MDI Girls Defeat Ellsworth 54-40
After two upsets in the opening night of Tourney 2014, the Ellsworth Girls were looking to make it 3-3 as they took on the MDI Trojans. Ellsworth the number 11 seed had upset Oceanside, Tuesday, February 11th 50-47, and had lost twice during the regular season to MDI 73-32 on January 3rd and 71-41 on February 6th, but this was the Cross Insurance Center and anything could happen.
MDI took an 11-7 lead at the end of the 1st Quarter. Sarah Phelps scored the first 2 points for MDI, which were the first two points scored at the Cross Insurance Center for the Girl's High School Tournament! Hannah Shaw went 3-6 from the free throw line for the Trojans while Hailee Langley had 4 points.
In the 2nd Quarter MDI outscored Ellsworth 19-7 to take a 30-14 half time lead. Phelps added 7 points, including a 3-pointer for MDI, while Langley added 4 more points for Ellsworth.
In the 3rd Quarter, MDI increased their lead to 17 points, as they led 47-30. Sierra Myrick and Molly Carroll had 3-pointers for MDI, and Hannah Shaw added 7 points. For Ellsworth Morgan Card had 6 points, and Langley added 6 more points.
In the 4th Quarter Myrick added another 3-pointer and Emily Berry and Langely added 4 more points for the Eagles, who fought hard the entire game, but it wasn't enough as MDI won 54-40.
MDI was led by Hannah Shaw with 16 points and Sarah Phelps had 13 points. Hailey Langley had a game high 18 points for Ellsworth, while Morgan Card added 10 points. MDI was 10-16 from the free throw line while Ellsworth was 6-10.
MDI will now play the winner of the #2 Nokomis- #10John Bapst quarterfinal in the semi-finals on Wednesday, February 19th at 7:05 in the first girl's semifinal, in a game that will be heard on WDEA AM 1370 and WDEA Internet Radio.
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Box Score
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
Ellsworth Girls | 7 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 40 |
MDI Girls | 11 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 54 |
Ellsworth
# | Name | G | FGM | 2PM | 3PM | FTM | FTA | PF | PTS |
3 | Emily Berry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
4 | Caitlin Bean | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
5 | Olivia Mora | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10 | Hailee Langley | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 18 |
11 | Maddie Card | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
12 | Lauren Hale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
14 | Kacie Omlor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
15 | Sydni Palmer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
20 | Sammy Mason | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
21 | Kaiti Kinney | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
23 | Morgan Card | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
25 | Maddie Dow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
30 | Hannah Buzzell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
33 | Courtney Wasson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TOTALS | 1 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 40 |
MDI
# | Name | G | FGM | 2PM | 3PM | FTM | FTA | PF | PTS |
3 | Sierra Myrick | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
5 | Sarah Phelps | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
11 | Hailey Littlefield | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
13 | Molly Carroll | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
15 | Julia Mace | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
21 | Kelsey Shaw | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
23 | Jen Clemens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
25 | Hannah Shaw | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
31 | Ali Berman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
33 | Sierra Tapley | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
35 | Sara Norberg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
41 | Abbe Miller | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
43 | Keely McConomy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
TOTALS | 1 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 54 |