Cardinals cruise past Rockets

New Rockford-Sheyenne played a pretty good first quarter but after that the visitors took control of the game as Langdon-Area-Edmore-Munich defeated the Rockets by a final score of 68-26 in non-district girls basketball action played here on Saturday, Feb. 1.

The Cardinals are one of the top teams in District 8 and Region 4. The Rockets never quit but it was just simply too much Cardinals. The visitors led virtually all the way, and at all quarter stops, 9-5, 36-13, 59-22 and again won by a final score of 68-26. L-A-E-M is a tall team and quite athletic.

The visitors made 28 field goals, 10-16 free throws and committed 8 fouls. New Rockford-Sheyenne made 8 field goals, 8-10 free throws and committed 12 fouls.

Callie Ronningen paced the Cardinals with 23 points, which was a game-high. Kaylee Lowery had 15 and Kaitlynn Scherr added 11. Hannah Haley paced the locals with 13 points.

L-A-E-M: 9 27 23 9 = 68

NR-S: 5 8 9 4 = 26

L-A-E-M: Morgan Freige 7, Lexis Olson 5, Jayla Lorenz 4, Jaya Henderson 3. Three-pointers: Scherr, Henderson.

NR-S: Cassie Longecker 6, Kennedy Demester 4, Chloe Heinz 2, Dani Bjerke 1. Three-pointers: Haley, Longnecker.

The Rockets are now 9-6 overall.

Junior Varsity

L-A-E-M 64, NR-S 39

Individual scoring/stats N/A