| Northview girls beat Perrysburg to clinch NLL title (2-11-12) |
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| Written by Thomas Schmeltz Sentinel Sports Writer | ||
| Sunday, 12 February 2012 00:25 | ||
But again, despite Kelsea Newman’s game-high 24 points, the Yellow Jackets fell short 49-44, and Northview walked away from Perrysburg’s gym as Northern Lakes League champions. PHOTO GALLERY Trailing 47-44, ’Jackets senior Taylor Knight had a chance to knot the game with a triple from the left wing with less than 30 seconds remaining, but the ball came up short hitting the front of the iron, and the Wildcats closed the contest by converting on their final two free throws. “It was a great game, both of them were,” Perrysburg head coach Todd Sims said referring back to their first encounter on Jan. 13. “If you could bottle that and show people how good girls basketball is, they would be impressed. “Players were tired, we fought and we fought and we had a shot to tie it,” Sims added. “You couldn’t ask for more. It didn’t go in, that happens, that’s the game. That’s basketball.” Northview (17-1, 12-0) was led to its NLL title-clinching win by seniors Miriam Justinger and J.J Jessing with 15 and 12 points, respectively. “I didn’t think we’d do that honestly,” Northview head coach Jerry Sigler said. “I felt like we would probably struggle here and we may not win it, then we would have to go on the road and try and win it at Napoleon or (Bowling Green) and that wasn’t going to be pretty.” Justinger a 6-foot guard, who will play at Kent State next year, and Jessing a 6-3 center, who will play at Western Michigan next year, were the main focus of Perrysburg (14-4, 9-3), but 6-1 freshman Maddie Cole was also a scoring threat as she added 10 points for the Wildcats. “It’s tough. They’re 17-1 for a reason,” Sims said. “They’re hard for people to match up with. But we played pretty well defensively. “I just think that we’re very competitive with (Northview),” he added. “But they just have a little more scoring sometimes ... they get that third person in there.” On the other hand, Perrysburg was only able to get double-digit production from Newman’s 24 points and Becca Tudor, who scored 10 points. Emily Treece and Sarah Baer were held to six and four points, respectively. “We knew Kelsea was going to get hers ... beyond that it was going to have to be the rest of their team that was going to have to contribute,” Sigler said. “I don’t think anything cost us. It was just one of those things, we had an open shot and it didn’t go in,” Sims said. Northview’s offense, though it committed 16 turnovers, was in a rhythm all night as it shot 17-of-32 (53 percent) from the field. All 17 of the field goals came from inside the 3-point line. “If we could get the ball inside and out, that we could get some things done,” Sigler said. “What we tried to do is put people on the perimeter where that person could kick it back out where they’d have to defend. What ended up there was (Jessing) got easy buckets,” Sigler added. Perrysburg held the lead just once in the game, 3-2, 1:07 into the contest. Northview took a 23-19 lead at halftime as led by as many as eight points (41-33) with 4:54 remaining in the final quarter. But Newman began to bring the ’Jackets back by hitting her fourth 3-pointer followed by two free throws after a Wildcats basket, cutting the deficit to 43-38. After another basket by Northview, Perrysburg used a 6-0 run to close the gap to 45-44, but the Jackets’ got no closer as the Wildcats went 4--for-4 on their free throws in the final 28 seconds. “It was a very, very competitive game. They just made one or two more plays than we did,” Sims said. Northview won the junior varsity game 41-25. Katie Dunphy led the ’Jackets with seven points. NORTHVIEW 49, PERRYSBURG 44 NORTHVIEW Mason, 0-0—0; Rose, 2-2—6; Justinger, 4-7—15; Yurjevic, 0-0—0; McCoy, 2-2—6; Cole, 5-0—10; J.J Jessing, 4-4—12; Small, 0-0—0. TOTALS: 17-15—49. PERRYSBURG Knight, 0-0—0; Tudor, 3-4—10; Perry, 0-0—0; Gremler, 0-0—0; Treece, 2-2—6; Baer, 1-2—4; Newman, 5-4-2—24. TOTALS: 11-4-10—44. NORTHVIEW 11 12 12 14 —49 PERRYSBURG 7 12 8 17 —44 Junior varsity: Northview, 41-25. |
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