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win 2 of 3
The Prairie boys basketball team won 2 of 3 games this past week. On Tuesday, Jan. 24 they won 72-40 over Clearwater Valley at Kooskia. On Friday, Jan. 27 they lost to Lapwai 38-46 at Cottonwood. Finally on Monday, Jan. 30 they beat Grangeville 68-40 at Cottonwood. 
Luke Wemhoff followed up Chmelik’s dunk with a putback that made it 18-2. C.V. then scored the final 5 points of the quarter to make it 18-7. Prairie then opened the second quarter with a 13-5 run to take a 31-14 lead. Prairie wound up taking a 37-23 lead at the half. Chmelik added 4 more points in the second quarter while Schumacher scored 8. Between the two of them they were 6 for 6 from the field. Prairie didn’t let up in the third quarter as they outscored C.V. 16-3 to open the period and take a 53-26 lead. Chaffee scored 8 and Gavin Branson 5 in the quarter. They took a 60-33 lead into the final period. In the fourth period a pair of free throws by Schumacher sent the game to running clock mode with 6:28 left as Prairie took a 66-35 lead. Those 2 points were part of a 10-0 run that made it 72-35 before C.V. scored the game’s final 5 points. Chmelik wound up with 20 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocked shots in the game. Schumacher had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds. Chaffee scored 10 points while Wemhoff scored 9. Schlader and Branson had 5 points each with Todd Ott and Nick Mager scoring 2 each and Brandon Anderson 1. Prairie dominated the boards 41-18. Branson and Schlader each had 4 steals in the game. Prairie did a great job of finding the open man as they had 23 assists on 28 made baskets. Schlader had 6 assists with Chaffee adding 5. Branson and Schumacher had 4 each while Anderson had 3 and Ott claimed the other assist. Prairie was 28 for 56 from the field, 50%, and 11 for 14 at the line, 79%. C.V. was 15 for 43 from the field, 35%, and 4 for 6 at the line, 67%. Prairie lost the JV game 49-54 as they were still without Devin Ross who was fighting an illness. C.V. jumped out to a 0-8 lead on a pair of 3-pointers and a driving lay-up. Dylan Schumacher got Prairie on the board but the Pirates trailed 9-16 at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter they fell behind by as many at 16 at 16-32. Derik Shears had scored all 7 points in the quarter to that point. Prairie was able to rally back a bit and cut the lead to 24-37 by halftime. In the third quarter Prairie still trailed by 12 at 31-43 when Owen Anderson sank a pair of 3-pointers and Hayden Uhlenkott a pair of free throws to cut the deficit to 39-43. Prairie trailed 41-47 heading into the fourth quarter. A free throw by Anderson and a 3 by Schumacher cut the deficit to 2 at 45 -47 early in the fourth. Twice more in the final period Prairie got within 2 but couldn’t get any closer. The last time was at 49-51 with 40 seconds left after a pair of free throws by Schumacher. C.V. then closed out the game by making 3 of 4 free throws to win by 5. Shears had 21 points and 10- rebounds to lead the JV’s in both categories. Schumacher added 13 points with Anderson scoring 7, Uhlenkott 6 and Carson Schmidt 2. Prairie had a 28-25 edge on the boards. Uhlenkott and Schumacher each had 4 steals while Schumacher and Michael Schwartz each had 3 assists. Prairie was 18 for 46 from the field, 39%, and 10 for 24 at the line, 42%. C.V. was 18 for 32 from the field, 56%, and 14 for 26 at the line, 54%. Prairie 18 19 23 12 -72 C.V. 7 16 10 7 -40 Prairie-Schlader 1-3, 3-4, 5; Chmelik 10-15, 0-0, 20; Chaffee 4-13, 0-0, 10; Branson 2-4, 0-0, 5; Anderson 0-1, 1-2, 1; S. Schumacher 7-12, 2-2, 16; Wemhoff 3-3, 3-4, 9; Ott 1-4, 0-0, 2; Mager 0-1, 2-2, 2; Gehring 0-0, 0-0, 0; D. Schumacher 0-0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Chaffee 2. C.V.-Tr. Pfefferorn 6-13, 2-2, 16; Olsen 0-3, 0-0, 0; Mangun 4-12, 2-2, 11; Morrow 2-5, 0-2, 5; Rives 0-0, 0-0, 0; Ty. Pfefferkorn 1-8, 0-0, 3; Schilling 1-1, 0-0, 2; Kolb 1-1, 0-0, 3. 3-pointers-Tr. Pfefferkorn 2, Mangun, Morrow, Ty. Pfefferkorn, Kolb.  Prairie
played a deliberate offense, passing the ball around and setting screens,
looking for players to get open shots. The problem was that in 3 of the
4 quarters they struggled to connect on the open shots they got.
The first half saw several missed shots inside the lane that could have turned around a 15-22 halftime deficit. Anderson was the only Pirate that seemed able to hit a lay-up as he made 3 in the quarter for 6 points that kept Prairie within range. Prairie connected on just 7 of 25 shots in the first half with only 2 of those attempts coming from 3-point range. They turned it around in the third quarter but hitting 6 of 10 shots while Lapwai was unable to hit their shots. Prairie put together a 13-1 run to start the third quarter and take a 28-23 lead. Schlader and Chmelik split the first 8 points of the quarter for Prairie as they tied the score at 23-23 on a lay-up by Schlader. Chaffee then hit a 3-pointer to give Prairie their first lead of the game at 26-23. Spencer Schumacher followed with a lay-up that made it 28-23. Lapwai got their first basket of the quarter with 1:01 left to make it 28-25 at the end of the third. Schumacher scored inside to open the fourth quarter and make it 30-25. Lapwai then went to full court pressure, which forced just 2 Prairie turnovers. It was more that Prairie reverted to missing shots while Lapwai started making theirs. The Wildcats were 7 for 10 from the field in the final quarter and 5 for 6 at the line while Prairie was just 2 for 8 from the field and 6 for 6 at the line. Included in Lapwai’s 7 baskets were a huge pair of 3’s by Payton Sobotta. Sobotta’s first 3, from about 25 feet, tied the score at 32 and his second one, about a minute later, from almost the same spot, gave Lapwai the lead for good at 34-36. Schumacher wound up as Prairie’s leading scorer with 9 points. Schlader scored 8, Chmelik and Anderson 6 each, Chaffee 5 and Branson 4. Prairie had a 29-24 edge on the board with Chmelik pulling down 13 to lead the way. Chaffee had Prairie’s only steal against Lapwai and Branson had 5 assists. Prairie was 15 for 43 from the field, 35%, and 7 for 9 at the line, 78%. Lapwai was 17 for 47 from the field, 36%, and 8 for 10 at the line, 80%. Prairie won the JV game by a 60-51 score. Lapwai took the early lead but a 9-0 run that turned a 9-9 tie into an 18-9 lead gave Prairie an 18-12 edge at the end of the first quarter. Dylan Schumacher scored 8 points in the quarter, 6 of those on a pair of 3-pointers, while Shears scored 6 and Nick Mager 4. Shears added another 9 points in the second quarter and Mager 4 as Prairie took a 38-29 lead at the half. Lapwai closed the gap in the third quarter with a pair of 3’s by Schumacher helping Prairie hang on to the lead. They led 46-40 after 3 quarters. A 3 by Devin Ross and a steal and lay-up by Schumacher made it 51-40 in the fourth. Prairie then made enough of their free throws down the stretch to hold off the Wildcats. Schumacher wound up with 20 points to lead the scoring while Shears added 19. Ross scored 9 with Mager adding 8. Tanner Hibbard added 3 points and Uhlenkott 1. Rebounding was very close with Lapwai holding a 31-32 edge. Schumacher, Ross, Schmidt and Uhlenkott each had 6 to lead the Pirates. Schumacher had 5 steals and 6 assists while Hibbard and Ross each added 4 assists. Prairie was 22 for 43 from the field, 51%, and 10 for 20 at the line, 50%. Lapwai was 21 for 54 from the field, 39%, and 6 for 13 at the line, 46%. Prairie 6 9 13 10 -38 L:apwai 11 11 3 21 -46 Prairie-Schlader 3-10, 2-2, 8; Chmelik 3-8, 0-1, 6; Chaffee 2-10, 0-0, 5; Branson 1-2, 2-2, 4; Anderson 3-9, 0-0, 6; Wemhoff 0-0, 0-0, 0; Schumacher 3-4, 3-4, 9. 3-pointers-Chaffee. Lapwai-Peters 1-1, 0-0, 3; Taylor 4-16, 0-0, 9; Leighton 2-7, 0-0, 4; Miles-Williams 5-12, 4-6, 14; Sobotta 4-4, 0-0, 10; Kipp 1-3, 4-4, 6; Ortiz 0-1, 0-0, 0; Wheeler 0-2, 0-0, 0; Miles 0-1, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Sobotta 2, Taylor. Prairie is now 12-3 on the season and 7-2 in league play. More details in next week's update.
PIRATES BOYS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FOR 2016-2017 *indicates league game 3-Grangeville, there, Idaho County Shootout, V only, 7:30 p.m., won 53-39 6-Kamiah, here, won 66-39 8-Troy, there*, won 48-18 15-C.V., here*-postponed due to weather 17-Lapwai, there*, (C,JV,V) 4:30, lost40-59 19-C.V., here*, makeup of 12/15 postponement, won74-29 20-Asotin, Quad, there, JV at 4:30, V at 6, C at 7:30 at Elem Gym, cancelled due to snow day school closure 5-Moscow, there, (C,JV,V), lost 29-44 7-Potlatch, there*, (C,JV,V) 1 p.m., won 62-41 13-Genesee, here*, won 53-35 18-Quad at Asotin rescheduled, JV at 6:00 p.m., V at 7:30 p.m., cancelled due to school closure, moved to Jan. 23 19-Kamiah, there*, postponed due to icy road conditions 21-Troy, here*, 4 p.m., won 63-36 23-Quad at Asotin rescheduled, again, won 56-38 24-C.V., there*, won 72-40 27-Lapwai, here*, (C,JV,V) 4:30, lost 38-46 30-Grangeville, here, won 68-40, more details next week 3-Genesee, there* 4-Potlatch, here*, (C,JV,V) 1 p.m. 7-Moscow, here, (C,JV,V) 4 p.m. 9-Kendrick, here *League game 14-22-District at LCSC 23-State Play-In #1 TBA 25-State Play-In #2 TBA March 2-4-State at Caldwell |
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