Mulvane tournament: Wellington shoots past Southeast
MULVANE — The way Wellington coach Kevin Hackerott had it figured heading into Thursday’s semifinals of the Mulvane tournament, his girls basketball team was undersized and nowhere near as quick as their opponent, Southeast.
“They’re (Class) 6A, we’re 4A,” Hackerott said. “It’s a big difference. It was ‘who will play to their strengths,’ and our kids did.”
Wellington relied early on its primary strength, three-point shooting, as it hit 5 of 10 threes in the opening quarter en route to a dominating 58-30 victory over Southeast.
Wellington (10-2) will play Garden Plain (12-1), a 52-45 winner over Mulvane, for the tournament title at 6:15 Saturday night.
“We shoot all the time, that’s our weapon,” Hackerott said. “We’re not very big, we play fast and we try to get shots up. That’s our style. We’ve had games of 10, 11, 12 (three-point) makes a game. We’ve got kids who can do that.”
Wellington senior Dani Anderson hit 3 of 4 threes in the first quarter.
“That’s what we practice all the time and that’s what we’re good at,” Anderson said.
| Southeast (3-8) | 4 | 9 | 6 | 11 | — | 30 |
| Wellington (10-2 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 12 | — | 58 |
SOUTHEAST– Loggins 1 3-4 5, Plowden 2 2-6 6, Bullock 3 1-1 7, Bonner 0 0-2 0, Glover 1 0-0 2, Grim 2 0-0 4, Jones 1 0-0 2, Ines 1 2-2 4. Totals 11 8-15 30.
WELLINGTON– Adams 1 0-2 2, Amrein 1 0-0 2, Anderson 7 0-0 17, Whaley 5 2-4 15, Jenkins 0-0 13, Palmer 0 0-2 0, Hefley 0 0-0 0, ,Cornejo 1 1-2 3, Shields 0 0-0 0, McComb 1 2-2 4, Page 0 2-2 2, Ledesma 0 0-0 0. Totals 22 (7) 7-14 58.
Garden Plain 52, Mulvane 45 – Garden Plain hit 8 of 11 first-quarter shots and opened the game by scoring the first 10 points and led 18-5 heading into the second period.
Mulvane tied the score at 40-all on a three-pointer from Madison Bish, who finished with a team-high 15 points.
After Donaldson, who finished with 12 points, tied the score at 42-all, Garden Plain’s Alli Heimerman made an aggressive play, launching a three-pointer from the top of the key. It dropped in for a 45-42 lead. That started a 10-0 run, as Garden Plain forced four turnovers in the final three minutes.
Heimerman scored a game-high 17 points, hitting 2 of 3 three-pointers. Cassidy Haukap added 14 points, six rebounds.
| Mulvane (6-6) | 5 | 15 | 11 | 14 | — | 45 |
| Garden Plain (12-1) | 18 | 12 | 5 | 17 | — | 52 |
MULVANE– Bish 15, Burkhart 5, Donaldson 12, Malick 1, Hatfield 0, Gerlach 7, Nelson 3, Wilson 2. Totals 15 (4) 11-21 45.
GARDEN PLAIN– Bourne 2, Hays 10, Haukap 14, Na. Dooley 9, Heimerman 17, Costello 0, No. Dooley 0, Klabenes 0. Totals 15(2) 20-25 52
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Maize South 51, Arkansas City 46 – Maize South pulled away from Arkansas City in the second quarter when Mariah Suchan scored nine of her 19 points and McKenna Poynter had seven of her 13. But the Mavericks had to hold on in the final period as Arkansas City outscored them 22-14. Maize South advances to Saturday’s fifth-place game against Clearwater. Arkansas City will play Campus for seventh.
| Arkansas City (3-9) | 4 | 8 | 12 | 22 | — | 46 |
| Maize South(8-5) | 6 | 18 | 13 | 14 | — | 51 |
Arkansas City– Budd 4, O’Daniel 2, McVey 10, Oak 2, Brantley 19, Taylor 7, Salas 2. Totals 19 (1) 7-7 46.
Maize South– Aitken 0, McKay 2, Kubik 0, Domnick 4, Poynter 13, Suchan 19, Cordell 3, Homan 2, Lewis 6, Mannis 2, Nestor 0. Totals 21 (2) 11-18 51.
Clearwater 41, Campus 35 – Clearwater used a strong inside game with Kylie Molisee and Brittney Stever to advance to the fifth-place game. Molisee had 15 rebounds, 13 points and two blocks, while Stever had seven blocks.Campus’ Brianna Bosley had 16.
| Clearwater (4-7) | 10 | 10 | 8 | 13 | — | 41 |
| Campus (2-11) | 13 | 8 | 3 | 11 | — | 35 |
CLEARWATER: – Babb 4, Vogel 12, Molisee 13, Winter 5, Palmer 0, Stever 5, Akin 2, Schoenecker 0. Totals 15 11-20 41.
CAMPUS – Vann 6, Wheeler 2, Keck 0, Bosley 16, Al. Krier 2, Ivy 2, Clark 0, As. Krier 0, Zogelman 4, Howe 3. Totals 11 (3) 10-15 35.