Employees picture by Ari Selvey New Ulm’s Maddie Backer battles for place throughout a non-conference women basketball sport towards Mound Westonka Saturday at New Ulm Excessive College.
NEW ULM — New Ulm gained its fifth straight sport, topping Mound Westonka 82-52 on Saturday in a nonconference women basketball sport.
New Ulm was capable of honor Morgan Hulke earlier than the sport as she reached 1,000 profession factors in an away sport at Worthington on January 23rd. Hulke led the Eagles in scoring with 24 factors, whereas Brooklyn Lewis had 19 factors. Betsy Joyce added 11 factors for the Eagles.
It was additionally the staff’s second win with out senior Daviney Dreckman, who suffered a torn ACL every week in the past.
Regardless of shedding considered one of its high gamers, New Ulm does not appear to have misplaced a beat, successful by 27 factors towards Worthington and 30 towards the White Hawks on Friday.
“We is not going to change it, we are going to play otherwise” New Ulm head coach Julie Rogers stated. “The factor we did was we discovered some extra open photographs … Some pockets, particularly at present, the place we get an Eight-10 footer. We’ve got to reap the benefits of that, from a scoring perspective. We do not have the peak that different groups have, so that is what we’ve to proceed to do, is transfer the ball and make these passes to offset the scoring they might have given us beneath.”
Rogers stated Dreckman was nonetheless an essential a part of the staff, offering help and recommendation from the bench.
“You see her on our bench and should you have been to come back into our chat earlier than the sport or at halftime, she offers us all of the issues she sees from the bench.” Rogers stated. “So he placed on his teaching hat and took on that function. And the ladies have responded positively to that, they know and worth her opinion and what she thinks we will do to reap the benefits of any run they’ve defensively or offensively. I believe these are the changes we made.”
Lewis helped gas the offense on this sport, hitting a pair of Three-pointers as a part of a 15-6 begin for the Eagles. New Ulm’s full court docket press bothered the White Hawks, inflicting fast turnovers and straightforward baskets for the Eagles. New Ulm rapidly secured the lead, occurring a 9-Zero run to go up 26-Eight and ended the half with a 44-21 lead.
The second half was largely in regards to the Eagles, who went up 74-38 on a layup by Hulke to place the sport on the clock with over eight minutes left within the half.
New Ulm (16-6) has 4 video games remaining on the common season schedule, beginning with a highway sport at Waseca on Tuesday. To complete the season sturdy, Rogers says the staff will have to be sharp with their defensive rotations and assist the protection.
“We’ve got to verify we play good, strong assist protection,” she stated. “I believe the groups which can be in our part all have one or two children which can be actually good scorers. So we’ve to determine tips on how to assist one another defend towards these children. These are the issues we’ll must work on over the subsequent 4 video games in preparation for sectionals. And we’ve to proceed to get outdoors photographs and we’ve to make outdoors photographs. Final evening we set a college report, we made 18 Three’s, so we’ve to proceed to develop these outdoors taking pictures alternatives. And we’ve a wide range of children who can do them.”