Appleton – Basketball coach of the Appleton East girls, Brian Paschen, did not care that Torie Neubauer has become a little cold on the ground before Tuesday’s central moment Against oostburg.
“Put the ball in the hands of Torie,” he said. “I will try my luck with that.”
His faith was rewarded when Neubauer sank a 3 points in the last seconds to crown a furious rally while the patriots upset the power of the 3 Oostburg 68-67 division on Tuesday.
The game was put in place on an inbound pass from the first year Emilia Montmarquette, who found Ella Sweeney, who then waited for Neubauer to make his way to the top of the pole key. Several defenders of Oostburg followed the junior striker Ella Jazdzewski in the post, who left Neubauer Claire for the shooting, on which she connected with 9.4 seconds.
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“We tried to perform this whole game and we thought,” We know it works and we know that it works, but we are waiting for “,” said Neubauer. “And the only time we executed it, we have executed it, which is enormous.”
Paschen was convinced that the game would work.
“We watched him and tried to execute it earlier in the match and it didn’t work because we were not sufficiently penetrated with the guards,” he said. “But I knew that if we got there, they would change and it would be open to pop and of course, that’s what happened.”
Neubauer scored 16 of its 24 -point summit in the second half and led a 3 -point dam by the Patriots. She finished with six trifectas while Eastern 16. Lilly Meulemans added 15 points, all on 3 points, with Sweeney struggling with 13 points, including two triples.
East’s victory achieved a sequence of 22 Oostburg victories victories. The other defeat of the Flying Dutchmen was against the double champion of Division 4 of Division 4 of the Wiaa Laconia in the first game of the season.
The Patriots (14-8) played well with a sequence of four consecutive victories and won 11 of their last 13 games.
Oostburg (22-2) presents the Ketterhagen – Junior Twins Ady and Riley and Freshman Kinsley sisters. Ady and Riley are verbal commitments to Uw-Green Bay, with Kinsley who already offers several division I offers.
Ady led Oostburg with 22 points, with Riley (17) and Kinsley (11) also reaching the two figures.
Oostburg led 47-31 at halftime and 53-33 at the start of the second half. East chicked the deficit and a 30-10 race allowed the Patriots to shoot even at 63-63 on a 3 points of Meulemans.
East also played better defensively in the second half and reduces its reversals. The Patriots held Oostburg in the last seconds while the route of Ady Ketterhagen in the basket and the shot failed to reach the brand at the expiration of time.
Paschen said he was proud of how his team had responded in the last seconds in defense.
“We have somehow decomposed it in two phases,” he said. “There were nine seconds on the clock and we wanted at least to take half of it to pass it through half a terrain, so maybe there would be a pass in there. We knew they would go hard on the glass.
“But we want to make sure that if they were driving, it was not going to be a straight line for the basket and everyone just bought. So it was fantastic.”
Paschen added that her team had been mentally difficult lately.
“We have always had a bit of a softer mentality on this subject,” he said. “But this year, we offer some very big victories and I think that girls overcome the bump of the mental part … knowing that they have never come out of a game and that they can compete in any way What level.
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