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
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
Trying to get one step closer to the state tournament is the plan for the Sigourney girls’ basketball team tonight when they host Wayne for a class 1A regional quarterfinal.
The Savages are 17-5 and had little trouble in a 55-23 playoff opening win over Moulton-Udell on Thursday. Kaylee Weber led the team with 15 points and averages 19.2 a night to go along with 9.6 rebounds. Carly Goodwin has added 8.5 points and 1.6 assists a game this season. Wayne is 14-7 out of the Pride of Iowa Conference and defeated Twin Cedars 50-24 last week. The Savages will have to find a way to slow down Emily Jones. The 5’9’’ junior registers 22.7 points a game while shooting 36% from deep. She also averages 6.9 boards and Maddy Wood chips in with 8.2 and 9.3 a night. Savage Head Coach Zach Tremmel tells KCII Sports the Falcons start and stop with Jones. “When you have a girl that averages 23 points a game it is apparent they have some skill, I don’t care what type of league you play in. Sh