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Ellinwood boys, girls beat Ellis
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Ellinwood's Reece Stickney shoots against Minneapolis' defenders. - photo by Hugo Gonzalez

ELLINWOOD GIRLS 49, ELLIS 40 — Ellinwood's hot-shooting Brynn Widener scored a career high 18 points with four 3-pointers to spark the Eagles past Ellis 49-40 in Friday's non-league basketball game. The Eagles (6-0) converted six 3-pointers to outscore Ellis 18-0. Reese Stickney added 10 points.

Natalee North led Ellis (3-3) with 16 points.

Ellis 11 7 2 20 — 40

Ellinwood 10 11 14 14 — 49

ELLIS (3-3) (FG 3 FT TP)—Natalee North 7 2-2 16; B. Eck 6 0-3 12; Addison Kohl; 3 1-1 7; Boydston 1 0-0 2; J. Eck 1 1-2 3; Totals 18 4-8 40

ELLINWOOD (6-0) (FG 3 FT TP)—Brynn Widener 7 (4) 0-0 18; Stickney 3 4-4 10; Batchman 2 (1) 1-2 6; Ritchie 2 1-2 5; Jacobs (1) 1-2 4; Schlessiger 2 0-2 4; Maxwell 1 0-0 2; Totals 18 (6) 7-12 49

ELLINWOOD 65, ELLIS 55 — Ellinwood's one-two scoring punch of Landon Simpson (33) and Drake Hosman (20) combined for 53 points in a wild 65-55 non-league basketball victory over Ellis. Simpson scored 17 fourth-quarter points as Ellinwood (3-3) outscored Ellis 27-15 in the final quarter.

Ellis (3-3) was led by Aiden Ashenbrenner with 19 points.

Ellis 13 15 12 15 — 55

Ellinwood 11 12 15 27 — 65

ELLIS (3-3) (FG 3 FT TP)—Trenton Schartz (1) 0-0 3; Jimenez (1) 0-0 3; Frickey 4 (1) 3-6 12; Noble-Heit 2 1-1 5; Aiden Aschenbrenner 7 (1) 4-7 19; Honas 2 1-2 5; C. Schartz 2 0-0 4; Totals 21 (4) 9-16 55

ELLINWOOD (3-3)—Simpson 9 (2) 13-18 33; McCaffrey 2 91) 1-2 6; Hosman 7 (4) 2-4 20; Campbell Coleman 2 0-0 4; Lewis 1 0-0 2; Totals 21 (7) 16-24 65