Manchester Lady Squires Wins Wawasee Tourney
Jessica Hicks name MVP!!
Manchester Girls Win Wawasee Tournament
By Jen Gibson, Times-Union Sports Writer December 13, 1999
SYRACUSE – After falling to Garrett’s girls basketball team in the first round of the Wawasee
Tournament last year, the Manchester Squires got revenge on the Railroaders Saturday in the
championship game.
The Squires came out on top, 63-54.
Garrett took the early advantage, taking a 7-1 lead early in the first quarter, but Manchester slowly
chipped away at the lead.
By the 3:13 mark in the quarter, the Squires had tied the game at 13-13. Then Jessica Hicks hit a
basket to give the Manchester squad a 15-13 lead with 2:37 remaining in the period.
At the end of the first stanza, Manchester held a slim two-point lead, 17-15.
Garrett’s Megan Hardenbrook netted the first goal of the second quarter to tie the score at 17-17.
Then the score bounced back and forth until 2:19 remained in the half when HIcks netted two free
thorws to give Manchester a 33-31 advantage. Jennifer Jester hit a basket soon after to put
Manchester up 35-31.
The Squires held on to their lead and went into the lockers with a 37-34 lead.
The Railroaders came to fight in the second half, netting the first two baskets of the second half to
take a 38-37 lead.
However, Ann Harms and Hicks accounted for the next two scores in the game and Manchester
went up again, 41-38.
Garrett managed to tie the game and then take the lead with four minutes left in the third, but
Manchester fought back to take the lead once again.
This time the Squires would not relinquish that lead for the rest of the game. By the end of the third
Manchester had built a 51-46 lead, and in the end, the Squires came out on top 63-54.
“We’ve had a full week of practice,” said Manchester head coach Keri Nichols. “The girls were
itching to play, and that showed today.”
Hicks was 8-of-10 shooting for 19 points to lead the Squires. Heather Terflinger and Harms added
16 and 13 points respectively.
“Jessica was great for us today,” said Nichols. “Her numbers did not jump out, but she did a lot of
little stuff that people don’t really notice.”
However, the coaches in the tournament noticed those little things Hicks did and named her the
MVP of the tournament. Hicks’ teammate Ann Harms also made the all-tournament team along with
Wawasee’s Shanna Zolman, Mishawaka Marian’s Emily Creachbaum and Garrett’s Courtney
Feagler and Jayma Smith.
Manchester advanced to the championship game by defeating Mishawaka Marian 54-51 in the first
round.
Wawasee fell to Garrett in the first round, 65-41, but came back to defeat Mishawaka Marian
59-49.
Shanna Zolman led the Warriors in both the first-round the consolation games with 27 and 30 points
respectively.
“We are young, so very young,” said Wawasee coach Kem Zolman. “We didn’t come in not
wanting to play, but for some reason it just wasn’t meant to be today. We just didn’t execute.”
Manchester and Wawasee will hit the court again Tuesday night. Manchester will face Maconaquah,
while Wawasee will host NorthWood.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
MANCHESTER 63, GARRETT 54
Manchester 17 20 14 12 – 63
Garrett 15 19 12 8 – 54
Manchester FG FT R S Pts.
*Terflinger 6-8 4-6 0 1 16
*Jester 1-7 0-0 3 1 2
*Harms 4-5 5-10 3 4 13
*Hicks 8-10 2-3 4 3 19
*C.White 3-5 0-0 4 1 6
Markstahler 1-6 0-0 0 1 2
Speicher 2-4 0-0 1 0 5
E. White 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 25-40 11-19 15 11 63
Garrett FG FT R S Pts.
*Feagler 4-8 7-7 2 1 18
*Clark 1-3 0-0 1 1 2
*Smith 3-8 1-2 1 3 7
*Surfus 3-5 1-2 1 1 8
*Molargik 2-4 0-0 1 0 4
Robbins 1-1 0-0 0 0 2
Esselburn 1-1 0-0 0 0 3
Hardenbrook 5-5 0-0 1 1 10
Totals 20-35 9-11 7 7 54
Three-point goals –Manchester 2-9 (Jester 0-5, Harms 0-1, Hicks 1-1, Speicher 1-2), Garrett
5-8 (Feagler 3-4, Clark 0-1, Smith 0-1, Surfus 1-1, Esselbaum 1-1). Turnovers –Manchester 17,
Garrett 23. Total Fouls –Manchester 11, Garrett 17. Fouled out –Clark.
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