St. Paul beats MV squads

ST. PAUL  —  Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcat girls and boys showed the rust of not playing or even practicing for a week because of snow days.
Playing on the road Thursday night, the Wildcat girls lost 57-20 to St. Paul High’s Indians. The Indians were powered by a 34-point performance by Morgan Westhoff.
“No practices since last Tuesday and it sure showed. We were sluggish all night,” said Kent Houk, MVHS girls’ head coach.
For the Wildcat boys, they were able to stay with the Indians for the first half, trailing by just five points.
“Then we came out dead in the second half,” Denny Lasley, MVHS boys’ head coach said after his Wildcats lost 62-39. “But our guys never gave up the hustle.”
Marmaton Valley’s girls drop to 1-12 while the boys are 3-11. The Wildcats host Southern Coffey County tonight.
The Wildcat teams are on the road next week  playing three games — at Altoona-Midway Monday, at Chetopa Tuesday and at Pleasanton Friday.
Marmaton Valley’s girls were led by Maggie Meiwes with eight points Thursday. Cheyanne Miller pulled down 12 rebounds
The Wildcat girls trailed 41-13 at halftime. It was 55-13 after three quarters.
Westhoff hit four threes in building up her 34 points for St. Paul.
In the boys’ game, the Wildcats were down 50-45 at intermission. They only scored 14 points in the second half.
Zach Louk fired in 16 points and had three steals for Marmaton Valley, Cole Becker added 12 points and grabbed five rebounds. Tanner Lewis had three assists.
St. Paul’s Willie Westhoff scored 18 points. Tyler Coomes and Paul Schibi each chipped in with 10 points.
Marmaton Valley girls (6-7-0-7—20): Miller 1-4-1-6, Boyd 1-1-2-3, Meiwes 3-2-3-8, McEndree 0-1-1-1, Henry 1-0-2-2, Cavender 0-0-1-0, Endicott 0-0-2-0. TOTALS: 6-8-12-20.
St. Paul girls (22-19-14-2—57) (FG/3-pt): Paulie 1-0-1-2, Stein 0/3-0-0-9, Westhoff 11/4-0-1-34, Phillips 1-3-4-5, Sears 3-1-4-7. TOTALS: 16/7-4-10-57.
Marmaton Valley boys (13-12-7-7—39) (FG/3-pt): Louk 7-2-0-16, Houk 1-0-4-2, Hammond 1-1-4-3, Becker 4/1-1-2-12, Carr 3-0-0-6, Smart 0-0-3-0. TOTALS: 16/1-4-13-39.
St. Paul boys (19-11-19-13—62) (FG/3-pt): Westhoff 6/2-0-1-18, O’Brien 1-0-0-2, Smith 1-0-0-2, R. O’Brien 1-0-0-2, Hutcherson 2-3-0-7, Vitt 1-6-2-8, D. Smith 0/1-0-2-3, Coomes 4-2-1-10, Schibi 5-0-2-10. TOTALS: 21/1-11-8-62.