Norse cruise to two DC wins
Whitehall’s Trinity Aasen released a jump shot during their win over Blair-Taylor last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Andrea Waldera of Blair-Taylor took a shot in the lane during their game against Whitehall last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Whitehall girls basketball team’s strong start to the season continued last week with two lopsided wins.
The Norse started the first and second halves with runs to establish and maintain control of their game against Blair-Taylor, winning 48-33, last Tuesday. On Friday, Whitehall had one of its most dominant efforts with a 72-30 win over Augusta. No further information from the Augusta game was reported to the Times.
Whitehall sits a 5-2 overall and 3-1 in Dairyland Conference play. They’ll host Alma/Pepin on Thursday in Whitehall’s last game before the holiday break.
Whitehall 48 B-T 33
The Norse went on runs to start each half as they were in control throughout the game.
Whitehall scored the first eight points of the game as Kyla Lambeck scored six and Olivia Killian got a basket off of a steal. The teams were mostly even for the rest of the half as Whitehall took a 23-14 lead into halftime.
The Norse took control of the game in the second half with six straight, four by Killian and two by Lambeck to make the score 29-14. B-T kept battling and scored seven straight to make it a six-point game at 36-30, but the Norse ended the game on a 12-3 run.
The Norse shot 34.4 percent from the field compared to 28.8 for B-T. Whitehall controlled the glass, out rebounding B-T, 48-29.
Killian put up 21 points and 19 rebounds for the Norse, while Lambeck added nine. Samantha Aguilar led B-T with 12 points; Andrea Waldera scored 10; Andi Beck, seven and both Maddie Frederixon and Elissa Smetana had two.
Whitehall (field goals/attempts-free throws/attempts-rebounds-fouls-points) — Sluga 3/6-0/1-1-1-7 Killian 9/19-3/4-19-3-21 Lambeck 4/11-1/2-1-2-9 Ausderau 1/6-0/2-6-0-2 Aasen 2/9-0/0-10-3-4 Klomsten 1/5-0/0-2-2-3 Clatt 1/5-0/0-6-2-2
