Sauer Outdoes Herself In Opener

Sat., Jan. 9, 1999

GNL girls

Carey Sauer has played long enough to pile up 1,550 points, but never scored as many in one game as she did on Friday.

Sauer scored 24 in the first half, made 9 of 11 from the free-throw line and finished with 37 points, as 10th-ranked Newport opened Great Northern League play with a 68-44 victory over visiting Riverside.

Sauer’s previous high game was 36, in a winner-to-state game during her freshman season. Newport is 60-17 in Sauer’s four years.

Sauer and fellow senior Mary Lindburg added 12 rebounds apiece.

Newport 68, Riverside 44

Riverside 8 5 20 11 - 44

Newport 20 25 13 10 - 68

Riverside (4-3, 0-1) - S. Korling 0, Koesel 5, Rizzuto 10, Wood 10, Friebus 0, Ke. Shorts 2, Lyons 4, Prichard 7, Ko. Shorts 4, H. Shorts 0, A. Korling 2.

Newport (6-0, 1-0) - Wiese 0, Haptonstall 2, Lindburg 12, Olsen 0, S. Almond 0, C. Sauer 37, R. Sauer 3, Schulz 2, A. Almond 12, Dahlin 0.

Pullman 74, Medical Lake 41

Christa Brossman hit 8 of 14 field goals as the seventh-ranked Greyhounds defeated the visiting Cardinals.

Brossman matched Marta Toth with four steals and Debbie Curry with five rebounds for team highs. Pullman’s Jamie Rydbom hit 4 of 4 free throws. Hanna McConnell of ML was 5 of 12 from the floor.

Medical Lake 10 8 10 13 - 41

Pullman 25 16 17 16 - 74

Medical Lake (0-6, 0-1) - Muelken 9, Mahmood 2, Higgins 6, Reitmeier 0, Daily 0, Jones 10, McConnell 12, Traylor 2.

Pullman (6-1, 1-0) - Brossman 16, Rose 0, Sheridan 2, Keck 2, Sodorff 1, Mirkovich 8, Rydbom 10, Chamberlain 6, Neill 4, Curry 6, Johnston 7, Stolmeier 4, Toth 8.

Chewelah 51, Deer Park 28

No player in the game scored in double figures, but the Cougars earned the win when the Stags shot 7 of 60 (12 percent) from the field.

Chewelah 8 14 11 18 - 51

Deer Park 7 6 4 11 - 28

Chewelah (4-2, 1-0) - S. Walker 2, Franklin 9, Davis 6, Moore 8, White 2, Kinley 3, Oneal 8, Grytdal 9, Shamion 2, Culler 2.

Deer Park (4-2, 0-1) - Michaels 1, Anderson 4, Hardie 0, Allen 2, Oswalt 2, Hill 1, Watts 9, Pierce 5, Plummer 2, Ebel 2.

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