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Bad Axe girls close out season with win at Vassar
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The Bad Axe girls basketball team wrapped up the 2020-2021 regular season with a 57-22 victory at Vassar on Tuesday night.Mark Birdsall/Huron Daily Tribune
VASSAR – The Bad Axe girls basketball team wrapped up the 2020-2021 regular season with a 57-22 victory at Vassar on Tuesday night.
The Hatchets finish the season with an overall record of 11-2 and Greater Thumb Conference West record of 10-2. Bad Axe’s two losses both came at the hands of Reese, who wrapped up the GTC West title on Tuesday night with a 56-27 win over Caro.
Hatchets Himmel records triple-double in win over Caro
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Sophomore Katherine Himmel recorded a triple-double as the Bad Axe girls basketball team beat visiting Caro on Tuesday night. The Hatchets won, 49-36.Mark Birdsall/Huron Daily Tribune
BAD AXE – Sophomore Katherine Himmel recorded a triple-double as the Bad Axe girls basketball team beat visiting Caro on Tuesday night. The Hatchets won, 49-36.
Bad Axe is now 9-2 overall and 8-2 in conference play.
Himmel, making her first start of the season, led the way for the Hatchets with 20 points, 13 rebounds and 11 blocks. The sophomore set a new single-game school record with those 11 blocks. Other leaders on the night for Bad Axe were Kate Clancy with 9 points and Camryn Affer and Alexis Booms with 5 points each. Sophie Shuart had 4 points, Callie Engler and Claire Castle each chipped in 2, and Haley Newland and Madison Kinney each had 1 point.
Bad Axe girls hand USA first loss of season
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SEBEWAING – The Bad Axe girls basketball team did something on Wednesday night that no other team had been able to accomplish in six previous tries this season: defeat the Unionville-Sebewaing Patriots.
The Hatchets prevailed in what proved to be a defensive battle, holding off the Patriots in the final few minutes of the game for a 36-30 road victory.
The Hatchets are now 5-1 on the season overall and 4-1 in conference play. The Patriots are 6-1 overall and 4-1 in the Greater Thumb West.
Bad Axe started the first quarter with a 6-0 run, but the Patriots withstood the barrage and the game was soon knotted at 8-8. USA led 14-10 at the start of the second quarter, but the Hatchets hung tough and cut the lead to 18-16 by halftime. Bad Axe regrouped and ratcheted up its defense in the second half, holding a 26-25 lead going into the fourth quarter.
Hatchets slip past host Cass City
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The Bad Axe girls basketball team traveled to Cass City on Monday night and earned its fourth win of the season, beating the Red Hawks, 49-45Mark Birdsall/Huron Daily Tribune
CASS CITY – The Bad Axe girls basketball team traveled to Cass City on Monday night and earned its fourth win of the season, beating the Red Hawks, 49-45, in a seesaw battle that saw several lead changes and clutch free-throw shooting down the stretch.
Monday night’s contest was close from start to finish, with the Hatchets heading into halftime with a slim 24-21 lead. Both teams held leads of two and three points as the game went back and forth with neither team gaining a solid foothold. Olivia Krueger would hit a couple of three-pointers to give the Red Hawks some momentum at the beginning of the third quarter, but the Hatchets would battle back and build a seven-point lead in the fourth and hold on for the victory.