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LAUREL - In the final tuneup before the Greater Northeast Activities Conference Girls Basketball Tournament, the Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Lady Bears wasted little time in taking control of a nonconference game against Wakefield Jan. 29 on the way to a 62-28 win over the Lady Trojans.
In fact, by the time the dust settled on the opening eight minutes, the Lady Bears were already in front, 24-3.
A 21-point second quarter put the game out of reach and Laurel-Concord-Coleridge never looked back on their way to the big 34-point victory.
LCC used an offensive threeheaded monster in the form of Rena Rasmussen, Carlie Kvols and Kaida Eriksen.
Rasmussen posted a doubledouble in the contest with 17 points and a dozen rebounds.
Kvols had a 4-for-6 shooting performance from beyond the 3-point line to lead her to 16 points. She also helped teammates out by dishing out six assists .
Eriksen put up 15 points and swiped six steals on the evening.
The Lady Bear defense held the Lady Trojans to under 21% shooting from the field and forced 25 turnovers.
LCC was set to take on the No. 6 seeded Neligh-Oakdale Lady Warriors in the opening round of the conference tournament on Feb. 3 in the second game of the night at West Holt.
The Feb. 3 winners will meet at the highest seeded winners house while the losers will head to the consolation bracket at the highest seed left.
The GNAC finals are scheduled for Feb. 7 in Laurel.
WAK (3-16) 3 8 8 9 - 28 LCC (13-7) 24 21 15 2 - 62 LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE: Hattie McCorkindale 0-2 1-2 1; Tyler Recob 3-4 0-1 6; Willa Roberts 2-3 1-2 5; Carlie Kvols 6-8 0-0 16; Kloie Ferris 0-1 0-0 0; Nora Specht 0-1 0-0 0; Rena Rasmussen 7-10 3-3 17; Kaida Eriksen 6-12 2-5 15; Karli Ferris 1-7 0-0 2; Boston Brown 0-3 0-0 0; Alyza Leonard 0-1 0-0 0; Maddy Campbell 0-1 0-0 0.
