The Ipswich boys’ basketball varsity closed out their season at 11-10 with a 66-56 Region 2B defeat in a 4 vs. 5 seed showdown, hosted by the higher seed in Gettysburg on Tuesday, March 3. The Battlers advanced to face Sully Buttes last Friday in Onida in one of the two 2B bracket championships that evening. The opposite bracket saw Herreid/Selby Area hosting Lower Brule. Both those bracket championship survivors earned a spot in the SoDak 16 that was scheduled for March 10 around the state. And those eight verdicts will determine the qualifiers for this year’s boys’State B in Aberdeen on March 19-21.
Meanwhile, the regional outcome was a disappointing defeat for the senior-laded Tiger contingent. One member of that senior class was Will Kadlec, the game-high scorer vs. Potter County with 32 points that included no fewer than six treys. Another Tiger senior Jordan Richardt was next with nine points that featured a trio of treys. Ty Kadlec added six points, followed by Eric Severson with four points. Matt Hettich claimed Ipswich’s remaining trey for his three points and senior Maxwell Geditz added Ipswich’ other two points.
The remaining seniors were Ethan Gilbert, Tucker Green and Lucas Metzinger.
Potter County responded with six scoring contributions of its own, led by Cooper Logan with 26 points and Grant Luikens with 13 counters.
Ipswich shot 19-59 from the floor, including those 10 three-balls and was 8-12 in free throws. Potter County fueled its own scoring attack with 26 baskets that featured five treys and a 9-15 effort at the line.
The Tigers fell behind 13-11 after a quarter and then trailed 27-26 at intermission thanks to a 15-14 second-quarter scoring edge. They also narrowly won the third-quarter scoring war 16-15 to knot the game at 42-all with a quarter to play.
The game had that lone tied score and two lead changes. Ipswich’s biggest lead had been three pints late in the initial quarter and Potter County owned a 14-point edge in the final stanza, 24-14, before eventually winning by the final 10-point margin.
Ipswich totaled 30 rebounds. But the Battlers claimed 39. (The Tigers were led by Ty Kadlec with eight retrieves, followed by Will Kadlec with six.) Ipswich sustained 10 turnovers; the Battlers, 11. The Tigers came away with eight steals, led by Ty Kadlec’s five. The Battlers only came up with six steals.
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