Stratford girls basketball crushes Manawa at Almond-Bancroft tournament

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ALMOND – Hannah Schmitt poured in 15 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Stratford girls basketball team to a 60-24 win over Manawa in the first round of the Almond-Bancroft Girls Basketball Tournament on Thursday at Almond-Bancroft High School.

Stratford (5-3) will play either Wisconsin Valley Lutheran or Almond-Bancroft in the tournament championship game at 6:15 p.m. Friday. The score of that game was not provided.

Stratford cruised out to a 20-8 lead after the first quarter and outscored Manawa 26-10 in the middle two quarters to pull away.

Amanda Rindfleisch, Casey Kohlbeck and Carrie Stroetz each added eight points in the win for the Tigers.

Tigers 60, Wolves 24
Manawa 8 6 4 6 – 24
Stratford 20 14 12 14 – 60
MANAWA (24):
No individual statistics reported. Record: 1-5.
STRATFORD (60): Alexis Hofmann 1-2 0-0 2, Kelsey Boeger 0-1 0-0 0, Macie Frueh 2-8 1-4 5, Amanda Rindfleisch 4-5 0-0 8, Brooke Schultze 2-13 1-4 6, Emily Hanke 2-6 0-0 4, Carrie Stroetz 3-10 2-2 8, Casey Kohlbeck 4-6 0-0 8, Hannah Schmitt 7-17 1-2 15, Alleah Schmidt 1-2 0-0 2, Tianna Hughes 1-7 0-0 2. FG: 27-77. FT: 5-12. 3-pointers: 1-6 (Schultze 1-1, Frueh 0-1, Hughes 0-1, Schmitt 0-3). Rebounds: 31 (Schultze 8, Schmitt 8). Record: 5-3.