B-T girls push win streak to 14 games
Blair-Taylor’s Samantha Kidd drove to the basket during Friday’s game against Augusta. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Blair-Taylor High School girls basketball team has reached the 20-win threshold with one week remaining in the regular season after a trio of wins at home last week.
Coach Jesse Lien and the Wildcats beat visiting Cochrane-Fountain City last Tuesday before dominating Augusta on Friday and taking care of Alma Center Lincoln on Saturday. The win over C-FC clinched at least a share of the Dairyland Conference Large Division title for B-T.
The Wildcats (21-1 this season) visited Independence on Tuesday and is scheduled to close the regular season at Melrose-Mindoro on Thursday.
Second-seeded B-T opens Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament play with a home game against (15) Brookwood this coming Tuesday. The winner will play the winner of the game between (10) New Lisbon and (7) Wonewoc-Center on Friday with the regional final set for next Saturday. The next-highest seed in B-T’s portion of the bracket is ACL. The highest seed in the sub-sectional is Bangor, which defeated B-T 66-47 on Dec. 23.
Blair-Taylor 71 C-FC 58
The second best team in the Dairyland Large Conference this season made the Wildcats work for a win to open the week, but a 10-point cushion at halftime was enough for the hosts.
Cochrane-Fountain City (17-5, 11-2 Dairyland Conference) had four players in double digit scoring, but the Wildcats’ top scorers overcame the widespread attack.
One week after becoming the program’s all-time leading scorer, junior Lindsay Steien led all scorers with 24 points. Teammate Abby Thompson added 20, and Lexi Lofgren contributed 11 for the hosts.
B-T (field goals/attempts-free throws/attempts-rebounds-fouls-points)—Thompson 7/15-5/5-2-1-20, S. Kidd 0/1-1/2-1-0-1, Steien 8/19-5/5-7-1-24, Waldera 0/0-0/0-1-0-0, Kindschy 0/9-3/6-3-3-3, Fremstad 1/6-2/2-6-2-4, Ch. Wagner 3/14-1/4-5-4-8, Lofgren 4/9-0/0-5-2-1.
B-T 78 Augusta 37
Friday’s game saw a much wider scoring spread as the Wildcats scored 43 points in the first half alone to Augusta’s 21.
Augusta (9-13, 4-10 DC) got 19 points from Kennedy Korger.
Steien and Thompson kept their offensive numbers high as well, as Steien scored a game-high 31 and Thompson finished with 17 points and nine assists.
B-T (field goals/attempts-free throws/attempts-rebounds-fouls-points)—Thompson 8/10-0/0-2-1-17, L. Kidd 1/3-0/0-1-2-2, S. Kidd 1/4-0/0-2-4-2, Frederixon 1/1-0/0-1-1-2, Steien 13/22-2/3-4-0-31, Waldera 0/2-0/0-2-0-0, Ca. Wagner 1/1-0/0-0-0-2, Kindschy 4/10-0/0-4-1-12, Fremstad 2/5-0/2-3-4-4, Ch. Wagner 2/9-0/2-8-2-4, Lofgren 1/5-0/0-3-0-2.
B-T 73 AC Lincoln 32
Steien topped the 30-point mark for the second straight game on Saturday to help the Wildcats earn their 14th straight win.
Thompson threw in a double-double, finishing with 12 points and 10 rebounds, while Alma Center Lincoln was led by 15 points from Liza Cummings.
B-T (field goals/attempts-free throws/attempts-rebounds-fouls-points)—Thompson 4/8-2/2-10-2-12, S. Kidd 2/4-1/2-6-2-5, Frederixon 0/0-0/0-1-0-0, Steien 13/21-5/6-9-3-31, Waldera 1/2-1/2-2-1-3, Ca. Wagner 0/2-0/0-1-1-0, Kindschy 0/7-1/2-0-0-1, Fremstad 4/14-1/2-9-0-9, Ch. Wagner 1/5-2/2-2-3-4, Lofgren 4/9-0/0-6-2-8.
