The Ellis Jr. High girls JV team played in the Phillipsburg JV Tournament on Dec. 10th coming away with 2nd place.

In the first contest, Ellis JV played Phillipsburg JV, winning the contest 21 to 11. The first half was close with Ellis leading by three points. Ellis went on to add 11 additional points to their score while only allowing P-Burg to add an additional four.

Leading scorer was Rylan Aschenbrenner with 18 points. Piper McClung had three. McClung, Dora Bencze and Lyla Richards each had five rebounds followed by Payten Karst, and Aschenbrenner with four boards. Maggie Fitzgerald, MacKinley Rhoden, Evelyn Merriman each had two and Libby Schiel had one.

Ellis then faced TMP for the championship of which they struggled throughout, losing to TMP 33 to 4 giving Ellis the 2nd place finish. Schiel scored all four of Ellis’ points. Leading rebounder was Karst with nine. Richards, Schiel and McClung each had four followed by Bencze with three, Fitzgerald had two and Merriman had one.