The West Point-Beemer Girls are 2-2 in their last four games, falling 58-44 at home to Twin River last Friday night, winning 55-32 at Logan View/Scribner-Snyder last Saturday, losing 58-53 at Wayne Thursday night, and beating Oakland-Craig 61-49 in the first round of the East Husker Conference Tournament in Oakland Friday night.
The Titans led the Cadets 16-10 at the end of the first quarter. Twin River won the second quarter 15-12 to take a 31-22 lead into the locker room.
The Titans won the third quarter 13-12 to go up 44-34 at the end of three.
Twin River outscored West Point-Beemer 14-10 in the fourth quarter.
Andrea Hoffman led the way with 11 points while Bethany Anderson and Abbey Dale notched 10 apiece. Anderson added 7 rebounds.
The Cadets led the Raiders 17-4 after one, and won the second quarter 14-9 to lead 31-13 at halftime.
LV/SS outscored West Point-Beemer 15-8 in the third quarter to make it a 39-28 game at the end of three.
The Cadets quadrupled up the Raiders 16-4 in the fourth quarter.
Hoffman led the way with 12 points while Anderson totaled 11. Dale, Katie Pilakowski, and Makenna Weddle all posted 7.
The Blue Devils led West Point-Beemer 13-12 at the end of one. The Cadets outscored Wayne 16-10 in the second quarter to take a 28-23 lead into the locker room.
The Blue Devils narrowed the deficit to 1 after three by winning the third quarter 15-11 to make the score 39-38 in favor of West Point-Beemer.
Wayne outlasted the Cadets 20-14 in the fourth quarter.
Anderson had a team-high 16 points while Brittney Hinkel registered 12 points and 11 rebounds, good enough for a double-double. Hoffman pitched in 11 points.
The Cadets led the Knights 10-6 at the end of one. The Knights outscored West Point-Beemer 17-14 in the second quarter to make it a 24-23 game at half in favor of the Cadets.
West Point-Beemer outlasted Oakland-Craig 19-14 in the third quarter to go up 43-37 at the end of three.
The Cadets won the fourth quarter 18-12.
Hinkel led all scorers with 26 points, including 19 in the second half. Anderson added 21 while Hoffman chipped in 8.
Head Coach Craig Theis. "We tell these girls got to believe. And just kind of contain Nelson girl. She's a great player. So we kind of did some diamond, did a little man. And it was a good win, good team win."
Theis on the performances of Hinkel and Anderson. "Yeah I mean those two girls that we've leaned on for scoring. But I think they're both around 10 points. But they just took us on their back and they carried us. When tournament time comes around those stars kind of align sometimes for you, and they play hard, and they have a little bit of a gid up to their step. Their stars do. And they both did."
I think West Point-Beemer is starting to play really good basketball and figure some things out.
The Cadets (7-12) take on Stanton (16-1) in Stanton in the second round of the Conference Tournament Monday night at 6:00.
The Mustangs won 41-24 at Twin River Thursday night.
Stanton is a really good team, and has won 15 in a row, but West Point-Beemer is starting to play some of their best basketball of the season, in my opinion.
The Mustangs beat the Cadets 40-29 at home on December 6th, and I feel both teams are better now than they were then.
West Point-Beemer is going to need to continue to get the offensive production from their stars that they have gotten in recent games.
What makes Stanton so tough is their defense. The Mustangs aren't the most dominant team offensively, but really get after things and are tenacious on defense.
So with that said, the Cadets have to take the fight right to the Mustangs, and go right at them.
West Point-Beemer has to be aggressive towards and must attack the basket.
The Cadets have to work the ball around for good shots and get to the free throw line.
Players like Anderson can't be afraid to get physical with Stanton's post players.
West Point-Beemer has to play tough minded, grind it out, hard nosed basketball.
Things are really coming together for the Cadets, in my opinion, and West Point-Beemer appears to be starting to figure some things out.
The Cadets should have the Mustangs' attention at the very least. This should be a good competitive ball game between West Point-Beemer and Stanton.
The Cadets did a great job avenging a loss in the conference tournament from last year. Now it's time to go out and get another win.
I think West Point-Beemer can beat Stanton. It's going to be tough, but given the way the Cadets have played their last few games, you never know what might happen.
West Point-Beemer has to play hard, good basketball for four quarters and let their play dictate the outcome of the game.
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