Lady Cougars Lose in Consolation Round

By Clare Wiltse

Sports Contributor

The Lady Cougars lost to Clarkson/Leigh in the consolation round of the East Husker Conference Tournament.  The Patriots took the lead in the second quarter and raced away with a 53-3 win.

Northeast had a good start with buckets by  Darcey Simonsen and Abby Peterson and a triple by Lexie Bacon giving the Cougars a 7-6 lead after one period.

Simonsen continued to pour in the points in the second quarter as she scored three times.  Northeast was not able to keep pace with the Patriots as they got ten points from Libby Janousek .  Clarkson /Leigh led 22-19 at the half.

The Cougar offense stalled in the third quarter and the Patriots grabbed a 13 point lead.  Lexie Bacon started the half off with a trey. Vanessa Peterson’s basket and free throws by Darcey Simonsen were only other points while C/L added another 16 points.

Clarkson/Leigh’s Alyssa Novotny made sure of no come back by the Cougars.  The sophomore nailed three three-pointers as she out scored the Northeast team in the fourth quarter.  Novotny had a game-high 19 points.

Darcey Simonsen was the high scorer for Northeast. She had 11 points.  Vanessa Peterson had 5 points and 8 rebounds.

Clarkson/Leigh raised their record to 9-12.  The Cougars will take a 6-14 record into the last week of play.  They travel to (8-13) Wisner-Pilger and (0-19) Logan View this week.

Next week sub-districts will be at Pender.

LDNE  7          12        7          6          -32

C/L      6          16        16        15        -53

2pt       3pt       FT        Rb        F          TP

Madie R           2          0          0/2       1          5          4

Darcey S          4          0          3/4       2          1          11

Kelly W           0          0          0/2       1          1          0

Haley B            0          0          4/8       1          4          4

Lexie B            0          2          0/0       0          3          6

Vanessa P        1          0          3/6       8          2          5

Abby P            1          0          0/0       3          3          2

Team                8          2          10/22   15        19        32

C/L                  17        3          8/15     –           20        53