Waverly girls edge madison in LCL semifinals
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Madison High School girls came up two points short during a semifinal clash with Waverly Friday at White Auditorium.
Waverly outscored Madison seven to two in the fourth quarter to earn a 30-28 victory in the Lyon County League tournament. No. 2 seed Waverly (13-1) will play top seed Olpe at 6 p.m. tonight. No. 3 seed Madison (8-5) will face Hartford at 3 p.m. today in the third-place game.
The game was tight in the first half with Madison taking a 19-18 lead into the locker room at halftime. Madison led 26-23 going into the fourth quarter but the only Madison score in that quarter came on a Tyler Farthing basket. Waverly got key buckets from Ashley Romig, Paige Meader and Erin Zilliox.
Romig and Meader were the game’s top scorers with nine each. Nicole Farthing had eight to lead Madison in scoring.
Friday at White Auditorium
Madison 10 9 7 2 — 28
Waverly 11 7 5 7 — 30
MAD: N. Farthing 8, Shaklee 6, Barnard 6, Thomsen 3, Buster 2, T. Farthing 2, Schroeder 1.
WAV: Romig 9, Meader 9, Lee 7, Zillox 4, Graham 1.
Northern Heights 37, Royal Valley 31
Fresh off their Flint Hills Shootout title, the Northern Heights girls improved to 13-2 with a 37-31 win over Royal Valley at home Friday.
The Wildcats trailed 17-16 at the half and were behind 28-23 after three quarters. But the fourth quarter belonged to Northern Heights. They outscored Royal Valley 14 to 3.
“It was a good win because we had to fight through some adversity and the girls stepped up and found a way to get it done,” said Northern Heights coach Tim Riemann. “We made some big free throws late and had some good stops on the defensive end to finish the game.”
The Wildcats missed 28 shots from the field out of 40 attempts.
“We did not shoot the ball or move the ball very well, but we found a way to win at the end of the game,” Riemann said.
Lakin Preisner had nine points, seven rebounds and six assists. Kimberly Smith recorded eight points and seven rebounds.
Friday at Northern Heights
Royal Valley 7 10 1 1 3 — 31
Northern Heights 10 6 7 14 — 37
RV: Hodison 12, Winter 10, Levier 5, Arnold 4.
NH: Lakin Preisner 9, Smith 8, McCellan 6, VanGundy 4, Schneider 3, DeLong 3, Lakota Preisner 2, Moyer 2.
Boys
Royal Valley 75, Northern Heights 39
Northern Heights turned the ball over 23 times and Royal Valley took advantage in Friday’s night game in Allen.
Royal Valley doubled up Northern Heights in the first half 36-18. They went on to win 75-39.
“Royal Valley just flat out ran us,” said Northern Heights coach Laney Massey. “They are a very good team in transition, they push the ball better than anyone we have played. Their speed hurt us a lot.”
Nick Tuck scored 23 points on 11 of 14 shooting for Royal Valley. As a team they hit 49 percent of their shots, compared to 33 percent for the Wildcats.
Massey was he was proud of his kids effort.
“We made strides back in the right direction,” he said. “This game we played much better than we did on Tuesday against Santa Fe Trail. We now have a week off to work on things and we need to use this time to improve.”
Luke Larson and Dakota Gibson each scored nine to top Northern Heights.
Friday at Northern Heights
Royal Valley 15 21 25 14 — 75
Northern Heights 8 10 12 9 — 39
RV: N. Tuck 23, Worrell 14, Barger 13, Link 9, Rottinghaus 6, Broxterman 4, D. Tuck 2, Jacobsen 2, Thurber 2.
NH: Larson 9, Gibson 9, McWilliams 6, Delong 5, Stewart 5, Karr 3, Wecker 2.