Edmunds County Tribune -

Summit has traditionally been a formidable opponent in basketball and having Waubay in a co-op certainly hasn't hurt the Mustang's girls' program at all. The Waubay/Summit girls invaded the Tiger Den last Tuesday and escaped with a convincing 65-46 victory. (The W-S boys had defeated Ipswich on their own court earlier in the young season.)

Meanwhile, the Mustang girls would win the first three individual quarters to establish control, 14-7, 23-10 and 14-12, respectively. But Ipswich would then out-score its visitors by three points in the final stanza.

The Mustangs utilized the services of eight different scorers, led by a trio of double-figure scorers. Zoey Wohlleber would indeed lead all scorers with 24 points, followed by Eva Benike with 15 counters and Tasha Zirbel with 13 points.

Ipswich, meanwhile, landed seven players into its scoring column, led by Katie Bierman's 20 points, including a pair of treys. Brianna Geditz followed with seven points that featured a trey. Next was Ashlyn Weig with six points that also included a trey, followed by Karlie Gohl and Kaylin Onken with four points apiece. Sommer DeRaad made three free throws for her three points that night and Quincy Olivier added a basket from inside the trey arc for two points.

Ipswich shot 17-55 from the floor and that would of course include those four treys as well as a 8-13 free throw evening. The visitors countered with 22 accurate baskets in 54 tries featuring three treys and were 18-23 in free throw attempts.

Ipswich did a decent job of rebounding the basketball, obtaining 35 retrieves, led by Baylee Kulesa and Olivier with five each. The Mustangs would grab 41 rebounds, though, paced by Wohlleber with 10 for a double-double. Ipswich had eight turnovers; W-S, 10 in a well played floor game by both teams. Nine of W-S's miscues were directly caused by Tiger steals, led by Bierman with five thefts. Bierman had tied Carol Weber with a school record of 11 single game thefts in Ipswich's win over Webster on December 18. Meanwhile, Bierman and Gohl each dished out four assists vs. Waubay/Summit. (Ipswich totaled 18 assists.)

The Tiger girls and boys will each play in the Big Bo Classic on December 30 in Wolsey. The girls play at noon vs. Dupree and the boys play at 3 p.m. vs. Wall. The Tiger girls and boys will play at Warner on January 6. Before that, though, only the boys will host Northwestern on January 4.