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Wapakoneta 33 Kalida 27
By Phil McLEAN
Wapakoneta Daily News Staff Writer
KALIDA — If fans were looking for an exciting win
Saturday when the Wapakoneta Redskins played Kalida in
non-league girls basketball they might have been
disappointed.
It wasn’t a very pretty win, but “we’ll take it,”
Wapakoneta Redskins varsity girls basketball coach Rusty
Allen.
After trailing the Wildcats 20-16 at halftime,
Wapakoneta came back to hand Kalida a 33-27 defeat.
“These games over break are difficult because it just
gets us out of our routine,” Allen said. “Obviously our
routine is a little messed up and that affected our play
a little bit.”
Christy Steinke opened the scoring with a 2-point field
goal 30 seconds into the first period. It didn’t take
long for Kalida to respond, Trisha Horstman converted
both ends of a 2-shoot foul opportunity to tie the score
at 2. Horstman gave the Wildcats a lead they would hold
throughout the first half, although the Redskin’s Heidi
Schlegel knotted the score at 6, 3 minutes into the
period.
“We talked about that at half time,” Allen said. “As
poorly as we were playing we were only down four.”
Kalida held a 9-8 lead after the first 8 minutes and won
the second period 11-8.
“We weren’t shooting the ball real well and defensively
we weren’t real intense,” the coach said.
Defensively, Wapakoneta took control in the second half,
hold Kalida to only seven points. “They put a lid on the
basket, I guess,” Wildcat coach Karl Lammers said. “We
had some good looks at it.”
Lammers said he didn’t believe that it anything specific
that Wapakoneta did in the second half.
“I just think that we mentally lost confidence,” Lammers
said.
Three times in the third period Wapakoneta tied the
game, finally taking the lead, for what turned out to be
the last time, on a 2-shot foul by Schlegel. Emily
Steveley gave the Redskins a 4-point lead half way
through the fourth period. Kalida didn’t score until the
1:16 mark of the period when Gina Verhoff, the only
senior on the Kalida drained a 3-pointer to cut the
Wapakoneta to one.
The Redskins went on a 5-point unanswered run over the
last minute of the game, to preserve the victory.
The loss drops the Wildcats to 6-3. Kalida was led by
Margaret vonderEmbse who tallied a team high 9 points.
Schlegel led the Redskins with 10 points, the only
player in double figures Saturday.
The Kalida junior varsity overcame an 8-7 Wapakoneta and
took a 29-27 win in the opener. Karmyn Schneider paced
the 3-4 Redskins with 13 points. The talented sophomore
then followed that performance up by singing the
national anthem at the Wapakoneta boys basketball game
Saturday night.
Wapakoneta, now 6-1 on the season, will be back on the
road Tuesday, when the Redskins travel to Maria Stein to
meet the Marion Local Flyers, a 4-3 team who lost to
Anna 66-63 on Saturday.
Boxscore
Wapak 8 8 10 7 -33
Kalida 9 11 4 3 -27
Scoring:
Wapakoneta: Bryan 0-0-0, Steveley 2-0-4,
Schneider 2-1-5, Steinke 2-1-5, Golden 1-2-5,
Helmstetter 2-04, Lowry 0-0-0, Schlegel 3-4-10. Totals
12-8-33.
Kalida: Heitmeyer 0-0-0, Hamburg 0-0-0, Horstman
2-2-6, Turnwald 2-0-5, Verhoff 1-0-3, vonderEmbse 4-0-9,
Kaufman 1-0-2, Kortokrax 0-0-0, Fuerst 1-0-2. Totals
11-2-27.
Three-point Goals: Wapakoneta 1 (Golden); Kalida
3 (Turnwald, Verhoff, vonderEmbse).
Fouled out: None
Technical fouls: None
JV Score: Kalida 29-27. |