Perrysburg’s Emily Treece makes the bounce pass. (Photos: Aaron Carpenter/Sentinel-Tribune)

PERRYSBURG — Saturday night was a tale of two halves between Northern Lakes League
members Perrysburg and Southview.
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.

Perrysburg’s Becca Tudor gets the ball knocked away by Southview’s Bailey Hejl (10).

“There’s a fine line between fouling (Lopez) and not fouling, and should we let her
get to the basket a few times. … But as long as we were scoring and up by six
or eight, then … it wasn’t such a big deal for them to score,” Sims said.
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.