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By Levi Zimmerman
The Iowa-Grant girls basketball team picked up a big conference win Tuesday night with a 42-34 win over Southwestern at home.
It was a game of defense that culmionated in a down-to-the-wire finish.
Iowa-Grant out-scored Southwestern 22-19 in the first half and 20-15 in the second.
Junior Adrianna Jelle led the Panthers with 12 points, including making four-of-four free throw attempts.
Sophomore Briann Kohlenberg followed closely with 11 points, and she went three-for-four from the line.
As a team, Iowa-Grant went 11-for-16 from the free throw line.
Southwestern was able to stay in the game with three-point shooting.
In fact, the Wildcats made more threes than twos, as they made six threes and five twos.
Iowa-Grant improved to 5-8 overall and 2-4 in the SWAL with the victory.
The Panthers will visit Mineral Point this Friday in more conference play.
SCORE BY HALVES
Southwestern 19 15 34
Iowa-Grant 22 20 42
BOX SCORE
SOUTHWESTERN 34: (fg-ft-tp)
Tessman 2-1-5, Droessler 3-2-11, A. Droessler 0-0-0, Splinter 2-0-4, Kaiser 0-0-0, Mick 0-0-0, Ramaker 4-3-14, Brant 0-0-0, Dreesens 0-0-0. Totals- 11-6/14-34. Fouls-16
Fouled out- Ramaker
IOWA-GRANT 42:
Jelle 4-4-12Fisher 1-0-2, Lluch 0-0-0, Biddick 2-0-4, Vavricka 0-2-2, Cordts 0-0-0, Runde 2-0-4, Searls 1-1-4, Kohlenberg 4-3-11, Schultz 1-1-3. Totals- 15-11/16-42. Fouls-13
3-point goals:
SOUTHWESTERN (6)- Ramaker 3, B. Droessler 3
IOWA-GRANT (1)- Searls 1