Less than 24 hours after upsetting the Big Nine basketball applecart by edging Rochester Mayo, the Austin girls basketball team ran into a wall on the road in St.

Monday, December 06, 1999

Less than 24 hours after upsetting the Big Nine basketball applecart by edging Rochester Mayo, the Austin girls basketball team ran into a wall on the road in St. Louis Park on Saturday.

The Orioles rolled past the Packers, 73-33.

"I don’t think we had anything left," Austin coach Sloan Suess said.

St. Louis Park’s Jenni Johnson scored her 1,000th point in the game on a pair of free throws in the opening quarter. She went on to score 25 more points, most coming on her seven three pointers.

Gina Golberg led the Packers with 11 points after her 25-point game sparked Austin’s upset of Mayo on Friday.

Sara Turvey, who hit six three pointers against Mayo, scored seven. Suess pulled her starters at the end of the third quarter.

"It’s too bad we played that way," Suess said, "but it just snowballed on us. I told the girls that we got the win we needed on Friday."

Austin (1-2) will try to rebound when it plays Winona at home on Tuesday.

LeRoy basketball

Girls win, boys fall

LEROY – The LeRoy-Ostrander and Riceville, Iowa schools played their annual girls and boys basketball double header Saturday night. The result was a split with the LeRoy girls winning 60-52, and the Riceville boys winning 56-51.

The Cardinals girls team had a great first half scoring 35 points after scoring only 26 points on Friday night. At the half LeRoy led 35-23.

"We did a good job of breaking the press and scoring some easy buckets," L-O coach Dan Dow said.

Kelly Davis salted away the win with four straight free throws down the stretch.

The boys game was nip and tuck all the way. The Cardinals took a 13-8 lead after one quarter. Then Riceville’s John Jenson hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to put the Wildcats up 27-24 at the half. The Wildcats hit six threes in the game and the Cardinals four, two by Justin Stevens and two by Dan Bucknell.

Riceville was up 39-37 after three quarters. Their sixth trey, coming with a minute left in the game, gave the Wildcats a 53-49 lead.

Chad Orum led the Cardinals in scoring with 17 points. Stevens scored 14, Bucknell six, Scott Grass five, Ben Adams and Matt Fechner four each and Brandon Vreeman one.