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After getting past one of the most improved girls basketball SWC teams in River Valley, the Dodgeville girls will move to Division 3 Sectional play and face one of the top ranked teams tonight in Baraboo.
The Dodgers will meet up with Adams-Friendship in a game that will determine who heads to Middleton Saturday to clash with the Whitewater vs Brodhead winner for the right to join the D3 state tournament field at the Resch Center in Green Bay.
The Dodgers have a hurdle to clear in the Green Devils and it will be a big one.
The Green Devils are 23-1 with their only loss coming to Janesville Parker, a D1 team, at the holiday shootout at Just A Game Fieldhouse.
They are led by 6'2" Emma Rienneburg with a 19.5 point per game average with Azure Hodkiewicz averaging 10.4 and Hannah Landon, the point guard, 9.5.
The Green Devils won the South Central Conference with a 10-0 record.
"From what I've seen they play very good defense and execute on offense," Dodgeville coach Mark Dooley said. "They are patient on offense and do a good job moving the ball. They are fundamentally sound and I don't expect to see much up-tempo stuff from them."
He adds that the Green Devils mix up some 1-3-1 and man to man when they come at you defensively.
Of the four teams left in this Sectional Whitewater is ranked number one, A-F number two and Dodgeville number six. Brodhead has been in the honorable mention category.
Saturday the Dodgers had the task of beating the second place team in the SWC for the third time and it wasn't easy.
"River Valley had a good game plan and they executed it well," Dooley said. "They used a match-up zone and virtually kept us away from the basket most of the night. Coach Darby Blakely had them ready to play."
With three girls 6-0 the Hawks had the height advantage.
"Their size bothered us," Dooley said. "It was tough to get inside on them but they did leave some holes open away from the basket and we took advantage.
The Hawks also gave Taylor Stanek and Kara Crowley plenty of pressure so freshman guard Hannah Jones and senior guard Samantha Crowley stepped up.
Jones led the Dodgers with 11 points and had five of them in the fourth during crunch time when the Dodgers outscored the Hawks 9-4. She had the only baskets in the quarter with the other five points coming at the free throw line.
"Hannah found the holes," said Dooley.
Samantha Crowley struck from the outside with a pair of three pointers and went four for four from the free throw line for 10 points. She and Stanek nailed threes in the first quarter to help keep the Dodgers even as each team scored eight points.
Samantha Crowley put in four free throws the second quarter and Kennedy Stumpf came off the bench to add four more points to send the Dodgers to a 24-19 halftime lead.
"We held them to 14 points the second half," Dooley said. "Our defense was a big reason we won."
He said Stanek suffered a rolled ankle and had to come out for tape a couple times. The Blackhawks had someone around her all night so she responded by shutting out 6'0" Alyssa Mueller who she defended all night.
"Defense was key," said Dooley.
Game time at Baraboo is 7 p.m.
SCORE BY QUARTERS
RV 8 11 10 4 33
D 8 16 11 9 44
BOX SCORE
RIVER VALLEY 33: (fg-ft-tp) Drachenberg 1-0-2, W. Nachreiner 0-0-0, DuCharme 4-2-10, Mueller 0-0-0, Briehl 3-2-8, Askevold 0-1-1, Hoffman 4-1-9, E. Nachreiner 0-0-0, Liegel 1-1-3 Totals 14-7/12-33 Fouls-17
DODGEVILLE 44: (fg-ft-tp) Carey 0-0-0, Bauer 0-0-0, Stanek 1-1-4, Jones 5-1-11, Parkin 0-0-0, S. Crowley 2-4-10, Stumpf 2-0-4, Argall 0-0-0, K. Crowley 2-3-7, Zoet 0-0-0, Binsfeld 0-0-0, Pluemer 3-2-8, Chitwood 0-0-0 Totals 15-11/20-44 Fouls-14
3 point goals:
RV-None
D-S. Crowley 2, Stanek 1