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Last Year’s State Finals in Review

Evansville Mater Dei Works Overtime for First Girls Basketball Title
Evansville Mater Dei, in winning the Class 2A Coach Denny Renier’s Luers team finished
girls basketball state championship, added another 21-6. The Knights, who lead Indiana in girls
accomplishment to its growing list of first-time basketball state titles (six) and championship game
achievements. appearances (nine), were the defending Class
The No. 1-ranked Wildcats won their first regional 2A champs after a 2011 victory over Brownstown
title in 2012. Then came their first semi-state crown. Central.
And they wrapped up a remarkable season with a Miracle Woods led the Knights with 17 points and
56-52 overtime victory over No. 2-rated Fort Wayne nine rebounds. Allison Butler had 13 points.
Bishop Luers for the state championship.
In a closely contested game with 15 ties and lead
changes, Mater Dei pulled out the triumph with three
points from Tori Schickel early in overtime and four
from sophomore Maura Muensterman in the final
second.
Muensterman’s 12-foot jumper pushed Mater Dei
ahead 54-52. She added two free throws after Luers
was hit with a technical foul for calling a timeout it
didn’t have.
In the final seconds of regulation time, with the
score tied at 49-all, Schickel blocked a shot by Luers’
Brooke Ridley in the lane, extending the game.
Coach Steve Goans’ Mater Dei team finished
27-1 and won its last 20 games. Three Wildcats
scored in double digits. Sophomore Ashlynn Spahn,
who was averaging 3.1 points coming in, led the
team with 15. Muensterman scored 14 and Schickel
had 11. Schickel also collected 11 rebounds.

Fort Wayne Canterbury Tops Resilient Northeast Dubois in Class A

The venue was different, but the result was the Canterbury had double-digit scoring from four
same for the Fort Wayne Canterbury Cavaliers. of its five starters.
When No. 1-ranked Canterbury defeated the Darby Maggard
No. 5-rated Northeast Dubois Jeeps 64-54 in the led with 17 points.
Class A girls basketball state championship game, Kindell Fincher and
it marked the fourth championship in five years for Bailey Farley had
the Cavs. Canterbury’s four titles have come at four 15, and Aaliyah
different sites -- Indianapolis’ Conseco Fieldhouse, Gaines scored 10.
Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, the Allen County Fincher collected
Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne and this one in 15 rebounds.
Terre Haute’s Hulman Center. Northeast
But this victory didn’t come easily for Coach Dubois put three
Scott Kreiger’s Cavs (25-2), who arrived in the game starters in double
as the state’s top-scoring team with an 82.2 mean figures -- Nicole
and an average victory margin of 30.3. Coach Alan Dodd with 20,
Matheis’ Jeeps (22-5) played resilient and tough- Rachel Breitwieser
minded basketball. They used a 12-0 run in the with 15 and
third quarter to edge within a point, 38-37, before Mariah Seng with
Canterbury pulled away in the fourth quarter. 10. Breitwieser
It was Canterbury’s second state title of the grabbed 17
school year. The Cavalier boys won the Class A rebounds as
soccer championship on Oct. 29. Northeast Dubois, the Jeeps
which leads Indiana with 10 consecutive girls outrebounded the
basketball sectional titles, was seeking its first state Cavs 43-29.
championship in any sport.
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