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Lady Buffs win, boys lose at Derby

Published 2/6/2012 in Prep-Garden City

By BRETT MARSHALL

bmarshall@gctelegram.com

The second night of the central Kansas road trip for the Garden City High School girls and boys basketball teams produced mixed results with the Derby Panthers on Saturday.

The Lady Buffaloes rallied from a first-half deficit of nearly 10 points before putting together a strong second half en route to a convincing 52-35 victory over the Lady Panthers.

Garden's boys, meanwhile, weren't so fortunate as they fell behind early, 11-1, and never challenged the No. 10-ranked team in Class 6A, falling 67-43.

Girls

The Lady Buffs found themselves on the short end of a 23-21 halftime score, then falling behind 30-23 early in the third quarter before putting together their strongest second half of the season against the Derby Lady Panthers.

They reeled off 16 straight points from the end of the third and into the fourth, producing a 39-30 lead and then were never headed.

"We're struggling to get two to two and a half good quarters and still trying to figure out how to get four good quarters," said GCHS assistant coach Katie Upton, wife of head coach David Upton. "We've got to try and fix that, but the girls continue to fight and are figuring out how to win. Two to three years ago this was the kind of game that we would have lost. Our defense has really done a good job in the second half in the two games we played (Friday at Winfield, the Lady Vikes scored just 10 points)."

Derby had taken a 12-5 lead after the first quarter before the Lady Buffs trimmed the deficit to two with a 16-11 second-quarter advantage.

Taryn Tempel scored 16 points and Jaymie Bernbeck added 12 to pace the Lady Buffs while Micheala Liebst and Kennedy Long were high for Derby (3-12) with nine and eight points, respectively.

Saturday's win improves the Lady Buffs to 10-6 for the season. They will host Great Bend at 6 p.m. Friday in a Western Athletic Conference contest. They trail Hays by one game in the WAC standings.

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Garden City 5 16 8 23 -- 52

Derby 12 11 7 7 -- 35

Garden City (52) — McClelland 4, Curran 2, Heiman 6, Campbell 6, Tempel 16, Miller 1, Bernbeck 12, Hinde 5. Free throws 23-30.

Derby (35) — Liebst 9, Long 8, Bowens 6, Holcomb 4, Jimenez 5, Swartz 2, Greenwood 2, Hansen 1. Free throws 3-10.

3-point goals--Garden City 1 (Heiman), Derby 4 (Jimenez 1, Long 2, Liebst 1).

Boys

In what coach Jacy Holloway called a poor effort on defense against a team that his Buffs couldn't afford not to bring their "A" game, Garden was never in the game from the early going.

"We just started out in a hole and could never dig out," Holloway said. "We got some good shots, some good looks, but they didn't fall."

Holloway said that the Buffs were able to break the Derby full-court press most of the possessions in the early going, but then would either miss shots or just turn the ball over at the back end of the press.

"After breaking it, we just didn't do the things you need against a good team like Derby," Holloway said.

It didn't help that 6-4 senior forward Braden Taylor was whistled for his second foul early in the first quarter and had to go to the bench.

"It just affected our confidence, you could see it on the faces," Holloway said. "Derby's a good team (11-4), and they're a lot stronger with the ball than most people thought. They attack you off the dribble. That was our problem, we didn't communicate on screens or guard the dribble very well at all."

Jake Curran was the lone double-figure scorer for the Buffs with 13 points, but could manage only three free throws in the second half. Derby got balanced scoring with four players in double-digits. Kyler Steadman was high with 18 points, followed by Taylor Schieber with 14, Tyler Chambers with 11 and Josiah Ray with 10.

The loss dropped the Buffs' record to 6-10 and they will be idle until Friday when they play host to Great Bend at 7:30 p.m. in a Western Athletic Conference contest. The Buffs were 3-1 in the WAC in the first-half schedule in January and trail only Dodge City by a game heading into the second half of the schedule.

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Garden City 9 14 7 13 -- 43

Derby 16 21 11 19 -- 67

Garden City (43) — Diaz 1 0-0 2, Riggs 0 0-0 0, Holguin 2 1-2 6, Nanninga 1 0-0 3, Coyle 0 0-0 0, Banner 3 0-0 7, Keller 0 0-0 0, Terpstra 3 0-0 6, Parr 1 0-0 2, Delgado 0 0-0 0, Curran 4 3-4 13, Taylor 0 0-0 0, Ensz 2 0-0 4. Totals 17 4-6 43.

Derby (67) — Steadman 6 4-5 18, Dunham 4 0-0 8, Cauley 1 0-0 2, Dinsmore 1 0-0 2, Schieber 5 2-3 14, Osborn 0 2-2 2, Chambers 4 3-4 11, Ray 5 0-0 10. Totals 26 11-14 67.

3-point goals--Garden City 5 (Holguin 1, Nanninga 1, Banner 1, Curran 2), Derby 4 (Steadman 2, Schieber 2). Fouls--Garden City 17, Derby 8.

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