Saturday, March 1, 2008

Owls Girls Basketball Makes Second Straight Section Final, 69-44 Sub-Section Championship Win Over Ashby Arrows at the University of Minnesota-Morris







The Owls will face Ada-Borup (27-1), a 59-35 winner over Lake Park-Audubon, next Friday, March 7, at 7:00 at UM-Morris.

Ada-Borup defeated LP-A in the Sub-Section 6A-North championship tonight, held at Concordia-Moorhead. The highly-ranked Cougars began the playoffs with an 85-48 win over Norman County East (6-20 finish). In the sub-section semi's, the Cougars defeated New York Mills (18-8 finish) 83-49. New York Mills was the 5th seed, and advanced to the semi's with a 47-46 win over Park Christian, the 5th seed.

In the championship, the Cougars defeated the 3rd seed, Lake Park-Audubon, who entered the title game after a semi-final win over the 2-seed, Norman County West, 65-56.

In tonight's convincing win for the Owls (22-4) over the Ashby Arrows, they led 36-28 at halftime. The first half was a battle the whole way.

The tone for the second half was set in the first 66 seconds out of the locker room, with Jenny Noordmans, Bree Holleman, and Chelsea Voorhees all hitting buckets to put their team ahead 42-28 before the Arrows knew what hit them.

With 2:59 on the clock, Arrows' coach John Kent waved the white flag in a classy move, with the Owls sitting on a 22-point lead at that point.

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