HHS girls advance, face Hesston Friday
The Trojans entered sub-state Tuesday night with a 12-8 overall and 9-4 league record. In a hard fought game that was closer than the final score indicates, they advanced to the second round of sub-state play.
Hillsboro held off a pesky Southeast of Saline team for a 51-42 victory and a chance for a rematch with Hesston at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Although Southeast never led in the game, they made Hillsboro work for every basket and kept the game tied for most of the fourth quarter.
Hillsboro led 8-0 early in the game before a 5-0 run by the Southeast Trojans. At the end of the first quarter, Hillsboro was up, 14-9.
Southeast couldn't get any closer than three in the second quarter, and Hillsboro took a 26-22 lead into the locker room.
Neither team shot well in the third quarter, with Hillsboro being held to six points to Southeast's eight.
Hillsboro led 32-30 to begin the fourth quarter, but Southeast kept the game tied until the four-minute mark when Hillsboro pulled ahead.
Amy Duerksen led the Trojans with a game high 14 points. Duerksen was 7-of-8 from two-point range for 87.5 percent. She had four rebounds and three assists.
Emily Ratzlaff and JuliAnne Chisholm scored 10 points each, followed by Hannah Marsh with seven, Katie Fast with four, and Marissa Diener and Megan Peachey with three each.
The team shot 63.3 percent from two-point range making 19-of-30 shots. They were 4-of-9 from the free throw line for 44.4 percent.
Fast had six blocked shots, five steals, two assists, and led the team in rebounds grabbing down six.
Ratzlaff and Marsh had four steals each, while Marsh had four assists.
Ellinwood
The Trojans won a close one, 46-40, in a makeup game Thursday at Ellinwood.
Fast had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Marsh scored 13 points, including three treys. Diener came in off the bench to contribute eight points.
Hillsboro 51, SEs 42
Peachey 0-0 1-2 0-0 3; Diener 0-0 1-2; 0-1 3; Marsh 1-2 1-1 2-2 7; Ratzlaff 4-8 0-0 2-3 10; 2-4 0-0 0-3 4; Chisholm 5-8 0-0 0-0 10; 7-8 0-1 0-0 14.
Junior varsity
The Hillsboro junior varsity girls ended their season with a win Feb. 26 at Ellinwood, 44-34.
Jessica Heidel led the team in scoring with nine points, followed by Laura Skiles with seven, JuliAnne Chisholm with six, Tina Frick with five, Hannah Marsh, Jenny Terrell, and Jenny Whisenhunt with four each, and Sara Hamm and Whitney Washmon with two each.
The team ends its season with an 11-9 record.
Coach Carolyn Long said in the beginning of the season, before Christmas break, the team was not winning, but they gradually got better.
"We were inexperienced, with a few sophomores and juniors, and a lot of freshmen, who had never played with each other," Long said.
"In the second half of the season, we were getting over the hump," she said. "And we were winning our games."
Long said that the coaching staff is excited about the next two or three years.
