Hohenadel delivers for St. Viator

Susan Hohenadel was fortunate the free-throw shooting virus that plagued St. Viator on Saturday night wasn't contagious.

Missing 17 of 20 free throws had the Lions fit to be tied with Conant going into the last minute of their nonconference girls basketball game. But they found the right player at the right time to put a temporary end to the foul shooting.

Hohenadel, a junior who leads the area in free throw shooting at 87 percent, stepped to the line for the first time in the game with 531/2 seconds left. She calmly hit both to give the Lions (16-8) a 34-32 Senior Night victory.

"It was designed for me or Jamie Blenner to get the ball," Hohenadel said of the inbound play out of a timeout with 58 seconds left. "I got it and had a lane and knew I could make the free throws.

"I don't get nervous at the free-throw line."

Good thing, since the Lions survived two more misses with 7.6 seconds left as they finished 5-for-24.

"Our free throws were horrendous," said Hohenadel, who shared team-high scoring honors with Blenner with 6 points. "Luckily it was a low-scoring game and it wasn't as big of an impact."

The Lions scored 21 points off 20 turnovers and Conant (14-10) shot just 29.4 percent (10-for-34) from the field and 1-for-13 on 3-pointers.

"For us to give up a lot of points was really troubling," said Viator coach Paul Bjerkness of Thursday's 61-42 loss to Hersey. "We came back and locked down on defense."

Conant tied it at 32-32 on a short turnaround at 1:18 by Lauren Jason (12 points, 13 rebounds) off a feed from Ashley Lindeman (9 points).

Emma Loos' runner in the lane at the buzzer rimmed off after Viator's final missed free throw.

"I was proud of our response from (Friday's 32-20 loss to Fremd)," said Conant coach Dan Travers. "Lauren Jason was all over the place, Ashley played a good game, Kim Davis off the bench gave us some quality minutes and Marissa Ross had a good floor game."