 Fremont 42 Ludington 38 Coach Zerfas: We were able to beat a very good and well coached Ludington team to go 12-0 in the league and win Fremont Girl's first outright conference championship since 1978. Fremont won a conference championship shared with Big Rapids in 2020. I told the girls from day 1 that the conference championship goes through Ludington. They had won 5 in a row and I have the utmost respect for Coach Stowe and the program he runs. “I thought if Ludington was able to keep the score and the pace of the game low, we would have a hard time. We like to speed the game up. Well, the pace was slow because Ludington plays great defense. They are long and athletic and do a great job limiting shots. What kept us in the game and ultimately won the game was our defense. We showed we can win a grind it out style game as well as a fast paced game. We led 8-6 after one quarter and 17-12 at halftime. We scored first in the third quarter but then Ludington made a run and by the end of the third it was Ludington 27 Fremont 26. The fourth quarter was just a battle of two proud teams that work extremely hard. We took the lead late in the 4th, maybe 2 minutes to go, and held on. We had 5 different people score in the 4th. Jessica Bennett came up big late again scoring 7 in the 4th quarter when we needed it most. In the first game at Ludington when we trailed by 8 in the 4th, Jessica hit 3 triples in the span of 2 minutes to put us ahead. Riley Chase also played great in the second half scoring 11 of her 13 in the second half. Scoring for us was Riley Chase with 13, Jessica Bennett with 10, Taylor DeKuiper with 7 points and 10 rebounds, Mia Clemence with 5 points, 4 assists and 8 rebounds, Olivia Hansen with 4 points, Eliana Vandenberg with 2 and Katie Ackerman with 1 point and 5 assists. We are now 17-4, 12-0 and we play at Fruitport to close out the regular season. Holton 57 Ravenna 46 Coach Jordan: “Last game of the season for us as well as Senior night so It was nice to send these girls out with a win, and fitting that we were led by our 2 - 4 year starters in Abby Fowler and Ryann Robins. Abbie had 14 points 8 steals and 4 assists and Ryann had a monster game to close out her career on her home court with 25 points and 13 rebounds (10 offensive). Ava Crowell , another senior, also had a season high of 7 points and 4 rebounds. “This was the first time all month we have been whole as a team and not injured or sick so it was good to get some of the cohesiveness back going into districts. Every girl got on every quarter which was also a goal tonight. “But credit to Ravenna, they were down a few key players but would not go away.. they hit 9 3 balls on the night, and felt like they shot about 50-60% from deep on the night.. which kept them in the game in the second half. “This win gets us to 13-9 on the season and now it's all about districts . We open with Hesperia next Wednesday.” Central Montcalm 40 Newaygo 37 The Lions held a 16-8 lead at the break but the Hornets stormed back in the second half and captured the first round win in the conference tournament.The Lions had a shot at a 3 pointer to tie at the buzzer but couldn’t get the ball to drop. Coach Thomasma:"Tough loss tonight. Felt like we really played well in the first half and should have been up more but we let them hang around. Give CM credit. They shot the ball really well in the third quarter and stole the momentum away from us. The FT stripe came back to haunt us again too. We shot 8-27 and it's difficult to beat a quality team like CM shooting like that." Naomi Schillman finished with a team high 11 points while Ruby Hughes pulled down 10 rebounds to go with her 7 points. Kent City 46 Grant 35 Maddie Geers scored 28 points including 17 from the charity stripe as the Eagles outlasted the Tigers to set up a rematch with Morley Stanwood for the tourney title. Coach Delamater: “The flu bug has hit us hard this week and we knew going in that was going to be a factor in the game. We toughed it out Monday at practice and I hoped girls would feel better today, but I could tell today that our energy level was not where we needed it to be going into the game. Overall, we played a great defensive game. We held KC to 11 total baskets and only 6 of those were from players other than Geers. On our side, we had 12 total baskets. Unfortunately, you can't win games when the free throw shooting is 28 to 12. Geers, herself, went to the line 24 times, doubling up our total. Ultimately, as we have seen in three of our past four games, foul trouble plagued us again tonight and we ran out of gas in the 4th quarter.” Julie Ashbaugh once again added to her alltime Grant scoring record with a team high 15 points. Natalia Rodriguez hit for 10 points and Lily Krepps canned a pair of triples to finish with 6. White Cloud 32 Chippewa Hills 22 Coach Wilk: “With tonight's win we match our win record from last year. Last year we relied heavily on Gaby Reeve (Muskegon Community College Basketball) to do a bulk of our scoring, but this year we are more balanced. Tonight was no different. Brooke Ringler had her best game of the year dropping in 13 points. Annie Feldpausch added 6, and Jaden Gomez had 5. "We had a lot of positives from tonight. We executed plays well, our defense did a pretty good job, and we were aggressive. With being aggressive, we frequently found ourselves at the charity stripe for free throws. Unfortunately, we missed 18 at the line. This is something that can't happen Thursday or next week in districts. We need every point we can get. Over the next couple of days we will prepare for Tri-County and we will look to add to our momentum for next week."
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