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Lady Crusaders advance to tourney finals |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
By Wayne A. Bauer
Staff Writer
The Lady Crusaders of Elk County Catholic kept their slate clean on Tuesday afternoon as they handed the Ridgway Lady Elkers a 65-35 setback in the opening game of the Elk County Holiday Tournament being held at the “Dutch Oven” at the St. Marys Area High School.
With the victory the Lady Crusaders will now take on the St. Marys Area Lady Dutch tonight for the tournament title.
“I was pleased with our overall play today,” said ECCHS coach Ken Pistner. “I feel all the girls contributed today and played pretty well. One of our goals for this game was to keep out turnovers under 15 and we accomplished that as he turned the ball over only 10 times in the game.
“Defensively, we weren’t as sharp in the first half as I would have liked us to be, but in the second half the girls stepped it up and shut down the Ridgway offense as they allowed the Lady Elkers only 12 second half points.”
Elk County Catholic put three girls in double figures last night with Emily Detsch leading all scorers in the game with 26 points on seven field goals, two treys and a perfect 6-for-6 night at the free-throw line. She also hauled in six rebounds. Karly Carnovale was next for the Lady Crusaders with 17 points on three field goals, three treys and a 2-for-2 night at the line. Jena Struble came off the bench to score 10 points on five fields.
Others hitting the scoring column for the Lady Crusaders were Abbi Petrosky with five points; Dani Cassels with three points; and Taylor Frank and Lexie Meholic with two points each. Meholic also checked in with five rebounds.
Ridgway put six girls in the scoring column led by Nicole Breier with 10 points on five field goals. Kathryn Shirey finished the game with eight points on a field goals and two treys, followed by Bryton Dybowski with six points on a field goal, a trey and a 1-for-2 night at the line. Bekka Leitzel had five points on a field goal and three foul shots, followed by Olivia Horning with four points, all on field goals, and Andrea Redmond with two points on a field goal.
Ridgway’s Breier opened the scoring in the game with a lay-up off a rebound giving the Lady Elkers their only lead of the game 2-0. Carnovale tied it at 2-2, then Detsch put the Lady Crusaders ahead for good 5-2 with a trey. Breier scored again to cut it to 5-4, but Detsch hits field goal and two foul shots followed by two straight treys by Carnovale to put ECC up by a 15-4 score. Ridgway rebounded with two treys by Shirey and field goal by Redmond to cut the lead to 15-12.
Detsch then connected on two more foul shots, but Breier hit a field goal just before the buzzer to make the score 17-14 ECCH at the end of one quarter.
Two foul shots by Leitzel at the start of the second period made it 17-16, but Detsch and Struble answered with a trey and a field goal for Elk, 22-16. Breier and Struble exchanged buckets before Dybowski hit a trey to cut it to 24-21. Detsch scored six straight points for the Lady Crusaders to push the lead to nine, 30-21. Shirey hit a field goal at the end of the quarter to cut the lead back to seven, 30-23, at the half.
Ridgway made it 30-25 on a bucket by Breier at the start of the second half. Detsch answered for the Crusaders, then Horning scored for Ridgway, 32-27. The Lady Crusaders then ran off 10 straight points, four by Detsch, two each by Meholic, Frank and Carnovale. Dybowski scored for the Lady Elkers, 42-29. Struble and Cassels each hit a bucket for Elk County Catholic, 46-29, followed by a foul goal by Leitzel. Petrosky and Leitzel exchanged buckets as the quarter ended with the Lady Crusaders on top 48-32.
The Lady Crusaders scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter, seven by Carnovale and two by Detsch, to take a 57-32 lead. A Horning bucket was followed by two foul goals by Petrosky and a field goal by Cassels to make it 60-34. Dybowski hit a foul goal to close out the Ridgway scoring while Struble hit two field goals and Petrosky a foul goals to end the ECC scoring as the Lady Crusaders won the game by a 65-35 score.
Game Notes
The Lady Crusaders are now 5-0 on the season and will take on the Lady Dutch tonight at 6:30 for the tournament title.
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The Lady Dutch are now 6-0 on the season after defeating the Johnsonburg Ramettes, 57-38.
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Ridgway 35
Olivia Horning 2-0-0-2-4, Bryton Dybowski 1-1-1-2-6, Nicole Breier 5-0-0-0-10, Kathryn Shirey 1-2-0-0-8, Bekka Leitzel 1-0-3-4-5, Andrea Redmond 1-0-0-0-2. Totals 11-3-4-8-35.
Elk Catholic 65
Jena Struble 5-0-0-0-2-10, Abbi Petrosky 1-0-3-4-5, Lexie Meholic 1-0-0-3-2, Emily Detsch 7-2-6-6-26, Ellie Petrosky 0-0-0-0-0, Dani Cassels 1-0-1-2-3, Emily Gregory 0-0-0-0-0, Taylor Frank 1-0-0-4-2, Karly Carnovale 3-3-2-2-17. Totals 19-5-12-20-65.
Score by Quarters
Ridgway 14 9 9 3 35
ECCHS 17 13 18 17 65 |
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