Girls 1-1 last week at home

The Ipswich girls came away with a 46-36 win over LRC rival Warner here last Tuesday. The girls' largest lead would turn out to be 16 before the visitors would stage a mini rally to close within 10.

Believe it or not the Monarchs' only lead in the entire game would be their opening basket. That's because the Tiger girls staged an 11-point

run, started with a Halle Heinz trey, followed by her break-away lay-up and then two straight Bailey Pitz treys. So the Tigers would indeed lead 11-2 before a Warner response.

Ipswich still led 13-8 at the first-quarter stop and stretched that to 25-16 at intermission. (Their initial double-figure lead was 25-15 earlier in the second quarter and their biggest lead would indeed turn out to be 16 points in the final stanza, 45-29, after yet another accurate Pitz trey.) The Tiger girls had led 36-24 after three quarters of action.

Ipswich got seven players into its scoring column, led by Pitz with 12 points on four treys. Heinz was next with 11 points with one trey, also attaining double-figure scoring status. Chesney Olivier added eight points, while Hailey Bierman scored five points that included a trey and her sister Katie also contributed five points. Halie Feldman scored three points with another trey and Lindsey Grabowska added a basket.

Warner's leading scoring proved to be Savannah Green with 12 points, followed by Ava Nilsson with 10 points. Five more visiting players scored that night. They obtained 15 baskets all from within the trey arc and were 6-9 in free throws.

Ipswich made 17 total baskets with those seven treys and was 5-10 in free throw tries.

The Tiger girls captured 36 rebounds; Warner, 37. Ipswich was led by Olivier with eight and Hailey Bierman with seven. Ipswich sustained 13 turnovers, compared to Warner's 22. Ipswich grabbed 15 steals led by Heinz with seven.

IPSWICH VS. HERREID/SELBY

Ipswich dropped a 46-38 non-conference girls' high school basketball outcome to Region 2B rival Herreid/ Selby Area last Friday in the Tiger Den. The Wolverines manufactured some momentum to rally for their win. Ipswich had led 13-10 at the first-quarter break and carried that same three-point margin 19-16 to the lockers at halftime, as each team would only manage six points in the second eight-minute span.

The two teams continued their battle during the third-quarter action and Ipswich led 30-25 at one juncture of that quarter, thanks to a Halie Feldman layup and stretched that to six points, 31-25 with a Bailey Pitz free throw with 53 ticks on the third-quarter scoreboard clock. But that's when the visitors would begin their rally, evening things at 31-31 at the third-quarter break and winning the final quarter 15-7.

The game score was tied five times, with four lead changes.

The Wolverines were led by Rachel Fiedler with 14 points and their second leading scorer proved to be Rylee Rossow with 10 points in the paint. Jennica Berens just missed double-figures with nine points. Four other Wolverines scored that evening.

Meanwhile Ipswich received 14 points from Halle Heinz with one trey, our opening basket. Katie Bierman was one point away from double-figures with nine points that also included a trey. Chesney Olivier and Halie Feldman each added five points with Feldman including the Tigers' remaining trey. Ipswich also got Hailey Bierman's four points and that Pitz free throw to cap scoring.

The Tiger scorers connected on 15 floor shots that included that trio of treys and were 5-8 in free throw tries. The Wolverines netted 19 baskets that featured two treys and were 8-12 in free throw attempts.

Having to contend with an HSA height advantage Ipswich wasn't out-rebounded that badly, 28 to 25. And Ipswich was led by Lindsey Grabowska and Hailey Bierman with four rebounds apiece. The Tiger girls had 12 turnovers, though, with the Wolverines only sustaining seven miscues. Ipswich came away with five steals, led by Heinz with three.

Just the Ipswich girls were scheduled to host Northwestern on February 1, a LRC make-up game from an earlier postponement. Details of that game were not available as of our newspaper printing deadline. Then on Feb. 2 only the IHS girls were to travel to Leola to face Leola/Frederick Area for a LRC confrontation. The girls and boys are scheduled for a February 4 non-conference doubleheader in the Tiger Den vs. Miller. And only the girls will face Aberdeen Christian on February 9 in Aberdeen (another league game). Immediately after that loss to HSA the Tiger girls were 9-3.