Northeast Nodaway’s girls could not beat North Nodaway a second time as they fell to the Mustangs 26-24 Tuesday, December 12th. For Mustang coach Sami Jackson, it was her 13th revenge win since coaching the Mustangs. As of Sunday evening, here are her win totals:
2023-24 – 6 (so far)
2022-23 – 9
2021-22 – 15
2020-21 – 17
2019-20 – 15
2018-19 – 17
2017-18 – 15
2016-17 – 14
2015-16 – 12
2014-15 – 14
Total – 133
Out of those wins, 13, or almost 10% of her wins, have been
over a team that had beaten her squad in a previous game. She freely admits, “Revenge
wins are the best kind.” She has also had several other games where her squad
lost to a good team the first time and the Mustangs nearly knocked them off the
second time. The following are her revenge wins so far:
2023-24 (1) – Northeast Nodaway
2020-21 (1) – Worth County
2019-20 (5) – St. Joseph Christian (2), Rock Port (2), DeKalb
2018-19 (3) – Northeast Nodaway, Nodaway-Holt, Rock Port
2015-16 (3) – Nodaway-Holt, South Holt, Northeast Nodaway
This year, the Bluejays beat North Nodaway despite both
Baylie Busby and Dalanie Auffert fouling out after a runner by Lauren Herndon
at the end of regulation that would have won it for the Mustangs hit the rim twice before rolling out. The game started
off like the last one, with little scoring. Neither team was able to draw blood
in the first four minutes. But then Dalanie Auffert picked up her second foul
and North Nodaway started taking control, getting baskets from Saryn Brown and
Lauren Herndon to go up 5-1 at the 1:44 mark. Auffert countered to make it 5-3,
but then picked up her third foul. Angie Parker, back from a broken nose sustained
in the DeKalb game, hit a free throw to put North Nodaway up 6-3 after one.
With nothing working against the stingy Mustang defense,
Northeast put Auffert back in despite her three fouls, but Lily Blaine, only a
freshman, took back to back charges while Saryn Brown put the Mustangs up 8-3.
Sasha Deardorff finally got the lid off the rim with a 3-pointer and Baylie
Busby added another, but Saryn Brown’s free throws put North Nodaway up 14-9 at
the break.
Things threatened to get dire for the Bluejays after Saryn
Brown hit one of her 30-footers and Lacy Riley, who hit back to back to back
triples in the North Andrew win, hit another to make it 20-9 to start the third
quarter. But Baylie Busby, who finally managed to stay on the floor and avoid
foul trouble, suddenly started squeezing through gaps nobody else could, like
her aunt Natalie Busby (now Yaple) did so many times during her playing days.
Despite Auffert picking up her fourth trying to guard Saryn Brown, Busby kept
attacking the rim, and Northeast put on a press and was able to force a bunch
of turnovers. Brianna Meyer came off the bench; like she had plenty of times
during the softball season, she was able to give the team a spark with her
defensive play, getting pressure on the ball and getting several tips and
deflections.
After Busby hit a free throw for her 9th point of
the quarter to cut it to 22-18, Hadley DeFreece hit a 3-pointer and Busby hit
another with 5:31 left in the game and the Mustang lead was gone and the Bluejays
led 24-22.
But then Saryn Brown took it into traffic with 1:43 left and
made a runner over Busby to tie it up. Dalanie Auffert missed on the other end
and Addalea Barcus got the defensive board with 1:25 left. North Nodaway took
the ball to the wing on the ensuing possession. Instead of holding it for the
last shot, like the Bluejays kept doing in the previous meeting, Saryn Brown
found Addalea Barcus all alone behind the defense and she made a point blank
layup to put the Mustangs back in front 26-24 with 1:08 left.
Hadley DeFreece missed a 3-pointer, and that touched off a
wild scramble for the ball, and it went out of bounds off Northeast Nodaway.
With Northeast Nodaway at only one team foul and North Nodaway with none, the
new foul rule had a big impact on the game; team fouls reset after every
quarter instead of every half. If a team doesn’t have enough fouls to put the
other team on the line, the team with the lead in the fourth quarter can take big chunks of time off
the clock. North Nodaway ran the clock all the way down to 16 seconds before
heavy pressure from Brianna Meyer forced a traveling violation.
Baylie Busby tried to get the ball into Dalanie Auffert, but it was knocked away and Lauren Herndon came up with the steal. With Northeast below the five fouls necessary to put the Mustangs on the line and less than ten seconds left on the clock, they were unable to stop the clock as Herndon was able to hold the ball in the backcourt as time expired.
For Northeast, Busby had 15 points. Dalanie Auffert, Sasha
Deardorff, and Hadley DeFreece each had 3.
Dalanie Auffert had 5 blocks. Baylie Busby and Hadley
DeFreece had 1 each.
Baylie Busby had 14 boards. Dalanie Auffert had 7, Jill
Boswell and Mylee Wilmes 3, and Sasha Deardorff, Hayley Yost, and Brianna Meyer
had 1.
Dalanie Auffert had 4 assists. Jill Boswell, Baylie Busby,
Hadley DeFreece, and Mylee Wilmes all had 1.
Brianna Meyer had 5 tips. Baylie Busby had 3, Jill Boswell,
Dalanie Auffert, Sasha Deardorff, and Hadley DeFreece had 2, and Mylee Wilmes
had 1.
Baylie Busby had 4 steals. Dalanie Auffert had 2, and Jill
Boswell, Hadley DeFreece, and Brianna Meyer had 1.
For North Nodaway, Saryn Brown had 15. Lacy Riley had 5,
Lauren Herndon, Lily Blaine, and Addalea Barcus 2, and Angie Parker 1. It was
the second time in two games that North Nodaway had a game-winning shot, and
both times, it was one of their supporting cast who stepped up. In the North
Andrew game, it was a putback from Jackie Wray which put them over the top; in
the NEN game, it was Addalea Barcus.
Lacy Riley and Jackie Wray each had 1 block.
Lacy Riley and Lauren Herndon each had 9 boards. Jackie Wray
had 4, Addalea Barcus 3, Angie Parker 3, and Saryn Brown and Lily Blaine 1.
Lauren Herndon and Saryn Brown had 3 assists each. Jackie
Wray and Lily Blaine had 1.
Saryn Brown had 8 tips. Lauren Herndon had 2 each and Jackie
Wray had 1.
Lauren Herndon and Saryn Brown had 3 steals each. Lacy Riley,
Addalea Barcus, and Angie Parker had 1 each.
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