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Northwestern Area Harding County

Wildcats

Ranchers

The Harding County (Buffalo, SD) varsity basketball team won Thursday's neutral playoff game against Northwestern Area (Mellette, SD) by a score of 58-25.

Game Details: in Timber Lake

This game is a part of the "2024 SDHSAA High School Girls Basketball Playoff Brackets (South Dakota) - Class B - SoDak 16" tournament.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Northwestern Area	9	7	4	5	25
Harding County	20	22	11	5	58

Final score provided by J. Poppen.

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Game Stats

Northwestern Area (23-24)

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Harding County (23-24)

Harding County

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	58	23	54	43	45
10	Lainey Crago (Jr)	0	0	1	0	0
12	Claire Verhulst (Sr)	13	5	8	63	81
14	Sattyn Wilson (Fr)	3	1	3	33	33
20	Macey Wendt (Fr)	9	4	5	80	80
22	B. Rae verhulst (Jr)	13	6	11	55	55
24	R. Hunsucker (So)	2	1	5	20	20
30	Kaylen Padden (So)	5	1	4	25	25
32	Kelsi Costello (Jr)	2	1	9	11	11
34	Kamry Padden (8th)	4	1	1	100	100
40	Jozi Schuchard (Jr)	0	0	1	0	0
42	Jaelyn Wendt (Sr)	5	2	4	50	50
44	Brayden Padden (Fr)	2	1	1	100	100
52	Lexy Rolph (Fr)	0	0	1	0	0

Harding County

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	58	3	19	16	9	17	53	20	35	57
10	Lainey Crago (Jr)	0							0	1	0
12	Claire Verhulst (Sr)	13	3	6	50	0	1	0	2	2	100
14	Sattyn Wilson (Fr)	3	0	1	0	1	2	50	1	2	50
20	Macey Wendt (Fr)	9	0	1	0	1	2	50	4	4	100
22	B. Rae verhulst (Jr)	13	0	1	0	1	3	33	6	10	60
24	R. Hunsucker (So)	2	0	3	0				1	2	50
30	Kaylen Padden (So)	5				3	6	50	1	4	25
32	Kelsi Costello (Jr)	2	0	7	0				1	2	50
34	Kamry Padden (8th)	4				2	2	100	1	1	100
40	Jozi Schuchard (Jr)	0							0	1	0
42	Jaelyn Wendt (Sr)	5				1	1	100	2	4	50
44	Brayden Padden (Fr)	2							1	1	100
52	Lexy Rolph (Fr)	0							0	1	0

Harding County

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO
	Team Totals	58	6	9	17	17	20	7	13
10	Lainey Crago (Jr)	0		1	1			1
12	Claire Verhulst (Sr)	13				1	3		2
14	Sattyn Wilson (Fr)	3		1	1		2		2
20	Macey Wendt (Fr)	9					1
22	B. Rae verhulst (Jr)	13				4	4		3
24	R. Hunsucker (So)	2		1	1	3
30	Kaylen Padden (So)	5				1	1
32	Kelsi Costello (Jr)	2	1		1	3	2
34	Kamry Padden (8th)	4			2	1	2		1
40	Jozi Schuchard (Jr)	0	1	1	2		1	1
42	Jaelyn Wendt (Sr)	5	3	3	6	2	2	3	4
44	Brayden Padden (Fr)	2	1	2	3	2	1	2
52	Lexy Rolph (Fr)	0					1
54	K. Gilbert (8th)								1

Harding County

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO
	Team Totals	1.31	1.54
12	Claire Verhulst (Sr)	0.50	1.50
14	Sattyn Wilson (Fr)		1.00
22	B. Rae verhulst (Jr)	1.33	1.33
34	Kamry Padden (8th)	1.00	2.00
42	Jaelyn Wendt (Sr)	0.50	0.50

Game Story

South Dakota High School Basketball - Harding County trounces Northwestern Area

February 29, 2024: Mellette, SD 57461

The Harding County Ranchers (Buffalo, SD) basketball crushed the host Northwestern Area Wildcats (Mellette, SD), 58-25 in Thursday's non-league test.

The Ranchers (22-0) will now prepare for their test against Lyman (Presho, SD). The Raiders enter the non-league match with a 21-2 record. In their last match, Lyman crushed Kadoka (Kadoka, SD), 63-48, in a non-league match.

With the defeat, Northwestern Area moves to 13-10 on the year.

Rankings & Records

Northwestern Area (23-24)

SD	Class
83	29

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	PF	PA
13-10	5-3	6-5	7-3	0-2	.565	.625	1,044	972

Harding County (23-24)

SD	Class
34	7

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	PF	PA
23-2	7-0	10-0	9-0	4-2	.920	1.000	1,543	772

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Northwestern Area	8.5	7.0	5.0	3.5	45.4
Harding County	12.3	14.8	14.4	16.9	61.7

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Team Stat Comparison

Northwestern Area		Harding County
-	Points Per Game	61.9
-	Rebounds Per Game	32.3
-	Assists Per Game	15.7
-	Steals Per Game	23.7
-	Blocks Per Game	4.4

Team Leaders

Northwestern Area		Harding County	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#12 Claire Verhulst11.6	4.2
-	Rebounds Per Game	#42 Jaelyn Wendt10.3	2.8
-	Assists Per Game	#22 Bailey Rae verhulst2.9	0.9
-	Steals Per Game	#22 Bailey Rae verhulst4.6	1.1
-	Blocks Per Game	#42 Jaelyn Wendt2.4	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Northwestern Area	0-1		Harding County	1-0

Date	Away	Home	Result		Date	Away	Home	Result
12/18/23	Warner	Northwestern Area	(L) 48-40		3/8/24	Warner	Harding County	(W) 62-57

Record Breakdown

Northwestern Area (23-24)		Harding County (23-24)
13-10	Overall	23-2
5-3	League	7-0
6-6	Non-League	10-0
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
0-1	Common Opponent	1-0
6-5	Home	10-0
7-3	Away	9-0
0-2	Neutral	4-2
2-1	Playoff	4-2
13-10	In-State	18-2
0-0	Out-of-State	5-0