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Pirates take second at District
The Prairie Lady Pirates took second place at District and will advance to the State Tournament Feb. 20-22 at Columbia High School in Nampa for the fourth straight year. On Saturday, Feb. 8 they clinched a trip to state with a 58-44 win that was a lot closer than the final score indicates over Genesee. On Monday, Feb. 10, they fell behind by as many as 18 points and couldn’t climb out of that hole as they lost to Lapwai 44-51 in the district championship game. Although Genesee managed to hang close, they never led as Prairie jumped out to an 8-0 lead. Krystin Uhlenkott opened the scoring with a 3-pointer off an inbounds play but that wound up being about the only points Prairie would score from beyond 15 feet as they struggled from the perimeter. 
A free throw by Leah Holthaus and 2 free throws by Nicole Wemhoff made it 6-0 and a lay-up by Kayla Schumacher made it 8-0. Prairie went on to lead 11-5 at the quarter break. Schumacher added 6 points in the second quarter and Kyndahl Ulmer scored 4 as Prairie pushed the ball inside since the outside game wasn’t working. They led 23-12 with 2:53 left in the half but Genesee closed the half with a 0-7 run to pull within 4 at 23-19. Schumacher opened the second half scoring but Genesee scored the next 4 points to pull within 2 at 24-23 with 5:35 left in the third quarter. Prairie went to full court pressure which led to Schumacher scoring 2 free throws and then a basket off a steal to put Prairie up 29-23 but Genesee responded with a 3-point play that cut the lead down to 29-26. Ulmer then stole an inbounds pass under Prairie’s basket and scored a lay-up. That kicked off a 10-2 run for Prairie that put them up by 11 late in the period. Genesee was able to cut the lead down to 7 in the fourth quarter at 44-37 and pulled within 8 twice after that, the final time at 51-43 with 2:40 left with Prairrie using free throws to hold them off. With 1:58 left Schumacher scored a lay-up to put the lead back to 10 then Prairie scored 5 more points from the line to make it 58-43 with 20 seconds left. Genesee scored the final point to make it 58-44. Schumacher wound up with 24 points to lead the scoring with Wemhoff and Ulmer scoring 11 each. It was a season high for Wemhoff with 7 of her 11 points coming in the fourth quarter, 5 of those at the line. Keely Schmidt scored 5, Uhlenkott 3 and Holthaus 1. Rebounding was very close but Prairie had a 43-42 edge. Schumacher had 11 rebounds and Ulmer 10 while Uhlenkott added 8. Uhlenkott had 4 steals while Ulmer and Schmidt had 3 each. Wemhoff nearly had double-double with 8 assists. Prairie was 18 for 58 from the field, 31%, and 18 for 30 at the line, 60%. Genesee was 16 for 50 from the field, 32%, and 10 for 16 at the line, 63%. The big difference was turnovers where Prairie had 10 while Genesee had 25. Prairie 11 12 16 19 -58 Genesee 5 14 10 15 -44 Prairie-Holthaus 0-7, 1-2, 1; Wemhoff 2-6, 7-10, 11; Schumacher 10-19, 4-6, 24; Ulmer 4-9, 3-6, 11; Uhlenkott 1-8, 0-0, 3; Schmidt 1-5, 3-6, 5; Wilson 0-2, 0-0, 0; Danly 0-2, 0-0, 0; VonBargen 0-0, 0-0, 0; Gimmeson 0-0, 0-0, 0; Seubert 0-0, 0-0, 0; Uptmor 0-0, 1-2, 1; Tidwell 0-0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Uhlenkott. Genesee-Ranisate 5-14, 3-4, 13; K. Cornell 1-8, 0-0, 2; Mayer 2-9, 3-8, 7; Carter 2-6, 4-4, 8; Moser 4-9, 0-0, 9; Sperber 0-0, 0-0, 0; Burt 1-3, 0-0, 3; S. Cornell 1-1, 0-0, 2. 3-pointers-Moser, Burt. Prairie struggled with their shooting most of the first half, hitting just 4 of 30 first half shots, 1 of 12 in the second quarter. Lapwai built their lead to 14 points at 14-28 in the second quarter but Prairie closed with a free throw by Wilson and 2 more by Ulmer to make it 17-28 at the half. Lapwai scored the first 7 points of the second half to take a 17-35 lead, their biggest of the game. Wilson broke the dry spell with a steal and drive for a lay-up and Hailey Danly followed with a 15 footer. Schumacher then converted a 3-pointer play and Wilson added another lay-up to cut the lead to single digits at 26-35. Prairie couldn’t get any closer than 9 the rest of the quarter as they traded scores with Lapwai to finish the quarter down 32-41. Danly, who seemed to provide a spark coming off the bench, opened the fourth quarter scoring and after a Lapwai free throw Wilson scored a basket after a steal by Danly and another Lapwai turnover led to a free throw by Danly that pulled Prairie within 5 at 37-42 with 5:24 left. That was as close as Prairie would get though as Lapwai held on to win by 7. Ulmer had 21 points to lead the Pirates in scoring with Schumacher and Wilson scoring 7 each. Danly had 5 and Holthaus and Schmidt added 2 each. Prairie held a 49-39 edge on the boards led by Ulmer with 19 and Schumacher with 10. Danly, Schumacher, Ulmer and Wilson had 2 steals each while Wemhoff had 5 assists. Prairie was 14 for 55 from the field, 25%, and 15 for 21 at the line, 71%. Lapwai was 20 for 63 from the field, 32%, and 9 for 11 at the line, 82%. Prairie takes an 18-4 record into the State Tournament where they will play at 6:15 MST at Columbia High School in Nampa against the District 4-5-6 champion, which would appear to be undefeated Hagerman. Prairie 10 7 15 12 -44 Lapwai 14 14 13 10 -51 Prairie-Holthaus 1-3, 0-0, 2; Wemhoff 0-3, 0-0, 0; Schumacher 3-13, 1-1, 7; Ulmer 4-10, 12-14, 21; Uhlenkott 0-5, 0-0, 0; Schmidt 1-6, 0-0, 2; Wilson 3-8, 1-2, 7; Danly 2-5, 1-4, 5. 3-pointers-Ulmer. Lapwai-Ramsey 1-8, 0-0, 2; Shawl 2-10, 0-0, 4; Domebo 4-14, 3-4, 13; Whitney 4-8, 1-1, 9; Cunningham 5-9, 0-1, 10; Holt 2-5, 4-4, 8; Wilson 1-3, 0-0, 2; Young 1-6, 1-1, 3. 3-pointers-Domebo 2.
PIRATES GIRLS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FOR 2013-14 *indicates league game 22-23-Lakeside Tournament, beat Kellogg JV 56-16; beat Lakeside 65-45 26-Kendrick, here, 1/2 JV game, won 63-23 5-C.V., there*, V only, 7 p.m., won 59-27 10-Troy, there*. won 56-18
10-Grangeville, there, JV at 3:30, V at 6:30 (quad with boys team), lost 44-51 11-Potlatch, there*, won 83-36 14-C.V., here*, won 60-29 17-Lapwai, here*, won 64-57 18-Genesee, here*, won 55-24 21-Kamiah, there*, rescheduled from Dec. 16, won 74-13 25-Genesee, there*, won 60-42 28-Kamiah, here*, won 72-11 31-Potlatch, here*, won 83-32 6, 7, 8, 10, 13 -District at LCSC, won 58-44 over Genesee; lost 44-51 to Lapwai 20-22-State at Nampa-First round game vs. Hagerman at 6:15 p.m. MST at Columbia High School in Nampa |
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