Indian Girls show improvement in 55-47 loss to Grinnell

Alexis Westercamp in action against Grinnell. Westercamp scored her 1000th point against the Tigers, and now has over 700 rebounds in her career.

by Doug DeKock

The Oskaloosa girls basketball team arguably played their best game of the season in a 55-47 loss to #4 ranked Grinnell on Tuesday night. Oskaloosa was able to hang in, with the Tigers trailing 19-13 after the 1st quarter. If it wasn’t for senior Kyra Hungerford scoring 17 points for the Tigers in the 1st half, Oskaloosa could have been much closer at the half than 39-20. Alexis Westercamp had a fantastic game for Oskaloosa, scoring 21 points and eclipsing the 1,000 point mark for her career. The Tigers cooled off from their 1st half’s shooting and Oskaloosa hung right with them, only losing the quarter by 2 points and trailing 51-30 after 3 quarters. The Tigers cold shooting continued in the 4th quarter and Oskaloosa cut the lead to 8 points at one point in the quarter.

Some Oskaloosa girls had their best nights of the year statistically. Westercamp led the team with 21 points and 10 rebounds, while Marleigh Denberger and Kaitlyn Smith each scored 7 points. Denberger also pulled down 6 rebounds and Lindsey Holmberg put up some season high numbers, with 6 points and a hustling 10 rebounds. Leah Van Maanen rounded out the scoring for Oskaloosa with 5 points. Grinnell was led by Hungerford who had 19 points, 17 of which came in the 1st half.

Oskaloosa dropped to 2-13 overall and 0-9 in the LHC. Grinnell improved to 12-3 overall and 6-3 in the LHC. The Indians are in action next Friday at DCG with a 6:15pm tip.