submitted by Matt Schrank, Head Coach
Last Thursday we traveled to Montrose to take on the Lady Fighting Cougars. MCM just came off as the BEC tournament champions the weekend prior to our game, so we saw it as an opportunity to compete against one of the better Class A teams in the state.
We came out missing a lot of shots and getting beat inside the paint around the rim quite a bit. After making a few adjustments and being down 12-2, we started executing a little better on the offensive end. We came back and we were down 14-18 after the first quarter.
The 2nd quarter we started to heat up from the field. We outplayed our opponents but put them at the free throw line quite a bit which kept them in the lead.
Peyton Hove hit a big 3 in the waning seconds to put us down by two, 29-31 as the half ended. Early in the 3rd quarter we got into a lot of foul trouble. We battled really well even though they had a tremendous size advantage against us in the paint.
We were down by 7 points late in the 3rd quarter and they finished the quarter with a 4-0 run to lead by 11 after 3. In the 4th quarter, our shooting troubles continued, as we got plenty of great shots off, but they wouldn’t drop.
We did our best to make stops on defense and were still down 14 with 4 minutes to go. The wheels eventually fell off and we ended up losing the game 66-41. We worked extremely hard in this game and did a lot of great things. If we can shoot better than 23%, we give one of the top teams in Class A a good run.
Mattea Fiegen led us in scoring with 8 points, Lizzie Olson, Lauren Heesch, and Peyton Hove all tallied 7 points, and Lily Ranschau had 6. Peyton Hove and Jaelyn Benson each had 4 assists.
The Lady Dragons and the GHS boys basketball team faced Beresford in a double header this past Tuesday, Feb. 11. (Results not available by press time.) The teams have a second double header on Feb. 13 against Parker. Go Big Blue!
