Lady Devils defeat East Chicago 61-49 in Girls Basketball

A USA-365.com Special Report by Mark Smith
11-26-2011

Lowell's Sarah Wieser (20) gets advice from assistant coach Corey Antcliff in Saturday afternoon's game at East Chicago. (All photos by Mark Smith)

Lowell surrounds East Chicago's Andrianna Moore (42) in Saturday's game at EC. Moore finished with 14 points, but the Devils won 61-49.

Lowell's Kalyne Godbolt (33) controls the ball as Lowell topped East Chicago Saturday.

Sarah Wietbrock (11), looks to move the ball against the undefeated Cardinals.

Kaylne Godbolt (33) and Katie Bobos (32) charge up court against EC in Saturday afternoon's game at East Chicago.

Cardinal coach Eric Kundich talks to his team during a time out. EC had won its first four games of the season. (All photos by Mark Smith)

Lowell coach Katie Antcliff, above, watches guard Sarah Wieser on offense in Saturday matchup with East Chicago.

EC's Dariyelle Ricks (12) tries to bother Lowell's Katie Bobos (32) as she moves the ball to teammate Kalyne Godbolt (33). Lowell never trailed in a 61-49 win at EC.

LOWELL (61) Sarah Wietbrock 3-3-9. Carley Austgen 3-0-7, Savannah Summers 1-0-3, Katie Bobos 6-4-16, Mackenzie Kruetz 3-2-8, Kalyne Godbolt 3-6-14, Amy Fraikin 1-0-2, Sydney Barta 1-0-2, Sarah Wieser 0-0-0. TOTALS: 21 (15-22) 61.

EAST CHICAGO (49) Shanterra Jones 7-0-16, Dariyelle Ricks 2-0-5, Tia Hawkins 6-0-12, Mariah Lewis 1-0-2, Dontra Brown 0-0-0, Ciara Ross 0-0-0, Andriana Moore 5-4-14, Vanessa Vasquez 0-0-0. TOTALS: 21 (4-8) 49.

FREE THROWS: LOWELL (15-22, 68.0%) Wietbrock 3-4, Godbolt 6-6, Kruetz 2-5, Bobos 4-7. EC (4-8, 50%) Moore 4-6, Ross 0-2.

REBOUNDS: LOWELL (20) Wietbrock 7, Bobos 4, Austgen 3, Summers 2, Wieser 2, Kruetz 2; EAST CHICAGO (24) Moore 7, Jones 6, Hawkins 5, Lewis 3, Ross 2, Brown.

ASSISTS: LOWELL (11) Godbolt 3, Fraikin 3, Austgen 2, Wietbrock, Wieser, Kruetz; EAST CHICAGO (7) Brown 3, Ricks 2, Jones 2.

STEALS: LOWELL (10) Godbolt 6, Austgen 2, Bobos, Kruetz; EAST CHICAGO (7) Jones 3, Hawkins 2, Moore, Brown.

3-GOALS: LOWELL (4) Kalyne Godbolt 2, Carley Austgen, Savannah Summers; EAST CHICAGO (3) Shanterra Jones 2, Dariyelle Ricks.

"Don't blame anyone else for how you play. You control that yourself. Needles to say, yesterday's practice was somewhat of a tough practice. I thought we'd come ready to play today."

EC (4-1) had won four games against losing teams, but this game showed they are sectional contenders. Moore has to be double-teamed in the low post and 5-foot 7 sophomore guard Shanterra Jones and 5-foot-9 freshman Tiajaney Hawkins caused Lowell high speed problems in the open court. Other than Merrillville, nobody is going to confront Lowell with as many good athletes as EC has.

Lowell led 10-9 when Kalyne Godbolt and Sarah Wietbrock scored back-to-back baskets for a six-point Lowell lead.

In the second quarter, EC rallied for a 17-17 tie on a fast break basket by Jones, but Lowell juniors Katie Bobos and Mackenzie Kreutz scored close to the basket and a Kruetz free throw made it 22-17 with 4:18 left in the half.

EC is two teams. With Moore, a giant post player who averaged 16.2 points and 9.6 rebounds, they have low-post scoring and defense. But when she is not in the game, the Cardinals have five very fast players running the floor. But the key is stopping Moore.

"That's the first time we've run a 2-3 (zone) all year," said Antcliff, "and we basically just sandwiched her. We had Wietbrock in front of her and several different players behind her. We just hoped we could take her out of the game. But then they had 20 (Jones) and 22 (Hawkins) stepped up. That's going to be a very good team."

Lowell, which slowed EC with a 1-2-2 press, forced 19 turnovers from the Cardinals, 11 after halftime. They were able to disrupt EC's passes into the post. No small item.

"If we play like a team, we can stand up against anybody. If we try to win individually, then we have trouble. I am every proud of them. We had the game with Hanover, then this game and then Crown Point. And Crown Point's going to be tougher.

Lowell now knows where they stand in sectional play and they stand fairly tall. Lowell's league, the Northwest Crossroads Conference, isn't tough this year. The goal is to win the sectional.

"That's why we scheduled this," said Antcliff. "They pushed us into a couple of situations where we got rattled and we had to call time out."

Guard Kalyne Godbolt stood out in a high speed game where a lot of fouls were not called. She scored 11 of her 14 points in the second half, including 6-of-6 from the foul line in the fourth quarter.

"She didn't have a very good game against Hanover," said Antcliff of Godbolt, the 5-foot-3 junior. "She tried to do too much with the ball. I told her to remember she has four more players. She did a very good job here and she knocked down some big free throws at the end."

DEVIL NOTES: Lowell improved to 4-1 and scored 60 or more points for the fourth time in five games. The Devils were also 4-1 last year after losing to Crown Point.
This was the first regular season meeting of EC and Lowell. The Devils topped EC 35-19 on Feb. 8, 2007 in the East Chicago Sectional. This year's sectional is at Munster.

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