Scoring droughts too much for Plum City to overcome
Two critical scoring droughts, one in the first quarter and the other in the fourth, caused Plum City High School's boys' basketball team to fall too far behind Wauzeka-Steuben to catch up. The Blue Devils lost the championship game of the WIAA Division 5 La Crosse Central Sectional Tournament 57-46.
LA CROSSE - Two critical scoring droughts, one in the first quarter and the other in the fourth, caused Plum City High School's boys' basketball team to fall too far behind Wauzeka-Steuben to catch up. The Blue Devils lost the championship game of the WIAA Division 5 La Crosse Central Sectional Tournament 57-46.
The only tie in the ballgame after the opening tip came early in the first quarter when Mitchell Erickson's three tied the game at 3-3 for Plum City. But the Devils went quiet for a critical three minute stretch of the quarter which put them down 12-3, a deficit they had to spend all game to try and make up.
The Blue Devils did make some of it up. By the middle of the third quarter they were down 26-20 and 31-26 after Chad Fox sank a three-pointer.
But then the Hornets (24-2) outscored PC 19-6 for its greatest lead of 18 points at 50-32. Only a late run by the Devils made the score respectable.
Plum City shot poorly from the field and Wauzeka-Steuben clogged the lane to prevent dribble-penetration from PC point guard Chase Luebker. He finished with 17 points but 14 of those points came in the first half. No one else for PC was in double figures as Hornets prevented another scorer from hurting them.
W-S's Chris McCullick led all scorers with 24 points.
Wauzeka-Steuben won its first sectional title in school history and will play Clayton in the state semifinals Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Plum City finished the regular season 16-9 overall.
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