Glenwood girls stay perfect 85-70 win

    The Glenwood girls basketball team improved to 8-0 on the season with an 85-70 victory over Kuemper Catholic on Friday.

    The Rams (7-0 overall, 5-0 in the Hawkeye 10 Conference) got a season-high 29 points from Morgan Lucy and 23 points from  Lexi Fisher in the win. Lucy added 12 rebounds on her historical night. The 6-foot-3 senior became only the third Glenwood girl basketball player to eclipse the 1,000 career point mark.
    Lucy, who has signed to play basketball next season at Southwest Baptist University, scored 10 first quarter points to key a 12-0 Ram run in the opening quarter. Glenwood only built its lead from there, leading 38-24 at halftime.
    Fisher connected on 7-of-11 shots, including 4-of-6 from behind the arc, for her season-high 23 points. Guard Lexi Moreno added 11 points and McKenna Henze eight.
    Lucy, Henze and Fisher combined to hit 18-of-23 free throws in the second half.
    Lexi Albrecht scored 27 points to lead Kuemper.

Glenwood 74,
Red Oak 27
    Red Oak scored the first two points of the game and Glenwood the next 19 in a 74-27 Ram rout in Hawkeye 10 Conference girls basketball on Thursday.
    Glenwood’s tough full court pressure set the tone early as the Rams’ forced nine first quarter turnovers in taking a 23-6 lead.
    “We haven’t had a chance to press a whole lot and we wanted to see what it looked like. We thought we could put some pressure on and get some easy buckets and we did that,” said Glenwood coach Barry Loeffelbein after the game. “We want to push it, to force the issue and play good defense and take the game right to them and take them out of it.”
    The Rams pushed the ball more, forcing their tempo on the out-manned Tigers leading to numerous layups as they built a 46-9 first-half lead thanks to Emily Blum’s 16-footer at the first half buzzer.
    “When people share the ball and you run the floor, you get easy baskets. We get open and find each other. We’re doing a pretty good job of that right now,” Loeffelbein said.
    Glenwood went up 65-15 with just over four minutes gone in the third quarter and Loeffelbein substituted freely over the final quarter and a half.
    Lexi Fisher led the balanced Rams with 13 points. Kierney Motz added 10, Grace Newman and Morgan Lucy nine each. Lexi Moreno chipped in eight and McKenna Henze six.
    “I think we did a pretty good job on offense and defense tonight,” Loeffelbein said. “Hopefully we can keep that up.”
    Gabi French led Red Oak with 11 points.