Basketball Recap: Perkins County Comes Up Short

After flying high against Holyoke last Tuesday, Perkins County came back down to earth. The Perkins County Plainsmen had to suffer through a 63-18 loss at the hands of the Sedgwick County Cougars. The game marked the Plainsmen's lowest-scoring match so far this season.

Ella Homan was Perkins County's leading scorer, having posted seven points. Libby Cole held things down on the boards with five rebounds. Madison Potts took the lead distributing the ball, coming up with two assists.

Abigail Dille continued her habit of posting crazy stat lines for Sedgwick County, going 6 of 11 en route to 18 points along with five rebounds and three steals. Lainee Nein was another key player, putting up 13 points in addition to eight boards and three steals.

Plainsmen

Previous 5 Games

01/30/25 vs Sedgwick County	18-63
01/28/25 @ Holyoke	45-25
01/25/25 vs Hershey	41-34
01/24/25 vs Kimball	48-37
01/21/25 @ Chase County	42-50

With the loss, Perkins County broke their three-game winning streak and moved their record to 7-10. As for Sedgwick County, the victory was the fifth in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 8-3.

Perkins County will challenge Maxwell at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Sedgwick County has already played their next contest, a 47-40 win against Akron on the 31st.