Lady Cougars Come Up Short at EHC Tourney

By Clare Wiltse, Sports Contributor

After an opening round win over Oakland-Craig, the Lady Cougars dropped their net two games in the EHC Tournament.  Howells-Dodge defeated them 46-26 in the quarter finals.  They dropped their final game to Twin River in the consolation game.  The Titans held on for 55-48 win.

 

Kelly Wakeley gave the Cougars some early offense against Howells-Dodge..  She made her first two shots to stake the LDNE girls to a 5-1 lead.  Points were hard to come by after that as they were out scored 11 to 2 in the remainder of the first .  The (15-6)  Jaguars held as 20 to 7 advantage in the second quarter.  Northeast went scoreless in the third quarter.

 

“We failed to attack their H-D’s defense,” said Coach Haskell.  “It was just like the Oakland-Craig games:  The first night we were timid and did not play aggressive, the second game were aggressive and took the ball to the hoop.  We were a different team when we took on Twin River.  We attacked their defense and were able to score on them.”

 

Kelly Wakeley was the top scorer against the Lady Jaguars.  She had 9 points .  Brianne Haskell was held scoreless until 5:45 left in the game.  She ended up with 8 points.   Samantha Brester had 17 points for Howells-Dodge.

 

LDNE              7          7          0          12        -26

H-D                 12        20        5          9          -46

 

2pt       3pt       FT        Rb        F          TP

Simonsen          0          0          2/2       1          1          2

Wakeley           3          1          0/0       7          2          9

Haskell              0          2          2/2       3          4          8

Collins              0          0          0/0       0          0          0

Bacon              1          0          2/2       2          2          4

Henneman       0          0          0/0       0          1          0

Jessen              1          0          0/0       2          2          2

Peterson           0          0          1/2       4          1          1

Totals               5-20     30-12   7-7       19        13        26

H-D                 17-48   1-6       9-17     39        13        46

 

“These girls never give up,” commented Coach Haskell.  “We down by eleven points going into the fourth quarter.  With :40 seconds to play it was just a two point game.”

 

Trailing by the score of 42-31, Northeast put on a rally that nearly pulled out a win.  They  ran off 15 points to 6 for the Titans as Northeast closed to a 48-46 margin.  Lexie Bacon started the fourth period with  trey.  Brianne Haskell put in the first of four fourth quarter baskets.  Mariah Jessen followed with a three point play and a second basket.  Two more Haskell buckets with a pair of Wakeley  free shots and it was a two point game.

 

Northeast was forced to foul and Twin River sealed win at the free throw line.  They made 7 of 8 charity tosses as they built their lead back to seven points.”

 

“Free throw cost us the win,”  claimed Coach Haskell.   They made 17 of 21 while we converted only 6 of 17.  If we would have made our shots we could have won the game.”

 

Brianne Haskell and Kelly Wakeley had double figures in scoring.  Brianne had 12 and Kelly had 10.  Twin River had four double figure scorers with Raemaekers leading with 12 points

LDNE              9          14        8          17        -48

Twin River        15        17        10        13        -55

 

2pt       3pt       FT        Rb        F          TP

Simonsen          4          0          0/6       4          3          8

Wakeley           1          2          2/2       4          5          10

Haskell            1          3          3/8       2          4          12

Collins              1          0          0/0       2          0          2

Bacon              1          1          0/0       2          4          5

Jessen              4          0          1/1       6          2          9

Peterson           1          0          0/0       3          0          2

Totals               15-35   4-12     6-17     23        18        48

Twin River        19        0          17-21   –           11        55