Posen adds to record with lopsided NSL wins
by Peter Jakey–Managing Editor
Make it 40 consecutive conference victories for a Viking girls’ basketball team ranked sixth in the Detroit Free Press and ninth in the Associated Press.
Mammoth blowouts against Atlanta and Hale last week certainly bolster the respect the club is receiving at the midway mark of the season. They are 10-0 overall and in command of the North Star League with a 6-0 record.
The Vikings shut out Atlanta in the first quarter of Tuesday’s home game, 29-0, on their way to a 75-8 win. Korynn Hincka fired in 31 points for the Vikings.
Following a basket by Austin Sharpe to up the score to 19-0, Hincka would score the next 10 points to close out the quarter.
Atlanta scored their first basket of the game on their opening possession of the second quarter, before the Vikings scored 21 unanswered. The Huskies wouldn’t score for another 14 minutes through the second and third quarters. Basket No. 2 came with 1:06 left in the third.
Head coach Karl Momrik had his defense play back as far back as possible and let the Huskies set up their offense.
Momrik was happy to get a lot of playing time for all his players and made sure he had five different players on the floor, at least every four or five minutes. With a running clock in the second half, he called a timeout in the fourth quarter just to get new players on the floor.
“They weren’t pressuring us, so I told the girls to run the offense,” said Atlanta coach Melony Haskin. “We had some good shots. We probably shot more tonight than we have in a couple of games combined. They just weren’t going in.” Haskin had five players on the floor and two on the bench, and the program doesn’t have a junior varsi
Ashley Meyers had 10, while Bev Bednarski and Kayla Lenard both scored eight apiece. Sharpe finished with five.
“I give them all the credit in the world, that is a great team,” said Haskin.
All but one Posen player on the roster scored, including foreign exchange student Nicoline Heerwagen, who played in her first contest and made a free throw. She had been out with an ankle injury suffered in practice before the start of the season.
Hincka had 27 points in a 65-13 win at Hale last Friday. Bednarski finished with 11.
Junior varsity details were not available.
The Vikings travel to Hillman Friday and Rogers City on Tuesday.