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advances to second place game at District
The Summit Academy Lady Patriots will play Deary for second place at District after winning 2 of 3 District games. That game will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7 at the Activity Center at LCSC. If they win that game they will play the District 3 runner-up at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10 at Grangeville. The Patriots got to this point by surviving a play-in game at Kendrick Tuesday, Jan. 30, 43-39. They then lost to #1 seed Nezperce 44-62 Thursday, Feb. 1 at LCSC. Finally they knocked off Logos 45-37 Monday, Feb. 5 at LCSC. 
They took a 14-9 lead after one quarter and extended the lead to 24-17 by halftime. Kendrick rallied in the third quarter, hitting a buzzer beater to pull within 29-27 after three quarters and then tying the score early in the fourth at 29-29. Summit was able to keep them from taking the lead though and used timely baskets down the stretch from Claira Osborne, Lexi Currier and Taylor Lustig and some big free throws from Lauren Stubbers to build their lead back to as many as 6. It’s fortunate they were able to do so because they were in serious foul trouble. One player fouled out while 2 others had 4 fouls. If they had gone to overtime they could have easily been down to just 4 players. Stubbers led the scoring with 14 points with Osborne scoring 8. Erin Chmelik, Lustig and Jessie Sonnen each scored 6 while Currier scored 3. Osborne led in rebounds with 17. Summit 14 10 5 14 -43 Kendrick 9 8 10 12 -39 Summit-Stubbers 5, 4-8, 14; E. Chmelik 3, 0-2, 6; Currier 1, 1-2, 3; Lustig 3, 0-0, 6; Osborne 3, 2-4, 8; Sonnen 3, 0-0, 6. 3-pointers-none. Kendrick-Cope 0, 0-0, 0; Brown 2, 2-3, 6; Olson 1, 0-0, 2; Anderson 0, 0-0, 0; Tweit 4, 1-4, 12; Sandino 0, 1-2, 1; L. Morgan 4, 1-2, 12; E. Morgan 3, 0-5, 6. 3-pointers-Tweit, L. Morgan. Nezperce extended the lead to 15-39 by halftime. Summit outscored Nezperce in the second half, 29-23, but couldn’t eat away enough at the 24 point halftime deficit. Osborne led the scoring for the Patriots with 17 points while Stubbers and Erin Chmelik each scored 8, Lustig 6 and Currier 5. Osborne connected on five 3 pointers in the game, which may be a school record for most 3’s in a game. Nezperce dominated the boards against Summit, outrebounding them 14-52. Summit 9 6 10 19 -44 Nezperce 21 18 12 11 -62 Summit-Stubbers 4, 0-0, 8; E. Chmelik 4, 0-0, 8; Currier 2, 0-0, 5; Lustig 3, 0-0, 6; C. Chmelik 0, 0-0, 0; Osborne 5, 2-6, 17; Sonnen 0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Osborne 5, Currier. Nezperce-Husted 0, 0-0, 0; Riggers 0, 0-0, 0; Nelson 0, 0-1, 0; S. Boyer 6, 0-0, 12; P. Boyer 0, 0-0, 0; Carpenter 6, 4-4, 17; Cronce 6, 2-2, 15, Stapleton 4, 0-0, 8; Brower 0, 0-0, 0; Wahl 0, 0-0, 0; Duuck 1, 1-2, 3, Horton 3, 1-4, 7. 3-pointers-Cronce, Carpenter.  Logos
rallied to cut the lead to 11-7 by the end of the quarter.
Summit threw full court pressure against Logos to start the second quarter and got 4 quick points. Currier scored a basket then Sonnen stole the inbounds pass and fed Lustig for another basket. Logos didn’t score in the second quarter until the 4:30 mark. By that point both the Knights 6’2” Bea Whitling and Summit’s Erin Chmelik had picked up their third fouls. Stubbers answered the Logos score with a transition basket off a steal. Logos scored again but Lustig answered with a short jumper. Logos then took a chance and put Whitling back in and she picked up her fourth foul trying to stop Stubbers from scoring at the buzzer. Stubbers hit the first of 2 free throws to make it 20-11 at the half. Stubbers scored again to open the second quarter scoring then the Knights’ Maddie Wintz tried to bring her team back all by herself. She scored all 11 points for Logos in the third quarter but the Kinghts could gain just 1 point on the Patriots as Summit scored 10, 4 each by aStubbers and Lustig and 2 by Currier. Osborne scored a free throw to open the fourth quarter but Wintz hit a 3 and teammate Naomi Michaels added a basket to cut the lead to 4 points. Osborne and Currier each scored to push the lead back to 8. A 3 by KirstenWambeke was answered by 2 free throws from Lustig. Logos then got a pair of baskets to pull within 3 at 37-34 with 3:20 to play. After a timeout by Summit coach Alex Frei, Summit came back with 6 straight points as Chmelik, Stubbers and Sonnen each scored to push the lead back to 9 at 43-34 with 2:10 to play. Logos scored 3 points to pull with 6 and had the back threatening to pull even closer when Lustig made a steal that led to a free throw by Sonnen that gave Summit a 44-37, 3 possession lead with 43 seconds to play. Currier added a final free throw to make the final margin 8. Stubbers wound up as Summit’s leading scorer with 13 points. She wasn’t able to play in the Summit loss at Logos a month ago. Lustig added 10 points with Currier scoring 9, Chmelik and Osborne 5 each and Sonnen 3. Thanks to a 24-17 effort in the second half, Summit actually outrebounded the taller Knights 46-45. Osborne had 14 and Lustig added 11. Stubbers had 8 steals and 3 assists to lead both categories. Wintz led Logos with 24 points with the rest of the team scoring just 13. Summit was 19 for 54 from the field, 35%, and 7 for 15 at the line, 47%. Logos was 16 for 62 from the field, 26%, and 3 for 8 at the line, 38%. If you take Wintz’ stats out, Logos was 6 for 40 from the field, 15%. Summit takes an 8-7 record into the second place game. Summit 11 9 10 15 -45 Logos 7 4 11 15 -37 Summit-Stubbers 6-15, 1-3, 13; Chmelik 2-5, 1-1, 5; Currier 4-11, 1-3, 9; Lustig 4-8, 2-2, 10; Sonnen 1-1, 1-2, 3; Osborne 2-14, 1-4, 5. 3-pointers-none. Logos-Wintz 10-22, 3-6, 24; G. Belschner 0-14, 0-2, 0; Wambeke 3-10, 0-0, 7; Hughes 0-4, 0-0, 0; Whitling 2-9, 0-0, 4; H. Belschner 0-1, 0-0, 0; Michaels 1-2, 0-0, 2. 3-pointers-Wintz, G. Belschner.
Games listed as "here" are played in the Prairie Auxiliary Gym (old Elementary School gym) NOVEMBER 28-Highland, there, 6 p.m., won 42-33 7-Nezperce, there, 6 p.m., lost 26-52 9-Deary, here, 5 p.m., lost 27-30 13-Timberline, there, 5 p.m., won 38-19 9-Highland, there, 6 p.m., won 52-28 12-Kendrick, there, 6 p.m., lost30-41 16-Nezperce, here, 7 p.m., lost 37-54 19-Deary, there, 6 p.m., lost 41-59 25-Timberline, here, 7 p.m., won 44-25 30-District play-in game at Kendrick, won 43-39 Feb. 1-vs. Nezperce at District, 6:00 p.m., lost 44-62 Feb. 5-vs. Logos at District, won 45-37 Feb. 7-vs. Deary in 2nd place game, lost 28-34, details next week. |
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