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December 14, 1999
Hounds fall to WabassoBy JIM BASTIAN Journal Sports Writer NEW ULM -- If you ask a player or team to explain a hot shooting night, chances are they cannot. The same is true of a team that experiences that cold shooting night. All the head scratching cannot come up with a suitable answer. Monday night, the New Ulm Cathedral girl's basketball team was the recipient of both worlds. The Hounds hit six of their 15 first-quarter shots from the field before hitting only eight field goals in the remaining three quarters and fell to Wabasso 51-44 in Tomahawk Conference action. Angela Schumacher and Tara Trost led the Rabbits (2-1, 2-1) with 10 points each. Laura Hazuka paced the Hounds (1-3, 1-2) with 12 points. Tessa Hodapp and Natalia Haala added 11 and 10 points respectively for Cathedral. "We really gave an effort tonight," said Hound head coach Mary Dengerud. "We gave everything that we could, and I think that we picked up our game much better. Our zone bothered them and when we went into a man-to-man defense, we did not make many mistakes. The only thing that beat us tonight was our shooting from the outside." But for the first quarter, cold shooting was not even on the minds of the Hounds as they took a 6-3 lead on consecutive baskets by Hazuka, Cathy Boettger and Jackie Wolfe before the Rabbits hopped back into the game at 8-7 on Tiffany Trost's basket. But the Hounds ran off six straight points for a 14-7 lead after one quarter. However, the quarter change saw Cathedral's shooting fall off, hitting only one basket from the field in the first seven minutes. That allowed a Rabbit team to get back into the game, erase the lead, and take a 19-18 lead on an Annie Moore putback basket with 1:10 left in the first half. What seemed like a momentum swing for Cathedral came seconds later when Hazuka was fouled and Rabbit head coach Neil Dolan was assesed a technical foul when he questioned the call. The resulting free throws by Hazuka and Natalia Haala plus a a three-point play by Tessa Hodapp, who followed up with another rebound hoop, lifted Cathedral into a 27-20 halftime lead. The Hounds then came out in the third quarter and saw their cold shooting drop even more as a 3-for-10 from the field in the second quarter fell to 2-of-12 from the floor in the third quarter. That cold shooting coupled with Wabasso hitting four of their first six shots from the field cut the lead to 30-28 on baskets by Schumacher and Tara Trost. Cathedral would hit their two field goals back-to-back on a Hazuka rebound and a Suzy Beranek bucket with 3:34 left in the third quarter. The Hounds would not see another made field goal until the fourth quarter was halfway over. By then, Wabasso had taken a 48-37 lead. Cathedral tried to get back into the game via the three-point shot but but was 0-for-7 in the quarter. For the game, they missed all 13 treys. "We have to pick up our shooting if we are going to win games," commented Dengerud. "When we missed from the outside, we did not get the offensive rebounds. We got one shot and they got two or three. You miss one shot and now they are on offense. We need to have more patience on offense." The Hounds won the B-squad game 34-27. Katie Gieseke led Cathedral with 12. Casey Price paced Wabasso with 11. WABASSO 7 13 13 18--51 CATHEDRAL 14 13 7 10--44 WABASSO (51): Schumacher 10, Ta.Trost 10, Ti.Trost 9, Moore 8, Schwarz 7, Frank 5, Rohlik 2. CATHEDRAL (44): Hazuka 12, Hodapp 11, N.Haala 10, Wolfe 4, Genelin 3, S.Beranek 2, Boettger 2.
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