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Cherokee 77
The final score doesn’t indicte how well Kuemper played on Saturday afternoon. Cherokee hit three early 3’s to jump ahead 11-0. Brooklyn Gifford hit the first of her 3-3’s in the game to get Kuemper on the board. Kuemper trailed 23-10 after the 1
st quarter but hung right with the number 1 ranked team in the state for the 2
nd and 3
nd quarter 25-20 and the 3
rd quarter 12-7 as the Knights found themselves down 23 at the end of the 3
rd. The game stayed mainly between 15-21 ponts most of the 2
nd and 3
rd quarters.
Kuemper did a nice job hanlding the man to man full court pressure and shot the ball well fron down town with Gifford and Catherine Mayhall each making 3-3’s and Kyndal Hilgenberg draining 1. Akuet Malek had a fantastic game with 7 points and 10 rebounds may have the state single season record for block shots. She needed 11 and unofficially had more than that but official stats won’t be released until later this weekend.
Ella Collison hit a pair of free throws with 40 seconds left to put the Tigers ahead 53-51. Carroll had trailed the entire game before rallying for the win. Carroll was down by 6 at the end of the 1
st quarter and trailed by 8 at half. The rally began early in the 4
th wen then Tigers scored 4 points in 4 seconds to cut the deficit to 41-36. The gap closed to 48-46 when Carroll scored with 2:35 to play. The Carroll defense needed to make another play and did causing a Wildcat turnover with 22 seconds left and Caroll up 2. Carroll was down by as many as 14 when the defense began to force turnovers helping to ignite the rally.
Carroll hung tough for the 1
st half but for the second time this season Ballard was able to pull away in the 2
nd half. Kennedy Lein helped spark the Tigers early as Carroll got up 5-2 and 6-4. Ballard grabbed their first lead at 8-6 and didn’t trail again but Carroll only trailed 14-11 after the 1
st quarter. Carroll pulled within 17-13 early in the 2
nd quarter and the lead remained around 6 points until Ballard scored just before half to take a 21-13 lead into the locker room. The Tigers struggled coming out in the 3
rd quarter and Ballard took advantage outscoring them 22-9 in the quarter to lead by 21 heading to the 4
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South Central Calhoun 58
The Titans move to 7-0 on the season overall and are 2-0 in the Twin Lakes Conference after another quick start and a 4
th quarter spurt holds off SE Valley.
South Central Calhoun defense created some turnovers with the press early, allowing them to get several easy buckets as they built a 28-6 lead early in the 2
nd quarter. The Titans led 4-0 in the first minute of the game and only allowed a couple 3’s in the 1
st quarter as they went up 23-6 after one quarter. They extended the lead to 37-15 late in the 1