Lady Tigers Fall Just Short In Tourney Final Loss
December 28, 2017 at 4:50 p.m.
Lady Tigers Fall Just Short In Tourney Final Loss
By Mark [email protected]
The Lady Tigers held a 37-34 lead with 1:32 to go. The Chesterton comeback began when Sarah Dzierba had a prayer answered in the paint, then Maddie Scott converted both ends of a one-and-one to grab the lead for the Lady Trojans.
After a Warsaw turnover, Kaylee Patton had to foul Courtney Krol, who hit both free throws with 12.4 seconds to play. After a timeout, Maddie Ryman went coast-to-coast uncontested to cut the lead to one with 6.3 seconds left.
Warsaw then got a much-needed turnover when an inbounds pass bounced off a Chesterton player and out of play. After a timeout, Ryman took the inbounds pass and dribbled between the circles, where she was double-teamed. She found Patton to her left, and she fired a three that bounced off the back iron at the buzzer.
“The way Chesterton was playing, the chances of us getting the ball in the paint, that wasn’t going to be good, but we were able to get it inbounds. We’ve got to be able to catch the ball on balance in that situation and attack and make the official blow his whistle,” Warsaw coach Lenny Krebs said.
“Kaylee had a great look. We would prefer a look from two feet, not 22 feet, and that’s what we talked about there at the end; we’re going to make an official blow his whistle there by attacking and looking for that close-range shot.
“We have to do a better job at that. I admire Kaylee for stepping up and wanting that shot in that situation. A lot of kids, they’re afraid to take that shot because they think they’re going to lose that basketball game, and my comment to Kaylee was that shot didn’t lose us the basketball game; it just prevented us from winning it.”
Krebs said his team lamented the one that got away after the game.
“That’s a top-20 team in the state right there (in the coaches poll). They’re 14-1. They beat Lake Central, they’ve had a few tougher games, and I think the girls are sitting in the locker room right now, they know it’s a game that slipped out of our fingers that we should’ve had,” said Krebs. “I have no doubt that they’re going to respond to this game because they have every single game.”
One of the biggest differences in the contest was free throws. Each team was perfect, but the Lady Trojans shot 13 charities to Warsaw’s one.
“Compliments to Chesterton: 13 for 13 from the line. We knew they were a great free throw team coming in, and that’s what I was trying to talk to the girls about,” Krebs said. “The last couple possessions, they were content to let the ball come inbounds and just foul instead of denying to prevent that inbounds pass because we knew they were going to hit their free throws, and stats prove that.”
“But that 13-to-1 difference is something that goes back to how cautious we were on the offensive end. We weren’t the aggressors. We didn’t force the action. We were content to throw the ball around the perimeter, and we continued to put ourselves in trapping zones and then trying to escape instead of avoiding the trap by getting the ball moving.
“I tell the kids ‘I can always tell how aggressive you are by how many free throws you shoot.’ That proves it.”
After a sluggish first half produced an 11-all tie, both teams picked up their offense output in the second half. The Lady Tigers made five more field goals after halftime than Chesterton.
“My comment to the girls at halftime was we just need to play on the offensive end with the same intensity that we play on the defensive end. If we can figure out how to do that on both ends of the floor, we’re going to be all right,” said Krebs.
“When we attacked on the offensive end we were able to score and get high-percentage shots. Some that scored, some that didn’t, but we’re shooting 50 percent. We’ve got to make sure we find ways to get a shot every single possession, and that was my frustration in the first half; I didn’t feel like we were getting enough shots up. We got 17 shots, and even then I thought they were low percentage shots because, we were very cautious with our offense. I thought they came out and were much more aggressive.”
Krol led all scorers with 11 points for Chesterton. Emma Bohnenkamper had nine points to lead the Lady Tigers, with Patton and Kacy Bragg finishing with eight points each.
Semifinals
Warsaw advanced to the title game with a 43-28 victory over Mishawaka. Ryman had 16, Bragg eight and Bohnenkamper seven in the victory.
All-Tournament Team
The Lady Tigers’ Ryman and Bohnenkamper were named to the all-tournament team, along with Hailey Vale of Chesterton, Mishawaka’s Delaney Basker and Perry Meridian’s Sadie Hill. Krol was the most valuable player.
Up Next
The Lady Tigers (10-5) resume Northern Lakes Conference play Wednesday at Plymouth.
LADY TIGER CLASSIC
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
CHESTERTON 40, WARSAW 39
C 7 4 15 14 – 40
W 4 7 13 15 – 39
Chesterton – Maddie Scott 0-4 4-4 4, Courtney Krol 3-12 4-4 11, Sarah Dzierba 1-1 2-2 4, Ashley Craycraft 2-3 0-0 6, Hailey Vale 4-9 1-1 9, Haley Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Marney Sisson 2-4 2-2 6. Totals 12-30 13-13 40.
Warsaw – Kennedy Patton 0-2 0-0 0, Halle Shipp 1-3 0-0 2, Maddie Ryman 3-8 0-0 6, Brielle Harrison 3-5 0-0 6, Kacy Bragg 4-6 0-0 8, Emma Bohnenkamper 4-8 0-0 9, Kaylee Patton 3-5 1-1 8. Totals 18-37 1-1 39.
Three-pointers – Chesterton 3 (Craycraft 2, Krol), Warsaw 2 (Bohnenkamper, Ka. Patton); Rebounds – Chesterton 21 (Scott 4, Vale 4), Warsaw 16 (Ka. Patton 6); Turnovers – Chesterton 25, Warsaw 22; Fouls – Chesterton 12, Warsaw 16; Fouled out – none; Records: Chesterton 14-1, Warsaw 10-5.
Third-place game: Perry Meridian 50, Mishawaka 32
Semifinals
WARSAW 43, MISHAWAKA 28
M 7 8 2 11 – 28
W 13 5 13 12 – 43
Mishawaka – Nikki MItchell 1-1 0-0 3, Gretta Meixel 2-6 0-0 4, Aryana Shelton 0-7 2-2 2, Alivia Jachimiak 2-6 1-2 5, Devyn Miller 2-2 0-0 4, Delaney Basker 4-6 2-3 10. Totals 11-28 5-7 28.
Warsaw – Kennedy Patton 1-2 0-0 3, Halle Shipp 2-6 0-0 4, Maddie Ryman 5-13 4-4 16, Brielle Harrison 1-1 0-0 2, Kacy Bragg 3-6 2-2 8, Emma Bohnenkamper 2-4 3-4 7, Kaylee Patton 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 15-34 9-10 43.
Three-pointers – Mishawaka 1 (Mitchell), Warsaw 4 (Ryman 2, Ke. Patton, Ka. Patton); Rebounds – Mishawaka 21 (Basker 7), Warsaw 17 (Bohnenkamper 4, Ka. Patton 4); Turnovers – Mishawaka 19, Warsaw 10; Fouls – Mishawaka 17, Warsaw 13; Fouled out – none.
Second semifinal: Chesterton 53, Perry Meridian 37
Junior Varsity Tournament Games
Warsaw 31, Mishawaka 20
Warsaw – Kendall Wayne 14, Madelyn Smith 7, Kensie Ryman 5, Brooklyn Fitzgerald 4, Ashlynn Hepler 1.
Chesterton 39, Wawasee 15
Wawasee – Morgan Adkins 5, Abby Steiner 4, Madison Mottern 2, Ava Harker 2, Rhian Galloway 2.
Wawasee 48, Mishawaka 41
Wawasee – Morgan Adkins 20, Kenzie Smith 11, Rhian Galloway 6, Madison Mottern 5, A. Perales 3, Ava Harker 2, Abby Steiner 1.
Warsaw 37, Chesterton 34
Warsaw – Kensie Ryman 14, Kendall Wayne 9, Audrey Grimm 6, Madelyn Smith 4, Carmen Alberson 4.
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The Lady Tigers held a 37-34 lead with 1:32 to go. The Chesterton comeback began when Sarah Dzierba had a prayer answered in the paint, then Maddie Scott converted both ends of a one-and-one to grab the lead for the Lady Trojans.
After a Warsaw turnover, Kaylee Patton had to foul Courtney Krol, who hit both free throws with 12.4 seconds to play. After a timeout, Maddie Ryman went coast-to-coast uncontested to cut the lead to one with 6.3 seconds left.
Warsaw then got a much-needed turnover when an inbounds pass bounced off a Chesterton player and out of play. After a timeout, Ryman took the inbounds pass and dribbled between the circles, where she was double-teamed. She found Patton to her left, and she fired a three that bounced off the back iron at the buzzer.
“The way Chesterton was playing, the chances of us getting the ball in the paint, that wasn’t going to be good, but we were able to get it inbounds. We’ve got to be able to catch the ball on balance in that situation and attack and make the official blow his whistle,” Warsaw coach Lenny Krebs said.
“Kaylee had a great look. We would prefer a look from two feet, not 22 feet, and that’s what we talked about there at the end; we’re going to make an official blow his whistle there by attacking and looking for that close-range shot.
“We have to do a better job at that. I admire Kaylee for stepping up and wanting that shot in that situation. A lot of kids, they’re afraid to take that shot because they think they’re going to lose that basketball game, and my comment to Kaylee was that shot didn’t lose us the basketball game; it just prevented us from winning it.”
Krebs said his team lamented the one that got away after the game.
“That’s a top-20 team in the state right there (in the coaches poll). They’re 14-1. They beat Lake Central, they’ve had a few tougher games, and I think the girls are sitting in the locker room right now, they know it’s a game that slipped out of our fingers that we should’ve had,” said Krebs. “I have no doubt that they’re going to respond to this game because they have every single game.”
One of the biggest differences in the contest was free throws. Each team was perfect, but the Lady Trojans shot 13 charities to Warsaw’s one.
“Compliments to Chesterton: 13 for 13 from the line. We knew they were a great free throw team coming in, and that’s what I was trying to talk to the girls about,” Krebs said. “The last couple possessions, they were content to let the ball come inbounds and just foul instead of denying to prevent that inbounds pass because we knew they were going to hit their free throws, and stats prove that.”
“But that 13-to-1 difference is something that goes back to how cautious we were on the offensive end. We weren’t the aggressors. We didn’t force the action. We were content to throw the ball around the perimeter, and we continued to put ourselves in trapping zones and then trying to escape instead of avoiding the trap by getting the ball moving.
“I tell the kids ‘I can always tell how aggressive you are by how many free throws you shoot.’ That proves it.”
After a sluggish first half produced an 11-all tie, both teams picked up their offense output in the second half. The Lady Tigers made five more field goals after halftime than Chesterton.
“My comment to the girls at halftime was we just need to play on the offensive end with the same intensity that we play on the defensive end. If we can figure out how to do that on both ends of the floor, we’re going to be all right,” said Krebs.
“When we attacked on the offensive end we were able to score and get high-percentage shots. Some that scored, some that didn’t, but we’re shooting 50 percent. We’ve got to make sure we find ways to get a shot every single possession, and that was my frustration in the first half; I didn’t feel like we were getting enough shots up. We got 17 shots, and even then I thought they were low percentage shots because, we were very cautious with our offense. I thought they came out and were much more aggressive.”
Krol led all scorers with 11 points for Chesterton. Emma Bohnenkamper had nine points to lead the Lady Tigers, with Patton and Kacy Bragg finishing with eight points each.
Semifinals
Warsaw advanced to the title game with a 43-28 victory over Mishawaka. Ryman had 16, Bragg eight and Bohnenkamper seven in the victory.
All-Tournament Team
The Lady Tigers’ Ryman and Bohnenkamper were named to the all-tournament team, along with Hailey Vale of Chesterton, Mishawaka’s Delaney Basker and Perry Meridian’s Sadie Hill. Krol was the most valuable player.
Up Next
The Lady Tigers (10-5) resume Northern Lakes Conference play Wednesday at Plymouth.
LADY TIGER CLASSIC
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
CHESTERTON 40, WARSAW 39
C 7 4 15 14 – 40
W 4 7 13 15 – 39
Chesterton – Maddie Scott 0-4 4-4 4, Courtney Krol 3-12 4-4 11, Sarah Dzierba 1-1 2-2 4, Ashley Craycraft 2-3 0-0 6, Hailey Vale 4-9 1-1 9, Haley Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Marney Sisson 2-4 2-2 6. Totals 12-30 13-13 40.
Warsaw – Kennedy Patton 0-2 0-0 0, Halle Shipp 1-3 0-0 2, Maddie Ryman 3-8 0-0 6, Brielle Harrison 3-5 0-0 6, Kacy Bragg 4-6 0-0 8, Emma Bohnenkamper 4-8 0-0 9, Kaylee Patton 3-5 1-1 8. Totals 18-37 1-1 39.
Three-pointers – Chesterton 3 (Craycraft 2, Krol), Warsaw 2 (Bohnenkamper, Ka. Patton); Rebounds – Chesterton 21 (Scott 4, Vale 4), Warsaw 16 (Ka. Patton 6); Turnovers – Chesterton 25, Warsaw 22; Fouls – Chesterton 12, Warsaw 16; Fouled out – none; Records: Chesterton 14-1, Warsaw 10-5.
Third-place game: Perry Meridian 50, Mishawaka 32
Semifinals
WARSAW 43, MISHAWAKA 28
M 7 8 2 11 – 28
W 13 5 13 12 – 43
Mishawaka – Nikki MItchell 1-1 0-0 3, Gretta Meixel 2-6 0-0 4, Aryana Shelton 0-7 2-2 2, Alivia Jachimiak 2-6 1-2 5, Devyn Miller 2-2 0-0 4, Delaney Basker 4-6 2-3 10. Totals 11-28 5-7 28.
Warsaw – Kennedy Patton 1-2 0-0 3, Halle Shipp 2-6 0-0 4, Maddie Ryman 5-13 4-4 16, Brielle Harrison 1-1 0-0 2, Kacy Bragg 3-6 2-2 8, Emma Bohnenkamper 2-4 3-4 7, Kaylee Patton 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 15-34 9-10 43.
Three-pointers – Mishawaka 1 (Mitchell), Warsaw 4 (Ryman 2, Ke. Patton, Ka. Patton); Rebounds – Mishawaka 21 (Basker 7), Warsaw 17 (Bohnenkamper 4, Ka. Patton 4); Turnovers – Mishawaka 19, Warsaw 10; Fouls – Mishawaka 17, Warsaw 13; Fouled out – none.
Second semifinal: Chesterton 53, Perry Meridian 37
Junior Varsity Tournament Games
Warsaw 31, Mishawaka 20
Warsaw – Kendall Wayne 14, Madelyn Smith 7, Kensie Ryman 5, Brooklyn Fitzgerald 4, Ashlynn Hepler 1.
Chesterton 39, Wawasee 15
Wawasee – Morgan Adkins 5, Abby Steiner 4, Madison Mottern 2, Ava Harker 2, Rhian Galloway 2.
Wawasee 48, Mishawaka 41
Wawasee – Morgan Adkins 20, Kenzie Smith 11, Rhian Galloway 6, Madison Mottern 5, A. Perales 3, Ava Harker 2, Abby Steiner 1.
Warsaw 37, Chesterton 34
Warsaw – Kensie Ryman 14, Kendall Wayne 9, Audrey Grimm 6, Madelyn Smith 4, Carmen Alberson 4.
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