LADY RAIDER’S OUTLAST GORILLA’S

The Gregory Gorilla’s traveled to Wagner last Tuesday night in girls basketball action. Wagner would jump out to an early 18-10 lead. Gregory would storm back in the second to time the game 26-26 and hold for the final shot to take the lead. Jayla Bruguier would come away with a steal and pass ahead to Ashlyn Koupal for the Raiders to take a 28-26 lead into the half. The Raiders would have a stellar third quarter connecting on 4 triples. 2 from Macy Koupal and 1 apiece from Jayla Bruguier and Abby Brunsing. They would out score Gregory 22-8 and take a 50-34 lead. The lead would never really change the 4th quarter with Wagner winning 64-50. Wagner would hit 24-57 from the floor for 42%. Gregory would convert 15-54 from the field for 28%. Wagner would shoot 8-10 from the line while the Gorillia’s would hit 11-21. Wagner would own the glass with a 38-34 advantage but would commit 16 turnovers compared to 11 from Gregory.Macy Koupal would lead all scorers with a game high 27 points, 4 boards, and dish out 4 assists. Abby Brunsing would also score double figures with 16 points, grab a 9 boards, and dish out 3 assists. Shalayne Nagel would chip in 6 points, get 3 steals, dish out a team high 8 assists and tie Brunsing for the team high 9 boards. Jayla Bruguier would add 6 points off the bench. Kya Kjeldgaard would add 4 points and 4 boards off the bench. Caydynce Olson would add 2 points, grab 6 boards, and dish out 4 assists. Ashlyn Koupal would also add 2 points, grab 4 boards, and dish out 3 assists. Sydney Cournoyer would round out the scoring with 1 point. “We did a great job of moving the basketball, finding shooters, being ready to shoot, and knocking down shots. We still need to continue to do a better job on rebounding. Defensively we have to talk better as they had three scorers knock down shots with us stride for stride. We still have to look for that inside outside presence but we did an awesome job of cutting and hitting those cutters. When you get 22 assists in a game that is great team work and ball distribution so I give credit to our players playing with in themselves.”