File photo by Travis Rosenau New Ulm’s Maddie Backer dribbles the ball during a nonconference girls basketball game on Nov. 21, 2024, against Wayzata at New Ulm High School.

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Eagles girls basketball team celebrated its first home game since Dec. 3 in grand style Tuesday night in a Big South Conference game against Worthington.

The Eagles scored 62 points in the first half and went on to score a school-record 105 points in a 105-40 win over the Trojans.

It was the first time an Eagles girls basketball team has scored 100 points in a game.

Maddie Backer led the Eagles (7-4; 4-2) with a game-high 27 points. Brooklyn Lewis and McKenna Hulke each added 14. Riley Wilson netted 12 with Ramsey Hopp and Megan Hulke each ending with 10. Twelve players for New Ulm scored in the game.

Emma Heibrink led Worthington (0-8; 0-4) with 24 points.

Worthington committed 34 turnovers in the game, leading to 36 Eagles points.

“I thought that the girls did a fabulous job defensively, and that is how we got those points off of those steals,” New Ulm head coach Julie Rogers said. “And offensively we shared the ball tonight with 12 players scoring in the game.”

Rogers said her team had some goals coming into the game.

“We wanted to put pressure on the ball and I thought that we did that — we wanted to push the ball up the court and we did that too.”

New Ulm took an 11-0 lead on a 3 from Lewis and two Backer baskets off of turnovers.

The Eagles mounted a 24-5 lead thanks to another Lewis 3 off of a turnover and two more Backer hoops off of two of 22 first half Trojans turnovers.

New Ulm’s lead built to 50-19 on a Riley Wilson 3 before the Eagles went on a 14-0 run. A Backer 3 made it 58-19 and two baskets from Ramsey Hopp — both off of back-to-back Worthington turnovers — saw New Ulm with a 64-21 lead at halftime.

“We went into halftime and we talked about the things that we wanted to tweak,” Rogers said. “Defensively we wanted to do some things different when they set some screens and we used some different defenses.”

A Lewis 3 moved New Ulm to a 76-23 lead and it kept building.

Back-to-back 3s from McKenna Hulke and Wilson had the Eagles leading 90-32.

A McKenna Hulke bucket off of another Trojans turnover had New Ulm at the 99 point mark before Jesalyn Skoglund hit a basket that cracked the 100 point mark for the first time in New Ulm girls basketball history with 1:50 left in the game.

“That [100 points] is very special,” Rogers said. “We did not have that necessarily as a goal coming into the game — we wanted to execute our offense — but it was nice to see that it worked out.”

New Ulm plays at Belle Plaine on Friday.