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 Savage
A long bus ride to Clarke High School in Osceola is in store for the Sigourney girls’ basketball team tonight when they face off with #11 Lenox in a class 1A regional semifinal.
The Savages are 18-5 and made quick work of their first two playoff opponents with a 55-23 first round win over Moulton-Udell and 57-34 victory over Wayne on Tuesday in the quarterfinal. Kaylee Weber is coming off of a 32-point performance and averages 19.7 points for the season. The competition does ramp up with the Tigers, as they sit at 19-3 overall and finished second in the Pride of Iowa Conference. They qualified for this round after a 58-45 win over Southwest Valley and a 66-40 triumph against Moravia. Cassidy Nelson leads a Tiger offense with 15 of their 58 points a game with the senior hitting 39% of her shots. Kambrie Michel cleans up the boards with 7.8 rebounds a night. Sigourney is seeking their second regional final berth in the last three years.
If there is a secret to slowing down Kaylee Weber, the code was not cracked by the Wayne girls’ basketball team. In a Class 1A regional quarterfinal in Sigourney on Tuesday, the road Falcons had no answer for the 5’10’’ post player and the senior carried the Savages to a 57-34 playoff win.
As heard on KCII, it was freshman Carly Goodwin that made her presence known early with the first six Savage points, but Sigourney led just 10-8 after one. What happened after that is something Falcon fans can’t erase from their memory soon enough. Weber went on a tear by scoring 15 straight Savage points to have 17 at the half and help build a 26-10 advantage. Trying to double the senior in the second half still didn’t work and Weber continued to feast to stretch the lead to 48-16 after three. She finished with 32 points for the game and hauled in 17 rebounds. Weber connected on 13 of 18 shots and for good measure added three assists, three steals, and two blocks. Carly Goodwin had
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