Northeast Nodaway's Girls dropped another close one as they fell 47-46 to West Nodaway in overtime Tuesday. Their last two losses were by a combined total of three points. The Bluejays had most of the rest of the week off since they did not have another game and then came back Monday and worked a lot on their offense. The result was a season high in points scored, but they could not buy a stop when they had to and West Nodaway got their first win of the year. The girls were once again shorthanded, playing without Claudia Wiederholt. They did get Holly Redden and Talina Nelson back, giving them more bodies to practice with Monday. Taryn Farnan continued to play strongly for Northeast, getting a career high of 18 points and shutting down Rocket leading scorer Marissa Perkins, holding her to six.
Nobody could take control for the first quarter as Northeast promptly erased a 6-2 deficit and the game was within one possession for the rest of the quarter, with Northeast leading 10-9. Taryn Farnan and Jill Spire had four each. Farnan hit a pair of free throws and got a pass from Kristan Judd while Spire hit from the right side off an inbounds play and scored off a drive. Kristan Judd scored the other two points, getting a baseline shot off a Farnan kickout. Coach Vance Proffitt said that the team played unselfish ball for the most part. "We did a lot of good things tonight despite the loss; we're going to go out and compete with what we've got," he said.
Dallis Coffelt led the scoring with five in the second quarter while Brianna Riley added three and Kerrigan Adwell one. Dallis got a layup and three-point play off a pass from Farnan and a putback while Riley hit from the right side and added a free throw. But once again, Northeast let down defensively in the closing seconds of a quarter, this time leaving Madison Hagey wide open for a three pointer at the buzzer to turn what had been a 19-15 Northeast lead into a 19-18 score at halftime. Once again, the human tendency to relax in the closing seconds of a quarter cost Northeast.
Thanks to the letdown, all the momentum was with West Nodaway and they threatened to take control, outscoring Northeast 11-4 in the third. Taryn Farnan scored the only four points for Northeast in the period as everything the Rockets threw up in the period was going in. They led 29-23 after three quarters.
But Northeast took advantage of being in the bonus early in the fourth and got back to their strengths, feeding Taryn inside as well as they had all year as Farnan had six points in the period to lead Northeast. Holly Redden added 5 and Kerrigan Adwell two free throws for Northeast. The Bluejays led by as much as 34-31 before West Nodaway fought back to tie with 2:29 left. After both teams missed chances to go ahead, Emily Cordell hit two free throws with 15.3 seconds left to put West Nodaway up 36-34. But Holly Redden hit from the top of the key just inside the 3-point line to send it into overtime.
The game was tied at 38 and 40 in overtime as Taryn had four in the extra period to lead Northeast. Jill Spire, Kerrigan Adwell, and Dallis Coffelt had two each. But Northeast could not buy a stop on defense. The critical moment came when Taryn Farnan was wrestling for an offensive board with a Rocket and the possession arrow pointing towards Northeast with the team trailing 42-40. One official signaled jump ball, but the other one signaled a foul on Taryn and West Nodaway made it three points with 1:42 left. West Nodaway led by as much as 47-42 but then Kerrigan Adwell hit two free throws off a drive with 17.6 seconds left and Northeast got the ball back as Dallis Coffelt knocked it out of bounds off a Rocket with 14 seconds left. But Northeast could not get a 3-pointer off to tie it and Dallis' runner with 4 seconds left that made it 47-46 was too late -- Northeast was out of timeouts and all West Nodaway had to do was hold it since the clock keeps going after a made basket. In college ball, the clock stops in the last two minutes of the game after a made basket.
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