ESKO 69, AITKIN 40

It is winter in Minnesota. It gets cold. It snows. The metro area called

off school. In northern Minnesota they call it Monday. Life goes on. Esko hosted 7AA rival Aitkin on a cold and snowy Monday and pounced on the Gobblers to the tune of 69-40. The appropriately named Eskomos bounced back from a loss last Thursday to Cromwell. In this game tonight, the home team made use of eight 3s, their pressure defense early, which led to layups (made 6/9), and the free throw line (+13 made).

With eight minutes to go in the first half the game was tied at a dozen. Annika Wold uncorked a 3 from the right side and the Eskomos never trailed again. That started an 18-8 finish to the half (30-20). Kristy Demuth, who had a game high 20 points, hit back to back 3s in that run. With 9 minutes left in the game Esko was up 48-29 (another 18-9 run).

Esko is 16-5 on the season. They had a string of three straight losses early when post Bridget Yellin was out with a foot injury. The Gobblers are now 10-7. This was their second loss in a row to a 7AA team.

	ESKO	AITKIN
POINTS	69	40
REBOUNDS/OFF	46/17	40/17
TURNOVERS	19	19
FTA/%	22/68.18	9/66.7
2FG%/3FG%	44.11/34.78	28.94/17.39
PP100	100.0	58.0
TOP SCORER	Kristy Demuth 20	McKenna MacDonald 12

TRENCH PLAYER: Esko’s senior guard Macy Sunnarborg with 16 points, 133.3 pp100 and a 35 in the 31 Club. She missed one shot from 3 (making two) and was 4/4 from 2. She also led Esko with 8/16 on distributions.