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Pirates clinch state berth
The Prairie Lady Pirates clinched a state tournament berth by defeating Troy 42-32 in their District Tournament opener Thursday, Feb. 2 at the LCSC Activity Center in Lewiston. The win sets up a Prairie-Lapwai matchup for the District Championship for the fourth straight year. The game will be played at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10 at the LCSC Activity Center. 
The winner of that game will open state action at 3 p.m. Mountain Time Thursday, Feb. 16, at Columbia High School in Nampa against the play-in survivor of our third place team, Wallace and the District 3 4th place team. The loser plays at 8 p.m. Mountain Time against the third place team from District 3. In the game against Troy, Prairie started slowly as they trailed the entire first quarter. Once by as many as 5 points at 4-9. A basket each by Leah Higgins and Angela Wemhoff closed out the quarter and cut the deficit to 8-9 at the quarter break. Prairie took their first lead of the game on a basket inside by Josie Peery 30 seconds into the second quarter. A bank shot by Kylie Tidwell made it 12-9. Troy cut the lead back to 1 then Prairie went on a 14-2 run helped out by 8 Troy turnovers. Josie Peery scored on a feed from Wemhoff then Wemhoff drove to the hoop and was fouled, converting a 3-point play. After a Troy basket, Wemhoff banked one in from 15 feet, India Peery drove to the hoop for a basket that was set up by a Wemhoff steal, and Josie Peery converted a 3-point play. Wemhoff closed out the run with a drive for a lay-up that made it 26-13. Troy closed out the half with a basket to make it 26-15. The third quarter saw Prairie’s shooting touch disappear as they connected on just 2 of 15 shots from the field. Troy was better at 3 for 7 but couldn’t make up any ground as Prairie had the only 2 free throws in the quarter as each team scored 6 points. In the fourth quarter Troy was able to rally within 7 points at 37-30 with 2:01 left as Prairie repeatedly went to the foul line but couldn’t take full advantage of their free throws, hitting just 3 of 8 to that point of the quarter. A driving lay-up by Tidwell put Prairie back up by 9 and Wemhoff made it 11 by converting a pair of free throws. A Troy putback closed the margin back to 9 with 20 seconds left but India Peery made the final margin 10 with a free throw with 11 seconds left. Wemhoff led all scorers with 20 points and added 13 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 assists. Josie Peery scored 7, all in the pivotal second quarter. India Peery scored 6, Tidwell 4, Leah Higgins 3 and Chaye Uptmor 2. Prairie had the rebounding edge at 34-28 with Josie Peery adding 7 and India Peery 6. Tidwell and Josie Peery had 5 steals each while India Peery had 3 assists. Prairie was 15 for 44 from the field, 34%, and 12 for 22 at the free throw line, 55%. Troy was 15 for 39 from the field, where they outscored Prairie 30-32, for 38%, but did not attempt a single free throw in the game. Troy had 17 fouls with 2 players fouling out to just 9 fouls for Prairie. Prairie also had the edge on turnovers with 19 compared to 23 for Troy. Prairie takes a 19-2 record into the District Championship game. Prairie 8 18 6 10 -42 Troy 9 6 6 11 -32 Prairie-Tidwell 2-6, 0-0, 4; A. Wemhoff 6-13, 8-13, 20; J. Higgins 0-1, 0-2, 0; L. Higgins 1-4, 1-2, 3; Bruner 0-2, 0-0, 0; J. Peery 3-6, 1-1, 7; Uptmor 1-1, 0-0, 2; I. Peery 2-10, 2-4, 6; T. Wemhoff 0-1, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-none. Troy-Schetzle 3-11, 0-0, 6; Hoskins-Oakley 1-4, 0-0, 2; Blum 2-6, 0-0, 4; J. Gilder 2-5, 0-0, 5; Fredrickson 4-9, 0-0, 11; B. Gilder 1-3, 0-0, 2; Girard 0-1, 0-0, 0; Doumit 1-2, 0-0, 2; Fry 0-0, 0-0, 0; Nelson 0-0, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-J. Gilder, Fredrickson.
PIRATES GIRLS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FOR 2016-17 *indicates league game 18-Potlatch, there, won 85-30 22-Grangeville, here (C,JV,V) 4:30, won 41-27 29-Lewiston J.V., here, won 61-30 3-Grangeville, there, Idaho County Shootout, V only, 6:00 p.m., won 56-41 6-Moscow, there (C,JV,V) 4 p.m., won 41-37 8-Kamiah, there* (C,JV,V) 4:30, won 59-27 10-Troy, here, 4 p.m.*, won 46-35 13-C.V., there*, ½ JV, won 80-9 16-Lapwai, here*, C,JV,V) 4:30, lost 69-84 20-Asotin, Quad, there, 4:30 & 7:30, cancelled due to snow day school closure 6-Potlatch, here*, won 55-17 10-Moscow, here (C,JV,V) 4 p.m., won 49-46 in overtime 14-Genesee, there*, won 59-20 17-Kamiah, here* (JV,V), won 59-23 18-Quad at Asotin rescheduled, JV 4:30 p.m.; V at 6 p.m., cancelled again due to school closure 20-Troy, there*, won 63-43 23-Quad at Asotin rescheduled, again, won 63-30 26-C.V., here*, ½ JV, won 69-13 28-Lapwai, there*, (C,JV,V) 4:30, lost36-56 Jan. 31-Feb. 10-Play Troy at 7:30 p.m. 2/2, won 42-32; to play Lapwai at 7:30 p.m. 2/10 Feb. 16-18-State at Nampa Prairie Jr. High Volleyball 2017 Schedule 14-Asotin, here 16-Orofino here 23-at C.V. 25-Prairie Tournament |
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