Lady Hawks fall to St. Mary’s Cardinals
O’NEILL — The Osmond-Randolph Lady Hawks traveled to O’Neill on Thursday, Dec. 1, to face the No. 3 D2 rated St. Mary’s Cardinals. The Cardinals showed early why they were a state semi-finalist last year and lost only one senior from last year’s team.
The Cardinals’ defensive pressure helped them race out to a 22-0 lead after the first quarter. The Lady Hawks were able to settle down and finally get the ball through the hoop in the second quarter as Erin Engel
scored the first-ever official points for Osmond-Randolph as she went 4-4 from the charity stripe in the period.
Unfortunately, St. Mary’s had the momentum rolling and scored another 22 points in the second quarter to build up a 44-10 lead going into halftime.
The Hawks responded well to start the third period as both the offense and defense came out to hot starts making shots and getting stops. But then they went on a cold run while St. Mary’s was able to get back on track.
Osmond-Randolph would drop its first game as a new co-op to St. Mary's by a final of 20-67. Senior Cali Gutz
led the team with 11 points, shoot- ing 3 of 4 from three in the process.
Sophomores Keli Aschoff and Sophie Gansebom would add 4 and 1 points, respectively, while senior Erin Engel finished with 4 points and a team- leading 8 rebounds.
Eve Bermel: 1s. Keli Aschoff: 4p, 2r, 3s. Ella Scott: 3r, Sophie Gan - sebom: 1p, 2r, 1a. Cali Gutz: 11p, 1r. Caydence Krienert: 1r, 1a, 2s. Erin Wagner: 2r. Jessa Backer: 1a. Anabelle Vinson: 1r. Erin Engel: 4p, 8r, 1a, 3s, 1b.
The Hawks will be back in action Thursday, Dec. 8, in Randolph vs. C2 No. 3 Ponca with junior varsity action starting at 4:45 p.m. The fol lowing day, Friday, Dec. 9, Osmond-Randolph will travel to D2 No. 6 LADY HAWKS FALL TO ST. MARY’S CARDINALS
Wynot with junior varsity action starting at 4 p.m.
JV Drops Game to LCC
In junior varsity action on Saturday, Dec. 3, at the R-Club freshman-JV tournament in Randolph, the Hawks dropped the first game in a close battle with Laurel-Concord-Coleridge 19-- 22. Sophomore Erin Wagner finished with 6 points to lead the team.
In the second game, the Hawks played the Blue Devils of Wynot. Af- ter a first quarter trailing only 5-8, the Hawks gave up a big second quarter to Wynot who scored 20 points in the stanza to take a demanding lead that the Hawks were never able to close the gap on. The Hawks dropped the second game of the day, losing 12-38.
Ava Reikofski led the team with 4 points. Meghann Miller knocked in 3 points, Erin Wagner and Piper Hoff- man both finished with 2 points and Mabel Ngebeh knocked down a free throw, finishing with 1 point.
“It was a good experience for our young girls, all freshmen besides sophomore Erin Wagner, against some good quality programs," said Coach Bradley Wright.
