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Trojans apply pressure
By The Chronicle-Journal
Thursday, November 1, 2007

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Hammarskjold Vikings forward Allie Campbell attempts to shoot over Churchill Trojans‘ Kayla Kiessig during senior girls high school basketball playoff action Thursday night. The Chronicle-Journal/Brent Linton

So relentless was the Churchill Trojans‘ surge Thursday, even the referees and scorers table couldn‘t keep track.
The Trojans unleashed a 17-0 run midway through the third quarter en route to a 52-28 victory over the Hammarskjold Vikings and a one-game lead in the best-of-three Thunder Bay high school senior girls basketball semifinal series.
Kayla Kiessig led the way with 17 points and Shelby Krasnichuk added 10 for Churchill which can book a trip to the city final with a win in Hammarskjold‘s gym on Monday.
Allie Campbell paced the third-seeded Vikings with 15 points, but her and her teammates crumbled in the face of Churchill‘s full court press. After Jaclyn Brown scored on a steal-and-breakway to put Hammarskjold close at 25-18, the Trojans called a time-out and forced four-straight turnovers. Kelsey York, Heather Schmidt, Melissa Verboom and Kiessig scored in such blinding order, the game had to be stopped to make sure the scoreboard numbers were correct.
“Our game is to pressure the ball,” said Churchill coach Dave McCallum. “We‘ve got a lot of speed so we wanted to use it a lot. Defence has so far been effective for us.”
Kiessig, a fifth-year centre, staked the Trojans to the early lead with eight points in the first quarter.
In the other semifinal Thursday, the No. 1 St. Ignatius Falcons opened their best-of-three set with a 52-18 drubbing of the Westgate Tigers to set the stage closer to a Falcons-Trojans final. Chelsea Nekuliak, Andraya Bitonte, Andrea Scocchia and Laura Cooper each scored eight points to lead the balanced attack.
While the Falcons‘ (11-0) undefeated string in league play is impressive, McCallum is trying not to look too far ahead on possibly ending it in the final.
“We‘re trying to take care of things and make sure we play two or three solid games in this series,” he said. “We‘ll get through and see how it goes.”
The Thunder Bay champion travels west to face either Dryden, Fort Frances or Kenora for the Northwestern Ontario title. Those three towns battle for their league crown next Friday.
The Ontario double-A championship begins Nov. 22 in St. Thomas.
In the junior girls division, Lindsay Inkila scored 10 to lead the Vikings past St. Ignatius 40-17 and the St. Patrick Saints got by the Trojans, 33-21, in semifinal openers.
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