Lady Rebels roughed up by No. 2 E-M

Published 12:00 am Thursday, December 19, 2002

Austin Daily Herald

Southland's so far winless season stood little chance of reversing its ways when second-ranked Elgin-Millville came to Adams Tuesday night for a Three Rivers Conference contest. The Lady Rebels fell to 0-8 overall in a 74-31 defeat.

All-stater Katie Ohm scored a game-high 22 points for the Watchmen (6-1, 4-0), and the Olstad sisters -- Kali and Candice -- added 17 each.

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Nikki Kirkpatrick and Carrie Shawback led the host Rebels with six points apiece. Amanda Landherr, Shannon Halbach and Amy Walerak added five each. Bridget Felten rounded out Southland's scoring with four points.

"They are a good shooting team," Southland's Slone Suess said of E-M. "We played a good first half, the girls played hard and we shot a little better tonight."

The Rebels still trailed 43-19 at the halftime break.

Southland hosts Kingsland (3-3, 3-1) tonight in Adams.

Blossom comeback falls short

Blooming Prairie's brief two-game winning streak stopped in a non-conference loss at Kenyon-Wanamingo, 55-41, Tuesday night.

Kristina Lurken and Megan Wendorf scored game-highs of 21 points apiece for the host Knights (5-2). Blooming Prairie (4-3, 2-1) was paced by Kari Lueth's 14 points and 13 more from Liz Kollar.

Kollar also led the Blossoms to a 24-23 rebounding advantage with six boards.

K-W led by 11, 25-14, at the half before BPHS battled back to within one, 32-31, after the third.

"They had the lead most of the game," BP coach John Worke said. "We were pretty pleased to come back but a little disappointed because we couldn't finish."

The Blossoms play Friday at home against Waterville-Elysian-Morristown (1-5, 1-3).