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MILLER CITY — Miller City senior Melissa Michel did everything but sell popcorn versus Jefferson Tuesday night at J. Harry Leopold Gymnasium at Miller City.

The 5-11 center put in a super double-double: 26 points and 23 boards, throwing in six assists, five blocks and three steals in leading the host Lady Wildcats to a 68-35 rout of Jefferson non-league girls basketball action.

“She’s a tough matchup for us inside and we weren’t good enough defensively tonight to handle her,” Jefferson coach Dave Hoffman noted. “With our poor shooting tonight and the turnovers that we had, we had to be really good defensively and that didn’t happen. They got on a roll and it all snowballed after that.”

Miller City head man Chris Rump gave all the credit to his senior.

“She has led us in scoring and rebounding the three previous years and will again this year. She’ll set the rebounding record and will go over 1,000 points,” he explained. “Last year, she had some good players to help her out but they graduated; every team knows she does it all and she continues to do it all.”