Joel Karnick
Butternut traveled to Washburn for a conference matchup. Cold shooting and some poor first half passing saw the Midgets trailing 25-24 at half as Cassie Claremboux scored 13 of her 17 hitting 3 first half threes.
Both offenses got going in the second half as Maddie Ludwig scored 16 of her team high 20 in the half to keep the Guards close. But Jersey Polencheck scored 19 of her game high 27 in the 2nd half and Caitlynn Bebeau added 17 more and 7 rebounds as the Midgets got a lead and hit their free throws to seal the 64-55 win. Polencheck also had 8 assists and 9 rebounds. Kendra Pritzl with 16 points and 6 rebounds.
Butternut improves to 11-4 in conference and 15-5 overall.
They will host Bayfield on Thursday and Drummond on Friday.
