Lady Mounders maul Bulldogs
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BOYCEVILLE — The Mounder girls had little time to savor their biggest win in several seasons.
Less than 24 hours after knocking off rival and perennial thorn, Colfax, in convincing fashion at home Thursday night for the first time in more than five years, the Elk Mound girls’ basketball team was back on the hardwood, this time in Boyceville, to take on the Bulldogs in a doubleheader with the boys teams.
In a makeup of a December 16 conference contest that was postponed due to inclement weather, the Mounders whooped up on their Bulldog counterparts winning 58 to 19 to remain unbeaten this season as they improved to a league-leading 5-0 in Dunn-Croix play and 11-0 overall.
“I was proud of our girls for being able to come out and play with energy after a tough game Thursday night,” said Jordan Kongshaug, Elk Mound head coach.
Boyceville looked to keep the scoring low and action slow as it began the contest, which tipped off at 5:45 p.m., with several deliberate passes and a methodical pace on offense.
And it seemed to work, for a short while.
Just six minutes into the contest and the Mounders led just 10 to 5.
But aggressive defensive play helped Elk Mound create turnovers which in turn led to points, many points.
In the final dozen minutes of the first half, the Lady Mounders picked up the pace, outscoring the host Bulldogs 30 to 4 to take a commanding 40 to 9 advantage into the locker room at halftime.
Senior Tori Blaskowski scored all 16 of her points during that span to lead all scorers while sophomore teammate Ellie Schiszik nailed a trio of threes to finish with 13 points, all of which came in the opening half as well. Brooke Emery scored seven with a pair of threes and a free toss while Allie Roder added five which also included a triple.
“We were aggressive on the defensive end, and were able to score in transition,” noted Kongshaug of his charges first-half play.
With the large lead, Elk Mound was able to get its bench several minutes of action in the second half which saw less scoring but still had the Mounders putting up 18 points to the Bulldogs 10 for the 58-19 final tally.
Elk Mound finished with seven treys but was just 2-for-8 at the free throw line.
Senior Rachael Montgomery and junior Hannah Dunn led Boyceville in scoring with eight and seven points, respectively. The Bulldogs took twice as many foul shots as the Mounders as they finished 10-for-16 on charity tosses but had just one make from behind the three-point line, that off the hands of Dunn.