Colfax girls end regular season with wins over Fall Creek and Glenwood City
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COLFAX’S Kaysen Goodell dribbled by Glenwood City defender Kylie Ohman on her way to scoring a layup in the Vikings’ 66-19 home win over the Hilltoppers February 16. Goodell finished with 12 points.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt
by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
COLFAX — As the WIAA girl’s regional basketball tournament begins this week, Colfax will head into it on a three-game winning streak which includes a 47-39 win over Fall Creek February 13 and a 66-19 trouncing of Glenwood City February 16. Both games were on the Vikings home court as they concluded their regular season with a 17-6 overall record and 11-3 record in Dunn-St. Croix Conference play, good for second place.
The Vikings begin WIAA regional play this Friday against the winner of the Unity-Cumberland game.
Fall Creek
The Crickets were 15-6 overall and 9-5 in an extremely strong Cloverbelt West Conference and are a number 2 seed in the bottom half of the Division 4 sectional. For Colfax, it was a great time to play a top competitor in a game that was close most of the way with the Vikings having to come from behind to pull out the win.
Colfax led 10-4 early on with McKenna Shipman hitting a deuce and a triple while Kaysen Goodell added a trey, and Jeanette Hydukovich scored off an in-bounds pass. Hydukovich added a shot in the paint and Jordyn Bowe canned a triple for a 15-9 Viking advantage, but a cold spell by the offense allowed the Crickets to knot it up at 15-15.
A Goodell three pointer put Colfax ahead again, and after a long jump shot from Shipman it was 22-19 for the Vikings, but a few minutes later it was 25-22 in the Crickets favor. A Shipman drive and another Bowe triple gave Colfax the lead back at 27-26 and that’s how the first half ended.
Fall Creek regained the lead once again at 32-27 with three shots in the paint including a layup off a fast break to start the second half, and it was several minutes before either team scored again.
After the Vikings were off the mark on a couple of three-point attempts, they started pounding the ball inside to Hydukovich who dropped in two buckets, and after Anysley Olson hit a short jumper, it was another Colfax lead at 33-32 with just under 11 minutes to go.
Molly Heidorn drove past several Fall Creek defenders to the hoop for two points and Shipman found her own path through the lane to make it 37-32. The Crickets connected on three free throws to cut the Viking lead to two points but Bowe drained a very timely triple with 4 minutes left for a 40-35 Colfax advantage.
SPLITTING a pair of Glenwood City defenders, the Vikings’ Aynsley Olson (#14) scored two of her game-high 16 points in the February 16 conference and regular season finale at home against the Hilltoppers. Colfax won 66-19. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
Another close range shot from the Crickets cut the lead to three but the Vikings finished things off at the charity stripe with Shipman hitting two shots, Heidorn one and Olson and Shipman two more each.
Shipman scored 15 points, snared eight rebounds and collected six assists for the Vikings. Hydukovich added 10 points with eight rebounds and three assists while Bowe tacked on nine points coming from three triples, and Heidorn dropped in six points with three assists. Jasmine Heuer led the Crickets with 11 points.
Glenwood City
Obviously this game played out completely different than the Fall Creek game as indicated by the final score. The Hilltoppers had just one win on the season, and much like the first time the teams played a month ago, the Vikings scored early and often to make sure senior night ended on a high note.
The Vikings scored the first 26 points of the game starting with four deuces by Shipman, Olson, Goodell and Shipman again for an 8-0 lead, then Olson drained a triple, Shipman scored on a layup off a fast break and a three pointer by Heidorn made it 16-0.
The Toppers just couldn’t handle the Vikings pressure defense and turned the ball over numerous times as Heidorn, Olson and Goodell added a bucket each, Goodell knocked down a pair of free throws and Shipman scored in the lane for the 26th point.
A couple of free throws from Michaela Blaser put the Toppers on the board but the Vikings went up 34-2 before they scored again. The Vikings continued to score off Topper turnovers, even without using a full court press and the halftime lead was 46-7.
Several of the starters added points for the Vikings in the second half including Goodell with a pair of free throws, Olson with a deuce and a free toss and Hydukovich added two shots from the paint. But the Vikings had plenty of bench points adding to the score with Meadow Keltner and Jordyn Bowe both canning a triple, and Sierra Shipman and Brynn Sikora both dropping in a close range bucket.
Colfax finished with five triples in the game by four different players and were 5-for-9 at the foul stripe. Olson led the team with 16 points with Goodell tacking on 12, Hydukovich 10 and McKenna Shipman eight.
Izzy Davis scored six points to lead the Hilltoppers as the team drained one trey and were 6-for-6 at the foul line.