Morton (18-16) stayed close until 2:36 of the second quarter, when Springfield went on a 9-2 spurt to end the half and lead 36-28.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought right before the end of the half, you could see we were wearing them down,\u201d Scheffler said.<\/p>\n
The second half was all Springfield. Morton was outscored 16-5 in the third quarter and just didn\u2019t have anything left.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe said at halftime, if we could come out and rebound \u2014 that was a point of emphasis \u2014 and I don\u2019t know,\u201d Becker said. \u201cA couple of our girls got banged up in the first half and we just kind of left something in the locker room that didn\u2019t come out with us. But they\u2019re a good team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Springfield, ranked third in the final state poll, finished fourth in the Class 3A state finals last year.<\/p>\n
The Senators were led by sophomore guard Zahna Medley with 24 points. Kelly Korza added 21 and Kasi Korza 12 points. Kelly Korza also had 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Morton got 12 points from junior point guard Mariah Nimmo and nine from Caitlyn Vandermeer. Freshman Sarah Livingston had six rebounds.<\/p>\n
Morton returns everyone next season but senior Carly Yingling.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat really happened down the stretch of the season is our girls really had a stick-to-itiveness about them,\u201d said Becker. \u201cI think they pulled together and they care about each other and hopefully they took pride in what they accomplished because they accomplished a whole lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, we came up a little short. The Sweet 16 was pretty sweet until we hit the wall tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
NOTE: Limestone junior Felicia Johnson advanced to the state finals of the 3-point contest. Her eight made shots were the most of the field of eight players. She advances to Thursday\u2019s preliminary rounds.<\/p>\n
Jane Miller can be reached at 686-3207 or jmiller@pjstar.com . <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original article from Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n For the first eight minutes Thursday night, Morton looked like it was going to give Springfield a real battle for the Class 3A Champaign Sectional title. But the Senators started to pull away late in the first half and dominated the second on the way to a 78-48 win at Champaign Central. The Potters, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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