By TYLER HENRY
Lead Sportswriter - Salina Post
The Southeast of Saline basketball teams continue heating up down the stretch, with each squad collecting its third straight win in Ellinwood last night.
Girls Game: SE of Saline 62, Ellinwood 31
The Lady Trojans dominated their tilt with Ellinwood, jumping out to a sizable early lead and never letting the foot off the gas.
Southeast led by nine at the end of the first quarter, then outscored the Lady Eagles 21-9 in the second to hold a 20-point lead at halftime.
Once again, the Lady Trojan defense was in full effect, holding Ellinwood to just eight second-half points, and forcing 19 turnovers as the purple and white cruised to victory.
SES was led in scoring by Lexi Jacobson (16), and Brielle Ptacek (14), but seven different Lady Trojans got in on the fun with at least one bucket.
On the other side of the matchup, just one Lady Eagle notched double digits as Julia Schlessiger finished her night with ten points.
With this win, the Lady Trojans move to 13-5 overall while Ellinwood falls to 4-14.
Boys Game: SE of Saline 52, Ellinwood 31
The boy’s game wasn’t much closer when all was said and done, but it took a little more time for Southeast to pull away as Ellinwood trailed by just four at the intermission.
From there however, the Trojans tightened the screws on both sides of the ball, holding the Eagles to just 13 second-half points and cruising to the 52-31 victory.
Ellinwood’s Landon Simpson led all scorers with 18 points, but got just 17 points of assistance from the rest of the roster in the loss.
Meanwhile, Southeast spread their scoring out evenly among seven different Trojans, led by Connor Caselman who posted 13 in the win.
With this result, both teams move to 10-8 overall on the year.
Both SES squads will be back in action tonight when the teams return to Gypsum to battle the Bearcats.