By JUSTIN BURKHARDT
TopSports.news
The Class 4A No. 2-ranked Hayden girls looked as good as advertised Wednesday night as they rolled to a 53-17 home sub-state semifinal win over the Blue Comets of Chanute.
Senior Millie Ramsey led Hayden with 17 points in Wednesday's 53-17 sub-state win over Chanute. [File photo/TSN]
Hayden senior Norma Greco scored 14 points with four 3-pointers in Wednesday's 53-17 sub-state win over Chanute. [File photo/TSN]
The Wildcats would open things up quickly with a 9-0 run to get the game started and then Chanute would counter and trail the cats 10-6 at the end of the first quarter.
But that would be all it wrote for the Comets as Hayden would wake up on offense and start to show why they are the top seed on the East side of the bracket as the Wildcats would out-score the Comets 36-9 the rest of the way including a 25-0 run that stretched midway through the first quarter all the way to the fourth quarter.
A big part of that help was 17 points from senior Amelia Ramsey, who was a perfect 8-8 from the field before she missed her last shot to finish 8-9 to lead all scorers.
Senior Norma Greco would be hot from deep for the Wildcats as she would go 5-6 from the field and 4-5 from 3-point range.
"Our plan was to really penetrate the gaps and try to swing it and get open looks or get the ball inside and let Millie go to work, and it definitely helps when there is multiple of us scoring and it’s not just from one place it makes us hard to beat,'' Greco said.
The Wildcats advanced to the sub-state championship game against Baldwin at Hayden on Saturday at 5 p.m.
HAYDEN GIRLS 53, CHANUTE 17
Chanute 6 5 0 6 — 17
Hayden 10 16 14 13 — 53
Chanute (4-17) — Wells 2-4 0-0 6, Uhner 2-10 0-0 6, Noonan 1-4 0-2 3, Hicks 0-2 2-2 2, Peter 0-1 0-0 0, Kett 0-2 0-0 0, Teichgraeber 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 5-24 2-4 17.
Hayden (19-2) — Ramsey 8-9 1-2 17, Greco 5-6 0-0 14, Schmidtlein 4-8 0-0 8, Meier 2-9 0-0 6, Reid 0-1 0-0 0, Borjon 1-1 0-0 3, Mitchell 1-2 0-0 3, Walter 1-4 0-0 2, Foster 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-42 1-2 53.
3-point goals — Chanute 5 (Wells 2, Uhner 2, Noonan), Hayden 8 (Greco 4, Meier 2, Borjon, Mitchell). Totals Fouls -- Chanute 11, Hayden 10.
