Ottawa ? For the second year in a row, Ottawa High’s girls basketball team lost a first-round Class 5A sub-state game at home, falling 68-46 to Newton on Wednesday night.

“We just got outrun tonight, and that’s all there is to it,” Ottawa coach Cliff McCullough said.

Clad in all-black uniforms and matching knee-high socks, the Railers (15-6) personified a bullet train with their transition game that would have produced a smile from former Kansas University men’s basketball coach Roy Williams.

Ottawa forward Kelsie Studley led her team with 17 points, but for a majority of the game she was shackled by Janae Voelker, who dogged anyone who dared go in the paint.

Voelker, who finished with 10 points and five steals, played the roles of both locomotive and conductor by slashing to the basket one play and serving up an assist on the next.

“We had a chance to see her on film, and she’s been like that every game,” McCullough said. “She’s the definite leader.”

Added Studley: “She was extremely physical and extremely good.”

Every Newton player brought a level of physicality that Ottawa had a hard time matching, resulting in forced turnovers and a disproportionate amount of Railer rebounds.

Ottawa kept close until the third quarter, when the Railers doubled up the Cyclones, 16-8. The trend continued in the fourth quarter as Newton outscored Ottawa, 27-13.

“We went out of our game,” Studley said. “We were just all over the place.”

“I felt like we were right there, but instead of taking care of the basketball and not making mistakes, we just kept doing it,” McCullough said. “We made mistakes tonight that we got away with this year (in the regular season). You’re not going to get away with it with a team like this.”

Newton coach Randy Jordan said his team knew it had not played its best game all year going into Friday’s contest. It has now.

“Yeah, I’m kind of surprised,” Jordan said about the runaway victory, “but then again I’m not surprised because I knew what we were capable of.”