Northeast Nodaway's Junior High girls couldn't solve the size of the Union Star Trojans and fell 20-14 Monday night. "They got off to a quick start and they never recovered," said Coach Ryan Davis. Davis said that his girls had their chances. "But we couldn't build on the late run that we had at the end of the first half," he said. He said that in order for his team to improve, they had to work the ball inside more and keep Taryn Farnan out of foul trouble; Farnan fouled out in the fourth quarter. Davis said that the problem in the fourth quarter was that they could never buy a stop and get the game down to a one-possession game; every time Northeast would cut it to 2 or 3, Union Star would answer.
Union Star opened the game by scoring the first seven points of the game in the first three minutes of the game; Davis said that his charges were not contesting the outside shots, meaning easy looks for Union Star. Northeast did not even get on the board until 43 seconds left in the first quarter, when Taryn Farnan stepped through a defender to draw a two-shot foul and hit one out of two. In the meantime, Northeast had trouble shooting over the twin post players Rylee and Timberlee Wilkerson and nothing was going in all night.
Rylee Wilkerson's inside shot with 1:53 left in the first half gave Union Star its biggest lead of the night at 13-3 before Northeast started coming back. A pair of steals from Claudia Wiederholt and Taryn Farnan and a pair of free throws from Farnan made it a more manageable 13-9 at the break.
Sarah Bliley hit from the left wing with 3:34 left to make it 13-11 in the third quarter after the first two and a half minutes were scoreless. Besides that, Northeast continued to have trouble shooting over the taller Trojan squad. Union Star countered with a baseline shot from Timberlee Wilkerson and a fast break from Morgan Steele to make it 17-12.
Coach Ryan Davis tried to work the ball into Farnan, but she could only manage an inside shot off an inbounds play with 5:03 left in the fourth to make it 17-14 before fouling out with seven points as she gave up several inches to the Wilkerson twins. "When she fouled out, that really hurt us," said Coach Davis. "We just have to do a better job playing as a team when that happens." Rylee Wilkerson countered with a fast break as Northeast overextended on the press trying to get the ball back and Timberlee banked in a free throw with 3:07 to round out the scoring for Union Star as it was that kind of night for them.
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