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Sports 9ACasCade Pioneer • Wednesday, deCember 13, 2017
BY BEC WILLENBORG
In the familiar confines of Cobra Lanes at Farley, the Western Dubuque girls bowling team eased to a 2,862-2,314 win over the Marion Indians Dec. 8.
With three girls rolling totals over 400, the Bobcats made quick work of the competition. Madison Theisen led totals with 422 (214, 208), followed by Morgan The-isen 408 (191, 217) and Lanie Konzen 406 (199, 207). The other two counters were Rylie Bergfeld 333 (165, 168) and Sara Horsfield 314 (131, 183). Amanda Besler’s 263 (126, 137) didn’t count.
Marion counted totals including Alexis Smith 351 (161, 190), Madison Baker 316 (134, 182), Alyssa Bose 288 (196, 92), Marcia Bjornson 276 (135, 141) and Chey-enne Ahrendsen 272 (114, 158).
In the baker round, the Bobcats overwhelmed the Indians with games of 188, 193, 211, 194 and 193 for a 979 total. Marion rolled lines of 149, 192, 179, 136 and 155 for 811.
Coach Kay Heiberger was pleased. “The girls bowled really well tonight. Lanie rolled 406 as a freshman in her first meet. Madison and Morgan were both over 400 and Rylie rolled a 333 in her first night of varsity com-petition. Madison and Morgan both only had one open the whole night. And our bakers — I hope they are like this all year.”
Bobcats easily defeat Indians
BY DOUG HUMMEL
Calvin Harris returned to the Western Dubuque basketball team just in time to deliver a buzzer-beating game-win-ning shot in the Bobcats’ 44-42 overtime road win over Mount Vernon Dec. 5. Against Solon, Harris, Kale Cartee and Alec Wulfekuhle combined for 36 points to lead the Bobcats to a 54-43 win over the Spartans Dec. 8 in Epworth. With the win over Solon, the Bobcats move to the top of the WaMaC East standings at 4-0 in conference play and Solon dropped to 3-1.
Harris, who sat out the first two games of the year nursing a football injury, came off the bench to score 13 points in the Bobcats’ second straight overtime game. Cartee led the Bobcats with 17 points and Jordan Lake chipped in with eight.
It was a defense battle between the Bobcats and Mustangs with neither team being able to pull out to a big lead. Mount Vernon was up four at halftime and held a five-point advantage going into the fourth quarter when the Bobcats outscored the Mustangs 12-7 to send the game into overtime.
Mount Vernon had a very patient approach to their offense as they didn’t want to rush a shot and they wanted to make the Bobcats work on defense. Af-ter both teams missed shots in the over-time, the Mustangs had the ball looking to hold it for the final shot. Cartee and Kyle Cleary teamed up to make a play on the ball and forced a big turnover. After a timeout with just over five seconds left on the clock, the Bobcats were able to get the ball into Harris who knocked down a pull-up eight footer that gave the Bobcats a big win on the road.
Against Solon, six different Bobcats put points on the board in the first quar-ter as Western Dubuque jumped to a 13-4 lead after the first eight minutes of play. The lead grew to 11, 26-15, with 6:19 left to go in the third quarter when Solon started their push. Two free throws by Luke Schaekenbach and back-to-back threes cut the lead to 26-23. Sam Good-man was able to get the ball down low to Wulfekuhle for consecutive baskets and Harris added a free throw as the Bobcats closed the quarter on a 5-2 run.
Harris scored seven points during the Bobcats’ 12-6 start to the fourth quarter that got the lead back to 11, 43-32, with under five minutes to play in the game. If that wasn’t enough to close out the game, the Bobcats made 12 of 15 free throws in the final quarter to finish off Solon.
“This is a very satisfying win with Jor-dan at the end of our bench,” said Den-nis Geraghty, head coach of the Bobcats, pointing to Lake who sat out this game after being injured against Mount Ver-non. “They believe in each other. I
thought we shared the ball real well and I thought we defended like crazy. Kyle Cleary can guard. He also made some huge free throws down the stretch. He just had a hell of a game.
“This is a great start to our season. It just shows how much potential we have for the rest of the year,” said Cleary, who scored eight points, was four-for-four from the free throw line in the fourth quarter and held Krutzfeldt seven points below his season average. “We preach every day that someone is going to have to step up at the right moment and ev-eryone is doing their part. It’s definitely a whole team thing with us.
“I thought we really played hard to-night.”
WD’s leaders against Mount Vernon were: points — Cartee 17, Harris 13, Lake eight, Cleary, Grant Kelchen and
Andrew Welty two; rebounds — Cartee five, Lake four, Sam Goodman, Kelchen and Dylan Johnson three, Payton Quagli-ano two, Cleary and Welty one; assists — Goodman four, Lake, Cartee and Harris three each; steals – Lake two, Harris and Johnson one each; blocks — Cleary one.
Leading against Solon were: points — Cartee 14, Harris 12, Wulfekuhle 10, Cleary eight, Goodman four, Will O’Brien, Kelchen and Dylan Johnson two; rebounds — Wulfekuhle nine, Cartee five, Cleary four, Goodman and Harris three, Kelchen two, O’Brien, Pay-ton Quagliano and Andrew Welty one; assists — Goodman five, Harris four, Cleary two, Cartee, Johnson one; steals — Cartee three, Cleary two, Goodman, Quagliano one.
WD stays undefeated
Doug Hummel • Staff Photosam Goodman tries to get to the basket in the first quarter of Western dubuque’s WamaC Conference battle with solon at epworth dec. 8.
BY DOUG HUMMEL
It was an early season test for the Cascade girls basketball team and one that the Cougars were ready for as they racked up three big wins over Bellevue, Camanche and Maquoketa. They im-proved to 6-1 for the season and 5-0 in the River Valley Conference.
In their first game of the week, Cas-cade handled Bellevue, 61-50, in Cas-cade Dec. 5 giving the Comets their second conference loss of the season. Anne Ryan’s 20 points led the Cougars who had four players score in double figures. Nicole McDermott had 15, Ab-bie Ruggeberg 12 and Jordan Simon came off the bench to contribute 10 as Cascade outscored Bellevue 35-21 in the second and fourth quarters.
“(It was a) great team effort against an outstanding Bellevue team. We re-bounded well enough and for the most part we matched their physicality well throughout the game. This was a tough game against a team with many weap-ons,” said Mike Sconsa, head coach of the Cougars. “I am proud of our unself-ish play and execution on offense. This was how we need to continue to play — as a total team on both ends of the floor.”
Not only did the Cougars share the ball well, dishing out a season high 16 assists, but they were 8-of-16 from three and 15-of-21 from the free throw line.
Against Camanche, another foe ex-pected to challenge for the conference crown, the Cougars rode the hot hand of McDermott who scored a game-high 20 points to lead Cascade on a 53-34 rout of the Indians Dec. 8 in Cascade. This was also the second conference loss for Camanche as they dropped to 3-2 in the River Valley.
The Cougars struggled with Caman-che during the first three quarters of this game before erupting for an 18-3 advan-tage in the fourth quarter to get the win.
“This was a game of two differing styles. Camanche loves to play fast and is constantly attacking. We struggled to adjust in the first half to their tempo, but once we calmed down, we executed fairly well and made some huge shots at crucial moments,” said Sconsa. “We did a solid job in the fourth quarter of contesting their shooters and we re-
bounded well as a team. I am proud of our effort.”
Closing out the week, Cascade was challenged by Maquoketa for most of the first half before a big second half gave them a 65-37 win in Cascade Dec. 9. Maquoketa went on a 7-0 run to close to within five points with 1:42 to play in the first half when Cascade scored the last five points of the half to be up 30-20. Anne Ryan and Ruggeberg keyed an
early 8-2 run to start the third quarter and the Cascade bench took over from there as they held a 35-17 advantage in the second half to get the win.
“I like how well we defended. We got a lot of kids quality playing time and our kids did a nice job against a very tough team,” said Sconsa. “I was really proud of our team tonight. They played fairly well considering it was back-to-back games and very little prep time to get ready for a 4A team. It was a good game for us.”
Cascade’s leaders against Bellevue: points — Anne Ryan 20, McDermott 15, Ruggeberg 12, Jordan Simon 10, Ra-chel Trumm and Skylar Dolphin two; rebounds — Ruggeberg seven, Mc-Dermott six, Simon three, Anne Ryan and Trumm two, Robyn Takes one; as-sists — McDermott seven, Ruggeberg and Trumm three, Simon two, Anne Ryan one; steals— McDermott, Simon, Trumm and Ruggeberg two, Anne Ryan one; blocks — Simon seven, McDermott and Anne Ryan one.
The Cougars leaders against Caman-che were: points — McDermott 20, Rug-geberg 13, Anne Ryan 11, Dolphin four, Trumm three, Simon two; rebounds — Ruggeberg nine, McDermott five, Simon four, Zoe Ryan and Trumm two, Dolphin, Anne Ryan, Robyn Takes, Abby Welter one; assists — McDermott five, Anne Ryan four, Trumm three, Rugge-berg two; steals — Trumm four, McDer-mott, Ruggeberg two, Zoe Ryan, Anne Ryan, Simon, Welter one.
Cascade’s leaders against Maquoketa were: points— Anne Ryan and Rugge-berg 17, McDermott eight, Trumm five, Dolphin four, Hailey Hannan and Jess Hoffman three, Simon, Meta Bergfeld, Mae Felton and Molly McElmeel two; rebounds — McDermott 10, Trumm nine, Ruggeberg eight, Abby Welter five, Simon three, Dolphin two, Takes, Felton, McElmeel and Hoffman one; assists — McDermott five, Simon four, Ruggeberg three, Zoe Ryan two, Dol-phin, Anne Ryan, Takes, Felton and Welter one; steals – McDermott five, Dolphin and Takes two, Anne Ryan, Trumm, Madison Gehl, Felton and Hoffman one; blocks — Simon and Rug-geberg three, Welter one.
BY DYLAN KURT
After a successful home meet, the Cougar boys bowl-ing team has improved its record to .500.
Hosting Vinton-Shellsburg Dec. 11 for their only match of the week, the Cougars were down early as Vinton-Shellsburg won the first round by a total 1,631-1,588. Heading into the baker games, the Vikings held a 43-pin lead. The Cougars rallied in the baker games, knocking down 808 to the Vikings’ 730 to take the lead and the victory, 2,396-2,361.
Will Otting was top dog for the boys, rolling a 365 (186, 796), followed by Isaac Hogan’s 351 (161, 190), Michael McDermott 335 (124, 211), Caleb Weber 287 (160, 127), Zack Green 250 (115, 135) and Sam Noonan’s non-counting 240 (114, 126).
“The first game our bowlers were playing inside more than they should have so we made a couple of adjust-ments with their feet and their target area for the second game — which helped us increase our score by 96 pins over our first game,” said coach Larry Knipper. “I feel we could have bowled better, we missed a lot of easy spares, but we bowled well enough to win.”
The girls team also hosted the Vikings at home, but they didn’t have enough to defeat a Vinton-Shellsburg team that came ready to bowl.
The Cougars dropped the first round 1,700-1,097, fol-lowed by another loss in the baker game, 762-534.
With the 2,462-1,631 loss, the girls record falls to 0-4, but an empty win column isn’t keeping the team from seeing the positives.
“Our inexperience is showing on the lanes, but these girls have a very positive attitude and are working to get better every meet,” said Knipper.
Margaret Seitz led the Cougars with her 232 (99, 133), followed by Halle Keenlance 230 (139, 91), Erin Knipper 226 (108, 118), Jessica Kramer 224 (108, 116), Amelia Engling 185 (99, 86) and Emma Cram’s non-counting 170 (91, 79).
Cougar boys record win, girls fall
Don Zieser • Staff Photoamelia engling of Cascade competes against bellevue dec. 4.
Cascade keeps getting better
Doug Hummel • Staff Photorachel Trumm takes a shot in the lane during Cascade’s 65-37 victory over maquoketa in Cascade on dec. 9.
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