(By Coach Bradley Wright) The Osmond Lady Tigers came out of the holiday break with a busy schedule to start off the new year. Osmond traveled to Winnebago on Tuesday, Jan. 6, and then participated in the Wausa Post-Holiday Tournament on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 8 and 9.
Osmond vs. Winnebago
The game on Tuesday saw the Winnebago Indians come out to a fast start as they scored 19 and 22 points a quarter in the first half compared to Osmond’s 9 total points scored.
Winnebago’s defensive pressure and fast style of play offensively proved to be too much for the Tigers to ever get a good rhythm for the game.
Winnebago would go on to win by a final score of 60-12. Kaleigh Miller led the Tigers with 4 points and pulled down a team-high 11 rebounds. Score by Quarter Osmond 5 4 1 2 = 12 Winnebago 19 22 11 8 = 60 BOX SCORE
Pts Reb Asst Stl Bl K. Moes 2 7 1 0 0 S. Geneski 0 1 0 3 0 C. Kumm 2 4 1 2 0 K. Miller 4 11 1 2 0 A. Miller 2 3 0 1 0 P. Hoffman 2 0 0 1 0 A. Brown 2 5 0 0 0 Wausa Tournament
On Thursday, the Lady Tigers traveled to Wausa to challenge the host team Wausa Vikings in the first matchup of the Wausa Post-Holiday Tournament.
After one quarter of play, Wausa held a 7-point advantage, leading 13-6. Foul trouble in the second quarter put a hinder on the Tigers’ performance as Wausa built their lead going into the halftime break up 33-9.
The second half played out very evenly as Wausa outscored Osmond by only 2 points, 25-23. The host Vikings would claim the victory by a 58-32 final score.
Korrine Moes made a strong imprint in this game, leading all scorers with 19 points; she also grabbed 7 rebounds in the effort. Carrie Kumm and Kaleigh Miller both pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds. Score by Quarter Osmond 6 3 7 16 = 32 Wausa 13 20 12 13 = 58 BOX SCORE
Pts Reb Asst Stl Bl K. Moes 19 7 0 2 0 S. Geneski 0 4 0 3 0 C. Kumm 3 10 2 2 0 K. Miller 3 10 1 1 3 A. Miller 3 3 0 2 0 P. Hoffman 2 0 0 0 0 A. Brown 2 7 0 0 1 Friday’s matchup against the Niobrara/Verdigre Cougars saw the Tigers compete very well against a very good team and score a seasonhigh 41 points in the contest. Like Osmond, Niobrara/Verdigre is short on numbers as they only have 9 girls out this season.
Even though Niobrara/Verdigre held a 32-14 halftime advantage, the Tigers' efforts to finish the game strong found them outscoring the Cougars in the second half 27-23.
Kaleigh Miller got back on track, recording another double-double with 14 points and 14 rebounds in the contest. Korrine Moes reached double digits, scoring in back-to-back nights finishing with 11 to bring her Post-Holiday Tournament total to 30 points in the two games.
Score by Quarter Osmond 4 10 12 15 = 41 Nio-Ver 16 16 11 12 = 55 BOX SCORE
Pts Reb Asst Stl Bl K. Moes 11 7 1 2 0 S. Geneski 2 1 0 1 0 C. Kumm 8 6 2 5 2 K. Miller 14 14 3 0 5 A. Miller 3 1 2 0 0 P. Hoffman 3 0 1 3 0 A. Brown 0 2 1 0 0 Up Next
The Lady Tigers will be busy the rest of the schedule with three games being played each week this month. On Tuesday, the Tigers traveled to Newman Grove. On Thursday they will be in Stuart. And finally, returning home on Saturday to play Wakefield
in a 2 p.m. game in Osmond.
