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The Harvey-Wells County girls basketball team showed some solid improvements during the final week of the season, as they found their shooting groove in defeating Drake-Anamoose and dropping a close game to Griggs-Midkota.
The Hornets also took on a highly touted E-K-M team and despite a lopsided first quarter, played right with the Rebels for the rest of the game.
HWC now enters District 7 Tournament action and started play against the NR-S Rockets on Friday, February 11, in Maddock. The Hornets narrowly defeated the Rockets, 49-47, in regular season action.
HWC 72,
Drake-Anamoose 36
HWC knocked down 12 3-point shots and committed just six turnovers, doubling up Drake-Anamoose, 72-36, in a non-regional girls basketball game in Harvey on Thursday, February 3. The game was designated as Senior Night, and the senior players came ready to play.
The Raiders started the game with field goals from Riley Hauff and Halie Fletschock as they led early. The Hornets, behind two early 3-pointers from Larissa Arnold, went on a 12-0 run and jumped out to a 15-4 lead. Another 10-0 run later in the first featured treys from Lexi Fike and Emma Dockter, helping HWC to a 25-8 lead after one.
The threes kept falling, with Dockter draining two more early in the second quarter, moving the Hornet lead to 33-8. Hauff and Fletschock broke up the string for the Hornets each tallying a field goal but another three from Kalyn Keller moved the lead to 38-12. Bailey Clott finished the half for the Raiders with a three making the halftime score 42-18.
Keller added two more threes in the third quarter and Fike added another three to her stats as the Hornets continued to feel the groove scoring 21 points in the third. Taryn Sieg scored five and Aydryen Felber added a 3-pointer for the Raiders as the score moved to 63-28 after three. Fike hit the 12th three of the game for HWC early in the fourth, as the Hornets moved to the second string players for a majority of the fourth. Felber tallied her second three of the game for Drake-Anamoose to end the scoring.
Keller knocked down four threes and was 6-for-6 from the free-throw line as the senior led the Hornets with 28 points. Fike, another senior, scored 15 and added three long range shots, Dockter made three treys, scoring 11, and Arnold chipped in with two 3-pointers and 10 points for HWC as they moved to 6-11 overall.
Drake-Anamoose was led in scoring with 13 points from sophomore Fletschock.
E-K-M 71, HWC 46
Norah Entzi and Kiara Jangula combined for four 3-pointers in the opening quarter, as the E-K-M Rebels cruised to a 71-46 win on Friday, February 4, in Fessenden.
The state’s #9-ranked Rebels left no doubt early on who was in charge of this game. Entzi scored the first five points for E-K-M on a field goal and a two-and-one and then added two treys and 11 points in the first for the Rebels. Jangula added two treys and a field goal, as E-K-M outscored HWC, 21-8, in the first.
E-K-M increased their lead to 25-8 before Keller stopped the streak with a field goal. Keller scored seven in the second for the Hornets, but Jangula added another 3-pointer as the Rebels led, 36-19, at half.
Keller and Fike added threes for HWC in the third, but Emily Kinzler scored eight on two old-fashioned 3-pointers to lift E-K-M to a 54-31 lead after three.
Fike added two more long range shots and Dockter knocked down another in the fourth, but the Rebels maintained their advantage, winning 71-46.
Jangula led a group of four Rebel players in double digits with 21 points. Also in doubles for E-K-M was Entzi with 13, Kinzler with 12 and Mataeya Mathern with 11. HWC was led by Keller with 22 and Fike with 13.
The win moved EKM to 18-1 on the season.
Griggs/Midkota 58, HWC 55
Emma Kollman’s two 3-pointers in the fourth quarter stomped the fire out twice on HWC, as the Titans held on for a 58-55 win over the Hornets in Fessenden on Monday, February 7.
The Titans got the ball rolling early on, as 6’2” Jenna Larson had her way in the paint against HWC. The senior scored nine in the first quarter, and along with Kollman’s first two 3-pointers of the game, lifted the Titans to a 20-12 lead after one.
Arnold sank two treys and Fike added another, cutting a 10-point Titan lead down to just seven after eight minutes. The Titans kept the momentum in the paint in the second, as Asia Becherl came off the bench and scored 11 of her team’s 14 second quarter points. The Titans lead grew to 12, and they led, 34–24, at halftime.
The Hornets got their three ball rolling again in the third as Fike and Arnold added their third 3-pointers of the night. Keller also scored four points in the third, as the Hornets cut the lead to just six points after three.
A wild fourth quarter saw the Hornets close the gap to one at 46-45 on a three from Fike and a deuce from Keller. A two-and-one from Josie Johnson and a three from Kollman moved the Titan lead back to seven at 54-47.
Fike’s fifth three of the game, along with a steal and layup from Dockter had the Griggs-Midkota lead back down to 54-52. Kollman answered with her fourth three of the game and gave the Titans a five- point lead with a minute to play. Fike drained her sixth three of the game to cut the lead to 57-55.
A free throw from Lauryn Halvorson made it a one-possession game but Fike’s three to tie with two seconds left was blocked, as the Titans held on for the 58-55 victory.
The Titans were led in scoring by Becherl with 18. Also in doubles were Larson with 14 and Kollman with 12. HWC was led by Fike with 18, while Keller and Arnold were also in doubles with 12 and 11 points, respectively.
The win for Griggs-Midkota moves their season record to 7-11 and the loss drops the Hornets to 6-13 overall.
Nondistrict Girls’ Basketball
HWC 72, Drake-Anamoose 36
at Harvey
D-A 8 10 10 8 36
HWC 25 17 21 9 72
HWC: Kalyn Keller 28, Lexi Fike 15, Emma Dockter 11, Larissa Arnold 10, Carsyn Ziegler 4, Jenna Green 2, Rachel Neumiller 2.
D-A: Halie Fletschock 13, Riley Hauff 7, Aydryen Felber 6, Taryn Sieg 5, Bailey Clott 5.
Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier 71,
HWC 46
at Fessenden
E-K-M 21 15 18 17 71
HWC 8 11 12 15 46
HWC: Keller 22, Fike 13, Dockter 5, Arnold 2, Green 2, Neumiller 2.
E-K-M: Kiara Jangula 21, Norah Entzi 13, Emily Kinzler 12, Mataeya Mathern 11, Reagan Teske 8, Rylee Fischer 2, Grace Irey 2, Abby Mathern 2.
Griggs/Midkota 58, HWC 55
at Fessenden
G-M 20 14 10 14 58
HWC 13 11 14 17 55
HWC: Fike 18, Keller 12, Arnold 11, Dockter 8, Neumiller 4, Ziegler 2.
Griggs/Midkota: Asia Becherl 18, Jenna Larson 14, Emma Kollman 12, Lauryn Halvorson 8, Josie Johnson 4, Medora Brandner 2.