Lady Pirates win first two District games

The Prairie Lady Pirates won their first two District Tournament games and will play Lapwai for the championship on Thursday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. On Tuesday, Jan. 30, they opened with a 76-8 win over Clearwater Valley at Cottonwood. On Saturday, Feb. 3, they rallied late to beat Kamiah 45-39 at Lewiston High School.
The game against C.V. went about like the two previous games against the Rams. Prairie jumped out to an 8-0 lead. C.V. scored a free throw, then Prairie finished off the first quarter with 21 straight points and then outscored the Rams 16-0 in the second quarter.
Lexi and Kylie Schumacher each scored 8 points in the opening quarter while Sage Elven scored 6 in the second quarter.
Kylie Schumacher opened the second half with 2 free throws to make it 39 straight points. C.V. then made their first basket of the game, a 3-pointer.
Prairie scored another 17 straight before C.V. scored again. It was 66-8 heading into the fourth quarter.
Prairie outscored C.V. 8-0 in the running clock fourth quarter.
Kylie Schumacher wound up with 24 points to lead the Pirates in scoring. Lexi Schumacher scored 16 while Elven scored 12. Sydney Shears added 6 points. Hailey Hanson and Aubree Rehder each scored 5. Alli Geis scored 4. Ellie Nuxoll scored 3 and Nadia Cash scored 1.
Prairie had a 49-28 rebounding edge. Kylie Schumacher and Nuxoll each had 9 rebounds to lead the team while Elven had 8 and Shears had 7.
Hanson had 5 steals and 6 assists while Lexi Schumacher and Cash each had 4 steals. Elven added 4 assists.
Prairie was 34 for 85 from the field, 40%, and 4 for 10 at the line, 40%. C.V. was 3 for 28 from the field, 11%, and 1 for 2 at the line, 50%.
Prairie 29 16 21 10 -76
C.V.     1   0   7   0 -  8
Prairie-L. Schumacher 7-13, 0-2, 16; Hanson 2-6, 0-0, 5; Geis 2-2, 0-0, 4; Elven 6-14, 0-0, 12; K. Schumacher 11-21, 2-2, 24; Shears 3-8, 0-2, 6; Nuxoll 1-8, 1-2, 3; Rehder 2-7, 0-0, 5; Cash 0-4, 1-2, 1; Rowland 0-1, 0-0, 0; Schlader 0-0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-L. Schumacher 2, Hanson, Rehder.
C.V.-Shown 1-4, 0-0, 2; Earl 0-0, 0-0, 0; Wllard 0-3, 1-2, 1; Reuben 1-15, 0-0, 3; Funderburg 1-3, 0-0, 2; Gantes 0-3, 0-0, 0; Lamere 0-0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Reuben.
Defense dominated in the Prairie-Kamiah matchup as neither team scored more than 11 points in a quarter until the fourth quarter.
Prairie jumped out to an early 6-0 lead as Lexi Schumacher, Elven and Kylie Schumacher each scored a basket. Kamiah then took over and scored 10 straight points to take their first lead of the game. A running 1-hander in the lane by Lexi Schumacher and a buzzer-beating lay-up by Hanson tied it at 10 at the end of the first quarter.
Prairie was held to just 4 points in the second quarter, 2 free throws by Hanson and  putback by Elven. However, after Elven’s putback the score was tied at 14-14. Kamiah then scored the final 4 points of the half to take a 14-18 halftime lead.
Kamiah scored to open the third quarter. Prairie then got a 3 from Lexi Schumacher, a midrange jumper from Elven and a lay-up from Lexi Schumacher to take their first lead since the score was 6-5.
Kamiah then scored 6 straight points to retake the lead. A basket each by Kylie Schumacher and Elven cut the deficit to 25-26 after 3 quarters.
Shears put Prairie back on top to open the fourth quarter with a putback. Kamiah answered then Kylie Schumacher made 2 free throws to put Prairie back on top.
A 3 by Kamiah’s Karlee Skinner gave the Kubs what turned out to be their final lead of the game.
Lexi Schumacher then came up big with back-to-back 3-pointers to give Prairie a 35-31 lead with 5:35 to play.
Kamiah’s Emma Krogh then converted a 3-point play to cut the lead to 1. Lexi Schumacher answered with a drive to the hoop. A steal and drive for a lay-up by Kamiah’s Laney Landmark again cut the lead to 1 with 3:27 left.
A steal by Elven led to a 3-point play but Landmark answered with a 3-pointer to again cut the lead to 1 with 2:42 left. That turned out to be Kamiah’s final points.
Kylie Schumacher made the second of 2 free throws with 2:30 left for a 41-39 lead.
A big defensive rebound by Shears led to a lay-up by Kylie Schumacher. Another big defensive rebound, this time by Hanson, led to 2 free throw attempts by Lexi Schumacher with 11 seconds left. She missed both but Elven grabbed the offensive rebound. That led to 2 more free throws by Lexi and this time she made both with 6 seconds left to give Prairie a 6-point lead. That turned out to be the final margin.
Lexi Schumacher scored 19 to lead all scorers. Elven added 11 points while Kylie Schumacher scored 9. Hanson scored 4 and Shears scored 2.
Elven had a double-double with 11 rebounds as she led Prairie to a 32-24 edge on the boards.
Elven also had 6 of Prairie’s 8 steals in the game. Hanson and Geis each had 1. Elven and Lexi Schumacher each had 2 assists.
Prairie was 17 for 44 from the field, 39%, and 8 for 13 at the line, 62%. Kamiah was 14 for 40 from the field, 35%, and 4 for 6 at the line, 67%.
Kamiah was led in scoring by Landmark, who had 11 points  while Skinner had 9 on three 3-pointers.
Prairie is now 16-6 on the season and have won 10 straight games and are 10-0 in 2024.
Prairie   10 4 11 20 -45
Kamiah 10 8   8 13 -39
Prairie-L. Schumacher 7-16, 2-4, 19; Hanson 1-6, 2-2, 4; Geis 0-1, 0-0, 0; Elven 5-13, 1-3, 11; K. Schumacher 3-6, 3-4, 9; Shears 1-1, 0-0, 2. 3-pointers-L. Schumacher 3.
Kamiah-Krogh 3-10, 1-1, 7; Landmark 4-7, 2-2, 11; Porter 1-6, 1-2, 3; K. Skinner 3-7, 0-0, 9; Schoening 2-7, 0-1, 4; Hunt 2-4, 0-0, 5; Loewen 0-0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Skinner 3, Hunt, Landmark.