Lady Tigers Beat NLC Foe Goshen
January 16, 2017 at 5:43 p.m.
Lady Tigers Beat NLC Foe Goshen
By Mark [email protected]
The Lady Tigers scored 20 points in the final quarter to beat Northern Lakes Conference rival Goshen 34-25 Saturday night in basketball action at the Tiger Den.
Warsaw was in a funk offensively and led just 4-3 at halftime. The Lady Tigers had scored 10 points in its last three quarters going back to Wednesday’s loss at Elkhart Memorial. But in those three quarters, they’d only been outscored 10-8.
“We were rushing our shots.” Warsaw head coach Michelle Harter said. “We were going in too fast, and we were throwing the ball up there instead of being under control, getting set and going straight up and straight down, and on the outside having our feet set, catching and shooting, and holding the follow through, not thinking ‘I’m going to miss’ and run in.”
Defense is the hallmark of the 2016-17 Lady Tigers, and they held Goshen to a three-pointer by Alyissa Trosper in the first quarter.
“I thought defensively we came out and did a really good job, finding where their shooters were, not giving them easy opportunities,”?Harter said. “They got a couple of good looks, but I thought we did a much better job boxing out tonight, a great team effort on that.
“When your shots aren’t falling, you have to pick it up just that little bit extra on the defensive end, which helped keep us in the game. Finally we came out midway through the third quarter and hit a shot, and after that you saw us relax a little bit and say ‘alright, here we go.’”
That breakthrough came when senior Dayton Groninger drained a three-pointer from the left side with 2:31 to go in the third quarter, tying the game at nine. On the next trip down the floor, Groninger hit another three from about the same spot.
Goshen senior Ashton Ellis tied the game again with a three, but Warsaw senior Madi Graham gave the Lady Tigers the lead for good with a layup in traffic with 38 seconds to go in the quarter.
Warsaw iced the game with a 9-0 run over four minutes of the fourth quarter that expanded a 18-15 lead to 27-15 with 1:51 remaining. Harter said it was a matter of the Lady Tigers knowing what was within their control, and taking care of their business.
“When we come out and do take control over what we can have control over, we do really well,”?Harter said. “I thought tonight we helped control the tempo with our defense, we slowed them down and didn’t give them a lot of good looks.”
Groninger was Warsaw’s leading scorer with 13 points and Page Desenberg had eight. Trosper and Ellis finished with six each, on two three-pointers each, for Goshen.
Warsaw (16-3, 2-2 NLC) hosts Wawasee on Thursday.
WARSAW 34, GOSHEN 25
G 3 0 9 13 – 25
W 0 4 10 20 – 34
Goshen – Jillian Kissinger 1-4 2-2 4, Ashton Ellis 2-9 0-0 6, Josie Walters 0-2 0-0 0, Brooke Bechtel 0-1 0-0 0, Jordan Nemeth 2-3 0-0 4, Alyissa Trosper 2-8 0-0 6, Maggie Gallagher 0-6 3-4 3, Lizzie Kirkton 0-2 2-2 2, Nyla Dean 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 7-35 7-8 25.
Warsaw – Page Desenberg 3-8 2-4 8, Mariah Rivera 0-1 0-0 0, Kenzie Welk 2-4 0-0 5, Dayton Groninger 4-9 3-4 13, Madi Graham 1-8 4-4 6, Kacy Bragg 1-2 0-0 2, Kaylee Patton 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 11-32 9-12 34.
Three-pointers – Goshen 4 (Trosper 2, Ellis 2), Warsaw 3 (Groninger 2, Welk); Rebounds – Goshen 17 (Gallagher 8), Warsaw 25 (Groninger 8); Turnovers – Goshen 9, Warsaw 11; Fouls – Goshen 16, Warsaw 13; Fouled out – Trosper; Records: Goshen 7-11 (1-4 NLC), Warsaw 16-3 (2-2 NLC).
JV – Warsaw 31, Goshen 21
Warsaw – Kennedy Patton 9, Halle Shipp 6, Naomi Phillips 6, Grayson Kilburn 4, Madelyn Smith 2, Maddie Ryman 2, Ashlynn Hepler 2
The Lady Tigers scored 20 points in the final quarter to beat Northern Lakes Conference rival Goshen 34-25 Saturday night in basketball action at the Tiger Den.
Warsaw was in a funk offensively and led just 4-3 at halftime. The Lady Tigers had scored 10 points in its last three quarters going back to Wednesday’s loss at Elkhart Memorial. But in those three quarters, they’d only been outscored 10-8.
“We were rushing our shots.” Warsaw head coach Michelle Harter said. “We were going in too fast, and we were throwing the ball up there instead of being under control, getting set and going straight up and straight down, and on the outside having our feet set, catching and shooting, and holding the follow through, not thinking ‘I’m going to miss’ and run in.”
Defense is the hallmark of the 2016-17 Lady Tigers, and they held Goshen to a three-pointer by Alyissa Trosper in the first quarter.
“I thought defensively we came out and did a really good job, finding where their shooters were, not giving them easy opportunities,”?Harter said. “They got a couple of good looks, but I thought we did a much better job boxing out tonight, a great team effort on that.
“When your shots aren’t falling, you have to pick it up just that little bit extra on the defensive end, which helped keep us in the game. Finally we came out midway through the third quarter and hit a shot, and after that you saw us relax a little bit and say ‘alright, here we go.’”
That breakthrough came when senior Dayton Groninger drained a three-pointer from the left side with 2:31 to go in the third quarter, tying the game at nine. On the next trip down the floor, Groninger hit another three from about the same spot.
Goshen senior Ashton Ellis tied the game again with a three, but Warsaw senior Madi Graham gave the Lady Tigers the lead for good with a layup in traffic with 38 seconds to go in the quarter.
Warsaw iced the game with a 9-0 run over four minutes of the fourth quarter that expanded a 18-15 lead to 27-15 with 1:51 remaining. Harter said it was a matter of the Lady Tigers knowing what was within their control, and taking care of their business.
“When we come out and do take control over what we can have control over, we do really well,”?Harter said. “I thought tonight we helped control the tempo with our defense, we slowed them down and didn’t give them a lot of good looks.”
Groninger was Warsaw’s leading scorer with 13 points and Page Desenberg had eight. Trosper and Ellis finished with six each, on two three-pointers each, for Goshen.
Warsaw (16-3, 2-2 NLC) hosts Wawasee on Thursday.
WARSAW 34, GOSHEN 25
G 3 0 9 13 – 25
W 0 4 10 20 – 34
Goshen – Jillian Kissinger 1-4 2-2 4, Ashton Ellis 2-9 0-0 6, Josie Walters 0-2 0-0 0, Brooke Bechtel 0-1 0-0 0, Jordan Nemeth 2-3 0-0 4, Alyissa Trosper 2-8 0-0 6, Maggie Gallagher 0-6 3-4 3, Lizzie Kirkton 0-2 2-2 2, Nyla Dean 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 7-35 7-8 25.
Warsaw – Page Desenberg 3-8 2-4 8, Mariah Rivera 0-1 0-0 0, Kenzie Welk 2-4 0-0 5, Dayton Groninger 4-9 3-4 13, Madi Graham 1-8 4-4 6, Kacy Bragg 1-2 0-0 2, Kaylee Patton 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 11-32 9-12 34.
Three-pointers – Goshen 4 (Trosper 2, Ellis 2), Warsaw 3 (Groninger 2, Welk); Rebounds – Goshen 17 (Gallagher 8), Warsaw 25 (Groninger 8); Turnovers – Goshen 9, Warsaw 11; Fouls – Goshen 16, Warsaw 13; Fouled out – Trosper; Records: Goshen 7-11 (1-4 NLC), Warsaw 16-3 (2-2 NLC).
JV – Warsaw 31, Goshen 21
Warsaw – Kennedy Patton 9, Halle Shipp 6, Naomi Phillips 6, Grayson Kilburn 4, Madelyn Smith 2, Maddie Ryman 2, Ashlynn Hepler 2
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