Woodlan blasts Starfires (02/02/05)

WOODBURN — The Warriors made a statement Tuesday. It was one the South Adams girls basketball team wasn’t particularly interested in hearing.

Woodlan hammered the Starfires for the second time this season, dominated the second half en route to a 63-37 triumph.

South Adams (2-16) will need to make some changes if it has hopes of a tournament upset, as it will meet the Warriors for the third time in sectional semifinal action Friday, Feb. 11 at Heritage. It lost the first meeting between the two teams by a 53-38 final.

The Starfires trailed by four after one period and by 11 at the half before being blown away after the break. Woodlan (12-6) outscored them 22-3 in the third period to put the game away.

Julie Muhlenkamp was the only South Adams player to reach double figures, scoring eight of her 10 points in the first half. Erin McCollum added seven points, and Natalie Haines scored all of her six points on a pair of first-quarter 3-pointers.

Jay tops Fort

PORTLAND — Jay County’s freshman boys basketball team improved to 10-3 Tuesday with a 48-38 win over Fort Recovery.

The Patriots were up by three after one quarter with the lead slipping to one point at the half. They pushed ahead in the second half for the 10-point victory.

Kenton Sudhoff had 18 points for the Indians, who dropped to 0-9 with the defeat. Ben Tobe added seven points, and Lucas Staugler scored six.

Jay County statistics were not available at press time.

Cards, Tribe split

NEW BREMEN, Ohio — The Fort Recovery eighth grade girls basketball team dropped just its second game of the year Tuesday, but the seventh graders won as the squads finished the regular season with matching records.

The seventh grade team (11-2) won a defensive battle, holding the New Bremen Cardinals scoreless in the fourth quarter for an 18-11 win. The eighth grade team, also 11-2, lost by a 40-28 margin.

Emily May and Kelsey Brockman were the scoring leaders for the Indians with just four points apiece. But, that was enough as neither team scored more than six points in a given quarter.

Nicole Pottkotter and Erika Muhlenkamp added three points apiece.

The eighth grade team trailed by just two points at the half, but allowed 23 after the break in the defeat. Joanna Snyder set the pace with 15 points, and Anne Koesters and Kelsey Wuebker added nine and six points respectively.

EJ wins one, loses one

COLDWATER, Ohio — East Jay’s wrestling team opened Tuesday with a 57-24 win over the Coldwater Cavaliers. But, it couldn’t keep the momentum going in a 48-39 loss to the Van Wert Cougars.

David Jones (135), Ben Theurer (115) and Cameron Pfeifer (90) were the lone Chiefs to win a pair of contested matches on the night.

Jones (135) won by pin in both matches, in 1:45 versus Coldwater and 1:30 versus Van Wert. Theurer scored a pin in 2-minutes, 23 seconds against Coldwater and earned a 6-3 victory versus Van Wert.

Pfeifer scored a pin in 1:28 against Van Wert and won by injury default over his Cavalier opponent.

Mitchel Martyne (225) scored his pin against Coldwater in 46 seconds. Adding wins by pin were Scott Houston (120), David Jones (135), Aaron McLaughlin (145) and Nate Wood (152). Caleb Culy (110) won by a 10-5 score.

Scoring wins by fall against Van Wert were Casey Kenney (95), Mason Murphy (100) and Zach Ainsworth (160).

Eagles top Westside

UNION CITY — The West Jay wrestling team topped Union City Westside Tuesday 30-19.

Scoring victories for the Eagles were Amber McCowan, Seth Drumm, Jerid Conatser, Alan Brown and Andrew Lancaster.[[In-content Ad]]