GIRLS
Winners in five of their last six, the Harris-Lake Park Lady Wolves got a visit from the Graettinger-Terril Knights for a Cornbelt Conference matchup on Tuesday night. In a rematch of the league opener, it was a dominate effort from the Wolves who got 16 points from Anna Brandt and 15 from Deni Peters en route to a 54-29 victory.
HLP gave up a 15-point second half lead when the two teams last met but the Wolves would not relinquish a 22-point halftime edge. The Wolves sweep the season series just the Knights did last year. Harris-Lake Park (8-3, 5-1 Cornbelt Conference) keeps pace and stays within a game of first-place North Sentral Kossuth, which picked up a win on Tuesday as well, moving to 6-0. HLP heads to West Bend Mallard on Friday.
BOYS
The Harris-Lake Park Wolves were putting it together.
Coming into Tuesday’s contest, the Wolves were on a three-game win streak, winners of two straight conference games, and getting big contributions from underclassmen. But then they ran into a Graettinger-Terril team that has had the Wolves number for the last three seasons. HLP, trying to get back to .500 in conference, invited the Knights to town and for the Wolves, the term “shooting woes” would have been an understatement. The Wolves, a 33% 3-point shooting team this year, went 0-18 from beyond the arc, and the Knights took advantage, sweeping the season series with a 51-45 victory. Graettinger-Terril defeated HLP by a total of 11 points in their two meetings this year.
Harris-Lake Park did show some gusto late. After trailing by a dozen early in the fourth quarter, the Wolves whittled that lead back down to two with a very young lineup on the floor. Brady Nissen led all scorers with 18 for the Wolves while Mychal Sheridan added 12. Harris-Lake Park (4-6, 2-4 Cornbelt Conference) heads to West Bend Mallard on Friday.
