GC girls remain winless with losses to Spring Valley and Mondovi
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SURROUNDED BY CARDINALS, Glenwood City’s Opal Voeltz tried to get off a shot during a December 13 home basketball game versus Spring Valley. The Hilltoppers lost 58-45.
—photo by Jacob Maes Photography
Unlike their male Topper counterparts in boys’ basketball and wrestling who had their respective contests postponed due to the snow storms, the Glenwood City girls’ basketball squad was able to play a pair of Dunn-St. Croix games between last week’s falling flakes.
After scoring a season-low nine points in a December 9 contest against Elmwood/Plum City, the Lady Hilltoppers picked up their offensive production in both of last week’s conference contests. Unfortunately, its wasn’t enough as Glenwood City fell behind early in losses to Spring Valley and Mondovi.
The Cardinals came to Glenwood City last Tuesday, December 13 undefeated in conference action and left that way after a 58-45 victory over the host Hilltoppers. Three days later, Glenwood City made the long trek to Mondovi where it trailed by 31 points at the intermission in an eventual 74-29 setback to the Buffaloes.
Those two most recent losses left Glenwood City winless in nine games which includes four in D-SC competition.
Before heading into the holiday break, the Lady Hilltoppers will host Clayton this Thursday, December 22 in a non-conference make-up contest that was postponed from November 29.
Spring Valley
A much improved Cardinals’ team brought an unblemished 2-0 Dunn-St. Croix record with them when they played against the Hilltoppers in Glenwood City December 13.
Glenwood City fell behind early, trailing 31-10 at halftime and was never able to recover despite putting 35 points on the second-half scoreboard in a 58-45 loss to Spring Valley.
The Toppers’ defense had no answers for the Cardinals’ junior guard Mara Ducklow who pumped in 40 her team’s 58 points which included an impressive 14-for-14 performance at the free throw stripe and six of Spring Valley’s nine three pointers. Ducklow bucketed 19 points in the opening half and added another 21 in the final 18 minutes of action.
Jenna McCarthy scored four points in the first half to lead the Toppers who netted just ten points during that span.
Junior Libby Wagner and sophomore Izzy Davis, who each had just two points in the first half, came alive in the second half as they tried to lead Glenwood City back. Davis netted a dozen points in that final 18 minutes of action to finish with a team leading 14 points while Wagner added 11 for a final count of 13 points. McCarthy added three more points in the final half for seven points in all while Aria DeSmith added five and Emma Bliese and Opal Voeltz finished with two each.
Mondovi
Glenwood City was stampeded in the first half of their Friday, December 16 road game in Mondovi.
The Buffaloes nearly hit the half century mark in the opening 18 minutes of play as they lead the Hilltoppers 47-16 at halftime.
Mondovi added another 27 points in the final half of action compared to just 13 by Glenwood City as it ran away with the 74-29 victory.
The Buffaloes, who made 30 shots including eight triples compared to just a dozen with no makes from behind the arc by the Hilltoppers, saw eight players put their names in the scorebook with three finishing in double digits. Ava Gray led Mondovi and all scorers with 20 points as she finished with six hoops including a trio of treys. Teammates CeCe Anderson and Maddy Marten finished with 16 and 14 points, respectively.
Sophomore post player Izzy Davis topped all Glenwood City scorers with 11 points with seven coming in the second half. Junior guard Libby Wagner scored eight of her ten points in the first half on two hoops and a 4-for-4 effort at the line but playing with four fouls throughout the second half of action left Wagner cautious and tentative to get into the mix for fear of fouling out.
Three others scored for Glenwood City. Kylie Ohman finished with four points while Mali Draxler and Aria DeSmith each tallied a two-point basket.
Mondovi hit just six of its 12 foul shots while Glenwood City made 5-of-6.