Take season’s first loss at Hanson Classic
MITCHELL – Class A’s top-ranked Flandreau Fliers girls’ basketball team suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday at the Hanson Classic at Mitchell’s Corn Palace, a 58-47 setback to Class B’s second-ranked team, Corsica-Stickney, in the finale of the 39th playing of the annual event.
The Jaguars opened a five-point lead at halftime, 27-22, then outscored the Fliers 16-8 in the third quarter and led by 13 as the game entered the fourth quarter.
Both teams only used six players in the contest between highly ranked teams.
The Fliers were led by Claire Sheppard who posted a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds.
Lizzie Pavlis also scored 15 points and had five rebounds, and Maria Parsley added 11 points and seven rebounds.
Corsica-Stickney was led by Rachel Gerlach with 17 points and five rebounds, while Avery Broughton logged a double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds.
The Fliers only turned the basketball over five times to 16 for the Jaguars, but Flandreau shot just 26 percent (16-of-61) from the field and 4-of-16 from beyond the three-point arc.
Corsica-Stickney had the hot hand and shot 54 percent for the game, 21-of-39, and made 5-of-10 attempts from long range.
The Jaguars out-rebounded Flandreau 36-33, but the Fliers did bring down 17 offensive rebounds in the game.
Flandreau (6-1) was to host Deuel Tuesday as part of a doubleheader with the Fliers’ boys’ team. Friday, both teams are in Salem taking on McCook Central/Montrose at 4 pm and then Saturday, another doubleheader this time hosting Parker in a 2 pm contest.
Girls Top Garretson
GARRETSON – “A number of players stepped up when things weren’t going well initially,” said Coach Megan Severtson about the January 11 win over Garretson.
“It had been 12 days since our last game, so I knew we would be a little rusty to start the game. I thought the girls responded well to adversity and we had a big run in the second quarter that allowed us to relax and play freely.” Final score was 55-29.
Claire Sheppard scored 23, Maria Parsley 15 and Bella Pavlis, 13. Lily Klein made 14 rebounds.
The JV team also won, 33-22 behind 14 points from Faith Wiese, Abby Schoeberl’s six and Olivia Peters’ five points.
Flier boys defeat Bulldogs
Tash Lunday led Flandreau with 22 points and eight rebounds as the Fliers earned a solid road win at Madison on Thursday night, 54-40.
After the teams posted matching scores of 14 points in the first quarter, Flandreau held Madison to just two points in the second quarter and led 30-16 at the half.
Liam Streitz added ten points and four rebounds, while Chase LeBrun tossed in nine points and Alex Anderson had eight points and five rebounds.