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win first 2 games
The Prairie Pirates stayed unbeaten with a pair of league wins this past week. On Tuesday, Dec. 6 they beat Kamiah 66-39 at Cottonwood and on Thursday, Dec. 8 they shut down Troy in the second half for a 48-18 win at Troy. Hunter Chaffee gave the Pirates their first lead with a 3-pointer and a few seconds later added another for a 6-2 lead. 
Tyson Schlader scored a lay-up, Brandon Anderson added another lay-up and Schlader scored a putback for a 12-2 lead. After Kamiah broke their scoring drought Gavin Branson sank a 3 and Schlader added a free throw to make it 16-4. Prairie led 18-9 at the end of the quarter. Neither team blistered the nets in the second quarter as Prairie connected on just 4 of 14 shots but Kamiah was even worse at 2 for 12. Consequently Prairie was able to extend their lead to 29-16 at the half. Anderson scored 5 points in the quarter including a 3-pointer and Luke Wemhoff added 4. The teams played almost even in the third quarter as Prairie outscored the Kubs 11-10. Patrick Chmelik, who had just 2 points in the first half, scored 6 in the quarter while Anderson added another 3-pointer. Prairie finally broke it open in the fourth with a 10-0 run that turned a 48-30 lead into a 58-30 lead. Anderson opened the fourth quarter scoring with his third 3-pointer of the game. A trey by Wemhoff put Prairie up by 20 at 48-28. Kamiah scored a pair of free throws then Prairie went on their 10-0 run. Anthony Karel kicked it off with a 3-point play. Chaffee hit his third 3-pointer of the game. Branson and Grant Gehring each added a basket to make it a 28 point lead. Gehring wound up scoring Prairie’s final 6 points of the game. 2 of those came when two Kamiah players tried to save a rebound from going out of bounds under the Prairie basket and flipped it back in right to Gehring, who then scored a wide open lay-up. Chaffee and Anderson shared high scoring honors with 13 points each. Wemhoff added 10 while Chmelik and Gehring each scored 8. Schlader scored 6, Branson 5 and Karel 3. Prairie had a 37-29 edge on the boards with Chmelik pulling down 11 to lead the team. Nick Mager added 7 boards. Anderson had 3 steals. Branson had 5 assists while Mager had 4 and Wemhoff 3. Prairie was 26 for 59 from the field, 44%, and 6 for 14 at the line, 43%. Kamiah was 15 for 43 from the field, 35%, and 7 for 10 at the line, 70%. Prairie had little trouble in the JV game as they rolled to a 50-10 win. It was a slow starting game as Prairie led just 8-4 after one quarter. The Pirates dominated the middle 2 quarters though outscoring Kamiah 30-2. They shut the Kubs out in the second quarter 20-0 as Devin Ross and Hayden Uhlenkott each scored 5 points and Dylan Schumacher and Derik Shears added 4 each. Prairie made it a 30-0 run as they scored the first 8 points of the third quarter before Kamiah finally broke the drought with a basket at the 25 second mark. Kamiah had been scoreless for more than 2 full quarters as their last basket came with 1:10 left in the first. Shears and Owen Anderson each had 4 points for Prairie in the quarter while Sam Mager scored the other 2 Prairie points as Prairie took a 38-6 lead into the fourth. Prairie outscored Kamiah 12-4 in the final quarter, which was played under a running clock. Shears wound up with 14 points to lead the scoring with Uhlenkott adding 9. Schumacher scored 6, Ross 5, Carson Schmidt and Anderson 4 each, Damian Forsmann and Michael Schwartz 3 each and Mager 2. Shears made it a double-double with 11 rebounds to lead Prairie to a 34-20 advantage on the boards. Ross added 9 rebounds. Shears had 3 steals and Schumacher had 3 assists. Prairie was 22 for 49 from the field, 45%, and 2 for 8 at the line, 25%. Kamiah was 5 for 30 from the field, 17%, and did not attempt a free throw. Prairie 18 11 11 26 -66 Kamiah 9 7 10 13 -39 Prairie-Schlader 2-8, 2-4, 6; Chmelik 4-9, 0-1, 8; Chaffee 5-12, 0-0, 13; Branson 2-3, 0-0, 5; Anderson 5-12, 0-0, 13; Wemhoff 3-3, 3-4, 10; Mager 0-2, 0-4, 0; Gehring 4-6, 0-0, 8; Karel 1-1, 1-1, 3; D. Schumacher 0-1, 0-0, 0; Ross 0-1, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Chaffee 3, Anderson 3, Branson, Wemhoff. Kamiah-Dunning 5-10, 2-3, 12; Snyder 3-10, 5-6, 13; Oatman 1-8, 0-0, 2; Henry 4-11, 0-0, 8; Olive 1-3, 0-0, 2; Robbins 0-0, 0-0, 0; McNall 0-0, 0-0, 0; Mercer 1-1, 0-0, 2. 3-pointers-Snyder 2. Prairie led just 11-7 after the first quarter and 23-16 at the half. They made some defensive adjustments at halftime and came out and shut out the Trojans in the third quarter, outscoring them 16-0 to take a 39-16 lead into the final period. Troy got their only second half points in the fourth quarter as Prairie outscored them 9-2. Chmelik had a double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds to lead Prairie in both categories. Branson tied for the scoring lead with 11 points. Chaffee added 9 points with Schlader scoring 6, Anderson 4, Wemhoff 3 and Mager and Gehring 2 each. The JV team also won big by a score of 53-23. Prairie 11 12 16 9 -48 Troy 7 9 0 2 -18 Prairie-Schlader 2, 0-2, 6; Mager 1, 0-0, 2; Chmelik 4, 3-5, 11; Chaffee 4, 0-0, 9; Branson 5, 0-0, 11; Wemhoff 1, 1-2, 3; Ott 0, 0-0, 0; Anderson 2, 0-0, 4; D. Schumacher 0, 0-0, 0; Gehring 1, 0-0, 2; Ross 0, 0-0, 0; S. Schumacher 0, 0-0, 0; Karel 0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Schlader 2, Chaffee, Branson. Troy-Lindhorst 1, 1-2, 4; I. Stoner 2, 0-0, 4; C. Thompson 0, 0-0, 0; Blazzard 1, 0-0, 2; Sandquist 2, 0-0, 4; Lay 0, 0-0, 0; H. Thompson 1, 0-0, 2; D. Smith 0, 0-0, 0; Powell 1, 0-0, 2; R. Smith 0, 0-0, 0; Z. Stoner 0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Lindhorst..
*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 19-C.V., here*, makeup of 12/15 postponement 20-Asotin, Quad, there, JV at 4:30, V at 6, C at 7:30 at Elem Gym 5-Moscow, there, (C,JV,V) 4 p.m. 7-Potlatch, there*, (C,JV,V) 1 p.m. 10-Orofino, there, C only, 4:30 p.m. 13-Genesee, here* 19-Kamiah, there* 21-Troy, here*, 4 p.m. 24-C.V., there* 27-Lapwai, here*, (C,JV,V) 4:30 30-Grangeville, here 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 PIRATES JR. HIGH BOYS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FOR 2016-2017 |
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