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Lady Jays sweep week of noncon play

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The Three Lakes-Phelps girls basketball team swept the week of nonconference competition with its first complete game in a 57-48 win at Crivitz last Tuesday before knocking off previously undefeated Tomahawk 57-50 in overtime Friday.
Before the two-game win streak and improving to 3-4 (0-1), the Lady Jays previously lost their previous four games.
The team kicked off the week on a high note last week with an all-around great effort in the nine-point victory.
“The first complete game. All around, it was our best game of the year,” said Three Lakes-Phelps coach Rich Javenkoski.
TLP took the lead in the first half and took a 23-19 lead at halftime behind the offensive performances of junior Haylee Barnekow and Paige Bradford.
Barnekow had nine of her 11 points in the opening 18 minutes, while Bradford had five of her 16 points in the first as well.
Junior Kailyn Fogerty factored into pulling away in the second half where she had 12 of her 15 points.
“She was hitting her shots and rebounding,” said Javenkoski about Bradford stepping up in the win. “Kailyn Fogerty put together her best game of the year offensively and defensively and ran the offense for us.”
Crivitz took a slight one-point lead, 36-25, before TLP “took it home,” according to Javenkoski.
Along with Barnekow’s offensive production, she also had the task of guarding Crivitz’s best guard, Kiya Brand. Despite her 26-point performance, Javenkoski explained that his junior played physically defensively, ultimately forcing her out of the game with five fouls.
He believed the team did a decent job at containing her when needed.
The momentum continued Friday as TLP battled the Hatchets, who sat at 4-0 before the game.
Javenkoski said the Lady Jays would need to continue good offense and stay disciplined in man-to-man defense to get the win. Also containing five-foot-11 Tomahawk junior forward Freya Alberg, who averages just over 20 points per game, was another key for TLP. They did just that and a game that was forced into overtime led to a seven-point victory for the road Jays to finish the week at 2-0.
TLP recently played another home game this past Monday at Prentice, and a long break for the holidays won’t have the team back to game action until after the new year. The next scheduled game is a Northern Lakes Conference road game at Florence Friday, Jan. 3, at 7:15 p.m.

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