The Lancer girls varsity basketball team improved its record to 10-4 (4-3 Big East) with two convincing road wins this past week. The Lancers, now on a six-game winning streak, defeated Random Lake Tuesday, 64-44, and then outshot the Reedsville Panthers Friday in a 49-30 conference win.
The Lancers got out to a fast start at Random Lake, leading 39-19 at halftime on the way to maintaining that 20 point margin in victory. Junior Jenna Lischka led the Lancers with 16 points. Senior Emma Miller had 14 points, and classmate MonRaye Ermis had 10 points and 9 rebounds. Senior Brooklyn Luebke nabbed 10 rebounds and scored 8 points.
On Friday, the Lancers’ dominance continued over the Panthers. We took a 27-16 lead into halftime, and then continued outshooting the Panthers in the second half. Lischka again led the way in scoring, getting 21 points, including 5 treys. She also had 8 rebounds and 5 steals. Ermis collected 8 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 blocks.
In girls JV action, JV1 defeated Random Lake 42-33. Their game against Reedsville was canceled. They now hold a 10-1 record. JV2 lost to Valley Christian on Tuesday, 36-21 and are now 3-4.
The Lady Lancers have two challenging away games this week, traveling to Kiel (11-4) tonight (Monday) for a 7pm non-conference game against the Raiders (5:45pm JV1), and then heading to Mishicot Thursday for a 7:15pm conference tilt (5:50pm JV1) against the state-ranked Indians (9-3, 6-1 Big East North). The Lancers lost to Mishicot 49-36 in an earlier matchup on Dec. 10th. The game at Mishicot will be broadcast on WOMT (1240AM/107.9FM). JV2 travels to Pulaski this Friday for a 5:40pm game.
Lancer Nation, there is a Minute-to-Win-It fundraiser at the Kiel game tonight, to support a Kiel High School family who lost their home in a fire last week. Please consider arriving early before the girls varsity game to participate in this fundraiser. See details here. And let’s have a good fan turnout at our away games this week to also support our Lady Lancers!
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