Sleepy Eye squeaks past St. Mary’s in girls basketball

“The girls deserve all the credit for getting this win,” said Ryan Hulke, Sleepy Eye coach. “We went into halftime up three, and St Mary’s came out on a 7-1 run and worked it up to a 12 point lead with around six minutes to go.” The Indians had a lot of foul trouble with their post players, Justine Gonzales and Claire Krumbach, each tagged with four fouls, but Hulke had no choice but to put them in with 6:30 to go in the game. “It’s lucky we only lost one of them, Justine, to five fouls. We were tied with 1:20 left and we had the ball. We finally took care of it for over a minute, and went inside out multiple times until Krumbach found an open Sydney Remus for a layup and the foul to put us up three and get the win.” The Indians ended the game on a 14-2 run. Jessica Busch collected five steals and converted them into layups.

Game stats

St. Mary's

Maddy Helget:

20 points, 6 rebounds

Allison Woitas: 10 points, 11 rebounds,

4 steals, 4 assists

Nikki Carr: 8 points

Sleepy Eye

Claire Krumbach: 17 points, 11 rebounds

Sydney Remus: 15 points, 12 rebounds

Jessica Busch: 10 points, 5 steals

St. Mary's overall record is 13-11 and 7-9 in the Tomahawk Conference. They have one non-conference game remaining, away at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City on Feb. 28.

Sleepy Eye is 14-10 overall and 7-9 in the Tomahawk Conference. Their last regular season game is a conference game at MVL.