Ipswich outlasted the Leola/ Frederick Titans 48-41 in a Lake Region Conference girls' basketball  game on February 1 in Ipswich. This confrontation certainly  produced more than one lengthy run by each team. The score was actually never tied even once, but there were indeed four lead changes.

Ipswich's largest leads were by nine points first at 39-30 on a Kaylin Onken basket and then 41-32 thanks to a Katie Bierman drive a little later in the final quarter.

That's when the Titans would quickly climb back to within two points to trail 43-41. But Ipswich got a huge defensive stop with a Ashlyn Weig steal and Karlie Gohl would then bank in a trey for a somewhat safer Tiger lead. And Bierman would seal the deal with a pair of free throws!

Ipswich had led 9-8 after a quarter and would then narrowly lead 20-19 at intermission, since each team had scored exactly 11 points during the second stanza. But the Titans would obtain a 11-9 scoring edge in the third quarter of action to grab a one-point 30-29 lead of their own with that decisive final quarter remaining to be played.

Bierman led all scorers that night with her 21 points which featured two treys and also dished out 11 of her team's 17 total assists and Weig and Quincy Olivier were next in their scorebook with nine points apiece. (Weig also included a three-ball.) Remaining scorers for the Tigers were Baylee Kulesa with four points, Gohl with that timely trey for her three points and Onken with that basket.

The Titans utilized five different scorers led by Sophie Losure and Laura Sumption with 14 points apiece. They were 16-39 in floor-shooting, including four treys and were 5-9 in free throw attempts. The Tigers countered with a 18-41 floor-shooting evening with four of them being treys and were 8-13 in free throw attempts.

Ipswich collected 23 rebounds; the Titans, 28. Bierman paced the Tigers with eight boards, followed by Oivier and Onken with three each. The Titans incurred 10 turnovers, not at all bad, while Ipswich would finish with an even fewer eight miscues. Bierman and Olivier would lead Ipswich with three steals apiece.