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January 24, 2006 | |
Hawks, Wildcats split girls, boys contests in Delhi |
Blake Funke (top photo) of Maquoketa Valley scores two of her team high 19 points in the Cats 59-56 win over West Delaware. BJ Hermsen (bottom photo) of West Delaware tallies two of his 16 points during the Hawks 52-47 win over the Wildcats. KEN BOESENBERG / Press
| The annual battle between the West Delaware Hawk and the Maquoketa Valley Wildcat basketball teams took place in Delhi last Saturday night.
No matter what the records or rankings are they can be thrown out when these to teams get together for their annual girl/boy double header.
With none of the four teams being over dominate the anticipation was for some good old hard nosed basketball. And for the fans that stuck it out for a little more than four hours, that is what they got.
The Wildcat girls were able to pull out a 59-56 overtime victory over the visiting Hawks.
As thrilling as the game was it seemed to take nearly forever to come to an end.
The two teams combined to make 43 free throws with 50-plus fouls being whistled by the three-man refereeing crew. Couple that with a 20-plus minute delay when the lights went out at one end of the gym and you have what made for a extraordinary long game.
Maquoketa Valley made 25 of 36 free throws while the Hawks cashed in on 18 of 33 charity tosses.
When the Hawks Kathryn Heiar made one of two free throws with 27-seconds remaining in regulation the Hawks held a 50-44 lead.
That’s when Wildcat freshman Jodi Gibbs came up big for the Cats. |
She canned back-to-back three-point baskets, the second one coming with just three seconds left in the game to tie the score at 50-50.
Gibbs fouled out during the overtime period after scoring 16 points. Freshman teammate, Blake Funke who also fouled out during the overtime period led the Cats in scoring with 19 points.
That’s when sister Jordan Gibbs took over . Her basket with 23-seconds left in the overtime game the Cats their first lead of the game. She made the first of two free throws with 7.3 seconds left to give the Cats a 58-56 lead. When she missed her second attempt the Hawks grabbed the rebound with a chance to tie the game. However, and inadvertent buzzer from the scorers bench resulted in a jump ball situation with possession going back to the Wildcats.
Senior Megan Kramer made one of two free throws to make the final score 59-56 in favor of the Wildcats.
The Hawks got 19 points from junior post player Katie Wessels and 16 points from senior Jackie Mullis.
The West Delaware boys jumped out to a 10-2 lead as they went on to down the Wildcats 52-47.
Brett Manternach and BJ Hermsen tossed in 17 and 16 points respectively to lead the Hawks in scoring.
The Wildcats had three players score in double figures, led by Brett Huber and Philip Roling each with 11 points. Donny Nordmann scored 10.
West Delaware led 13-8 at the end of the first quarter. The Wildcats Philip Roling pulled the Cats to within two points, 17-15 with a three-point basket midway through the second quarter.
The Hawks Brett Manternach scored a tip-in basket off a BJ Hermsen miss as the buzzer went off at the end of the second quarter to give the Hawks a seven point lead, 27-20, at the half.
BJ Hermsen scored his only second half points with a three-point basket on the Hawks first possession of the second half to give West Delaware a 30-20 lead.
The Hawks upped their lead to 16-points, 38-22, on an Alex Boom basket late in the third quarter.
The Cats were not about to roll over as they scored the final six points of the quarter on baskets by Brian Wolf, Casey Lechtenberg and Aaron Jay to cut the Hawk lead to just 10-points by quarters end.
Philip Rolings three ball and a basket by Donny Nordmann got the Cats back to within five points, 38-33.
Brett Manternach then recorded back-to-back hoops for the Hawks to up the lead back to 10-points, 44-34 with 4:20 left in the game.
Three-point goals by the Wildcats Jeremy Dircks and Brett Huber narrowed the West Delaware lead to just two points, 47-45 with 45 seconds left in the game.
The Hawks Eric Crawford made four free throws during the final 30-seconds of play to give the Hawks 52-47 win over the Wildcats.
Game stats (girls)
MV 59, WD 56
Field goals: WD 18-47-38%, MV 15-39-38%; free throws: WD 18-37-49%, MV 25-36-69%; assists: WD 12 (Heiar 2, Hahn 3, Mullis 2, Heiserman 2, K. Wessels 1, J. Hood 1, A. Hood 1); rebounds: WD 35 (Heiar 6, M. Wessels 1, Hahn 3, Mullis 8, Heiserman 1, K. Wessels 8, J. Hood 1, Hutton 6, Lechtenberg 1), MV 24 (Steger 8, Funke 7); blocked shots: WD 4 (Mullis 3, Conrad 1); steals: WD 9 (Heiar 1, Hahn 3, Mullis 1, K. Wessels 2, Hutton 2); turnovers: WD 21, MV 17; fouls: WD 27, MV 26; Scoring, West Delaware (Kathryn Heiar 7, Samantha Hahn 2, Jackie Mullis 16, Katlyn Heiserman 2, Katie Wessels 19, Jenny Hood 3, Ashley Hood 3, Kadie Hutton 4); Maquoketa Valley (Megan Kramer 2, Bailey Salow 10, Jodi Gibbs 16, Jordan Gibbs 8, Krista Steger 4, Blake Funke 19).
Game stats (boys)
WD 52, MV 47
Field goals: WD 17-34-50%, MV 15-41-36.6%; free throws: WD 13-27-48.2%, MV 13-28-46.4%; assists: WD 16 (Boom 5, Hermsen 1, E. Crawford 1, Cole 1, C. Crawford 7, Manternach 1), MV 9 )Roling 1, Dircks 4, Huber 1, Jay 3); steals: WD 7 (Boom 1, Hermsen 3, E. Crawford 2, Manternach 1), MV 10 (Nordmann 4, Huber 1, Wolf 1, Deutmeyer 1, Jay 3); blocked shots: WD 2 (Hermsen 1, Cole 1), MV 2 (Nordmann 2); rebounds: WD 26 (Boom 1, Brown 2, Hermsen 7, E. Crawford 6, Cole 2, C. Crawford 3, Manternach 5), MV 27 (Roling 5, nordmann 7, Dircks 2, Huber 2, Lechtenberg 3, Wolf 1, Jay 1); turnovers: WD 19, MV 21; fouls: WD 17, MV 27; Scoring, West Delaware (Alex Boom 4, Tony Brown 1, BJ Hermsen 16, Eric Crawford 6, Austin Cole 6, Chris Crawford 2, Brett Manternach 17; Maquoketa Valley (Philip roling 11, Donny Nordmann 10, Jeremy Dircks 3, Brett Huber 11, Casey Lechtenberg 3, Brian Wolf 2, Zach Deutmeyer 2, Aaron Jay 3. |
 
The Hawks Adam Rave (135-pounds) racks up back points against Chase Kaufman of South Tama last Thursday night in Manchester. Rave won his match 10-0 as the Hawks rolled over the Trojans 53-17 to remain unbeaten in WaMaC Conference Dual Meet competition. KEN BOESENBERG / Press |
The West Delaware Hawk wrestling team had an easy week of competition last week with just a single dual meet on the schedule.
On Thursday night the Hawks hosted the Trojans of South Tama on “Parent’s Night”.
A packed house was treated to a 53-17 Hawk victory on the mat and a very fine Light Show put on by the grade school kids.
The Light Shows, put on a number of times during the winter sports season are directed by Mary Jane Fetter. With the performance that the younger kids put on Thursday night there is no doubt that they will be very entertaining in the years to come. |
On the mat the Hawks dominated the younger Trojans 53-17.
The Trojans had just two seniors and one junior in their line-up along with seven sophomores and two freshmen.
The Hawks won the take-down battle 12-8, six of the eight Trojans takedowns came at 119-pounds where senior Sergio Gutierres defeated Hawk freshman Jason Lux.
The Hawks recorded three falls, two major decisions and won three weights by forfeit in rolling to the 36-point victory.
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The Hawks Tony Marbach works for some back points during his 8-5 come from behind victory over his South Tama opponent last Thursday night in Manchester. KEN BOESENBERG / Press |
Nick Ketchum (125), Dustin Jaeger (152) and Nate Lahr (160) all won by pin for the Hawks.
Nathan Vaske (103) and Adam Rave (135) both won by major decision, Vaske 16-2 and Rave 10-0.
The Hawks three forfeit wins came at 130 (Zach McCool), 140 (Chris Harbaugh) and 145 (Tyler Manternach).
Senior Jamie Vaske got the Hawks off to a good start at 171-pounds with a 5-2 decision.
Tony Marbach followed with a come from behind 8-5 win at 189-pounds over South Tama's’ Luke Upah. Upah scored an early take down and three back points to go up 5-0. Marbach scrambled his way off his back got the escape, recorded a takedown and two back points to tie the match at 5-5 at the end of the first period.
An escape and a takedown for Marbach in the second period would be all the points needed to post a hard fought win.
At 215-pounds the Hawks Steve Broghammer and the Trojans Woody Roberts locked horns for seven minutes before Broghammer would would record a reversal late in the 30-second sudden death overtime to pull out a big 3-1 win over Roberts.
The Hawks will host Waterloo Columbus this Thursday. Festivities will include a tribute to “50 years of West Delaware Wrestling.
On Saturday the WaMaC Tournament will be held at Western Dubuque starting at 8:00 a.m. |
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