Journal Staff
Olivia Kieffer scored more points than all of Lyman on Friday, tallying 41 as the Rapid City Christian girls basketball team crushed the Raiders 85-28 at Hart Ranch.
Kieffer, a sophomore, notched her 1,000th career point as well and picked up nine assists, nine steals and seven rebounds for the Lady Comets. Alexa Ham added 18 points, Savannah Armendariz earned 10 points and Morgan Swarthout collected seven assists.
RC Christian (1-1) plays St. Thomas More on the road Jan. 2.
WALL 61, HARDING COUNTY 45:Â Ava Dinger scored 20 points as the Lady Eagles topped the Ranchers at home Saturday afternoon.
Dinger went 8 of 15 shooting for Wall (3-0), while Lilly Wagner added 10 points and Paige Kjerstad hauled in 10 rebounds.
Olivia Kiefferâs late-game heroics helped the Rapid City Christian girls basketball team climb back from a six-point deficit in the final two and a half minutes of regulation to extend its battle with Philip into overtime.Â
But after Kieffer was sent to bench with five fouls in the final 42 seconds of the fourth quarter, there was little she could do as Lady Scotties junior Copper Lurzâs layup served as the only field goal of the extra period as her squad narrowly beat the Lady Comets 66-65 in the squadsâ season openers Saturday at Hart Ranch.
âWe had our opportunities way prior to that,â said Joe Kieffer, making his RC Christian head coaching debut. âAt the game it just is what it is. We played the way we played. We didnât give ourselves the ability to finish the way we wanted to, but anybody couldâve won.â