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Crown Point vs. Lowell
This one will NOT go down as one of the even mediocre games of the Lady Bulldogs, but any game that teaches a lesson, is worth the experience. It boiled down to one team that came ready to play and one team that didn't. (Guess which one CP was... good guess.) Lowell wanted this one bad, and they played like it. Except for free throws, it was probably the best game they could play, and CP played about as bad as they could play. Give credit to the Red Devils, though, who played a good defensive game to make it a very difficult 32 minutes for the Bulldogs. The first half was not bad, but not great either. Soph Alex Webster got things started with two jumpers in the lane in the first two minutes. That was a good opening, but then things went south. Except for two free throws by junior Sarah Zondor and a Katie Lemke bucket off an Amanda Bernard assist with :20 to go, that was it for the first quarter. Lowell matched the Bulldogs point for point, and the score was even going into the second. Both teams broke it open in the second frame, and Zondor was good for 9 points and 4 rebounds, while Webster picked up 3 steals and 3 assists. Lemke, Erin Plumley and Valerie Schweitzer rounded out the scoring to give CP 16 points for the quarter. Lowell kept pace, however, and at the halftime break, the Bulldogs were only up by 1. The third quarter was a start-and-stop, low-scoring affair, with 8 fouls on CP and 1 foul on Lowell for the quarter. The only scoring for CP was by Zondor on a trey, while Lowell had only two field goals and went 2 for 8 from the line. Lowell led by 2. In the final quarter, the Bulldogs just could not get anything going at all. A bucket by Lemke and two free throws by Nikki Borys would be all CP would see on the board for the rest of the game, while Lowell kept attacking on offense to come up with 10 for the frame. The win for Lowell could have been by a larger margin, but they were only able to connect on 11 of 24 free throws for 46%. The Bulldogs actually did okay from the line on 7 of 11 for 64%, but did not get themselves there often enough due to a lack of penetration. The most telling statistic of the game, however, was CP's shooting percentage of 26% from the field. Leading scorer for CP was junior Sarah Zondor with 14 points and 7 rebounds, while senior Katie Lemke put together one of her best games yet with 7 points and 9 rebounds.
CP - Zondor 14 (6 rebounds), Lemke 7 (9 rebounds), Webster 4 (5 assists, 3 steals), Schweitzer 2, Plumley 2, Borys 2
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