Tough Week Leaves Savages at 5-4

Before losing by two points on a buzzer-beater against Keota and on the road to ninth-ranked, unbeaten Lynnville- Sully, the Sigourney varsity girls’ basketball team got its biggest win of the young season last week.

Last Monday, unbeaten English Valleys strolled into Sigourney looking to get its sixth win in a row, but instead, Andy Harter’s Sigourney team, which trailed for much of the game, exploded for 25 points in the fourth quarter and handed the Bears their first loss of the season, 66-53.

The Savages trailed by four points with three minutes left in the third quarter, before going on a massive run that left the Bears in the dust.

Read the full article in the Dec. 24 edition of the News-Review.