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The
Official Newspaper of Manchester and Delaware County, Iowa
Tuesday,
December 27, 2005 | |
West
Delaware boys top Maquoketa, up record to 4-1 |
West Delaware’s Austin Cole drilled a three-point basket with just under
10 seconds remaining in the game to lift the Hawks a 50-48 win over visiting Maquoketa
last Tuesday night.
Eric Crawford’s three ball with 7:15 left in
the first quarter gave the Hawks a 3-2 lead, one they would not relinquish until
midway through the fourth quarter.
Brett Manternach scored the Hawks next
five points to put West Delaware up 8-2. Manternach and BJ Hermsen closed out
the first quarter with back-to-back baskets to give the Hawks a 10-point lead,
16-6.
The Hawks built their largest lead of the game at the start of the
second quarter, 20-6, when Tony Brown and Manternach each hit short jumpers. | 
KEN
BOESENBERG / Photo - West Delaware’s Austin Cole gets off a short baseline
jumper over a Maquoketa Cardinal defender last Tuesday night in Manchester. Cole
scored 13 points in the two-point win for the Hawks. |
KEN
BOESENBERG / Photo - West
Delaware senior Brett Manternach goes up over Maquoketa’s Luke Patterson
for two of his 13-points during the Hawks thrilling 50-48 win over the Cardinals
in Manchester last Tuesday night.
| The
Hawks controlled the tempo of the second quarter and took an eight-point lead,
26-18 into the locker room at the half.
Maquoketa held an 11-8 scoring
advantage in the third period to cut the Hawks lead to just five-points heading
into the fourth period.
The Cardinals Brad Cook
narrowed the Hawk lead to two points with a three point goal at the 7:15 mark.
Eric Crawford’s driving lay up at the 6:05 mark gave the Hawks a three point
lead, 36-33. However, Maquoketa got back-to-back baskets in a 20-second span to
take their first lead of the game, 37-36 with 5:21 left in the game.
From
there on out it was anybody contest with each team trading turnovers. Over the
final five minutes there would be seven lead changes. |
After
Maquoketa went up by three-points, 45-42 on a Luke Patterson field goal with 2:38
left the Hawks BJ Hermsen canned a long three ball to knot the score at 45-45
with 2:07 left in the game.
Drew Burmahl of Maquoketa put the Cardinals
up 46-45 with a free throw with 1:47 left.
BJ Hermsen scored on a driving
lay up with 1:10 left to give the Hawks a one-point lead, 47-46. A basket by Maquoketa’s
Burmahl put the Cardinals back on top 48-4 with 35-seconds remaining.
Following a West Delaware time out the Hawks worked the ball around the perimeter
to a wide open Austin Cole who calmly dropped in what would turn out to be the
winning three-point basket with nine seconds remaining in the game. The
Cardinals last two shots were well off the mark. | 
KEN
BOESENBERG / Photo - BJ Hermsen of West Delaware scored on this lay-up to give
the Hawks a 47-46 lead with 1:10 left in the game. Hermsen scored just nine points
in the game but was huge in the rebounding department with 14 boards.
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Game
stats
vs. Maquoketa
Field goals: WD 20-43-46.5%; free throws: WD 7-12-58.3%;
assists: WD 21 (Boom 2, Brown 3, Hermsen 3, E. Crawford 7, Cole 1, Keppler 3,
Manternach 2); blocked shots: WD 4 (Hermsen 2, Manternach 2); rebounds: WD 27
(Boom 2, Brown 2, Hermsen 14, E. Crawford 3, Cole 2, Keppler 2, Walters 1, Manternach
1); turnovers: WD 20; fouls: WD 17; scoring: Tony Brown 6, BJ Hermsen 9, Eric
Crawford 9, Austin Cole 13, Brett Manternach 13. |
 | Ed-Co
girls, boys sweep Starmont |
Tiffany Kruse tossed in 14 points as the Ed-Co Viking girls basketball team topped
the Stars of Starmont 52-37 last Tuesday night.
The Vikings got off to
a good start building a 16-9 lead by the end of the first quarter.
Starmont
was able to cut the Viking lead to six points by half time, 30-24, with a 15-14
scoring advantage in the second quarter.
The Vikings turned up the defense
in the third quarter, limiting the Stars to just five points while scoring 13
themselves to take a 43-29 lead by the end of the third period.
The Vikings
held Starmont to 30% shooting from the floor for the game (13-42).
“This
was a good win going into the Christmas break,” commented Coach Roger Wright.
“I was happy with the way we started the game and also with the way we ran
our delay game at the end. I was also pleased with the way we shot free throws,
making 14 of 18.”
Game stats
vs. Starmont
Field goals:
EC 18-52-34.6%, S 15-47-31.9%; free throws: EC 14-18-77.8%, S 5-10-50%; assists:
EC 7 (Elsbury 1, Kruse 2, Dugan 2, Sullivan 1); steals: EC 12 (Elsbury 1, Kruse
4, Dugan 2, Sullivan 2, Lincoln 1, Lueken 1, Meyer 1); rebounds: EC 33 (Kintzle
1, Elsbury 1, Meyers 1, Kruse 3, Dugan 2, Sullivan 2, Lincoln 7, Lueken 6, Meyer
9), S 18; turnovers: EC 26, S 24; scoring: Sara Elsbury 7, Tiffany Kruse 14, Tiffany
Dugan 11, Tracy Sullivan 6, Jackie Lincoln 5, Nikki Lueken 1, Lora Hunt 2, Mindy
Meyer 6. The Ed-Co boys completed the sweep of Starmont
with a 63-59 victory over the Stars.
Ryan Putz tossed in a season high
32 points for the Vikings and Matt Mescher added 10.
The two teams battled
to a 16-16 tie at the end of the first quarter before the Vikings tallied 22 points
during the second quarter to take a 38-32 lead into the locker room at the half.
Starmont held a 15-8 scoring advantage in the third quarter to lead by a point,
47-46 going into the fourth quarter.
The win moved the Vikings record
to 2-3.
Game stats
vs. Starmont
Field goals: EC 23-54-42.6%;
free throws: EC 12-23-52.2%; assists: EC 7 (Smith 4, Putz 2, Mescher 1); steals:
EC 9 (Daker 2, Smith 1, Putz 4, Mescher 2); blocked shots: EC 2 (Putz 2); rebounds:
EC 25 (Daker 3, Smith 4, Putz 6, Mescher 5, McDowell 1, Clauson 6); turnovers:
EC 14; scoring: Brian Daker 1, Spenser Smith 9, Andy Oldfather 4, Ryan Putz 32,
Matt Mescher 10, Tyler McDowell 3, Justin Elledge 1, Adam Clauson 3. |
| Hawk
girls top Maquoketa 50-47, now share WaMaC East Division lead |
Senior Jackie Mullis scored a team high 21 points to lead the West Delaware girls
basketball team to a 50-47 win over the Cardinals of Maquoketa last Tuesday night
in Maquoketa.
The win gives the Hawks a share of the lead with DeWitt
Central in the WaMaC Conference East Division, both have 3-1 records.
The Hawks shot just 32% from the floor against the Cardinals but cashed in on
16 of 25 free throws.
West Delaware held a three-point lead, 13-10 at
the end of the first quarter but trailed 20-19 at the half.
Sisters, Jenny
and Ashley Hood each nailed huge three-point baskets for the Hawks in the third
quarter as West Delaware outscored Maquoketa 16-7 to take an eight point lead.
Maquoketa put on a furious rally late in the game to cut a Hawk double digit lead
to three before the final buzzer sounded.
Mullis controlled the inside
for the Hawks against the Cardinals adding nine rebounds to her 21 points.
Game stats
vs. Maquoketa
Field goals: Hawks 15-47-31.9%, Cardinals 17-49-35.3%;
free throws: Hawks 16-25-64%, Cardinals 8-17-47%; assists: Hawks 16 (Kathryn Heiar
3, Megan Wessels 1, Samantha Hahn 3, Jackie Mullis 1, Katie Wessels 2, Sam Conrad
2, Ashley Hood 1, Kadie Hutton 3); rebounds: Hawks 32 (Kathryn Heiar 1, Samantha
Hahn 2, Jackie Mullis 9, Katlyn Heiserman 2, Katie Wessels 4, Sam Conrad 5, Jenny
Hood 3, Kadie Hutton 5, Angie Lechtenberg 1), Cardinals 31; blocked shots: Hawks
1 (Heiar); steals: Hawks 5 (Samantha Hahn 1, Katie Wessels 1, Ashley Hood 3);
turnovers: Hawks 12, Cardinals 12; scoring: Kathryn Heiar 3, Samantha Hahn 8,
Jackie Mullis 21, Katie Wessels 4, Sam Conrad 2, Jenny Hood 5, Ashley Hood 3,
Kadie Hutton 4.
The Hawks will scrimmage North Linn and Dunkerton on Friday,
December 30, in Manchester starting at 10:00 a,m. and running until noon. |
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