EagleHerald Sports Editor
MENOMINEE—Another couple of hot starts for the Menominee girls basketball team allowed the Maroons to stay undefeated on the season as the Maroons routed Kingsford 64-22 on Thursday and then traveled to Marquette on Friday for a 61-37 victory to move to 6-0 overall and 5-0 in the Great Northern Conference.
“We’ve been coming out of the gates really well in all of our games and I can’t say enough about how well we’ve been playing defensively in the half court, and then being very efficient offensively,” Menominee coach Lucas Chouinard said. “We’ve really been putting a lot of pressure on teams when we’re able to do that so early, and then it just sparks the rest of the game for us too. In all of our games we’ve kind of had a lapse after halftime, so it was nice to see our girls come out with the same energy after halftime as they did to start the games.”
Against Kingsford on Thursday, Erin Barrette swiped a pass and brought it in for a layup to start things off but Kingsford’s Laura Bracket quickly answered with a baseline drive for a basket to tie the game.
From that point on, Menominee was suffocating on the defensive end and rarely allowed the Flivvers a chance to cross half court as the Maroons went on a 9-0 run over the next five minutes before Jenny Olkkonen ended the run with a basket as Menominee led 11-4 with under three minutes left in the quarter.
Barrette answered Kingsford’s basket with a 3-pointer and Kennedy Olson knocked one down on the Maroons’ next possession to hike the lead to 17-4. After a triple from Kingsford’s Christina Glodowski, Menominee ended the quarter with an offensive rebound and putback from Makenzie Wellner and then Wellner was fouled with no time on the clock and knocked down both free throws to take a 21-7 lead after the first.
A 9-0 run to start the second quarter on baskets from Olson, Anderson, Barrette and Wellner bumped Menominee lead to 30-7 before a basket from the Flivvers’ Zoie Geronimi ended the run, but Josie Hofer answered with a 3-pointer for Menominee against Kingsford’s zone defense after some good ball movement from the Maroons.
“We know we’re going to see a lot of zones this year so we really have focused on our ball movement and we work on that a lot,” Chouinard said. “When we have good ball movement and player movement against zones it really shows how dynamic we can be on the offensive end.”
Kingsford cut Menominee’s lead to 37-13 on four straight points from Talia Wallis, but Menominee ended the first half with Anna Nerat splashing a 3-pointer from the corner to go into the break with a 40-13 advantage.
The Flivvers were only able to muster one basket in the third quarter when Olkkonen got free inside for a basket and the Maroons totaled 14 points to head into the final eight minutes ahead 54-15.
Menominee’s lead grew to 40 early in the fourth quarter when Rylee Wickstrom knocked down a triple, and it ended at 42 after back-to-back baskets from Rylee Doyle to close out the game.
Barrette led a balanced attack for Menominee with 14 points and four assists; Anderson added 12 points and Olson finished with eight.
Against Marquette on Friday, Menominee scored the first 18 points of the game as Anderson, Hofer and Jenna Nolde all knocked down 3-pointers in the opening four minutes as Menominee forced Marquette into seven turnovers on its first eight possessions.
Menominee held a 22-8 lead after the first quarter and extended that to 40-12 at halftime for its second straight 40-point opening half, and Marquette was never able to close the gap in the second half as Menominee coasted to another victory.
Menominee (6-0, 5-0 GNC) will now host West Iron County on Tuesday in a non-conference game.
KINGSFORD (22)—Glodowski 6, Wallis 4, Bracket 4, Olkkonen 4, Malone 2, Geronimi 2. FTs: 2-4.
MENOMINEE (64)—Barrette 14, Anderson 12, Olson 8, Wellner 7, Nolde 6, Nerat 5, Doyle 4, Hofer 3, Wickstrom 3, Sinks 2. FTs: 6-10.
March 01, 2021 at 08:00AM
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