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Free throws lift Cathedral by SESM

Hauser scores 25 as CHS improves to 9-16

File photo by Steve Muscatello New Ulm Cathedral’s Jon Zinniel takes a shot during a recent game at CHS.

NEW ULM — In a game where New Ulm Cathedral sank 12-of-29 shots from beyond the arc, in the end the game came down to free throws.

Cathedral scored seven of it final 14 points from the charity stripe in the final two minutes and outscored the Knights 14-2 in that span. The run helped end a three-game Cathedral losing streak with a 66-57 win over Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s Tuesday night in a Tomahawk Conference boys’ basketball game.

Nate Hauser led the Greyhounds (9-16, 8-8) with 25 points — 24 of them coming on eight 3-pointers in the game. Jon Zinniel added 12 and Alex Hillesheim scored 10.

Carter Currans paced the Knights (8-14, 6-10) with 18 points.

“We played well again defensively and we moved the ball well,” Cathedral coach Alan Woitas said. “We got the ball to open guys offensively. We found our shooters and they made their shots — they left some shooters open.”

One of them was Hauser.

In the first 18 minutes, that scoring came from Hauser who buried six long-range shots accounting for all but 10 of the Greyhounds’ 28 first-half points.

“I thought that he was one of the differences in the game,” said St. Mary’s coach Tim Milliard, who saw his team hit 11-of-27 shots from beyond the arc as it lost its fourth straight game.

It was a 3-pointer that kept his team in late as Branden Wait, Currans and Nick Labat gave the Knights a short-lived lead at 50-49 before Hauser’s eighth 3 lifted Cathedral to a 52-50 lead.

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