By Cort Reynolds<\/p>\n
BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School girls basketball team ran into a first-period buzzsaw and lost 68-49 to visiting non-conference foe Elida on Tuesday, January 13.<\/p>\n
The Bulldog girls raced to a 28-10 lead after the first period and basically maintained that edge the rest of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elida\u2019s one-two punch of junior wing Lilly Sifrit and senior post Emma Mitchell poured in 10 first-quarter points apiece as the Bulldogs erupted for 28 points in the first eight minutes.<\/p>\n
A 14-14 second stanza kept the Pirate deficit at 18 as they trailed 42-24 at intermission. Sophomore Keyrsten Kleman tallied all nine of her points in the second period, including a triple, to keep the Pirates alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Teammate Ellie Bogart also nailed a three-pointer in the second stanza.<\/p>\n
Elida extended its cushion to 56-35 after three quarters following a 14-11 period. The Pirates won the fourth stanza 14-12 as Greta Myers tallied six points.<\/p>\n
Bluffton was only outscored 26-25 after intermission.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Pirate girls dropped to 8-8 overall after the defeat. The Bulldogs improved to 9-5 with the win.<\/p>\n
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1<\/p>\n
2<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
F<\/p>\n
Bluffton<\/p>\n
10<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n
11<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n
49<\/p>\n
Elida<\/p>\n
28<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n
14<\/p>\n
12<\/p>\n
68<\/p>\n
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Sophomore guard Maelee Miller led the Pirates with 14 points, while junior Myers netted a dozen markers.<\/p>\n
Senior Macy Schaadt tallied five markers, and Taylin Goldman added four.<\/p>\n
Sifrit pumped in 16 of her game-high 24 points in the first half. She also pulled down 11 rebounds. The 6-3 Mitchell contributed 15 points. Bulldogs Lexie Good and Shaelynn\u00a0Rager each added nine points.<\/p>\n
Bluffton connected on 17 deuces and buried three triples. The Pirates converted six of 13 free throws (46 percent).<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs canned 26 two-point goals and knocked down a pair of treys. Elida sank 10 of 16 free throws (63 percent).<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
The Pirate girls (1-1 NWC) play at last-place league foe Lima Central Catholic (2-11, 0-4 NWC) on Thursday, Jan. 15.<\/p>\n
Spencerville leads the Northwest Conference standings at 4-0, followed by Columbus Grove at 3-0 and Crestview (2-2). Allen East, Bluffton and Lincolnview are all tied in fourth place at 1-1 in NWC play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Cort Reynolds BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School girls basketball team ran into a first-period buzzsaw and lost 68-49…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-412460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}