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Mar 12, 2025
LocalSportsJournal.com
HOUGHTON LAKE – The Fremont Packers’ stellar basketball season got here to an finish on Wednesday evening in a 49-31 loss to the Gladstone Braves.
The Packers suffered via a tough evening taking pictures in dropping within the Division 2 regional finals at Houghton Lake. The 31-point output was the bottom for the high-scoring Packers all season lengthy. In reality, Fremont had not scored lower than 54 factors in a sport in 15 straight video games earlier than Wednesday evening.
The Braves (24-2) transfer into Tuesday evening’s quarterfinal matchup towards Frankenmuth (22-4) at Shepherd Excessive College. Frankenmuth defeated Portland 41-27 on Wednesday evening.
Fremont bows out of the match with a 23-3 report. That victory whole ties the college report.
“We picked a nasty evening to have a nasty taking pictures evening,” mentioned Fremont coach Peter Zerfas, whose crew made 183 photographs from behind the 3-point line in the course of the season. “We shot 2-for-25 from 3-point land and 10-for-55 total.”
The poor taking pictures evening began from the beginning because the Packers fell behind 11-10 after one quarter and 22-16 on the half.
The Braves used a 19-6 scoring benefit within the third quarter to go up 41-22 after three quarters. Fremont did outscore Gladstone 9-8 in a low-scoring fourth quarter that noticed the Braves use a affected person offense within the ultimate 8 minutes to safe the victory.
“Gladstone performed half courtroom man-to-man protection, however we had attractiveness and missed shot after shot,” Zerfas mentioned. “I believed our protection was good early.”
Fremont utilized full-court stress early on, however the Braves have been in a position to break it with good ball motion.
“Our full-court protection has been nice all yr,” Zerfas mentioned. “However, they have been in a position to preserve the tempo gradual.”
Gladstone’s all-stater Lillie Johnson was unstoppable with 29 factors. No different Courageous scored greater than 5 factors,
“She managed the tempo of your complete sport,” Zerfas mentioned.
Sophomore Taylor DeKuiper led Fremont with 15 factors and 15 rebounds. Senior Mia Clemence had eight factors and 10 rebounds.
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