Junior Mary Frana drives into the paint and looks for a shot during South Winn’s 50-19 loss to Central Elkader on Tuesday, Jan. 7. Frana led the Warriors with nine rebounds in the game. (Zakary Kriener photo)
SW girls struggle against Central, Kee
Zakary Kriener
News Writer
zkriener@fayettepublishing.com
The young South Winn girls’ basketball team dropped a pair of Upper Iowa Conference matchups last week, falling to Central and Kee.
Central
The Warriors fell to a tough Central team on Tuesday, Jan. 7, in Calmar as the 9-2 foe downed South Winn by a score of 50-19.
“This was the best first half of basketball I’ve seen from the girls all year,” said coach Kayla Ross. “The girls played solid defense the majority of the game and hustled nonstop.”
South Winn trailed the rival Warriors 6-5 after the opening quarter. Central went on to extend its lead to 17-7 at the half before getting hot in the third quarter to lead 40-11.
The Warriors were led by senior Liz Tieskoetter with nine points. Mary Frana and Janessa Zweibahmer led the team in rebounding with nine apiece. Tieskoetter and freshman Clare Courtney each had four steals in the tough loss.
“This is the most I’ve seen them play as a team with toughness yet this season,” closed Ross. “It makes me very proud!”
SCORE BY QUARTERS
1 2 3 4 Final
SW 5 2 6 5 19
C 6 11 23 10 50
SW (19) – Tieskoetter, 9; Zweibahmer, 4; Courtney, 2; Hemesath, 2; Frana, 1; Kleve, 1.
3-pointers – Tieskoetter, 1.
Rebounds – Frana, 9; Zweibahmer, 9; Tieskoetter, 5; Courtney, 2; Zweibohmer, 2; Kleve, 2; Biraschi, 1.
Assists – Heying, 1.
Steals – Courtney, 4; Tieskoetter, 4; Frana, 2; Hemesath, 1; Zweibahmer, 1.
Blocks – N/A
Kee
The Warriors traveled to Lansing on Friday to take on the 7-4 Kee Hawks. South Winn struggled in the contest, falling 64-35.
“This was not our best game, that’s for sure,” said Coach Ross after the loss. “We did not execute on offense and the amount of turnovers we had is what lost us the game.”
