Northeast Nodaway's girls won their third game this year over the winless Nodaway-Holt Trojans as they disposed of them 78-31 in the opening round of district competition last Tuesday. For the Bluejays, they had just as little trouble in beating the Trojans in their third game as their first two; for Nodaway-Holt, it was their second consecutive winless season.
The Bluejays struggled to hit shots for the first 1:23 and the game remained scoreless, but then Jacqueline Schulte (16 points, 6 steals, 6 assists) broke the ice with the first of her six steals and converted them into free throws at the 6:37 mark. Schulte then put on a clinic on sharing the ball for the rest of the period as she would have 5 assists in the period to go along with her usual point production; she started off by finding Emily Bryant open on the right wing for a 3-pointer to make it 5-0. Darcy Brown got loose against the press to make it 5-2, but then Blair Schmitz (8 points) converted a drive into two free throws, Michelle Schulte (14 points, 4 steals) got a steal and found Jac for the layup, and then Bryant got a steal and found Michelle for the layup to make it 11-2.
Alycia Keith hit a 3-pointer for the Trojans to make it 11-5 at the 4:14 mark, but Northeast would not let Nodaway-Holt hang around as Jacqueline Schulte got consecutive steals and found Michelle Schulte open both times and then Blair Schmitz got a steal, found Jacqueline Schulte, whose weak side pass to Hallie Oelze (11 points) was good for a layup. Brittany Shipps countered with a layup to cut it to 17-7, but then Blair Schmitz kicked it out to Rachel Runde, Jacqueline Schulte found Kenzie Waldeier open on the right wing, and then Emily Bryant and Jacqueline Schulte got steals to round out the scoring for Northeast in the first quarter as they led 25-7.
Northeast continued its run in the second as they scored 31 in the period. Jacqueline Schulte got a putback and then scored off a Kenzie Waldeier steal to open the scoring. Michelle Schulte then added two free throws, Jacqueline found Hallie Oelze open on the right wing for a 3-pointer, and then Blair Schmitz found Oelze for a backdoor layup at the 5:17 mark to make it 36-7.
Amanda O'Riley drove down the right side to break the 19-0 run, but then Michelle Schulte found Hallie Oelze open on the right baseline, Rachel Runde got a steal and fed Kristin Sherry, and Michelle Schulte followed with another steal. Alycia Keith countered with a guarded 3-pointer for Nodaway-Holt, but Hallie Oelze found Kristin Sherry open on the left side with 3:35 left to start a 10-0 run. Rachel Runde followed with a steal; she threw it to Kristin Sherry, who found Hallie Oelze for the layup. Oelze then went coast to coast and found Michelle Schulte; following a rejection on the other end by Kenzie Waldeier, Jacqueline Schulte grabbed a 3rd-chance board and converted that into two free throws to make it 52-12.
The two teams traded buckets for the rest of the half as O'Riley got a putback and a drive for Nodaway-Holt and Jacqueline Schulte had a steal and Kristan Judd added a putback for Northeast that made it 56-16 at the break.
At the start of the second half, Michelle Schulte got a steal, fed it to Kristin Sherry, who threw it to Jacqueline Schulte to start the second half on a 10-0 run. Blair Schmitz got three consecutive putbacks during the run and Jessica Redden got a steal and threw it to Kristin Sherry for a layup to make it 66-16 at the 5:13 mark of the third quarter.
At that point, Coach Ryan Davis went out of his way not to run the score up any more as he took off the press, began subbing freely, and told his players not to take any more fast breaks. Jodi Holmes got seven consecutive points for Nodaway-Holt during the latter part of the third quarter before Kristan Judd found Kenzie Waldeier open on the left wing for her first career 3-pointer at the buzzer to make it 69-23. During the running clock, Holmes continued to have the hot hand for Nodaway-Holt while Taylor Dougan got untracked after a few initial missed shots for Northeast, scoring all nine of her points in the fourth quarter. She got two feeds to the left wing from Emily Bryant, a feed from Rachel Runde to the top of the key for a 3-pointer, and a drive into the high post for a shot in the quarter.
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