Prep Roundup: Warriors pick up big road win

HEMINGFORD – Leyton High School’s boys basketball team had to wait a year for its chance, but the Warriors didn’t waste the opportunity Saturday night to atone for last year’s triple-overtime home loss to Hemingford.

Holding a five-point halftime lead, Gary Oltmann’s team ratcheted its defense in the second half, outscoring the Bobcats 22-11 in the second half of a key 50-34 nonconference road matchup.

The victory raised LHS’s mark to 6-0.

“We got our revenge,” Oltmann said. “We held onto our appointment with them, and this game has been on our minds since last year.”

Even so, the Warriors got off to a slow start, trailing 6-0 before scoring nine straight to take the lead. Hemingford (3-2) did manage to tie the game at 9-all, but Leyton took the lead for good after that, leading 14-10 after a period and 28-23 at intermission.

“In the second half, our defense took over,” Oltmann said. “We didn’t change anything we did, and we stayed with our basic man concept and shut them down.”

Despite playing with the flu bug, Sam Schumacher led all scorers with 18 points. Brennen Cruise put up a double-double performance, scoring 14 points and hauling in 15 rebounds.

Matthew Wood paced Hemingford with 12 points.

Leyton will host Peetz (Colo.) tonight, in the final contest prior to the holiday break.

Boys

Leyton 50, Hemingford 34

Leyton 14 14 12 10-50

Hemingford 10 13 7 4-34

Leyton (6-0): Schumacher 18, Cruise 14, AWFrerichs 6, Brennan 6, McKay 4, Melzer 2

Hemingford (3-2): Wood 12, Hansen 5, Kaman 5, Kumpf 4, Foster 4, Mayer 2, Turek 2

Leyton girls

fall late at

Hemingford

Plagued by foul woes all evening, the Leyton High School girls basketball team fell to 3-3 with a narrow 33-29 loss at Hemingford Saturday.

“It was a low-scoring, physical game,” Warriors coach Rol Rushman said. “We wound up losing Kelsey Waite, Kaitlyn Berner, Rachael Ernest and Katy Ernest to fouls.”

The Lady Bobcats (3-2) grabbed the lead for good with about a minute to play, and held on.

LHS led 9-6 after a period and trailed 15-13 at the half before seizing a slim 21-19 edge heading into the fourth frame.

Terra Lukesh led Leyton in scoring with nine points and no other Warriors player had more than six points. Kelsy Wood’s 15 points topped all Hemingford scorers.

LHS will seek to get over the .500 mark again tonight when it entertains Peetz (Colo.)

Girls

Hemingford 33, Leyton 29

Leyton 9 4 8 8-29

Hemingford 6 9 4 14-33

Leyton (3-3): Lukesh 9, Berner 6, KErnest 5, RErnest 4, KWaite 3, McKay 2

Hemingford (3-2): KWood 15, Forgey 6, Kramer 5, Rohrbouck 4, Jespersen 3

Creek Valley

sweeps Saturday

CHAPPEL – Creek Valley High School’s varsity basketball teams posted a Saturday sweep of visiting Banner County.

In the girls’ contest, Bill Wilber’s Lady Storm received 31 points from Summer Mueller and won handily, 49-22.

Jerry Straber added nine points for CV (2-4), which roared to an 11-2 lead after a period, and never looked back.

Sam Behrends tossed in a game-high 29 points as the Creek Valley boys’ team posted an easy 72-44 win against Banner.

Luke Cavalli just missed a double-double with 16 points and nine rebounds for the Storm (4-2), and Lane Godfrey was able to pull it off with 15 points and 11 assists.

CV led 40-20 at halftime before slowly pulling away in the second half.

Creek Valley will be idle through the holiday break, and on Jan. 4 will host Haxtun.

Girls

Creek Valley 49,

Banner County 22

Banner 2 4 6 10-22

CV 11 12 21 5-49

Creek Valley (2-4): Muellser 31, JeStraber 9, Blackwelder 3, Selby 2, JoStraber 2, Brown 2

Boys

Creek Valley 72,

Banner County 44

Banner 11 9 11 13-44

CV 17 23 17 15-72

Creek Valley (4-2): SBehrends 29, Cavalli 16, Godfrey 15, McConnell 6, Brott 3. Hummermeier 2, Garcia 1

Fiscus comes up big

for Peetz boys

NEW RAYMER, Colo. – Josh Fiscus poured in 31 points Saturday night, leading the Peetz (Colo.) Bulldogs to a 65-56 win at Prairie (Colo.).

Peetz (2-3) started and finished strong, grabbing a 25-12 lead heading into the second quarter, and then outscoring the Mustangs 12-5 in the fourth period after the hosts, who encountered their first loss, had pulled to within 53-51.

Troy Clevenger tacked on 13 points and earned a double-double with 11 rebounds, and Austin Crane just missed twin figures with nine points. Jeff Koester pulled down nine rebounds.

In the girls contest, the Lady Mustangs outscored PHS 20-8 in the second quarter, en route to a 43-37 win.

Melissa Schumacher scored 15 points to lead the Lady Bulldogs (2-3), and Beth Berhardt added eight.

Both Peetz squads head into the Panhandle tonight, traveling to Leyton.

Girls

Prairie 43, Peetz 37

Peetz 7 8 14 8-37

Prairie 7 20 7 9-43

Peetz (2-3): MSchumacher 15, Berhardt 8, Harless 6, Burns 6, Curlee 2

Boys

Peetz 65, Prairie 56

Peetz 25 16 12 12-65

Prairie 12 21 18 5-56

Peetz (2-3): Fiscus 31, Clevenger 13, Crane 9, TKarnik 4, Barrett 3, Koester 3, Cox 2

FRIDAY NIGHT

BOXSCORE

Boys

Caliche (Colo.) 67,

Potter-Dix 43

P-D 12 11 10 16-43

Caliche 16 21 18 12-67

Potter-Dix (1-5): BryKnigge 24, LJohnson 7 (8 rebounds), BraKnigge 6, JJohnson 6, Harms 3, Gorsuch 2, Gasseling 1