Lady Jets VS Sidney, Iowa
January 5, 2008
By John Cockerill
January 06, 2008
Sidney, Iowa at Sterling (Saturday, Jan 5, 2008)
Sterling girls defeated Sidney, Iowa girls 48 – 31. This game was paced by the referees. Combined both teams shot 64 free-throws. Sterling forced Sidney into 23 turnovers for the game. That turned out to be one of the keys to the game. Sidney had a first quarter lead of 10-9 before Sterling outscored Sidney 13-7 in the second. Ten of those points came off of free-throws. The second half we started limiting their second chance shots. McKenzie McAuliffe had 6 defensive rebounds and Stephanie Heusman added 4. The pressure defense eventually was too much for the young Sidney team who started two freshman. Kala Weber and McKenzie McAuliffe had 5 and 3 steal respectively. Scoring for the Lady Jets was led by Kala Weber’s 24 points on 12 of 16 made free-throws.
Sidney was led by Mandie UhlenKamp’s 7 points. Sterling plays Monday January 7th in the first round of the MUDECAS Tournament. The game is against Pawnee City at 3:30
