July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Patriots keep Mississinewa winless (11/26/03)
JCHS girls basketball
Patriots keep Mississinewa winless (11/26/03)
GAS CITY — The young Mississinewa Indians entered their home gym Tuesday with an 0-3 record. Jay County didn’t even let them get within a sniff of their first victory.
The Patriots scored the first 10 points of the contest on the way to a 67-23 victory in girls basketball action.
Mississinewa has lost each of its first four games by 20 or more points, a big change after going 16-8 a year ago and 18-5 in 2000-01. It is starting three freshmen and two juniors this season.
“It’s good to win,” said Jay County coach Lea Selvey, whose team went 0-2 last weekend with losses to Bellmont and Class A No. 10 Winchester. “I was just proud of our kids.”
Selvey said it was especially important to play well with a game against the Norwell Knights coming up at home Friday. The Patriots lost to the Knights during the regular season last year, but defeated them in double overtime in the sectional championship game.
“Norwell is still going to be good,” Selvey said, despite the team’s 1-3 start. “They’re going to be well coached. We’re going to have our hands full with them.”
Jay County handed the Indians more than they could deal with in Tuesday’s contest, outscoring them in every quarter.
After the teams traded turnovers on their first few possessions, Sarah Dirksen got the Patriots on the board with a put-back. Lindsay Friddle followed with a fast-break lay-up, and Bruggeman hit a pull-up jumper from 16 feet to force a Mississinewa time out.
It did no good as Felisha Parr scored on an assist from Dirksen, and Friddle added another hoop on an assist from Lisa Weitzel.
Lacey Murgaw finally ended the 10-point run, scoring the first Indian hoop nearly six minutes into the contest. Heather Swarts made it back-to-back buckets for Mississinewa the next trip down the floor, but that was as close as it would get.
Jay County scored the final four points of the first quarter, and went on a 20-0 run in the second to put the game out of reach.
The lead was built mostly on the basis of the turnover margin, as the Indians gave the ball away 35 times compared to 20 for the Patriots. Jay County parlayed that advantage to into about twice as many field goal attempts as Mississinewa tried on the night.
“It gave us a chance to look at some different kids,” said Selvey, who used every player on his varsity roster. “We got a lot of kids some playing time.”
The Patriot players gave their coach a balanced scoring attack.
Lindsay Friddle reached double figures for the second straight game, sharing a team-high of 15 points with Parr. Parr pulled down a game-best 10 rebounds, and Friddle had three assists.
Friddle turned in perhaps the best play of the game in the final minute. She took the ball on a fast break and as she was flying out of bounds underneath the basket she flipped the ball underhand past a defender’s arm, off the glass and in for her final two points.
Lisa Weitzel got hot from 3-point range to score 11 points. She hit consecutive triples on back-to-back assists from Bruggeman during the victory-sealing second-quarter run, and added a third 3-pointer to score the team’s first field goal of the second half.
Bruggeman, Dirksen and Saffron Redwine each added six points.
“I thought we had a pretty good inside-outside game,” said Selvey. “I was pretty happy with the balance. These kids look for each other. They’re not selfish.”
Jay County finished with 16 assists in the game, including a team-best four by Bruggeman, compared to just three total for the Indians. The Patriots also won the rebounding battle 32-24, with Dirksen pulling down five boards to aid Parr.
Murgaw led the Mississinewa squad with seven points.
Christy Mellor had four points and six rebounds, and Samantha Blake also scored four points.
Junior varsity
Tuesday’s junior varsity contest was even less competitive, with the Patriots handing a Mississinewa a massive 66-2 defeat.
Jay County (4-0) allowed the only Indian points on a pair of Courtney Baldwin free throws in the third quarter. Mississinewa did not make a field goal in the contest.
Saffron Redwine led the Patriots with 13 points in the contest as they built a 25-0 lead at the quarter and we up 32-0 at halftime. Theresa Reinhart followed with nine points, and Sara Garringer had eight.
Miranda Betz, Whitney Homan and Danielle Jackson each finished with seven points.[[In-content Ad]]
The Patriots scored the first 10 points of the contest on the way to a 67-23 victory in girls basketball action.
Mississinewa has lost each of its first four games by 20 or more points, a big change after going 16-8 a year ago and 18-5 in 2000-01. It is starting three freshmen and two juniors this season.
“It’s good to win,” said Jay County coach Lea Selvey, whose team went 0-2 last weekend with losses to Bellmont and Class A No. 10 Winchester. “I was just proud of our kids.”
Selvey said it was especially important to play well with a game against the Norwell Knights coming up at home Friday. The Patriots lost to the Knights during the regular season last year, but defeated them in double overtime in the sectional championship game.
“Norwell is still going to be good,” Selvey said, despite the team’s 1-3 start. “They’re going to be well coached. We’re going to have our hands full with them.”
Jay County handed the Indians more than they could deal with in Tuesday’s contest, outscoring them in every quarter.
After the teams traded turnovers on their first few possessions, Sarah Dirksen got the Patriots on the board with a put-back. Lindsay Friddle followed with a fast-break lay-up, and Bruggeman hit a pull-up jumper from 16 feet to force a Mississinewa time out.
It did no good as Felisha Parr scored on an assist from Dirksen, and Friddle added another hoop on an assist from Lisa Weitzel.
Lacey Murgaw finally ended the 10-point run, scoring the first Indian hoop nearly six minutes into the contest. Heather Swarts made it back-to-back buckets for Mississinewa the next trip down the floor, but that was as close as it would get.
Jay County scored the final four points of the first quarter, and went on a 20-0 run in the second to put the game out of reach.
The lead was built mostly on the basis of the turnover margin, as the Indians gave the ball away 35 times compared to 20 for the Patriots. Jay County parlayed that advantage to into about twice as many field goal attempts as Mississinewa tried on the night.
“It gave us a chance to look at some different kids,” said Selvey, who used every player on his varsity roster. “We got a lot of kids some playing time.”
The Patriot players gave their coach a balanced scoring attack.
Lindsay Friddle reached double figures for the second straight game, sharing a team-high of 15 points with Parr. Parr pulled down a game-best 10 rebounds, and Friddle had three assists.
Friddle turned in perhaps the best play of the game in the final minute. She took the ball on a fast break and as she was flying out of bounds underneath the basket she flipped the ball underhand past a defender’s arm, off the glass and in for her final two points.
Lisa Weitzel got hot from 3-point range to score 11 points. She hit consecutive triples on back-to-back assists from Bruggeman during the victory-sealing second-quarter run, and added a third 3-pointer to score the team’s first field goal of the second half.
Bruggeman, Dirksen and Saffron Redwine each added six points.
“I thought we had a pretty good inside-outside game,” said Selvey. “I was pretty happy with the balance. These kids look for each other. They’re not selfish.”
Jay County finished with 16 assists in the game, including a team-best four by Bruggeman, compared to just three total for the Indians. The Patriots also won the rebounding battle 32-24, with Dirksen pulling down five boards to aid Parr.
Murgaw led the Mississinewa squad with seven points.
Christy Mellor had four points and six rebounds, and Samantha Blake also scored four points.
Junior varsity
Tuesday’s junior varsity contest was even less competitive, with the Patriots handing a Mississinewa a massive 66-2 defeat.
Jay County (4-0) allowed the only Indian points on a pair of Courtney Baldwin free throws in the third quarter. Mississinewa did not make a field goal in the contest.
Saffron Redwine led the Patriots with 13 points in the contest as they built a 25-0 lead at the quarter and we up 32-0 at halftime. Theresa Reinhart followed with nine points, and Sara Garringer had eight.
Miranda Betz, Whitney Homan and Danielle Jackson each finished with seven points.[[In-content Ad]]
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