Cripe hits 4 treys, Brooke, Blickenstaff notch double-doubles in Pioneer win over Logansport

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Girls basketball

Pioneer 64, Logansport 29 (Saturday): Hailey Cripe scored 13 of her game-high 22 points in the third quarter to lead the Pioneer girls basketball team to a road win over Logansport at the Berry Bowl Saturday.

Cripe hit three 3-pointers in the third quarter and four for the game.

Olivia Brooke (13 points, 16 rebounds) and Madison Blickenstaff (11 points, 11 rebounds) also notched double-doubles for the Class 1A, No. 6 Lady Panthers.

Madison Blickenstaff

Mackenzie Walker and Brooklyn Borges had six points each.

Pioneer held the Lady Berries scoreless in the second quarter in building a 31-11 halftime lead.

The lead reached 56-15 after three quarters.

Pioneer also beat Logansport 48-29 on Dec. 5 in the Cass County Invitational title game. Pioneer has won the last four meetings between the teams. Pioneer (7-3) has also won four straight games overall by an average margin of 23.5 points per game.

PIONEER (64) (7-3)

Mackenzie Walker 3 0-0 6, Hailey Cripe 9 0-0 22, Brooklyn Borges 2 0-2 6, Olivia Brooke 6 1-1 13, Madison Blickenstaff 4 3-5 11, Maggie Steffel 0 0-0 0, Crystabelle Blickenstaff 0 0-2 0, Kylie Attinger 1 2-2 4, Katelyn Duncan 1 0-1 2

TEAM: 26 6-13 64

LOGANSPORT (29) (2-7)

Richie 2 2-2 7, White 0 2-2 2, Roberts 1 0-0 2, Cripe 0 0-4 0, Sutton 3 0-0 6, Wylie 2 0-0 4, Goad 0 0-0 0, Hamm 0 0-0 0, Pearson 1 4-4 6, Crook 1 0-0 2, Hettinger 0 0-0 0, Bell 0 0-0 0

TEAM: 10 8-12 29

Three-point field goals:

Pioneer 6 (Cripe 4, Borges 2),

Logansport 1 (Richie)

Total fouls: Pioneer 13, Logansport 13

Score by quarters

Pioneer 17 14 25 8 – 64

Logansport 11 0 4 14 – 29

LaVille at Pioneer, ppd.: Pioneer’s game with LaVille originally scheduled for Saturday has been postponed to Jan. 29. Start time is 6 p.m./7:30 p.m. (JV/Varsity) at LaVille.

The game will be Pioneer’s regular season finale.

Pioneer drops to No. 8 in 1A poll: Despite their four-game winning streak, Pioneer dropped from No. 6 to No. 8 in this week’s Class 1A coaches poll. Lafayette Central Catholic, their opponent on Tuesday, is ranked No. 7 in Class 2A.