Girls Basketball 2010-02-10 vs Monroe

The Wildcats honored their 5 departing seniors in a short ceremony before Wednesday night's game. Moving on at the end of the year are Molly DeLeon, Jessica Denmon, Jessica James, Nicole Mowbray and Shantae Young. All 5 started their final game, even injured Molly. She was on the court for the tip, but the clock was stopped immediately so she could be replaced.

Before all this, the Freshman team was in the dome having their way with the visiting Monroe Bearcats, at least in the 2nd half. The two team were tied at 14 at the end of the first, and Monroe scored two more than OH in the second to lead 29-27 at halftime. The Wildcats found their defense in the 2nd half, holding the Bearcats to just 6 points in the 3rd. Then, in the final quarter of the 2009-2010 season, the freshman offense got hot. Led by Ciera Wiser's 14 points, the team scored 23 points on their way to a 62-49 win. Wiser finished the game with 29 points, Jalani Bobo 16, Morgan Young 8, Marissa Lewis 6 and Joem Evangelista 3.

The JV team picked up a rare win, beating the visitors 46-40. It's wasn't an easy win as even though the Wildcats led 8-2 halfway through the first, Monroe dug in to take a 10-8 lead at the first horn. OH fought back behind 6 points by Tatiana Cumming to take a 21-20 lead into the locker room at the half. They got started just 7 seconds into the period with a nice pass from Naomi Walker to Kelsey Rankin for an easy layin. OH then got the lead with just 37 seconds left when Walker passed the ball from halfcourt to Cumming for the score. In the 3rd, Nikita Ford had the hot hand, scoring 8 points and increasing the OH lead to 10 points. Not willing to go away easily, Monroe stayed in the game but could only close the gap to 6 points as time expired. Cumming and Rankin both put up 12 points, Ford finished with 8, Walker 5, DJ 4, Kaileen Burleson 3 and Kate Rossman 2.

The varsity game was hard to watch. After a decent first period the girls had problems on both offense and defense. The combined OH offensive output in the 2nd and 3rd quarters was just 14 points while the defense allowed Monroe to score 32 points. In the end, Monroe just had too much for the Wildcats and won 53-36. Jessica Denmon was the OH scoring leader with just 14 points. Nikki Mowbray had 7, Clarissa Abadesco 6, Yoshi 4, Jessica James and Addy Royal 2 each and Shantae Young 1.

The game ended the regular season for the Wildcats and they finished 5th in the WESCO north, forcing a pigtail playoff game at Shorewood, the WESCO South #4, on Friday the 12th.

61 photos of the games and senior night activities are posted HERE.

Video highlights are HERE.