The visiting Lakeview Lakers tossed in the winning basket in a sudden-death overtime thriller in the C-Squad girls’ basketball game at Okabena Saturday afternoon, November 24, claiming a 25-23 victory over Heron Lake-Okabena / Fulda. It was the first-ever game played by the newly-created pairing arrangement between the two schools.
Later, the HL-O / Fulda B-Squad overcame an early 16-0 deficit and battled back to take several first-half leads on the Lakers before Lakeview gradually took command and earned a 62-35 victory.
A total of 10 Coyotes scored in the B-Squad game and five HL-O / Fulda girls scored in the C-Squad contest.
“We played really good basketball at the end of the first half and the beginning of the second in the B-Game,” said Coyotes’ coach Jonathon Curry. “We had a nice run to end the first half in the C-Game, too, and had an exciting overtime finish.”
HLOF earned a 13-7 halftime lead in the C-Squad game, but the Lakers rallied to tie the score at 23-all and won by slim two-point margin in the overtime.
Freshman Claire Reith scored 11 points to lead the Coyotes, while freshmen Addison Fisher (four), Taryn Evers (four), Corrine Frodermann (three) and Faith White (one) combined for the remaining 12 points.
Freshman guard Skylar Fisher tallied 10 points to lead HLOF in the B-Squad game, while White and Addison Fisher each contributed six points. Sophomore guard Grace Kilian sank a three-pointer for the Coyotes and sophomore Tara Tuin (two), junior Brittany Lais (two), freshman Emily Madison (two), Evers (four), Reith (one) and freshman Taylor Haberman (one) also scored for HLOF.
C-Squad
Lakeview 7 16 2 = 25
HL-O / F 13 10 0 = 23
Coyotes (3FG-2FG-FT-TP) Evers 0-2-0-4, White 0-0-1-1, Reith 1-4-0-11, A. Fisher 0-1-2-4, Frodermann 1-0-0-3. Totals 2-7-3-23.
B-Squad
Lakeview 36 26 = 62 HL-O / F 23 14 = 37
Coyotes (3FG-2FG-FT-TP) S. Fisher 0-4-2-10, Evers 0-1-2-4, White 0-2-2-6, Kilian 1-0-0-3, Madison 0-1-0-2, Haberman 0-0-1-1, Reith 0-0-1-1, A. Fisher 0-2-2-6, Tuin 0-1-0-2, Brittany Lais 0-1-0-2. Totals 1-12-10-37.
