Staff photo by Travis Rosenau New Ulm’s Kenzie Enter tries to keep the ball away from Waseca’s Ella Krautmeier as Lily Owens (24) comes in for a double team during a Big South Conference girls basketball game at New Ulm High School on Friday night.

NEW ULM — With 11 different players getting into the scoring column, the New Ulm Eagles girls basketball team won their fifth straight game.

Daviney Dreckmann scored a game-high 21 points and Morgan Hulke collected 18 as the Eagles won their fifth straight game with a resounding 63-33 win over Waseca in a Big South Conference game Friday night.

Levi Kanewischer led Waseca (3-10, 0-3) with 8 points.

New Ulm head coach Julie Rogers said that quality depth from her team was a key as the Eagles battled sickness and injuries.

“It was nice to have Maddie Backer back (did not play Thursday because of illness),” Rogers said. “She was not 100%. We had Mackenzie Enter back [from injury], firing on all cylinders. We had Riley Wilson, Hadley Batt and McKenna Hulke coming off of the bench. That let us run that full-court trapping guard defense because we had some depth tonight.”

And it was a game that the Eagles (10-2, 3-2) were in complete control of.

New Ulm jumped to a 13-2 lead and ballooned that to a 22-8 lead on a Backer 3.

They were never contested the rest of the way.

“We did a nice job of kicking it inside to Becky Joyce — she had 6 [points] in the first half — and establishing that inside game is something that we have been working on,” Rogers added.

The Eagles, who play at Fairmont Monday, saw the Bluejays keep the Eagles in their sites as New Ulm’s offense sputtered.

“We stalled offensively but not defensively,” Rogers said. “We played a really nice game defensively. We missed some shots — we did not get the rebounds that we wanted to but we got the shots.”

New Ulm built a 44-18 lead midway through the second half on a Hulke basket off of a Waseca turnover.

New Ulm’s reserves saw extended playing time the resf of the way.

“Somebody asked me today about the importance of bench players,” Rogers said. “The players who don’t see a lot of playing time are very important. I equate it to when you are running a restaurant. Everybody gets to see the waiter but no one sees the cook in the back. And really the cook in the back is super important.

“These kids who are coming to practice every day and challenging those starters are vital to our success.”