Wolverine girls fall in regional final

    JEWELL — Dike-New Hartford could not hold an early lead Monday as it’s dream of a state girls’ basketball berth fell in a barrage of Manson-Northwest Webster jump shots, 45-37 at Southeast Webster High School Monday.
    The Wolverines (20-3) scored just 18 points in the final three quarters after jumping ahead 19-12 in the first eight minutes.
    “They got the momentum going and we had a hard time stopping the momentum,” Wolverine coach Bruce Dall said. “(Faith Troshynski) got really hot shooting the ball, they got the offensive rebounds, they were making free throws … a lot of things you have to do to stay in a game we weren’t doing.”
    Playing without all-stater and UNI recruit Ellie Herzberg, Northwest Webster leaned heavily on a tight man-to-man defense. The look, which D-NH has rarely seen this year, took it out of its offensive rhythm. Of the Wolverines’ 15 field goals, five came in transition and two others came on putbacks.
 

For more of this story, see the Feb. 27 Grundy Register.