Full court pressure was expected from an athletic Lenox girls’ basketball team on Friday and Sigourney had a hard time handling it in a 52-33 class 1A regional semifinal loss at Clarke High School in Osceola.
As heard on KCII, the Tigers settled in first to jump out to a 7-1 lead, but a quick 6-0 Savage run headlined by free throws from Carly Goodwin and two-point buckets from Kaylee Weber and Julia VanEe tied it up at 7-all. The full court zone press started to doom the Savages and they turned it over to trail 23-14 at the break. A fired up Sigourney team scored the first six points of the second half to cut the deficit to three, but Lenox (20-3) answered right back with a run themselves and the margin never got back to single-digits. Senior Joselyn Abell fouled out late in the third and that put a dent in the high-low game for Sigourney. The Tigers’ Cassidy Nelson feasted on the press with many easy shots in transition to finish with a game-high 23 points. Weber led the Savages with 13 points and Goodwin added 11.