Colfax girls fall to Fall Creek Crickets in Western Wisconsin Basketball Classic
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by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
COLFAX — Eight games were played in the Western Wisconsin Girls’ Basketball Classic hosted by Colfax High School Saturday, December 7. All eight teams in the Dunn-St. Croix Conference faced off against a team in the Cloverbelt West Conference starting with Boyceville against Osseo-Fairchild at 8:30 Saturday morning and ending with Elk Mound versus McDonell Central at 8:45 that night. The Colfax Vikings played the sixth game against Fall Creek and lost to the Crickets 67-54.
Fall Creek was 3-1 starting the evening with their only loss coming against Elk Mound.
A year ago the Crickets ended their season in a sectional final game against McDonell Central and several of those same players were back for the Crickets. Fall Creek led 44-33 at the half with a lot of help coming from Jasmine Heuer who had 18 points.
The Vikings had three players do all their scoring in the half with Kaysen Goodell putting up 12 which included 6-for-6 at the charity stripe. Brynn Sikora also contributed 12 points with help from a pair of triples and Sierra Shipman added nine points with a trey and three deuces.
Fall Creek played at a fast pace throughout the game and the Vikings struggled to keep up.
They started to go to the hoop in the second half resulting in Jordyn Bowe dropping in a shot from the paint, then going to the foul line twice, hitting 3-of-4 free tosses to draw the Vikings closer, down 44-38.
A couple of Goodell free throws kept the Vikings within six points but the Crickets continued to add points and went up 56-42 before Goodell scored on a drive through the lane.
The Vikings couldn’t get any closer then 10 points the rest of the game however and Fall Creek took the win.
Goodell finished with 21 points which included an 11-for-12 performance from the foul line while Bowe scored 11 points, all in the second half. The Viking defense held Heuer down in the second half with just three points for 21 total and Sophie Schmidgall added 18 for the Crickets.
Colfax has a pair of conference road games this week. The Vikings were in Spring Valley Tuesday and then head to rival and unbeaten Elk Mound Friday.