Sister Power

There is girl power and then there is what happens when a pair of sisters are both very good.  Kingsland girls basketball used a little sister power, and good efforts from its starting five, to post two (section) wins.  The Lady Knights first hosted W-K.  The Knights used a 12-0 late-first-half run to take a 33-21 lead.  But by early second half, W-K was again even (40-40).  Kingsland ran again 12-0 to lead 56-44 in the second half.   That was it.  Putting up a season-high in points, the Knights overwhelmed the Falcons-North 72-58.  Junior Lauren Buchholtz had a 20-20 effort (23 pts, 7-9 FTs, 20 rebs, 14 defensive rebs, 4 stls).  Ellie Buchholtz added an extremely well rounded game (16 pts, 8-9 FGs, 8 rebs, 5 assists, 8 stls).   The Knights other three starters, Kori Kruegel (10 pts, 9 rebs, 4 assists), Lindsey Welch (10 pts), and Jocelyn Voeltz (9 pts, 4 assists) all contributed nicely.  Jay Webster’s squad was a single point away from getting all five starters in double figures.  Kingsland then trekked to Rushford.  The Knights started the game 9-0 and 19-2.  Ellie Buchholtz had the game’s first eight points.  R-P got to within seven at halftime (30-23), but no closer.  Kingsland prevailed 66-49.  Ellie B., just a frosh, led the way with a career-high 19 points (8-12 FGs, 6 rebs, 4 assists, 5 stls).  Her varsity career is just this year.  Her two best scoring games have been versus W-K and R-P in succession.  Both bettered her sister’s best game as a frosh (17 points).  Lauren B. (15 pts, 6 rebs, 8 assists, 7 stls), Welch (14 pts, 7-9 FGs), Kruegel (9 pts, 5 rebs, 5 stls), and Voeltz (5 pts, 4 assists, 4 stls) again made the starting five golden.  Mackenzie Eide (career-high 11 pts, 4-6 FGs), Megan Oian (10 pts, 9 rebs), and Lauren Lawston (8 pts, 7 rebs) led R-P.  With the two wins, Kingsland improved to above-five-hundred in both the TRC (4-3) and overall (5-4).  R-P fell to 0-6, 2-7.  For the two game stretch, the Buchholtz sisters combined for 73 points, 40 rebounds, 18 assists, and 24 steals.  Ellie shot 16 for 21 (76.2%).