Val T.
Jan 8, 20212 min
Brooke adds 20, Blickenstaff 14 in battle of ranked teams
BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS
Sports Editor, RTC
Girls basketball
Pioneer 64, Lafayette Central Catholic 49 (Tuesday): Hailey Cripe hit six 3-pointers and scored 26 points, and Olivia Brooke added 20 for the Class 1A, No. 8 Lady Panthers in a win over Class 2A, No. 7 Lafayette Central Catholic Tuesday.
Madison Blickenstaff added 14 for Pioneer.
Cripe also made all six of her free throw attempts. As a team, Pioneer went eight for 10 from the line while Central Catholic made five of 14.
Karsyn Cherry scored 16 of her team-high 26 points in the third quarter for Central Catholic.
Pioneer led 27-20 at halftime and 46-42 after three quarters. Pioneer has won five straight games.
Pioneer’s 64 points were the most Central Catholic had allowed in a game this season and the most they had allowed in their last 23 games dating back to last season.
LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (49) (6-2)
Lutz 2 1-4 5, Rider 1 0-2 2, Thompson 1 1-4 4, Cherry 11 3-4 26, Dineen 4 0-0 12, Cochran 0 0-0 0, McCain 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 19 5-14 49
PIONEER (64) (8-3)
Mackenzie Walker 1 0-0 2, Hailey Cripe 7 6-6 26, Brooklyn Borges 1 0-0 2, Olivia Brooke 10 0-0 20, Madison Blickenstaff 6 2-4 14, Maggie Steffel 0 0-0 0, Crystabelle Blickenstaff 0 0-0 0
TEAM: 25 8-10 64
Three-point field goals:
Lafayette Central Catholic 6 (Dineen 4, Cherry, Thompson),
Pioneer 6 (Cripe 6)
Total fouls: Lafayette Central Catholic 12, Pioneer 11
Fouled out: Brooke (PIO)
Score by quarters
Central Catholic 9 11 22 7 – 49
Pioneer 7 20 19 18 – 64
Pioneer drops to No. 8: Pioneer dropped from No. 6 to No. 8 in this week’s Class 1A coaches poll. The lady Panthers dropped despite a four-game winning streak.
Pioneer adds West Lafayette: Pioneer has added a home game with West Lafayette to its schedule. Game time is 11 a.m./12:30 p.m. (JV/Varsity) Saturday. A Class 3A team, West Lafayette is 8-4 and averages 59 points per game.
Boys basketball
Pioneer at Frontier, canceled: The Pioneer-Frontier boys basketball game scheduled for Friday has been canceled. The Panthers’ next game is a home game against Faith Christian at 6 p.m./7:30 p.m. (JV/Varsity) on Saturday.