Scales Mound 39, Lena-Winslow 38: Cameron Koester scored the game-winner with 15 seconds left that gave Scales Mound an upset victory over No. 1 seeded Lena-Winslow.
“We had a set play set up but their defense stopped it and put us in scramble mode,” Hornet coach Erik Kudronowicz said. “They took away Homb and Garrett and Cameron came off the corner.”
Koester had two baskets in the last two minutes — his only points for the tournament.
Homb scored 15 points and Joe Kelly had 13 to lead Scales Mound.
Brian McCabe scored 14 points to lead Lena-Winslow (17-12).
Lena-Winslow 47, Warren 44: The top-seeded Panthers held off No. 8 Warren led by Matt Martinez’s 10 points at the Stockton Regional. The Panthers outscored Warren 20-5 in the fourth-quarter. They will meet Scales Mound in Wednesday’s semifinal.
Jared McNutt and Taylor Williams each scored 15 points to lead Warren.
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Lena-Winslow 49, West Carroll 46: Lena-Winslow went 14 for 14 in free throws and was led by 11 points from Matt Martinez.
Galena 49, Lena-Winslow 40: Galena outscored Lena-Winslow 31-22 in the second half. Galena’s Matt Hillard scored a game-high 14 points. Brian McCabe had nine points for Lena-Winslow.
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Forreston 56, Lena-Winslow 45: Jordan Bagley had 11 points and 10 rebounds, and Michael Schneiderman scored 14 points to lead Forreston over Le-Win.
Matt Martinez scored 15 points, while Wes Ertmer and Brian McCabe added 12 points for the Panthers.
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Dakota 33, Lena-Winslow 25: The Dakota girls basketball team didn’t flinch.
Lena-Winslow had just taken a one-point lead with 6:33 to go, and the top-seeded, one-loss Indians were in danger of getting upset at home and having their hopes of a deep postseason run end.
But the Indians took the lead right back on the next possession on a Brianne Boals basket and ended the game on an 11-2 run to beat fourth-seeded Lena-Winslow 33-25 on Wednesday.
Eastland 53, Lena-Winslow 48: Tyler Zundahl and Brad Dunlap led Eastland with 17 and 16 points, respectively. Wes Ertmer had 19 points for Lena-Winslow.
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Lena-Winslow 31, Eastland 22: The shots weren’t falling for Lena-Winslow.
But the fourth-seeded Panthers were able to play tight defense and controlled much of their regional quarterfinal game against fifth-seeded Eastland.
The Panthers have excelled in low-scoring games this season, upsetting Pearl City 25-21 earlier this season.
Lena 44, Pec 23: Katie Keefer’s 13 points led Lena.
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Le-Win 50, Stockton 36: Brian McCabe scored 11 and Fritz Werhane and Wes Ertmer 10 each for Le-Win.
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Lena-Winslow 52, West Carroll 40: Katie Jensen led the Panthers with 15 points, while teammates, Carlee Yeager and Mary Beth Lyvers added 10 points each. Sarah Lucas had 10 points in West Carroll’s loss.
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Lena-Winslow 49, Eastland 27: Lena-Winslow outscored Eastland 25-8 in the second-half en route to win.
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Lena-Winslow 58, East Dubuque 51: Le-Win’s Brian McCabe scored 10 of his 14 points in the first half as his team took control.
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River Ridge 55, Lena-Winslow 45: River Ridge used a 13-2 second-quarter run for the win Monday. Whitney Kieffer and Brooke Wheelright led the Wildcats with 18 and 13 points, respectively. Katie Jensen was Lena-Winslow’s leading scorer with nine points.
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Stockton outlasts Forreston in nonconference play: Stockton pulled out to a 12-2 lead and kept its distance to outlast visiting Forreston 53-36 Thursday.
Stockton’s Haley Magee scored 16 points and Jessica Brunner added nine, and they each grabbed nine rebounds in the nonconference showdown. Forreston was led by Stephanie Conkey and Morgann McCoy, each with 10 points, while Hannah Collman finished with 12 boards.
Stockton 45, Lena-Winslow 38: Stockton converted 10 of 11 free throws in the fourth quarter to get past the Panthers.
Jessica Brunner scored 13 points and Keely Schulz had 11 for Stockton (18-6). Haley McGee had eight points and 16 rebounds. Katie Jensen led Lena-Winslow (13-11) with 16 points.
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Lena-Winslow 47, Fulton 35: Clayton Stouffer scored 18 points and Brian McCabe added 13 for Lena-Winslow.
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Lena-Winslow 25, Pearl City 21: Katie Jensen’s eight points led the Panthers to a victory against Pearl City in a low-scoring game.
Nicole Lawler led Pearl City, which scored no points in the second quarter, with 10 points.
Scales Mound 67, Lena-Winslow 44: Scales Mound (8-11) won its fifth straight game by knocking Lena-Winslow (11-7) out of first place in the NUIC West. Garrett Homb led the Hornets with 22 points.
Le-Win 54, West Carroll 44: Lena-Winslow’s balanced attack, led by Brian McCabe’s 11 points, was too much for West Carroll.
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MENDOTA - Wes Ertmer rang up 224 yards on 25 carries for Lena-Winslow.
He scored two touchdown runs on a 22 and 70 yards. Kolten Kempel added a 30-yard TD run for the Panthers (7-2).
Alex Caruso’s 5-yard run in the first quarter was Mendota’s lone score.
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LENA - Kolton Kempel completed 7-of-10 passes for 198 yards and two touchdowns and also ran for a 2-yard touchdown to lead Lena-Winslow (6-2) over winless Warren/River Ridge.
Wes Ertmer started Le-Win’s scoring with TD runs of 15 and 8 yards. He finished with 112 yards on 22 carries. The Panthers ran for 237 yards on 41 carries.
Warren’s Jared McNutt completed 17 of 36 passes for 299 yards.
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LENA — It may not have been pretty, but when the only thing that matters is what the scoreboard says, ugly was beautiful Friday for Eastland/Pearl City.
The Wildcats turned the ball over five times, but it didn’t matter as E/PC went on the road and topped Lena-Winslow 34-21 on homecoming.
The Panthers would try to match Eastland/Pearl City with four turnovers of their own.
The game got off to an auspicious start for the Wildcats as on the first play from scrimmage Lena-Winslow’s Trey Griffin knocked the ball loose from an E/PC ball carrier.
SOUTH BELOIT - Six different players scored for the Panthers, who led 42-0 at halftime, and the Panthers went on to defeat South Beloit by the same score.
Ryan Werhane, Wes Ertmer, Kolton Kempel, Evan Johnson, Trey Griffin and Jeff Monroe each posted a touchdown, and Lena-Winslow also scored on a safety.
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DURAND - Wes Ertmer ran for 176 yards and four touchdowns on 14 carries to lead Lena-Winslow past Durand.
Le-Win ran for 330 yards and held Durand to 168 total yards. Tom Harms (5-yard run) and Jake Pelley (6-yard run) scored for Durand.
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LENA — All season, the Lena-Winslow offense has lived with the attitude that speed kills.
On Friday night, it was the defense’s turn to live by that adage, setting up shop in Pecatonica’s backfield, winning 35-15.
“We thought our speed would really help us against their size,” Lena-Winslow coach Ric Arand said. “They have some big kids and good athletes at the skill positions, so we thought our defense would have to disrupt their timing with speed.”
FORRESTON – If the desire to succeed breeds creativity, then Lena-Winslow must be desperate to win.
The Panthers used some creative play calling to top Forreston 35-6 Friday night.
“We have to get a little creative and use our speed because we won’t be able to rely on our size,” Lena-Winslow coach Ric Arand said. “We have to do those reverses and misdirection plays.”
The misdirection plays were working all evening, as the Panthers scored on a pair of end-arounds and picked up big yards on power sweeps.
LENA — A stout defense, big-play offense and opportunistic special teams are the hallmark of a good team, and Lena-Winslow had all three phases working.
“There were some of the usual first game blunders, but overall we played pretty well,” Lena-Winslow coach Ric Arand said. “Offensively we squandered some chances when our defense was giving us great field position all night long, but eventually we got it going.”
The Panther defense was indeed strong, not allowing a Thunder first down until five minutes remained in the first half.
DAKOTA - It was Matt Wenger and Tyler Olsen in 2005, and Chad Goeke and Curt Daughenbaugh in 2007.
In 2008, Dakota’s playmaker is Evan Dornink.
“The sky’s the limit for that kid,” Lena-Winslow coach Ric Arand said about Dakota’s junior running back.
The latest in the recent list of Dakota’s all-star running backs, Dornink had two touchdowns and 189 yards on 18 carries to lead Dakota to a 23-15 home win against Lena-Winslow Friday. Dornink scored the game-winning touchdown on a 29-yard run with 5:25 remaining and followed it with the two-point conversion run.
