Cougars win one, lose one

By Clare Wiltse

Sports Contributor

The Cougar boys had one win and one loss  during the second week’s action in January.  Northeast took a win over EHC foe Tekamah-Herman, but lost on the road to Mead.  For the year they have a 4-5 record.   They are 2-3 in the EHC.

 

Northeast got a 46-30 win over (3-8) Tekamah-Herman.  The’ teams started the game off by trading points.  Dakota Riecken, Chevy Henneman, and Bobby Simpson each scored while the Tigers used their 6′ 4″ posts to pull off a high low play to get three scores for Dustin Schmidt.

 

The Cougar defense adapted to their foe and shut them down after that.  LDNE had a 15-8 first quarter lead.

 

5′ 11″guard Alex Brehmer moved inside to take on one of the 6′ 4″posts while Dakota Riecken took on the other.  “These two guys have to be the best defenders in the conference,” said Coach Lahm.  “They have all the fundamentals down and stay low.  It’s a pleasure to see them play defense.”

 

Northeast tacked on four more points to their lead halftime.  The score was 25-14 at intermission.

 

In the second half  Northeast had as many as a 17 point lead.  They score the last 5 points after the Tigers had closed to within 11 points.

 

Dakota Riecken led the team with 16 points.  He was 6 for 7 from the field and 4 for 4 at the line.  He made it a double-double with 12 rebounds.  Alex Brehmer added 10 points.

 

 

T-H      8          6          2          14        -30

L-D      15        10        4          17        -46

 

2pt       3pt       FT        Rb        F          TP

Chevy H           1          1          3/4       3          1          8

Alex B              5          0          0/2       2          3          10

Bobby S           1          1          4/4       3          2          9

Taylor F           0          0          0/0       1          1          0

Dakota R         6          0          4/4       12        4          16

Marcus H         0          0          1/4       1          5          1

David B            0          0          0/0       1          2          0

Dylan H            1          0          0/0       0          0          2

Alec A             0          0          0/0       1          0          0

Team                14        2          12/18   24        19        46

T-H                  7          2          10/23   15        15        30

 

“We played one of our best games,” commented Coach Lahm about the loss to Mead.  “They were just the better team on Saturday night.  We were down by twelve in the second half and got back to within one point.  We just could not finish it off.”

Bobby Simpson was instrumental in the come back.  He led the team with nineteen points.  The senior guard had 5 three-pointers.

 

Alex Brehmer had a second straight game with double digit scoring.  He put in 10 points.
The Cougars also got 12 points from Riecken and 10 points from Hegy

 

L-D      8          9          20        16        -53

Mead   13        12        19        13        -57

 

 

2pt       3pt       FT        RB       F          TP

Chevy H           1          0          0/0       0          1          2

Alex B              5          0          0/1       3          4          10

Bobby S           2          5          0/0       4          2          19

Taylor F           0          0          0/0       0          3          0

Dakota R         4          0          4/5       5          3          12

Marcus H         4          0          2/2       7          3          10

Team                16/32   5/19     6/8       20        17        53