Dodgeville Bests New Glarus

On Tuesday, December 29th, the New Glarus girls basketball team traveled to Dodgeville to face the Dodgers. At half-time, the Lady Knights were down 17 points, 35-18. Despite outscoring Dodgeville in the second half, the girls lost the game. The final score was Dodgeville 60, New Glarus 45.
Head Coach Kim Burton commented, “The Knights had a cold night of shooting as they were just 22% from the floor.  Despite having a poor shooting night, the girls never game up and continued to hustle throughout the entire game.”
Senior Tamara Elzen lead the team in scoring, with 16 points, five rebounds and three assists. McKinley Righters contributed 11 points and had seven rebounds and Julia Barnaby pulled down nine rebounds for the Knights. Leading the Dodgers in scoring was Megan Pluemer with 20 points. Pluemer had seven rebounds and two assists. Hannah Jones scored 13 points, with seven rebounds and four assists and Kara Crowley put 10 points on the board for Dodgeville, with six rebounds and one assist.
On January 5th the girls took on Wisconsin Heights (8-2), and face Waterloo (3-6) on January 8th, both conference games will be played at home. The Lady Knights are 7-2 in the Capitol South.