The Audubon Wheelers took a tough home loss vs a conference opponent the Treynor Cardinals 67-37. The Cardinals jumped out to a fast start right off the opening tip where they rode the hot hand of senior Jace Tams in the first half where the senior could do no wrong. Tams would single handily put the Cardinals offense on his back as he scored 25 of his game high 28 points in the first half including six threes. The Wheelers trailed 39-14 going into the half time break and Head Coach Darran Miller said the major difference in the game was Tams 25 first half points as well as the Wheelers having 13 first half turnovers.

The second half started with the Cardinals picking right up where they left the first half at getting seniors Karson Elwood and Ethan Konz in the scoring action to go along with Tams. The Cardinals would take a 60-23 lead into the fourth quarter where the running clock would be in place.

But give credit to the Audubon Wheelers as they didn’t give up and continued to play hard and had their best quarter of the night in the fourth. The Wheelers would outscore the Cardinals 14-7 in the quarter. The difference in the quarter was the Wheelers ability to handle the basketball as they had just one turnover in the quarter and just 5 in the second half. Wheelers senior leader Edward Miller was able to get some shots falling as he finished the night with 16 points and two and one’s in the second half. Head Coach Darran Miller was happy with how his team battled and played hard in the final quarter.

The Cardinals would take the game by a final score of 67-37 to improve to 2-1 on the early season and 2-0 in Western Iowa Conference play. For the Wheelers they fell to 1-2 but now 0-2 in Western Iowa Conference play. The Wheelers will be back in action on Friday night when they travel to take on the AHSTW Vikings in a 7:30pm tipoff.