By JUSTIN BURKHARDT
TopSports.news
The Class 4A No. 2-ranked Hayden girls hosted Junction City Tuesday night and this game would be all Hayden as the Wildcats would open with a 25-0 first quarter and take a 41-9 halftime lead.
Senior Brylee Meier scored a game-high 26 points as Hayden took a 76-23 Centennial League victory over Junction City. [File photo/TSN]
The Centennial League-champion Lady Wildcats would end up finishing off league play with a 76-23 win over the Blue Jays.
The Wildcats would get a career night from senior Brylee Meier as she would hit six 3-pointers on 10-15 shooting from the field and lead all scorers with 26 points.
"She hit her first couple and when she does that she is pretty deadly, and once I saw those first few go in I knew it was going to be a good night,” Hayden coach Carvel Reynoldson said.
“I just kept getting open on the 3-point line, and my teammates would give me the ball whenever I was open,'' Meier said.
The Wildcats also got double figures from freshman Hailey Schmidtlein scoring 17 as 12 of the 14 girls to check into the game would crack the scoring column for the Wildcats.
The Wildcats have a huge regular-season finale coming up on Thursday for Senior Night, hosting Class 4A No. 3 Eudora in a winner takes all game as the winner will be the East No. 1 seed and the loser the No. 2.
“We have an extremely talented group of seniors this year that we are going to miss badly, and its also for the 1 seed, which is very important to have,'' Reynoldson said. "We will have them ready.”
HAYDEN GIRLS 76, JUNCTION CITY 23
Junction City 0 9 11 3 — 23
Hayden 25 16 28 7 — 76
Junction City (1-18 0-9) — Harley 4-4 0-0 11, Warmack 2-2 0-0 6, Pruitt 1-3 1-1 3, Nabus 1-4 0-0 2, Rivers 0-1 0-0 0, Covington 0-3 0-0 0, Allen 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 8-22 1-1 23.
Hayden (17-2 9-0) — Meier 10-15 0-0 26, Schmidtlein 7-12 2-4 17, Ramsey 2-5 2-2 7, Reid 1-1 2-2 4, Greco 0-2 2-2 2, Huescher 2-4 0-0 4, Walter 2-6 0-0 4, Foster 0-2 3-4 3, Borjon 1-2 0-0 3, Watts 1-1 0-0 2, Mitchell 1-1 0-1 2, Wrench 1-1 0-0 2, Connell 0-0 0-2 0, Wichman 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-52 11-17 76.
3-point goals — JC 6 (Harley 3, Warmack 2,Pruitt), Hayden 9 (Meier 6, Ramsey, Schmidtlein, Borjon). Total Fouls — JC 16, Hayden 9.
