February 9th
at Springfield
Sleepy Eye earns its first out right tomahawk conference championship since 1988-89 and also to tie the single season win record with 20 wins in a season (2014-15).
Alicia Ibarra 18 points, 6 assists
Sarah Ibarra 13 points, 5 steals
Brianna Polesky 17 points
Josie Schieffert 14 points, 14 rebounds, 6 blocks
Brianna Polesky broke the single season team record for trhee-pointers made in a season with her third three in the first half surpassing 2012 graduate Sydney Remus at 44.
Coach’s Comments (Ryan Hulke):
The first ten minutes of the game was very slow and we had no flow as Springfield had long offensive possessions. When they run a 4-out offense with only a couple girls that are looking to score we had to stay discipline on the defensive end. We were able to do that and build a 18-7 led which then diminished with some missed shots on our end and offensive put-backs on their end.
Luckily late in the half Polesky and Sarah Ibarra hit back to back threes which gave us some flow and we went into half up 9. The second half we executed our sets very efficiently and that gained us a twenty point lead and we coasted from there.
We shot 52% from the field, 82% from the FT line (14/17) and 53% (8/15) from the three point line. Anytime we are able to shoot the ball like that we will be tough to beat.
I believe we had four girls in double figures again which is great to see and tough to stop.
Indians are now 20-2 overall and 13-0 in conference
