Worth County’s girls picked up their first win of the year, a 44-27 win over West Nodaway as they received balanced scoring in the effort. Defensively, they collected a ton of blocked shots. Danielle Funk had three blocked shots for the Tigers, Sidney Troutwine had two despite her small size, and several other Tigers had one each.
Worth County took an early 6-2 lead as Claire Andrews had a pullup, Kaitlyn Davidson had a putback, and Payton Adwell took a pass from Troutwine for a baseline jumper with 4:01 left. Claire and Kaitlyn shared scoring honors for the Tigers with eight points. Claire had 11 points in all four games previous to Thursday night’s win before getting eight. However, sister Tess added three, meaning that the Jeff Andrews family was still able to combine for 11 points for the night. Payton Adwell played her best game as a Tiger so far, following right behind with seven.
The focus of the game defensively for Worth County was to limit Emily Cordell early; Sidney Troutwine stuffed her twice right off the bat despite her small size and she was never able to get untracked. Offensively, the Tigers had to concentrate on ball fakes, good ball movement, and not letting Melody McGinness jump passes and get some easy baskets on the other end. Worth County was effective when they were able to get a couple of ball reversals going, make good ball fakes before throwing passes, and got good looks from Claire Andrews or Payton Adwell on the baseline. When they got away from that in the last four minutes of the first quarter, they were unable to score and West Nodaway was able to tie it at 6.
Finally, Kaitlyn Davidson got a steal and set up a Kristen Andrews pass to Payton to break the tie with 6:13 left in the second and break a six minute scoring drought. West Nodaway was able to hang around throughout the second thanks to some silly fouls by the Tigers 60 feet from the basket as well as one cheap bucket where nobody matched up on defense. Worth County led 18-16 at the break; take away the silly fouls and mental mistakes and it would have been 18-11. Claire Andrews and Kaitlyn Davidson paced the Tigers in the period with four points each and Quinci Schottel added 2.
Kaitlyn also had an outstanding defensive play in the period when she took a charge on McGinness and forced her to the bench with four fouls. Without McGinness in the game, West Nodaway was not nearly as effective in disrupting Worth County’s offense and they were not nearly as effective in transition defense.
With McGinness out, Cordell tried unsuccessfuly to take over the game in the third quarter by slashing to the rim; she got to the line twice in the first few minutes and hit three free throws, but missed a ton of shots, fueling Worth County’s transition game. Worth County was able to spring Sydney Thummel loose in the third quarter; she got a couple of layups in transition along with a nice pass to Sidney Troutwine for a layup. Payton Adwell added a backdoor cut and a free throw off an offensive board. Kristen Andrews of all people put a perfect seal on a Rocket defender and got a basket; Kaitlyn Davidson and Danielle Funk added baskets and Kaitlyn added a tieup on defense. Kristen Andrews hit Claire for a pass to the baseline for a jumper. Worth County had one of their most productive quarters of the year, getting 17 points in the period as seven different people scored in the frame.
Worth County led 35-22 after three quarters and continued to pull away in the fourth as both Cordell and McGinness fouled out. Dylanie Abplanalp got her first two points as a Tiger while Tess Andrews hit a 3-pointer in the period. Sidney Troutwine scored off a Quinci Schottel steal and added a steal of her own in the period. Sydney Thummel had a rejection in the period while Kaitlyn Davidson and Sydney Thummel added free throws.
The boys lost to West Nodaway 57-50 in the nightcap. Unfortunately, they did not do enough to stop Jaden Gillenwater, who went off on them and scored 36 points for the night. The focus of the team in future games will be to limit the other team’s best scorer. They dug themselves into a 42-22 hole early in the third quarter and didn’t get going until it was too late as they did not get any closer than the final score.
Truman Moore led the scoring with 17 points, 17 boards, and took a charge on defense and nearly took out the ball rack on the north end of the gym going after a loose ball. Brevyn Ross added 16 points and Ben Badell nine. Truman was a rare bright spot in the North Nodaway loss, getting 18 boards in that game. If he can maintain that level of energy and effort during games, stay on the floor, and stay healthy, then he will be on track to pass Andrew Davidson for first place on the all-time rebounding list sometime during his senior year.
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