Friend vs Meridian | Basketball | 2/10/2022

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Friend Meridian

Bulldogs

Mustangs

The Meridian (Daykin, NE) varsity basketball team lost Thursday's home conference game against Friend (NE) by a score of 58-44.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Friend	8	18	17	15	58
Meridian	10	7	15	12	44

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Game Stats

Friend (21-22)

Friend has not entered stats for this game.

Meridian (21-22)

Meridian

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	44	16	46	35	40
10	D. Niederklein (Sr)	5	2	2	100	125
13	M. Escobar de leon (So)	3	1	4	25	38
22	Angelo Herrera (Sr)	7	2	8	25	31
32	Brayden Rut (Sr)	11	4	7	57	57
34	Jacob Dennis (Sr)	13	5	19	26	32
55	Kolton Kumpf (So)	5	2	6	33	33

Meridian

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	44	5	19	26	7	12	58	11	27	41
10	D. Niederklein (Sr)	5	1	1	100	0	1	0	1	1	100
13	M. Escobar de leon (So)	3	1	3	33	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	Angelo Herrera (Sr)	7	1	4	25	2	3	67	1	4	25
32	Brayden Rut (Sr)	11	0	0	0	3	4	75	4	7	57
34	Jacob Dennis (Sr)	13	2	11	18	1	2	50	3	8	38
55	Kolton Kumpf (So)	5	0	0	0	1	2	50	2	6	33

Meridian

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF
	Team Totals	44	7	21	28	9	8	1	22	17
3	Dylan Peterson (Jr)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
10	D. Niederklein (Sr)	5	0	3	3	1	0	0	2	3
13	M. Escobar de leon (So)	3	3	0	3	2	0	0	5	2
22	Angelo Herrera (Sr)	7	0	7	7	2	1	0	3	3
32	Brayden Rut (Sr)	11	1	6	7	2	1	0	2	4
34	Jacob Dennis (Sr)	13	0	5	5	2	5	1	9	4
55	Kolton Kumpf (So)	5	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	1

Meridian

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF	Blk:PF	Defl
	Team Totals	0.41	0.36	0.47	0.06	12
10	D. Niederklein (Sr)	0.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	4
13	M. Escobar de leon (So)	0.40	0.00	0.00	0.00	0
22	Angelo Herrera (Sr)	0.67	0.33	0.33	0.00	2
32	Brayden Rut (Sr)	1.00	0.50	0.25	0.00	0
34	Jacob Dennis (Sr)	0.22	0.56	1.25	0.25	4
55	Kolton Kumpf (So)	0.00	1.00	1.00	0.00	2

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Game Story

Nebraska High School Basketball - Friend topples Meridian

February 10, 2022: Daykin, NE 68338

In Thursday's league outing, the Friend Bulldogs (Friend, NE) basketball squad beat the host Meridian Mustangs (Daykin, NE), by a count of 58-44.

The Bulldogs (14-7) will now prepare for their outing against Diller-Odell (Odell, NE). The Griffin go into the non-league outing with a 9-11 record. In their last outing, Diller-Odell defeated Lawrence-Nelson (Nelson, NE), 53-52, in a non-league outing.

The Mustangs now hold a 8-11 record. They play next when they host Silver Lake for a non-league outing on Friday, February 11. Meridian will clash with a Mustangs squad coming off a 44-34 non-league win over Giltner (Giltner, NE). The Mustangs record now stands at 13-7.

Players of the Game

Friend (21-22)

Friend has not selected any Players of the Game.

Meridian (21-22)

Congratulations to #32 Brayden Rut for being selected the Meridian Basketball Player of the Game.

Rankings & Records

Friend (21-22)

NE	Class
117	8

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
16-8	3-0	7-2	6-5	3-1	.667	1.000	1,287	1,089

Meridian (21-22)

NE	Class
236	28

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
9-14	2-4	2-6	5-6	2-2	.391	.333	928	1,087

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	OT2	Final
Friend	13.4	13.5	14.4	12.9	2.0	3.0	53.6
Meridian	10.7	11.0	9.9	10.2	-	-	40.3

Team Stat Comparison

Friend		Meridian
54.8	Points Per Game	40.3
30.0	Rebounds Per Game	27.7
12.2	Assists Per Game	8.6
14.9	Steals Per Game	10.8
3.6	Blocks Per Game	2.1

Team Leaders

Friend		Meridian	National Avg.
#3 Breckan Schluter12.4	Points Per Game	#34 Jacob Dennis15.7	4.9
#24 Chase Svehla6.3	Rebounds Per Game	#34 Jacob Dennis6.3	2.6
#15 Christian Weber3.9	Assists Per Game	#34 Jacob Dennis2.2	1.0
#3 Breckan Schluter4.4	Steals Per Game	#34 Jacob Dennis4.5	0.8
#24 Chase Svehla1.3	Blocks Per Game	#34 Jacob Dennis0.6	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Friend	10-3		Meridian	6-8

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
12/2/21	Friend	Lewiston	(W) 70-30	1/4/22	Lewiston	Meridian	(W) 50-31
1/31/22	Friend	Lewiston	(W) 60-26
12/7/21	Friend	Sterling	(W) 57-39	12/14/21	Sterling	Meridian	(L) 46-40
				1/15/22	Meridian	Sterling	(W) 51-49
12/21/21	Friend	Exeter-Milligan	(W) 65-42	1/18/22	Exeter-Milligan	Meridian	(L) 38-34
2/22/22	Exeter-Milligan	Friend	(W) 56-37
12/28/21	Friend	High Plains	(W) 61-33	1/22/22	Meridian	High Plains	(L) 48-37
				2/1/22	Meridian	High Plains	(W) 47-43
12/29/21	Friend	East Butler	(W) 63-26	1/20/22	Meridian	East Butler	(W) 58-37
1/4/22	Tri County	Friend	(L) 61-45	12/27/21	Meridian	Tri County	(L) 61-22
1/8/22	McCool Junction	Friend	(W) 59-46	1/6/22	Meridian	McCool Junction	(L) 62-37
1/11/22	Dorchester	Friend	(W) 63-17	12/2/21	Dorchester	Meridian	(W) 41-16
				2/21/22	Meridian	Dorchester	(W) 44-34
1/13/22	Friend	Osceola	(L) 68-50	2/4/22	Osceola	Meridian	(L) 68-38
1/28/22	Pawnee City	Friend	(W) 51-46	1/11/22	Meridian	Pawnee City	(L) 48-42
2/18/22	Friend	Cross County	(L) 47-34	12/10/21	Cross County	Meridian	(L) 68-28

Record Breakdown

Friend (21-22)		Meridian (21-22)
16-8	Overall	9-14
3-0	League	2-5
8-7	Non-League	5-6
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
10-3	Common Opponent	6-8
7-2	Home	2-6
6-5	Away	5-6
3-1	Neutral	2-2
0-0	Playoff	0-0
16-8	In-State	9-14
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0