As usual senior center Dana Lewis led the team in scoring with 16 points, but the stellar guard play of junior Mariah Mohns, seniors Megan Heller and Amanda Johnson and others allowed the Cardinals to play the type of game they wanted – running as much as possible and making Turner try to catch them. Mohns scored 15 points in the game, while Heller had 11 points and Johnson added seven points.

It was a different Brodhead team than the one that lost 56-45 to the Big Foot Chiefs earlier in the week.

“After the Big Foot loss we talked about being able to come out and throw that first punch and not wait to react to what they were doing, instead make them react to us and I think we did a good job of that,” Pickett said.

The Cardinals announced their presence early by taking a 12-4 lead at the end of the first quarter. Although Brodhead had trouble connecting on a number of fast breaks early, the up tempo play seemed to wear on the Trojans quickly.

The Cardinals got into the bonus situation in a hurry, which helped land some of the Turner starting forwards on the bench with foul trouble.

From there the Cardinals put the hammer down. By halftime the Cardinals were leading 33-14. A similarly dominate opening to the third quarter allowed Pickett to sit his starters for the majority of the second half.

Heller at point guard had one of her best games of the season Thursday. “We work on fast break all the time. It is a big part of our offense,” said Heller. “I thought we had an overall good game, everybody did well tonight. Everybody contributed.” Even when the Cardinals were forced to set up their offense the Trojans could do little to stop Brodhead, inside or out. Dana Lewis dominated the middle, while Heller at the point killed Turner by finding the weak spot in the defense at the top of the key and connected on three 3-pointers in the game.

It was the second game in a row that Heller hit three from behind the arc. “Megan (Heller) has to handle the ball for us a little bit, just because she is one of our better ball handlers, so we don’t get a chance to get her on the wing as much as we can. She can shoot the ball, she is probably one of our best shooters too, it is tough to get her off the ball to get her some shots, but she did a nice job looking for her shots and knocking them down.”

Cardinals freshmen Amanda Pickel had three points for the Cardinals; junior Blair Baumtgartner, freshmen Mariah Ahrens and senior Riley Olson all added two points. Junior Megan Glover led the Trojans in scoring with 12 points. The team’s next leading scorer had five points in a game that had few highlights for Turner.