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FM girls end sour week for Holy Trinity

Wolfe scores 22 to lead the Lady Hounds

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FORT MADISON - Fort Madison’s Hadley Wolfe was prominent on Holy Trinity’s scouting report.

It didn’t matter to Wolfe, who scored a career-high 22 points to lead the Bloodhounds to a 49-29 win over the Crusaders on Saturday.

Wolfe had six 3-pointers, including two in the opening 3 ½ minutes of the second half that helped Fort Madison (9-4) break open what was a close game at halftime.

Wolfe scored the Bloodhounds’ first points of the game, a sign of what was to come.

Her two 3-pointers in the span of a minute in the second quarter helped her settle in.

“I think it was just seeing one of them go through the net, and realizing that I can still keep shooting it and they can just keep going in,” Wolfe said.

“She is one of the hardest working kids,” Fort Madison coach Landon Bentley said. “She's like, ‘Hey, what can I do to play better.’ That’s really good to see.

“After the Keokuk game (a 68-41 loss on Tuesday), she was a little bummed out. She's hard on herself, and she's like, ‘What can I do to be better?’ She comes in to watch film with me. She comes in early for shooting practice, individual workouts. She's earned what she's doing, going from her freshman year average of 2.5 a game to now putting up a career high 22. She’s worked for all this. It's things that you don't see is why she's playing the way she's playing.”

“The Wolfe girl was on our scouting report from the get-go,” Holy Trinity coach Shawn Hopper said. “I told them in the fourth quarter, when she finally missed one, I said, ‘You know why she missed one?’ I said, ‘Because her arms are tired from all of them that she's made on us.’ We just didn’t close out hard enough on her.

Holy Trinity (9-5) rallied late in the first half to cut Fort Madison’s lead to 22-18. It was a positive sign for a team that had lost four of its previous five games, including Friday’s 37-31 defeat to West Burlington.

“I was happy with our effort in the first half, especially after the way we played last night,” Hopper said.

But Wolfe hit a 3-pointer 31 seconds into the second half, starting a 13-0 run for the Bloodhounds.

“There was a little emphatic halftime speech,” Bentley said. “It's like we wait to turn on the gas. We wait to show who we really are. We've got to be better about coming out of the gate ready to play, being confident in taking the shots.”

“At halftime, we said we have to keep going out, keep fighting and hopefully pull away in the game,” Wolfe said. “We just kept fighting, and that allowed us to get away.”

Dayonna Davis added 11 points for the Bloodhounds.

Elizabeth Griffin led Holy Trinity with eight points. Olivia Bendlage had seven points, and Anna Bendlage had six.

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