Cathedral crushes LCWM
NEW ULM — New Ulm Cathedral demonstrated a solid defensive effort in beating Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial 50-35 in a nonconference girls’ basketball game on Monday.
The Greyhounds (8-18) held the Knights to 13 second-half points on Senior Night.
“It was a good night for the seniors, we wanted to get the W for them,” Cathedral coach Dave Wilfahrt said.
Senior Nicole Gangelhoff led the Greyhounds with 20 points in her last game at Cathedral High School. A three-year starter who was brought up to varsity as a freshman, Gangelhoff scored 14 of her 20 points in the first half in helping the Greyhounds get out to a 26-22 halftime lead.
“She always plays hard and tonight was no different,” Wilfahrt said. “She runs the show and she just hustles, so that helps us out.”
Fellow senior McKenna Berdan made all four of her free throws in tallying four points on the night.
The teams were neck-and-neck for much of the first half until the Greyhounds went on an 9-3 run to take an 18-11 lead. However, the Knights (6-16) scored four of the next five baskets to tie the game at 20-20, forcing Wilfahrt to call a timeout at the 2:19 mark.
The Greyhounds finished the half on a 6-2 run behind a basket and two free throws from Gangelhoff as well as a basket by junior Becca Schwarz.
In the second half, the Greyhounds slowed down eighth-grader Lakesha Carter, holding her to just six of the Knights’ 13 points on the half thanks to their relentless full-court press.
“We try to trap in the corners and if nothing else, it slows them down,” Wilfahrt said. “If you can’t get a steal, it at least slows them down. Sometimes it gets the ball into non-ball-handling players.”
The Knights got as close as three points before the Greyhounds pulled away early in the second half, closing the half on a 20-8 run. Schwarz tallied six-straight points toward the end of that run.
Carter finished with a game-high 21 points for the Knights.
Schwarz finished with 10 points for the Greyhounds, while junior Rose Hazuka finished with nine.
Cathedral now shifts its focus to the Section 2A playoffs, where it will play second-seeded Sleepy Eye at 7 p.m. next Tuesday in Sleepy Eye.
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LC-WM 22 13 — 35
NU Cathedral 26 24 — 50
LC-WM (35)
Brown 2-8 0-0 5, Sittig 0-4 0-0 0, Goeringer 2-7 2-2 7, Carter 8-19 5-11 21, Wilson 1-7 0-0 2, Sickler 0-2 0-0 0, Ewy 0-1 0-0 0, Rydeen 0-2 0-0 0, Flack 0-3 0-0 0, Cloyd 0-1 0-0 0.
NU CATHEDRAL (50)
Helget 1-9 3-4 5, M Berdan 0-3 4-4 4, Hazuka 2-8 4-4 9, Schwarz 4-8 2-2 10, Gangelhoff 7-18 6-7 20, Miling 1-2 0-0 2, Pautzke 0-3 0-0 0.
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