Pekin girls plant Lone Tree

PACKWOOD --The Pekin High School girls basketball team defeated Lone Tree, 50-23, Tuesday in a Southeast Iowa Super Conference game.

Pekin started slow but defended well against the visiting Lions (5-2, 4-2 SEI SC North).

'The girls played great defense,” Pekin head coach Davis Eidahl said. 'Our defense kept us in the game the first half.”

Pekin is 6-0 overall and in the North and will play Friday at Louisa-Muscatine, which fell to 5-1 on the season with a 63-47 loss to No. 12 (Class 2A) Mediapolis.

'In the third quarter we really started to go,” Eidahl said. 'Emilee Linder and Sophie Wittrock turned it up on the outside and on defense. Lone Tree focused on Emilee and Sophie, that left Kerrigan Pope open. Our outside shooting was very good.”

Linder finished with 16 points and Pope 15.

Bears edge Warriors

Danville used a 12-4 first quarter advantage on its way to a SEISC South Division victory. It was a 19-10 halftime edge, but the Warriors closed to 24-18 by the end of the third quarter.

Morgan Graber led WACO with nine points and Laney Graber had five points.

WACO will play at Holy Triity Friday and host Winfield-Mt. Union Saturday.

Arrows shoot down Hillcrest

Hillcrest Academy lost to SEISC North foe Wapello, 60-22 at Wapello.

Hillcrest is 1-6, 0-5.

Yani Guttierez led Hillcrest with eight points and five rebounds. Esther Hughes added six points, two assists and three steals. Sarena Gerber, Sarah Miller and Meredith Blossom rounded out the scoring with a bucket each. Miller had seven rebounds.

Lindsey Massner led Wapello with 16 points.

The Ravens host Winfield-Mt. Union Friday.