Northwestern Girls Basketball
A rough third quarter cost the Warriors girls’ basketball team, as they lost to Brookville 44-31 last week on the road in Brookville.
Northwestern played evenly the rest of the game, but they were outscored 15-2 in the third period that cost them.
Katelyn Partlow led the way for Northwestern with 11 points, while Korynne Berner added 10 in the loss.
The Warriors host Tecumseh tonight, led by juniors Lindsey Nartker and Danielle Franklin, Thursday they host Newton, then on Saturday they travel to Urbana.
SPORTS NOTES
Northwestern Bowling
Northwestern defeated Urbana 2959-2750 in a boys bowling match last week. Scores for Northwestern were Austin Sweet 246-221, Hunter Berthold 215-243, KT Wallace 201-248, Aaron Sherman 193-180 and JT Campbell 192-165. Baker scores were 191, 249, 212 and 203.
They also defeated Indian Lake 2813-2810 in a great match. Scoring for Northwestern was Wallace 244-224, Sweet 206-184, Sherman 170-214, and single matches from Campbell 249, Berthold 203 and Collin Coyle 169. Baker scores were 160, 183, 185 and 223.
The girls lost to Urbana 2634-2456. Northwestern was led by Elizabeth Sakaitis 227-213, followed by Ashley Garrett 169-188, Dana Coyle 163-157, Hannah Holt-Grim 164,146 and single games from Kristen Williams 210 and Danielle Berthold 148. Their baker scores were 134, 183, 194 and 160.
They bounced back to defeat Indian Lake 2421-1872. Sakaitis led with 235-217, Williams 188-174, Garrett 189-160, along with Berthold 198, Coyle 165, Holt-Grim 152 and Ashyln Stolling 151. Baker scores for the Warriors were 126, 133, 152 and 181.
Bethel Girls Basketball
The struggles continued for the Bethel girls’ basketball team last week, as they lost a pair of games to Xenia Christian, and a league contest at county for Miami East.
Xenia Christian scored 27 points in the opening quarter to jump in front of the Bees, and never looked back in a 64-33 rout of Bethel.
“They had some good shooters, and it was one of those things where we either had to give up the outside or inside, and they took advantage of it,” Bethel coach Mark Mays said. “We played solid defense and made them shoot over us and they had six threes. That opened things up for them.”
Mays did take some positives away from the loss.
“We had eight kids score for us, and we were making things happen,” he said. “We had a lower number of turnovers and the kids have been doing a better job taking care of the ball.”
“While we have promoted the positive things, we still talk about the things we need to improve on.”
Becky Schweiterman led Bethel with eight points, while Sarah Swisher and Carrie Smith each added five.
Also last week, Bethel lost to Miami East 60-35 after falling behind 27-15 at the half.
It was 29-20 East with 6:20 left in the third period when East went into a half-court defense and according to Mays, the kids didn’t handle it too well.
“We panicked a bit,” he said. “We have been breaking it the whole game, but they really got to us and scored 23 points in the third quarter and it got us.”
Swisher led Bethel with seven, while Jillian Callaham added six.
