The Warren-Alvarado-Oslo Ponies Girls Basketball team looks to advance to the Section 8A Championship Game tonight as they take on the #2 Kelliher-Northome Mustangs at the Ralph Englestad Arena in Thief River Falls. The game starts at 6 PM, with the Riverview Health Pregame Show at 5:30 PM on KROX Radio and TV.
WAO is 25-3 on the year, and Kelliher-Northome is 27-1 on the year. The Mustangs won their first matchup by a score of 62-36 on February 5th.
FIRST HALF
The first half was very stop-and-go to start, with four fouls called in the first 1:20, and with three minutes gone by, the Mustangs had a 5-3 lead with all points coming from the foul line. The Mustangs got the lead to 4 at 7-3, but Macey Boe began to find answers, scoring 8 points quickly as part of a 10-3 run, putting WAO up 18-17. The teams would then begin to exchange buckets, but the Ponies did a solid job maintaining the lead, as a layup by Kenley Marquis put the Ponies up 25-21. The Mustangs answered with five Kate Thayer points, part of her 18 in the first half, to go up one, and in the final four minutes the pace significantly slowed down, with many turnovers and even more fouls. The Ponies were dominant on in-bounds plays, though, as Marquis and Boe each recorded wide-open layups to give the Ponies a 32-26 lead. Emma Wang hit a layup with 5 seconds to go, cutting the score down to 32-28 as the teams hit the locker room for halftime.
SECOND HALF
WAO
| 1st | 2nd | Final | |
| Kelliher-Northome | 28 | ||
| Warren-Alvarado-Oslo | 32 |
| For Warren-A-O | Points |
| Macey Boe | |
| Markelle Pederson | |
| Meila Pierce | |
| Kenley Marquis | |
| Jorie Miska | |
| Lola Linder | |
| Annie Peterson | |
| Hannah Stroble |
| For Kelliher-Northome | Points |
