(January 16th, 2015) -STRYKER: Taylor Haines scored 21 points in the Lady Panthers’ big Buckeye Border Conference win against North Central.
Stryker took the lead early and never looked back. They defeated the Lady Eagles 49-36.
It all began with Haines brilliant first quarter performance. The Panther sophomore connected on 3 of her 4 successful three-point attempts in the opening period, earning 11 points early into the contest. This was part of a 19 point first quarter effort by the Stryker girls. The Lady Eagles were much slower to start, producing 6 points in the same span.
Of course, the girls from Pioneer didn’t just give up. They came back strong in the second period, scoring 14 points. At the same time, they were able to hold Stryker to just 5 points. This closed the gap between the two teams quite quickly, leaving the score at 24-20 in Stryker’s favor going into halftime.
That margin barely moved in the third period. Stryker added a single point to their lead thanks to an 11-10 quarter. With just a 5 point difference between the two squads, the fourth quarter would prove vital to the game’s outcome.
The Lady Panthers delivered the knockout punch in the final period. Stryker put up 14 points, limiting North Central to just 6. For such a young team to finish a game so convincingly shows how much they’ve grown over the course of the season thus far.
Besides Haines, Haley Doehrmann had a great night scoring the ball. The talented freshman contributed 17 points to the Stryker victory. Audra Rupp, a Panther junior, added 4 points as well.
North Central senior Sabrina Pickford produced 17 points for the Lady Eagles. Makayla Hayes, an Eagle sophomore, scored 7 points, making the team’s only three in the contest. Cady VanDeVoorde offered another 6 points to the North Central effort.