Huron girls' basketball team competes against Sioux Falls Roosevelt
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HURON — The Huron Tigers got off to a hot start, survived a 45-minute power outage and then a third-quarter rally by the Sioux Falls Roosevelt Rough Riders, then shut down the visitors for a 42-29 girls’ basketball win Tuesday night at Huron Arena. The win broke a 0-29 streak, as the last win for the Tiger girls came on Feb. 4, also at Huron Arena, over Spearfish.
That was 576 days ago.
“We played good defense and rebounded pretty well and scored just enough to get one tonight,” said Tiger coach Tim Buddenhagen after the game. “I’m really happy with the way the girls worked hard for this one.”
Huron jumped out of the gate, racing to a 20-4 lead after one quarter, as Havyn Heinz and Sami Shoultz got the Tigers rolling. Shoultz got a nice feed from Tenley Buddenhagen for an easy basket and Heinz scored the last four points of the quarter.
In games past, Huron often followed a big quarter with a lackluster one, and while Roosevelt did cut into the lead before the half, it was only two points, as Huron took a 26-12 cushion to the locker room.
“We’ve been concentrating on winning the quarter,” coach Buddenhagen said. “We did it in the first quarter, and while we didn’t win the second, we didn’t give up a big quarter to them either.”
And then, just as the second half got underway, the power went out throughout much of the downtown area, plunging the Arena into darkness.
“I thought we kind of lost some energy just waiting for the power to come back on,” Buddenhagen said. “We were ready to go and then we kinda lost our edge.”