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Pirates beat Grangeville
The Prairie Lady Pirates spotted Grangeville a 1-13 lead then came back to beat them 50-42 at Grangeville Tuesday, Nov. 24. Each team was shorthanded with a starter absent as Hailey Danly for Prairie and Haley Sullivan for Grangeville were both absent. Prairie was also missing starter Krystin Uhlenkott, who was in attendance but suffered a knee injury. 
Prairie won the opening tap and that led to a free throw by Kylie Tidwell to give Prairie a 1-0 lead. Grangeville answered with 13 straight points before Josie Peery ended the run with a putback at the 3:32 mark. Just after that Grangeville lost starter Madison Brown to a knee injury which seemed to deflate the Bulldogs as Prairie ended the first quarter with a 7-0 run to cut the deficit to 8-13. Grangeville opened the second quarter with a 6-3 run that pushed their advantage to 11-19. Chaye Uptmor hit a 3-pointer for Prairie’s points. Prairie then put together an 8-0 run to tie the game. Tidwell hit a perimeter shot. Talyss Lustig then scored on an inbounds play lay-up and then on a putback to cut the lead to 2. Tidwell scored to tie it with 1:48 left in the half. Grangeville took the lead back but Uptmor tied it with a basket and Tidwell gave Prairie their first lead since 1-0 with a 3-pointer with 28 seconds left in the half as Prairie took a 24-21 lead into the break. A steal and drive by Angela Wemhoff started the second half scoring then Wemhoff picked up 3 assists on Prairie’s next 3 baskets with Lustig, Shayla VonBargen and Peery each scoring as Prairie took a 31-24 lead. Grangeville cut the lead to 5 a couple of times but a steal and lay-up by VonBargen and a driving lay-up by Wemhoff gave Prairie a 39-30 lead after 3 quarters. Grangeville ramped up their defensive intensity to start the fourth quarter and forced some turnovers that led to baskets as the cut the lead to 3 on 3 separate occasions at 41-38, 43-40 and 45-42. Prairie coach Lori Mader used a couple of timeouts to try and settle her team down and after Grangeville cut the lead to 45-42 with 1:36 left, Prairie took control. VonBargen scored a lay-up and then Tidwell hit 3 of 5 free throws in the final minute to give Prairie their 8-point win. Tidwell wound up as Prairie’s leading scorer with 11 points. VonBargen, Lustig and Uptmor each scored 8, Wemhoff had 7, Peery 6 and Leah Higgins 2. Prairie also had a 44-34 edge on the boards with Uptmor pulling down 14 to lead the team while VonBargen added 11. VonBargen had 7 steals and Wemhoff had 7 assists. Prairie was 20 for 51 from the field, 39%, and 8 for 22 at the line, 36%. Grangeville was 18 for 56 from the field, 32% and 3 for 12 from the line, 25%. Prairie improves to 2-0 on the season. I  n
the JV game Prairie had a terrible second quarter where they were outscored
2-18 but managed to force the game into overtime where they eventually
lost 39-42.
Neither team scored very much in the first quarter but Prairie held a 6-4 lead at the end of the period thanks to 4 points from Sydney Bruner and 2 from Leah Higgins. With Higgins and Bruner as varsity swing players and much of the rest of the squad already having used up quarters in the C game, Prairie put a group on the floor in the second quarter that struggled to score as Kendra Duclos scored the team’s only 2 points as they went 1 for 12 from the field. Grangeville meanwhile went 8 for 16 in the quarter and took an 8-22 halftime lead. Leah Higgins came back in the third quarter and sparked the offense by hitting 6 of 8 shots as Prairie cut the deficit to 23-28 by the end of the third period. Higgins then sat out the fourth to conserve quarters for the varsity game. Prairie kept the momentum going though and rallied from a 25-32 deficit with 3:57 to play to tie the score at 32-32. Bruner had a free throw and a basket in that run while Jordyn Higgins added a basket and Theresa Wemhoff stole the inbounds pass after Jordyn’s hoop and scored. Grangeville scored with 1:20 left to retake the lead but Duclos tied it with 56 seconds left. There were 3 turnovers in the final 17 seconds with Grangeville giving Prairie 1 last shot with an over-and-back at the 3 second mark. Prairie was unable to get a shot off as the game went to overtime. Grangeville scored first but Duclos answered. Grangeville scored again but Madison Pecarovich answered with her only basket of the game. With 1:27 left Bruner gave Prairie their first lead in overtime with a free throw but missed the second. Grangeville took back the lead with 1:13 left and added another hoop with 12 seconds to play to take the victory. In the fourth quarter Grangeville was down to just 4 players as 3 fouled out and a couple other swing players had joined the varsity. Two of those swing players were sent back to the JV bench to give Grangeville enough to field a full team again. There were no technicals for doing so as each still had the same uniform number. Leah Higgins wound up as Prairie’s leading scorer with 14 points. Bruner and Duclos scored 8 each. Wemhoff scored 4, Pecarovich and Jordyn Higgins 2 each and Krystina Krogh scored 1. Prairie had a 52-50 edge on the boards led by Bruner who had 15 rebounds. Leah Higgins added 12 rebounds and Duclos and Wemhoff had 8 each. Jordyn Higgins 4 steals and 4 assists while Wemhoff had 4 steals and 5 assists. The JV’s were 18 for 68 from the field, 26%, and 3 for 25 from the line, 12%. Grangeville was 19 for 49 from the field, 39%, and 4 for 19 at the line, 21%. What helped keep Prairie in the game was 28 Grangeville turnovers compared to 18 for Prairie. 
In the C game Prairie led nearly the whole game and won 36-17. Prairie jumped out to a 6-0 lead as Delaney Uhlenkott, Sarah Ross and Hope McIntire each scored. Grangeville cut the lead to 6-4 by the end of the quarter and took their first lead in the second quarter at 7-9 on a 3-pointer. Hanna Ross hit a free throw and a short bank shot to put Prairie back on top 10-9 but Grangeville answered. Hanna Ross then hit both ends of a 1 and 1 to give Prairie a 12-11 lead at the half. She scored all 6 second quarter points for Prairie. The third quarter is where Prairie took control. The threw a press at Grangeville and held the Bulldogs to 1 for 10 from the field. Uhlenkott hit some big shots and scored 7 in the quarter as Prairie outscored Grangeville 13-2. McIntire, Hanna Ross and Duclos each added a basket. Grangeville scored the first 2 in the fourth but Prairie put the game out of reach with a 10-0 run that put them up 35-15. McIntire and Hanna Ross each had a pair of baskets in that run and Kodie Tidwell add the other 2. Hanna Ross wound up as the leading scorer and rebounder with 12 points and 22 rebounds. McIntire had 9 points and 15 rebounds. Uhlenkott scored 9 and Tidwell, Sarah Ross and Duclos each scored 2. Prairie dominated the boards 75-37 as Tidwell and Alexis Shears each added 8 rebounds. Tidwell had 8 steals and McIntire had 4 assists. The C team didn’t have a very good shooting percentage but made up for it in volume as they were 15 for 81, 19%. They were 6 for 23 at the line, 26%. Grangeville was 6 for 35 from the field, 17%, and 4 for 10 at the line, 40%. Prairie 8 16 15 11 -50 Grangeville 13 8 9 12 -42 Prairie-Tidwell 3-10, 4-9, 11; Wemhoff 3-7, 1-4, 7; VonBargen 3-11, 2-5, 8; Lustig 4-6, 0-2, 8; Uptmor 3-10, 1-2, 8; Peery 3-5, 0-0, 6; Higgins 1-2, 0-0, 2. 3-pointers-Tidwell, Uptmor. Grangeville-Lindsley 2-8, 0-6, 4; Brown 0-0, 0-0, 0; Wilson 6-20, 1-2, 14; Kennedy 5-10, 2-4, 14; Kelley 2-7, 0-0, 4; Fricke 3-10, 0-0, 6; Finnegan 0-0, 0-0, 0; Anderson 1-2, 0-0, 2. Chmelik 0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Kennedy 2, Wilson.
PIRATES GIRLS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FOR 2015-16 *indicates league game 24-Grangeville, there, won 50-42 2-JV at Grangeville, 7:30 p.m. 3-Potlatch, there*, 5 p.m. 4-Grangeville, here, Idaho County Shootout, V only, 7:30 p.m. 5-Troy, there, 6:00 p.m. 8-C.V., there*, ½ JV 10-Kamiah, there* 11-Moscow, here, C,JV,V, 4 p.m. 14-Lapwai, there* 15-Asotin, here, 4:30 & 6 9-Troy, here*, 1 p.m. (Quad) 12-Genesee, there*, 4:30 & 6 14-Lewiston JV, here 16-Potlatch, here*, 1 p.m. 18-Asotin, there 21-Lapwai, here* 25-C.V., here*, ½ JV 26-Kamiah, here* Feb. 1-12 -District at LCSC 11-State Play-In #1 TBA 13-State Play-in #2 TBA 18-20-State at Nampa |
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