• The Groton girls' basketball team continues to roll along as the Lady Tigers posted a 50-30 win over Britton-Hecla Monday in Britton.
• Groton led at the quarterstops at 13-9, 20-13 and 38-20.
• Courtney Kurtz led the Tigers with 21 points, seven rebounds, three steals and four assists. Camille Sippel followed with 14 points, four rebounds, three steals and one assist. Carly Wheeting had seven points, one rebound and two steals. Kylie Hawkins added four points, had five rebounds, three steals and one assist. Halle Dohman had two points, three rebounds and one steal. Audrey Wanner had two points, one rebound, four steals and two assists and Ashley Gibbs had two rebounds. Kurtz made two three-pointers and Sippel made one.
• Groton made 15 of 37 field goals, nine of 13 free throws, had 24 rebounds, 16 steals, eight assists, 15 turnovers and 12 team fouls.
• Mallori Robenberg led the Braves with 12 points followed by Emily Brenmon with six, Kassi Jones five, Ashley Fosness, Toni Symens and Halley Elsen each had two points and Emma Bennett added one free throw.
• Groton won the junior varsity game, 36-9. Scoring for Groton: Audrey Wanner 9, Tori Bjerke 7, Rachel Blackmun 6, Emily Locke 5, Marlee Jones 4, Katie Koehler 2, Maryn Howard 2, Taryn Rossow 2.
• Groton is now 11-2 on the season and will host Webster on Thursday.

• When the main pump water meters were read Monday morning, the readings were way off the normal rates. The equivalent of about three water towers (tower holds 85,000 gallons) worth of water had disappeared overnight. The search began for the leak.
• The lift stations are also checked each morning and it was discovered that the lift station on Aspen Avenue and the one southwest of Groton had extra hours. In fact, the high flow alert was sounded on the Aspen Lift station.  That gave a clue of where to begin the search. After opening up several man holes and looking at the flow of the water, the man hole at Washington Street and Third Avenue West revealed the leak. Water was pouring into the man hole through the rings just under the surface of the road. The block of water main was isolated and it left the Village Apartments and five other homes without water for the day.
• Todd Lerew of Dahme Construction brought down an excavator to dig through the three to five feet of frost in the ground. They spent the day looking and digging, but the frost hook broke towards the end of the day and work had to be halted. They will continue digging today to try and find the source of the leak, was has evaded the city workers.