells won with 151.5

Fillmore Central’s Davis Jacobson(106), Luke Delong (160), and TrevorAdams (182) all received first place.Matt Wrigth (195), Cole Curtis (220),and Zach Ekeler (285) placed sec-ond, while Caleb Smith (182) placedthird.

Shane Keasling (145) led Harvard,placing second. Teammate DallasDoupnik placed fourth.

Team Results1, Howells 151.5; 2, Palmer 127.5; 3, Fillmore Central

136.5; 4, East Butler 123; 5, Cross County/ Osceola 118.5;6, Columbus High 89; 7, Fullerton 67; 8, Nebraska Christian67; 9, Cedar Valley 62; 10, Harvard 55; 11, McCoolJunction 41; 12, Southern 32; 13, Dorchester 18

Holdrege invitationalHOLDREGE — The Minden

wrestling team placed seventh atthe Holdrege Invitational Saturday.Northwest won the tournamentwith 212 points.

Jack Rafferty (170) led Minden,placing first. Quin Rutt (152) placedthird. Teammate Sam Fiest (182)placed fourth.

Team Results1, Northwest 212; 2, Lincoln Southwest 163.5; 3,

McCook 119.5; 4, Holdrege 112; 5, York 85; 6, Lexington58; 7, Minden 52; 8, Lincoln North Star 42; 9, GICC 41; 10,Broken Bow 21; Chase County 3

Tribland roundups

LAURA BEAHM/TribuneBlue Hill’s Shane Faimon is guarded by St. Cecilia’s KevinRyan Saturday afternoon in Blue Hill.

Boys: St. Cecilia winsAs for the Bluehawks, Asher

said his team will haveimprove on its free-throwshooting if it wants to continueto win throughout the season.

“We didn’t finish in the sec-ond half like I thought weshould,” Asher said. “We misseda few layups and quick shots.Between the layups and themissed free throws down thestretch, your lead just shrinks asyou go from possession to pos-

session. But that’s something weneed to work on.”

St. Cecilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 20 12 4 — 44Blue Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 6 15 — 33

St. Cecilia (44)Mike Hannon 2-7 1-2 6, Matt Kissinger 2-10 1-2 5, Tim

Skoch 2-3 0-0 4, Ceasar Teano 1-6 0-3 2, Phil Hamburger7-13 3-4 20, Kevin Ryan 1-2 0-0 2, Simon Ostrander 2-4 0-1 5, Chris Hartford 0-1 0-0 0, Lance Schmidt 0-1 0-0 0.Totals: 17-47 5-12 44.

Blue Hill (33)Mitchell Ruybalid 0-4 0-0 0, Trent Kohmetscher 1-6 2-2

4, Maverick Busboom 2-11 4-4 8, Garrett Williams 9-16 0-0 18, Kyle Mans 1-3 0-0 3, Trevor Kohmetscher 0-3 0-0 0,Shane Kohmetscher 0-1 0-0 0, Shane Faimon 0-1 0-0 0,Cody Golter 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 13-46 6-6 33.

Three-point field goals — STC 5-20 (Hannon 1-4,Kissinger 0-2, Skoch 0-1, Teano 0-4, Hamburger 3-6, Ryan0-1, Ostrander 1-2), BH 1-8 (Ruybalid 0-2, TrentKohmetscher 0-1, Busboom 0-1, Mans 1-1, TrevorKohmetscher 0-1, S. Kohmetscher 0-1, Faimon 0-1)

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but at the same time we’re getting goodshots. Maybe we’re missing them, butwe’re getting good shots.”

St. Cecilia junior Shanelle Farmer hada game-high 16 points on 7-of-14shooting. Morgan Nikkila finished thegame with 10 points. Kaitlyn Ernst andOlivia Thomas both recorded sevenpoints.

Senior Kaitlin Kumke led Blue Hill (3-1) with 12 points, while fellow seniorJordan Atwater had 11 points.

Kile said his team’s game plan was toslow down Atwater and keep the Bobcatoffense off balance.

“We wanted to limit (Atwater). She’s agood point guard for them and she doesa nice job of doing the things theywant her to do,” Kile said. “We mixedthings up by doubling and not dou-bling — it was just a case of trying tokeep them off balance.

“I thought we did a real nice job ofthat in the first half, but give themcredit for a nice run in the third quarterthat cut into our lead and made it sin-gle digits at one point. Give our girlscredit for bouncing back and puttingthem away.”

The Hawkettes dominated the firsthalf, taking a 30-16 lead into halftime.But the Bobcats came back, opening the

third quarter on a 9-2 run to cut thelead to seven. But St. Cecilia closed thequarter on its own 9-2 run, with Farmerscoring five of the nine points.

The fourth quarter picked up rightwhere the third had left off, with the

Hawkettes scoring the first eight points.St. Cecilia outscored the Bobcats 14-6 inthe fourth to seal the victory.

Blue Hill had been playing solid bas-ketball, winning its first three gamesand its last two by 20 or more points.Streff said how his team plays the nextfew games will determine if this losswas a setback or just a bump in theroad.

Kile said his Hawkettes will continueto get better as the season progresses.

“I think we just have to keep gettingsome experience for these girls andbuilding on what we’ve started to do,”Kile said. “We’re seeing them applythings in games that we’ve been work-ing on in practice. And that’s exactlywhat you want to see — them try toexecute the things we do in practiceand just go out there and try to makeplays. Some games you’re going tomake them and some games you’re not.

St. Cecilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 13 11 14 — 55Blue Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6 12 8 — 36

St. Cecilia (55)Jamie Williams 2-4 1-2 5, Shanelle Farmer 7-14 1-2 16, Morgan Nikkila

5-12 0-0 10, Kaitlyn Ernst 3-4 1-2 7, Olivia Thomas 3-6 1-2 7, ClaireHamburger 1-1 0-0 3, Libby Kissinger 2-4 0-0 5, Alyssa Schropp 0-4 2-2 2,Josie Jackson 0-3, Paige Coslor 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 23-53 6-10 55.

Blue Hill (36)Maci Coffey 0-4 3-10 3, Kelsey Karr 2-5 0-0 4, Jordan Atwater 4-11 1-1

11, Lauren Reiman 0-1 0-1 0, Kaitlin Kumke 5-18 2-3 12, Adrienne Lipker 1-4 0-0 2, Lexie Himmelberg 0-0 0-0 0, April Faimon 2-2 0-0 4, KatieSchaefer 0-1 0-0 0. Totals: 14-46 6-15 36.

Three-point field goals — STC 3-14 (Williams 0-2, Farmer 1-6, Kissinger1-2, Schropp 0-2, Hamburger 1-1, Coslor 0-1), BH 2-13 (Atwater 2-3,Kumke 0-9, Schaefer 0-1).

Girls: STC defense shuts down Blue HillContinued from page B1

LAURA BEAHM/TribuneSt. Cecilia’s Morgan Nikkila defendsBlue Hill’s Jordyn Atwater (23)Saturday afternoon in Blue Hill.

GAGE AXFORDsports@hastingstribune.com

KENESAW — The Kenesaw boys bas-ketball team dropped to 1-3 Saturdayafter losing 42-37 in a defensive battle athome to the Loup City Red Raiders.

“You give up 42 points, you shouldwin the ballgame, if that’s all you giveup,” Kenesaw coach Jack Einrem said.“Our kids played hard and played prettygood defense I thought.”

Kenesaw led 24-19 at one point in thethird quarter after an early ZaneWoodman 3-pointer and a DaltonBender jump shot. But Kenesaw failed toscore the rest of the quarter, as Loup City(3-2) went on a 12-0 run that went intothe fourth quarter.

“We kind of lost our way on offense,”Einrem said. “We tried a couple of differ-ent things tonight, because I know theyscouted us and it worked pretty well fora while, but then they made adjustments

and they did a little better job in thatstretch than we did.”

Kenesaw fell behind 11-4 in the firstquarter but then went on an 8-0 run totake a 12-11 lead.

The Blue Devils pushed that lead to17-13 midway through the second quar-ter, but a couple of 3-pointers by LoupCity’s Mitchell Higgins made the score19-all at half time.

“They started shooting the ball a cou-ple of times a little better,” Einrem said.“We had a hand in their face, but theyjust made shots — that’s a good shootingbasketball team normally.”

The Blue Devils shot better than 63percent from inside the 3-point line forthe game, but connected on only 1-of-93-point attempts.

“Until we start believing that we’vegot to go inside first and then outside,we’re not going to shoot the ball verywell from out there,” Einrem said. “I

think once we get that figured out, we’llget things straightened out.”

With the loss, the Blue Devils havenow lost three in a row after they defeat-ed Blue Hill in their first game of the sea-son. Einrem attributed the team’s recentinjuries as one of the main reasons for itscurrent losing streak.

“It’s just a matter of getting some kidsback and getting our chemistry back alittle bit,” Einrem said. “The kids thathave filled in have done a great job, butit’s not the same chemistry that we havewith Tyler (Schnitzler) and Devon(Burr).”

Kenesaw (1-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9 5 13 — 37Loup City (3-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 8 8 15 — 42

Kenesaw (37)Brady Staton 1-3 0-0 2, Dalton Bender 4-7 1-1 9, Kole Kimle 2-9 0-0 4,

Gavin Robinson 4-4 3-4 11, Jesse Dassinger 1-3 0-0 2, Zane Woodman 1-30-2 3, Mason Stocker 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 16-32 4-7 37

Loup City (42)Brady Rasmussen 2-4 4-5 8, Cole Lambrecht 3-5 1-2 7, Reilly Lambrecht

3-10 2-2 9, Mitchell Higgins 4-6 1-2 16, Brady Lewandowski 0-2 2-2 2.Totals 11-29 11-13 42

Three-point field goals — K 1-9 (Staton 0-2, Kimle 0-4, Woodman 1-3), LC4-9 (Rasmussen 0-1, R. Lambrecht 1-4, Higgins 3-4).

Kenesaw boys fall to Loup City

The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — TheKansas City Chiefs fired coachTodd Haley on Monday, lessthan a year after he led the teamto the AFC West title. The injury-ravaged Chiefs dropped to 5-8after Sunday's 37-10 loss the New

York Jets in which they commit-ted 11 penalties for 128 yards,including a 15-yarder on Haleyfor unsportsmanlike conduct.

“This was a difficult decisionbut one that we feel is best for thefuture of the Chiefs,” Chairmanand CEO Clark Hunt said.

Chiefs fire coach Haley