Tuesday night high school sports roundup:
Girls basketball
JCC 82, Worthington 76
JACKSON -- Host Jackson County Central got into its transition game and made a late first half run, then protected its 48-38 halftime lead in the second half.
Maci Farmer scored 33 points with 10 rebounds, seven steals and seven assists for the Huskies. Rylie Cother added 22 points, 13 rebounds and six assists, and Kylee Wenzel contributed 14 points and six rebounds.
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Tarren Spartz scored 23 points for Worthington while Newyouman Gora had 16, Aisha Zeidi 15 and Madison Beckmann 10. Ellie Weg, a strong inside presence for the Trojans, did not play.
Spartz finished with 11 rebounds. Beckmann had six assists and Pham Gora had five.
The loss drops Worthington to 4-13 overall and 1-6 in Big South Conference play.
Worthington 38 76
JCC 48 82
Cedar Mountain 51, RRC 37
LAMBERTON -- Cedar Mountain’s Aubrey Steffl scored 17 points and had six rebounds to lead her team to a win over Red Rock Central. Brooklyn Deihn had 15 points. Teresa Larsen ended the game with nine points.
Sondra Rindfleisch scored 10 points with 13 rebounds for RRC.
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Cedar Mountain 20 51
RRC 16 37
SWC 72, Edgerton 47
EDGERTON -- Ana Veldkamp scored 23 points with five assists to lead the Southwest Christian Eagles to a victory over the Edgerton Flying Dutchmen. Madyson Fey finished with nine points. Kierra Binford, Kinsie Nelson, Makenna Moss, and Jocelyn Barron all had eight points apiece.
SWC 41 72
Edgerton 28 47
Boys Basketball
MCC 78, H-BC 38
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HILLS -- Bryce Hoekman scored 18 points and Christian Tentinger tallied 17 as Murray County Central started fast and finished strong against Hills-Beaver Creek.
Tentinger also had three steals and 10 rebounds.
Brock Harnack led H-BC with 10 points.
MCC 32 78
H-BC 15 38
W-WG 57, RRC 41
WESTBROOK -- Hudsen Jenniges scored 17 points to lead the Westbrook-Walnut Grove Chargers to a victory over the Red Rock Central Falcons. Kole Curry finished with 12 points. Dan Kleven had nine points.
Ashton Juhnke, Austin Imker and Isaac Simonson all scored eight points for Red Rock Central.
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W-WG 31 57
RRC 16 41
Girls hockey
Mankato West 10, Worthington 5
MANKATO -- In a fast start, the Worthington High School girls led host Mankato West 2-0 in the first period. But a 6-1 Scarlets flurry in the second period put the hosts in front, and they never looked back.
“Very good game,” said WHS coach Chad Nickel. “Girls completely controlled the first period. Came out sluggish in the second. Fought back some in the third.”
Marin Pederson, a junior forward, scored the first goal for Worthington and finished with a hat trick. Riley Nickel and Madeline Petersen also scored for the Trojans. Lauren Nelson and Pederson were credited with assists.
For the game, Mankato West out-shot Worthington 49-33.
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Worthington 2 1 2 -- 5
Mankato West 0 6 4 -- 10
Boys hockey
Austin 11, Worthington 1
AUSTIN -- In a battle between teams anxious for a victory, Austin was satisfied and Worthington was not.
The visitors outshot Austin 40-37 according to the final statistics, but it was Austin that had the big score that counted on the scoreboard en route to its fourth victory against 13 losses.
Worthington fell to 1-14.
Ian Baumgartner, assisted by Easton Newman, had the Trojans’ lone goal.
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Wrestling
Luverne Quadrangular
LUVERNE -- In a quadrangular, the Luverne Cardinals defeated Beresford-Alcester-Hudson 45-30, lost to Elk Point-Jefferson 41-28 and defeated Garretson 54-27.
Cameron McCrary (145 pounds) and Sam Rock (170) recorded two falls for LHS on the evening.
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