GICC Basketball Takes Two At Kearney Catholic

(Kearney, NE) - The Grand Island Central Catholic basketball teams picked up two wins on Friday night at Kearney Catholic. The GICC girls would win over the Stars 63-27. It would be a season-high in points for the Crusaders to lead 29-20 at the halftime break, and by the end of the third quarter, GICC would lead by 16, 46-30. Seniors would lead the charge in the scoring with Anna Tibbetts having 15 points, Maggie Herbek with 12 points, and Bryndal Moody had 20 points. The GICC girls are now 4-4 on the season. 

In the boy's match up GICC defeated the Stars 63-27. The Crusaders would trail right out of the gates as Kearney Catholic would drain back-to-back three-pointers to start the game 6-0. GICC would then answer right back with two three-pointers to tie the game early in the first quarter. The Saders would then take their first lead of the game 8-7 at the 4:54 mark of the first quarter and never look back racing to a 20-11 end the first quarter score. GICC would lead at the half 37-22 and would only give up five points in the second half outscoring the Stars 26-5. Braylon Wolfe had 16 points to lead the Crusaders, Thomas Liban chipped in 10 points, and Thomas Birch had 11 points. GICC won their 7th game in a row and is now 9-2 on the season. 

Both GICC teams will be back in action on Saturday, January 11th hosting Doniphan Trumbull. The girls' game is at 5:30 pm with the boy's game to follow at 7:00 pm. 

GIRLS GAME 

Central Catholic    18  16  17  14  -60

Kearney Catholic    10  10  10  10  -40 

GICC Scoring: Palik 2 - A.Tibbetts 15 - M.Herbek 12 - Schardt 5 - E.Tibbetts 2 - Stegman 2 - Moody 20 - A.Herbek 2 

Kearney Catholic Scoring: Colling 3 - Key 8 - R.O'Hare 2 - K.O'Hare 3 - Seim 11 - Dzingle 10 

- Huxoll 3 

BOYS GAME 

Central Catholic   20  17  10  16  - 63 

Kearney Catholic  11  11  2    3  - 27 

GICC Scoring: Wolfe 16 - Liban 10 - Kelly 4 - Alberts 7 - Tongun 2 - Birch 11 - Schrad 2 - Haney 7 - Schneider 2 - Vasquez 2 

Kearney Catholic Scoring: Axmann 5 - Bosshamer 9 - Krohn 1 - Sharp 5 - Hogeland 2