What looked at first like a blowout turned out to be a close game that went down to the wire.
The Manawa girls’ basketball team trailed Shiocton by double digits for most of its Central Wisconsin Conference-East matchup with Shiocton. Cutting the deficit to five points before dropping a 57-49 decision to the Chiefs on Jan. 10.
Manawa didn’t have an answer for Shiocton’s Aliyah Reese, who led all players with 24 points.
Her three consecutive three-pointers turned the Chiefs’ 13-5 lead into a 22-5 advantage in the first half, and her fourth at the buzzer gave Shiocton a 30-15 lead at the halftime break.
The Chiefs kept their double-digit lead in the second half until Cassandra Arndt’s three-pointer with just under eight minutes remaining made it an eight-point game.
Manawa later cut the deficit to five points with just under five minutes to go on a basket from Taelyn Bonikowske but never got any closer.
The Chiefs scored eight consecutive points to push the lead back up to 13. The Wolves weren’t finished, as a basket from Oliva Tomko-Santos cut the Chiefs’ lead to 55-49 with 1:30 remaining. Shiocton’s Lydia Hofacker later fouled Manawa’s Rylee Vanden Heuvel on a three-point try with 21 seconds to go. Vanden Heuvel missed all three of her free throws.
Arndt and Tomko-Santos led Manawa with 12 and nine points, respectively. Reese was the only Shiocton player to finish in double figures.
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