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Northview girls
down Perrysburg, 57-43
Published: 1/19/2010
By: Chayse Held / Sentinel Sports Writer |
 SYLVANIA
— Perrysburg’s girls basketball team learned from
its struggles in the first half of its Northern
Lakes League showdown with Northview.
Unfortunately for the Yellow Jackets, that was too
late against a team as good as the Wildcats.
Senior standout Olivia Fouty led all players with 26
points and Northview jumped out to a 14-point lead
at halftime and drifted to a 57-43 victory Tuesday
night. [SEE PHOTO GALLERY]
“One of our problems right now is the players on our
team, for the most part, haven’t been in a game like
this,” said Perrysburg coach Todd Sims. “As much as
you try to prepare them for certain things, you have
to play through these to understand what they’re
like.”
Fouty, a 5-foot-11 forward who will continue her
basketball career at Eastern Michigan, did not have
that problem.
She scored eight points in the first quarter as the
Wildcats came out with more intensity than the
’Jackets, taking a 16-7 lead through eight minutes.
Perrysburg committed seven turnovers and Northview
shot 5-of-7 from the field and made all six of its
free throw attempts in the first quarter.
Northview continued to handle Perrysburg in the
second quarter, building its lead to 29-12 after a
Miriam Justinger basket with a minute left in the
first half. The Wildcats led 29-15 at the break.
The ’Jackets had 13 turnovers in the first half and
shot 30 percent (3-of-10) from the foul line.
Meanwhile, Northview shot 11-of-15 (73 percent) from
the charity stripe in the first half.
“We got our feet wet in the first half, and I’m not
so sure we played horrible ... It was free throws
and unforced turnovers,” Sims said. “When you play a
really good team like Northview they expose your
weaknesses, obviously. And we have some.”
Perrysburg came out and employed a 2-3 zone defense
in the second half, which slowed Northview’s
offense, but also allowed the Wildcats to run more
clock. The ’Jackets never got closer than 10 points,
which they reached after Nicole Delas converted an
old-fashioned three-point play to make the score
38-28 with 53 seconds left in the third.
“I never felt really comfortable tonight until the
final couple minutes,” Northview coach Jerry Sigler
said. “Even though I’d look up to the scoreboard and
see a lead I didn’t feel comfortable because the
Perrysburg kids don’t quit ... I knew it was going
to be a battle all the way to the end with
Perrysburg. It always is.”
Sophomore post Emily Treece scored 13 points, nine
in the second half, to lead Perrysburg. She had five
offensive rebounds and matched Kelsea Newman with a
team-high six boards.
Newman added 11 points, and Erin Mesker had eight.
Kirsten Goins came off the bench and chipped in with
six points, four rebounds, and three steals.
Fouty finished with a game-high eight rebounds and
four steals despite battling foul trouble in the
first half. She scored eight of her team’s first 10
points in the game but did not play the rest of the
first half after picking up her second foul midway
through the first quarter.
Justinger added 15 points and seven rebounds for the
Wildcats, who forced Perrysburg into 20 turnovers
for the game.
There were a total of 38 fouls called in the game.
Perrysburg finished the game 9-of-18 from the free
throw line.
“It’s a wrestling match when we play them. That’s
just what it is. And that’s fine. That’s how they
are,” said Sims of Northview. “They’re very
aggressive. They’re very physical. If you don’t
match their physicality then you’re going to get
destroyed.
“They were more physical, which put us on the line
at times, and we didn’t take advantage of some of
those situations.”
The two teams came into the game in a three-way tie
along with Southview for the lead in the NLL. After
wins on Tuesday, Northview (11-1 overall, 6-1 in the
NLL) and Southview are tied for first for the league
lead with seven league games to play.
Perrysburg (9-3, 5-2) drops one game back in third
place, tied with Springfield. The ’Jackets are yet
to play Springfield and still have a home game with
Southview, which they have already defeated this
season.
“We’ll worry about the games in the meantime but
hopefully we get to them with just two losses and
see what happens,” Sims said.
Perrysburg won the junior varsity game, 33-8. Becca
Tudor led the ’Jackets with 12 points and Samantha
Gremler added eight. |
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