Tuesday’s games (Jan. 26)
Girls
Santa Fe Trail 52, Jefferson West 32
• West fell to 4-8. Senior BriAnna Ploude led the Tigers with 12 points.
JCN Tourney
First round
JCN 64, Atchison 33
• The Chargers improved to 9-1 as they built a 29-7 lead after a quarter and coasted from there. Sophomore Jordan Kramer led JCN with 18 points while seniors Mallory GrandPre and Sara Navinskey scored 16 points each.
Perry-Lecompton 38, McLouth 37
• The Kaws had a 6-point halftime lead and held on to take a narrow win and move to 7-1. McLouth fell to 6-5. Senior Katie Volle led the Kaws with 18 points while the Bulldogs were led by 12 points from senior Kylie Shufflebarger.
Oskaloosa 56, Maranatha 40
• The Bears took a 20-point halftime lead and didn’t look back in moving to 7-2. Sophomore Haley Pfau led the Bears with 18 points as 10 different Bears logged points.
ACCHS 43, Valley Falls 29
• The Dragons fell to 4-5. Junior Abbey Kearney led Valley Falls with 16 points.
Boys
Perry-Lecompton 67, Oskaloosa 51
• The Kaws built a 7-point halftime lead and pulled away in the second half to improve to 2-8. Oskaloosa fell to 6-6. Senior Shelby Politte scored 24 for the Kaws while senior Logan Hurd scored 16 and senior Brad Phillips added 11. The Bears were led by 22 points from junior Adam Bowser and 11 points each from senior Brandon Barnes and junior Levi Wade.
Santa Fe Trail 65, Jefferson West 50
• West fell to 4-8. Freshman Cory Brown scored 12 points and junior Dillon Roy added 11 for West.
Thursday’s games (Jan. 28)
Boys
ACCHS 50, JCN 46
• North suffered its second loss in six days to the Tigers but made this one close before falling to 7-4. Junior Jeff Hale and senior Nick Clark led JCN with 10 points each.
Friday’s games (Jan. 29)
Boys
Bishop Ward 44, Perry-Lecompton 42
• The Kaws fell to 2-9.
McLouth 55, KC East Christian 26
• The Bulldogs led by 15 at the half and put the game away in the third quarter to improve to 3-11. Sophomore Shawn Dailey led the way with 14 points while junior Trevor Roberts scored 12 and senior Cole Batman scored 11.
Girls
JCN Tourney
Semifinals
JCN 47, ACCHS 40
• The Chargers defeated the Tigers for the second time in eight days as they pulled away in the fourth quarter to improve to 10-1. Kramer scored 15 for North while junior Katie Noll scored 12 points and Navinsky added 10 points.
Perry-Lecompton 37, Oskaloosa 35
• The Kaws defeated Oskaloosa for the second time this season as they built a 7-point halftime lead and then held on in the second half to move to 8-1. Oskaloosa dropped to 7-3. Senior Jessica Christman led the Kaws with 13 points. Junior Hailey Kelly led Oskaloosa with 12 points.
Consolation semis
McLouth 37, Maranatha 35
• McLouth led, 10-2, after a quarter and had to hold on the rest of the way to improve to 7-5. Shufflebarger and senior Missy Rome scored 14 points each to lead the Bulldogs.
Atchison 44, Valley Falls 42
• The Dragons led by 4 at the half but couldn’t hold on in the fourth quarter to fall to 4-6. Kearney scored 14 points and senior Bethany Myers scored 12 points in the loss for Valley Falls.
Saturday’s games (Jan. 30)
Girls
JCN Tourney
Championship
JCN 49, Perry-Lecompton 44 (OT)
• North didn’t lead in the game until overtime after coming back from a 9-point deficit entering the fourth quarter to force the extra period. The Chargers improved to 11-1 while the Kaws fell to 8-2 on the season. Kramer scored 17 points and Navinskey scored 11, including the game-tying basket with only seconds left in regulation. Christman led the Kaws with 15 points while junior Abbey Bays and Volle scored 9 each.
Third place
ACCHS 44, Oskaloosa 34
• The Bears were down by 10 after one quarter and couldn’t come back in the second half to fall to 7-4. Kelly led the Bears with 11 points while Pfau and sophomore Rachel Schmanke scored 9 each.
Fifth place
McLouth 43, Atchison 26
• The Bulldogs built a 10-point halftime lead and withstood an early Atchison run in the second half before pulling away to move to 8-5. Rome scored 15 points, sophomore Terri Stewart scored 12 points and Shufflebarger scored 11 in the win.
Seventh place
Valley Falls 46, Maranatha 37
• The Dragons led by 3 at the half and pulled away in the fourth quarter to improve to 5-6. Sophomore Macie Herrig led the way for the Dragons with 13 points.
