The Atlantic Girls Basketball team experienced a rugged loss at home Thursday night to the Harlan Cyclones 69-37.

It was a very poor shooting night for the Trojans and they found themselves down in an early hole trailing by 13 at the end of the first quarter and gap increased to 17 at halftime.  Atlantic tried to rally third and cut the Cyclones lead down with five quick points to start the third.  But Harlan was prepared for the attempted comeback and continued to bury shots to keep their lead in the double digits. The Cyclones with sharp zone play forcing turnovers, pushed their lead to 18 at the end of the third. Atlantic seemed to have no answer as Harlan won the fourth quarter 15-7.

Aubrey Schwieso had a big game the Cyclones with 32 points.  Erica Rust added 14 points for Harlan with 12 of the 14 coming from inside the paint.  With the win the Cyclones improve their record to 12-2 and will move on to face Creston on the road Friday evening.

Atlantic was led in the loss by Junior Maddie Richter with 9 points.  Zoey Kirchoff contributed 6 points and Claire Pellett chipped in 6.  The Trojans record drops to 6-11 and travel to face a skilled St. Albert team on Friday.

KJAN will bring you the coverage of that game with the pregame show starting at 5:50pm.