July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Fort trounces Cardinals (03/03/06)
FRHS girls basketball
Fort trounces Cardinals (03/03/06)
By By RAY COONEY-
COLDWATER, Ohio — Welcome back to the MAC.
New Bremen is the only of the Division IV teams in the Midwest Athletic Conference which travels to Lima for sectional play, the rest remaining at the Cardinal gym to duke it out. It enjoyed the trip north, winning a sectional title after just a 5-15 regular season, but it only delayed the inevitable for a week.
Thursday the Cardinals made their return to MAC-land, and reality.
Powered by a double-double effort from junior center Tiff Gaerke, the Fort Recovery Indians sent New Bremen packing with a 56-41 victory in the semifinal round of the Coldwater girls basketball district tournament.
“She did a great job,” said New Bremen coach Dave McFeely of Gaerke, who racked up 19 points and 14 rebounds. “When we played them two weeks ago we held her to three (points), and she took that as a challenge and she responded big.”
After watching their lead dwindle from 13 points to eight at halftime, the Indians (18-5) put the game away with a 12-2 run to open the second half.
Gaerke hit the opening bucket off one of her six offensive rebounds, then Sara Fortkamp got a screen, took a pass from Ciera Rammel and hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key. Fort Recovery ran the same play the next time down the floor, this time with Rammel hitting Vicki Roessner for a triple from the top.
Fortkamp and Holly Stein each scored to complete the run, which pushed the Indians ahead 41-23. New Bremen never got within single digits again.
“When we came in at halftime I didn’t think our pressure was as effective after that first stretch, because we weren’t scoring so then we couldn’t press,” said FRHS coach Jeff Roessner, who decided to pull off the press and pack the lane in the second half. “I just didn’t think that they could shoot well enough from the outside. Once we packed it in a little bit, Tiffany controlled the boards and we were able to get a couple of easy baskets here and there.”
Fort Recovery took the lead thanks to the nine first-quarter turnovers its pressure caused, then backed off and kept the advantage by way of domination on the glass.
Led by Gaerke, the Indians owned a 35-16 advantage on the glass. Holly Stein, who was second on the team with 14 points, added six rebounds.
“To get out-rebounded (35-16) and 14 offensive rebounds for second half opportunities ... they took advantage of it,” said McFeely.
“They just out-played us tonight. We stayed in it the first half and I thought at halftime we still had a shot. We just didn’t come out and respond in the second half with them.”
Liz Schnelle paced the Cardinals with 13 points and four rebounds. Christine Schwartz was next with seven points.
Fort Recovery advances to the Coldwater district championship game Saturday at 7 p.m. to take on the Marion Local Flyers, who defeated Upper Scioto Valley 52-39 in the second semifinal game Thursday. Marion Local has been the only team the Indians have not been able to overcome in the past four seasons. They have lost six in a row to the Flyers, including tournament defeats in 2003 and 2004.
“Well, you know what, we’ve got to score more than them,” Roessner quipped of what it will take to beat Marion Local, “and we’re trying like crazy to come up with a plan to do that. If you watch our games, it’s not defensively that lets us down. Every time we’ve played them we’ve gone with periods of time — five, six, seven minutes — where we didn’t score.”
Fort Recovery shot just 26 percent in the regular-season meeting between the MAC rivals, and still only lost by a 47-42 final. Roessner said it would be good to have some extra scorers step up — he got 13 and eight points on a combined 7-for-7 shooting from Abby Niekamp and Ciera Rammel in the sectional championship win over New Knoxville — but leading scorer Holly Stein could control the team’s destiny.
“The key will be — can we do something offensively to score,” he said. “If Holly has a big game, we win. If she doesn’t, we’ll have a hard time finding points.”
Marion Local 52,
Upper Scioto Valley 39
The Marion Local Flyers overpowered the Upper Scioto Valley Rams, getting double-digit scoring efforts from a pair of seniors in a 52-39 victory.
MAC Player of the Year Maria Moeller paced Marion Local (17-5) with 15 points, including a 7-of-8 effort from the free-throw line. She also had nine rebounds, four assists and three steals for the Flyers, who jumped out to a 17-7 lead in the opening quarter and limited Upper Scioto Valley to just 23 percent shooting for the game.
Jenna Barhorst added a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds, and Holly Fortkamp added nine points.
Kayla Mullins paced the Rams (14-8) with 11 points, but they came on just 3-of-17 shooting. Ashley Butterman and Megan Hollon finished with nine and eight points respectively.[[In-content Ad]]
New Bremen is the only of the Division IV teams in the Midwest Athletic Conference which travels to Lima for sectional play, the rest remaining at the Cardinal gym to duke it out. It enjoyed the trip north, winning a sectional title after just a 5-15 regular season, but it only delayed the inevitable for a week.
Thursday the Cardinals made their return to MAC-land, and reality.
Powered by a double-double effort from junior center Tiff Gaerke, the Fort Recovery Indians sent New Bremen packing with a 56-41 victory in the semifinal round of the Coldwater girls basketball district tournament.
“She did a great job,” said New Bremen coach Dave McFeely of Gaerke, who racked up 19 points and 14 rebounds. “When we played them two weeks ago we held her to three (points), and she took that as a challenge and she responded big.”
After watching their lead dwindle from 13 points to eight at halftime, the Indians (18-5) put the game away with a 12-2 run to open the second half.
Gaerke hit the opening bucket off one of her six offensive rebounds, then Sara Fortkamp got a screen, took a pass from Ciera Rammel and hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key. Fort Recovery ran the same play the next time down the floor, this time with Rammel hitting Vicki Roessner for a triple from the top.
Fortkamp and Holly Stein each scored to complete the run, which pushed the Indians ahead 41-23. New Bremen never got within single digits again.
“When we came in at halftime I didn’t think our pressure was as effective after that first stretch, because we weren’t scoring so then we couldn’t press,” said FRHS coach Jeff Roessner, who decided to pull off the press and pack the lane in the second half. “I just didn’t think that they could shoot well enough from the outside. Once we packed it in a little bit, Tiffany controlled the boards and we were able to get a couple of easy baskets here and there.”
Fort Recovery took the lead thanks to the nine first-quarter turnovers its pressure caused, then backed off and kept the advantage by way of domination on the glass.
Led by Gaerke, the Indians owned a 35-16 advantage on the glass. Holly Stein, who was second on the team with 14 points, added six rebounds.
“To get out-rebounded (35-16) and 14 offensive rebounds for second half opportunities ... they took advantage of it,” said McFeely.
“They just out-played us tonight. We stayed in it the first half and I thought at halftime we still had a shot. We just didn’t come out and respond in the second half with them.”
Liz Schnelle paced the Cardinals with 13 points and four rebounds. Christine Schwartz was next with seven points.
Fort Recovery advances to the Coldwater district championship game Saturday at 7 p.m. to take on the Marion Local Flyers, who defeated Upper Scioto Valley 52-39 in the second semifinal game Thursday. Marion Local has been the only team the Indians have not been able to overcome in the past four seasons. They have lost six in a row to the Flyers, including tournament defeats in 2003 and 2004.
“Well, you know what, we’ve got to score more than them,” Roessner quipped of what it will take to beat Marion Local, “and we’re trying like crazy to come up with a plan to do that. If you watch our games, it’s not defensively that lets us down. Every time we’ve played them we’ve gone with periods of time — five, six, seven minutes — where we didn’t score.”
Fort Recovery shot just 26 percent in the regular-season meeting between the MAC rivals, and still only lost by a 47-42 final. Roessner said it would be good to have some extra scorers step up — he got 13 and eight points on a combined 7-for-7 shooting from Abby Niekamp and Ciera Rammel in the sectional championship win over New Knoxville — but leading scorer Holly Stein could control the team’s destiny.
“The key will be — can we do something offensively to score,” he said. “If Holly has a big game, we win. If she doesn’t, we’ll have a hard time finding points.”
Marion Local 52,
Upper Scioto Valley 39
The Marion Local Flyers overpowered the Upper Scioto Valley Rams, getting double-digit scoring efforts from a pair of seniors in a 52-39 victory.
MAC Player of the Year Maria Moeller paced Marion Local (17-5) with 15 points, including a 7-of-8 effort from the free-throw line. She also had nine rebounds, four assists and three steals for the Flyers, who jumped out to a 17-7 lead in the opening quarter and limited Upper Scioto Valley to just 23 percent shooting for the game.
Jenna Barhorst added a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds, and Holly Fortkamp added nine points.
Kayla Mullins paced the Rams (14-8) with 11 points, but they came on just 3-of-17 shooting. Ashley Butterman and Megan Hollon finished with nine and eight points respectively.[[In-content Ad]]
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