Breanna Lewis and Amani Wilborn each scored 20 points and Milwaukee Riverside used a second-quarter run to spurt past Superior and win 69-55 in a Wisconsin Division 1 high school girls basketball state tournament semifinal Friday night at Resch Center in Green Bay.
The 6-foot-5 Lewis, who is headed to NCAA Division I Kansas State, surpassed 1,000 career points in the victory as the Lady Tigers (23-4) advanced to tonight's championship game against Mukwonago.
Juniors Hailey Kontny (20) and Jessica Lindstrom (19) combined for 39 points for Superior (23-4), which was playing its first state tournament game since its debut in 1995. The duo made just 12 of 44 field goals as the Spartans shot 31 percent from the field -- including 2-for-11 from 3-point range -- and just 54 percent from the free-throw line.
"Our team played well, but we could have hit our shots better," Lindstrom said. "Our shots obviously weren't dropping tonight."
Part of the reason was a physical-style defense used by the Tigers.
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"We knew Superior had a two-headed monster," coach Donald Nelson said, referring to Lindstrom and Kontny. "We knew we had to throw a lot of different defenses at them, but we figured our man-to-man defense over time would wear them down."
Riverside led 13-11 after one quarter but outscored the Spartans 28-16 in the second quarter to open up a healthy advantage that remained for the rest of the game.
"I'm proud of our girls because they battled to the end," Superior coach Phil Roe said. "Riverside had that one run in the second quarter ... but aside from that one run, I felt it could have gone either way."
