| Perrysburg girls down Southview (1-30-12) |
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| Written by By THOMAS SCHMELTZ, Sentinel Sports Writer | ||||
| Sunday, 29 January 2012 00:37 | ||||
What was a defensive struggle in the first half, quickly turned into an offensive shootout, in which the teams’ respective best scorers shined. Despite Southview’s Lexi Lopez scoring all of her game-high 27 points in the second half, Perrysburg was able to walk away with a 53-48 victory, behind Kelsea Newman’s 20 second-half points. Newman finished the game with a team-high 22 points, nine rebounds and four steals. Perrysburg improves to 11-3 overall and 7-2 in the NLL, while Southview is 8-7, 4-5. “I thought that the two leading scorers took the game over. Lexi for them and Kelsea for us,” Perrysburg head coach Todd Sims said. “They were back-and-forth there for a while.” The ’Jackets held an 18-16 advantage at halftime, but were able to build a 38-30 lead by the end of the third quarter, largely in thanks to their ability to convert from 2-point territory. Perrysburg was 8-of-10 from two in the third and Newman went 1-of-3 from beyond the arc in the eight-minute period. The Cougars relied heavily on Lopez in the final 16 minutes as she scored all but five of Southview’s second-half points. No other Southview player broke double-figures. “We’ve been searching for a secondary scorer for the whole year,” Cougars head coach Tim Nottke said. “We’ve got to have someone step up and be that secondary scorer so all of the sudden you’re not going to have two and three people on Lexi.” Lopez tried to get Southview back into a position where it could take the lead as she scored 17 of the final 18 points for the Cougars, but they weren’t able to get any closer than five points of Perrysburg in the fourth quarter.
On the other hand, the ’Jackets were balanced on the offensive end as Becca Tudor provided 13 points and Emily Treece added 11 points to go along with six assists. Senior guard Taylor Knight, Perrysburg’s best defender according to Sims, battled foul trouble throughout. Knight picked up her third foul with 15 seconds left in the first quarter and didn’t play the rest of the first half. Knight then recorded her fourth foul just 50 seconds into the third, forcing Sims to put her on the bench for the remainder of the period. “Our bench played great. Abby Sattler was unbelievable,” Sims said. “And I thought our whole bench ... they did what we needed them to do at that time, which was hang in there and fight and battle.” “I give (Sattler) credit,” Sims added. “It’s not easy to play (junior varsity) and come in and play three hard varsity quarters.” Sattler played in two quarters of the junior varsity game as well. Newman, who went 0-of-4 from 3-point territory in the first half, found comfort in her mid-range game, keying her scoring spurt in the second half. She finished shooting 9-of-18 from the field, which included 2-of-9 from 3-point territory. “She’s gotten so much better at the mid-range game,” Sims said of Newman. “When she was younger and playing varsity she didn’t have much of a mid-range game at all, but she’s much better at that.” Perrysburg plays at Maumee on Tuesday as the ’Jackets will look for a final push to catch NLL-leading Northview, which is two games ahead in the league standings. “We’re going to win as many games as we can and if somebody can beat Northview and if we can beat them here and if we sneak a tie then great, but if we don’t, then that’s OK,” Sims said. Perrysburg won the junior varsity game 32-21. Allex Brown led the ’Jackets with nine points. PERRYSBURG 53, SOUTHVIEW 48 SOUTHVIEW Lopez, 12-3—27; Huntsman, 0-0—0; Hejl, 4-1—9; Pappas, 0-0—0; Ersig, 1-0—2; Marshall, 0-0—0; Harlan, 2-0—4; Coleman, 1-2—4; Thomas, 1-0—2. TOTALS: 21-6—48. PERRYSBURG Sattler, 0-1—1; Williams, 0-0—0; Knight, 0-0—0; Tudor, 6-1—13; Perry, 0-0—0; Gremler, 0-0—0; Treece, 5-1—11; Baer, 3-0—6; Newman, 7-2-2—22. TOTALS: 21-2-5—53. SOUTHVIEW 8 8 14 18 —48 PERRYSBURG 12 6 20 15 —53 Junior varsity: Perrysburg, 32-21. |
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