North Butler’s Rottler injured early in second in West Fork girls’ rally

By: 
Kristi Nixon

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GREENE – Only 12 seconds into the second quarter and North Butler three-year starting guard Jenny Rottler went down with an ankle injury.
At that point, the Bearcats held a 17-9 lead.
After Rottler left for good, West Fork slapped on the pressure and North Butler didn’t handle it well, not scoring until the 3:53 mark in the second quarter and clung to a 22-17 lead with 3:29 left until half.
“We were thinking about pressing anyways but I knew when she went down that their back-up ball handler is a lot weaker than she is,” West Fork coach Rodney Huber said. “She (Rottler) directs everything on the floor, so that gave us an advantage in that aspect of the game; you could see they turned the ball over numerous times and we scored off it quite a bit in the second half. That was the difference.”
Read more on this story in the Feb. 10 print and online editions of the Hampton Chronicle.

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