Lady Pirates win twice
The Prairie Lady Pirates improved to 4-0 and 2-0 in league play with a pair of wins this past week. On Thursday, Dec. 3 they traveled to Moscow where they beat Logos 50-16 in a league game. On Friday, Dec. 4, they hosted Grangeville and won 49-34.
They were to host Kamiah in a league game Tuesday, Dec. 1 but that game got postponed due to a positive COVID test on the Prairie girls team. It will be made up Dec. 17.
In the game against new league opponent Logos, Prairie jumped out to a 19-0 lead and coasted to the big win.
The Pirates forced 14 first quarter turnovers and limited Logos to just 5 shot attempts and held them scoreless until there were just 24 seconds left in the opening quarter.
Madison Shears got Prairie off to a hot start with a 3-pointer and added a 2-point basket after Ellea Uhlenkott had driven to the hoop for a lay-up. Tara Schlader made a free throw, Kristin Wemhoff scored after a steal and Delanie Lockett scored as Prairie spread out their scoring. Uhlenkott made 2 free throws, Schlader added another free throw and Wemhoff scored a pair of lay-ups to make it 19-0.
After Logos finally scored, Shears added a free throw to make it 20-2 at the end of the quarter.
Laney Forsmann opened the second quarter scoring with a 3-pointer.
After Logos scored a pair oi free throws, Prairie went on an 8-0 run. Uhlenkott, Trinity Martinez and Lockett each scored a basket and Schlader and Lockett each added a free throw for a 31-4 lead. Logos scored a basket to make it 31-6 at the half.
The defensive intensity propped off for Prairie in the second half and Logos was able to scored 8 points. The Pirates scored 13 though to give them a 30-point margin after 3 quarters and invoke the running clock for the entire fourth quarter.
Shears and Wemhoff each scored 2 baskets in the third quarter while Martinez sank a 3-pointer and Uhlenkott added a basket.
Prairie outscored the Knights 6-2 in the fourth quarter as Shears, Uhlenkott and Forsmann each scored 2 points.
Shears led 3 players in double figures with 12 points while Wemhoff and Uhlenkott each scored 10. Lockett, Forsmann and Martinez each scored 5 points and Schlader scored 3.
Prairie had a 40-26 advantage on the boards led by Schlader with 9 rebounds. Lockett added 7 while Uhlenkott and Forsmann had 6 each.
Shears and Schlader each had 4 steals while Wemhoff and Molly Johnson each had 3. Lockett had 5 assists and Uhlenkott had 3 assists.
Prairie was 19 for 58 from the field, 33%, and 9 for 25 at the line, 36%. Logos was 7 for 25 from the field, 28%, and 2 for 4 at the line, 50%.
Prairie also won the JV game easily, 43-15.
It took awhile for the offense to get going as Alli Geis scored the game’s first points at the 5:05 mark of the first quarter. Logos answered 20 seconds later to tie the score then Prairie took the lead for good on a pair of free throws by Ali Rehder at the 4:26 mark.
Olivia Klapprich scored on an inbounds feed from Isabella Walsh and Riley Enneking made it 8-2.
A basket by Logos made it 8-4 at the end of the first quarter.
A steal and ensuing lay-up by Walsh opened the second quarter scoring. After a Logos basket, Prairie answered with a 6-0 run. Jade Prigge, in her first action since joining the team, scored on a putback and Klapprich followed with a steal and lay-up and scored another lay-up after a steal by Prigge for a 16-6 lead.
After a free throw and a basket by Logos, Prairie ended the half with another 6-0 run for a 22-9 halftime lead. Rehder and Klapprich each scored a lay-up after stealing the ball and Prigge scored inside on a feed from Rehder.
Prairie outscored Logos 19-2 in the third quarter although Logos helped them with a lay-up into Prairie’s basket about halfway through.
Klapprich, Enneking and Rehder each scored a basket to make it 28-9. Logos then scored their only basket that counted for them at the 6:05 mark.
Enneking scored on a drive to the hoop and Prigge scored on a putback.
Prairie’s next 2 points came after Rehder missed two free throws. Logos rebounded and Prairie all went down to set up the defense. The Logos rebounder then turned, dribbled once and scored a lay-up for Prairie. Rehder was credited with the 2 points for Prairie.
The Pirates then added 7 more points to finish the quarter on a 13-0 run and invoke the running clock for the fourth quarter with a 41-11 lead.
Only 3 baskets were scored in the fourth quarter with Walsh scoring for Prairie against 2 baskets by Logos.
Rehder and Klapprich each scored 10 points to lead Prairie with Enneking and Prigge adding 6 points each. Walsh and Taylor Riener scored 4 each with Geis scoring 2 and Chloe Rowland 1.
Prairie had a 28-25 edge on the boards with Walsh grabbing 10 rebounds to lead the team. Enneking added 7.
Klapprich was 1 steal shy of a double-double with 9 steals while Rehder had 5 and Prigge 4. Rehder had 3 assists while Walsh and Klapprich had 2 each.
The JV’s were 21 for 41 from the field, 51%, and 3 for 10 from the line, 30%. Logos was 7 for 31 from the field, 23%, and 1 for 10 at the line, 10%.
Prairie 20 11 13 6 -50
Logos   2   4   8 2 -16
Prairie-Lockett 2-7, 1-4, 5; Wemhoff 5-10, 0-0, 10; Shears 4-10, 3-4, 12; Uhlenkott 4-12, 2-4, 10; Schlader 0-7, 3-8, 3; Johnson 0-3, 0-2, 0; Forsmann 2-3, 0-2, 5; Martinez 2-4, 0-1, 5; Prigge 0-0, 0-0, 0; Rehder 0-1, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Shears, Forsmann, Martinez.
Logos-Casebolt 0, 0-0, 0; Johnson 0, 0-0, 0; L. Wilson 3, 0-2, 6; Michaels 0, 0-0, 0; Meyer 0, 0-0, 0; Wambeke 2, 0-0, 4; A. Wilson 0, 0-0, 0; Vis 2, 0-0, 4; J. Urqidez 0, 0-0, 0; L. Urquidez 0, 2-2, 2. 3-pointers-none.
In what would have been the Idaho County Shootout game at Cottonwood against Grangeville, the Bulldogs came out strong and then saw Prairie make adjustments defensively and pull away for the win.
Grangeville’s Bailey Vanderwall opened the scoring but Prairie took the lead when Lockett connected on 3 of 4 free throws.
The lead didn’t last long as Grangeville’s Camden Barger scored a basket and 2 free throws and Macy Smith added a basket for a 3-8 Grangeville lead.
A free throw by Lockett was answered by 2 from Barger for a 4-10 Grangeville lead.
Uhlenkott finally scored Prairie’s first basket at the 3:13 mark with a drive to the hoop and Shears followed with a drive to the hoop to pull the Pirates within 8-10.
A basket by Vanderwall was answered by two free throws by Shears. Barger scored with 1:55 left but Prairie came back to tie it on a basket each by Wemhoff and Shears as the first quarter ended at 14-14.
Barger had scored 8 of Grangeville’s 14 first quarter points but would attempt only 4 shots and score on 2 second quarter free throws the rest of the game.
Grangeville’s Zoe Lutz put Grangeville back on top but Uhlenkott tied it with 2 free throws. A defensive rebound by Wemhoff led to the go-ahead basket by Lockett. Lockett then fed Uhlenkott for a lay-up and a 20-16 lead with 23 seconds left in the half.
Barger scored 2 free throws with 8 seconds left to make it 20-18 at the half but those would be her final 2 points of the game.
Vanderwall and Lutz each scored to open the second half and put Grangeville back on top but Lockett tied it with a lay-up at the 5:55 mark and a minute later put Prairie back on top with 2 free throws. Shears then hit a big 3-pointer with 4:31 left for a 27-22 lead.
Grangeville scored 2 baskets to cut the lead to 1 at 27-26 but a steal by Schlader led to a basket by Uhlenkott and then Shears fed Lockett for a backdoor lay-up to put Prairie back up by 5. Shears then hit her second 3-pointer of the quarter to give Prairie a 34-26 lead after 3 quarters.
Foul trouble was starting to be felt on both side. Schlader sat out much of the first half after picking up 3 quick fouls and by the end of the third quarter both she and Uhlenkott had picked up their fourth. Meanwhile Barger, Talia Brown and Smith were all in foul trouble for Grangeville.
Schlader scored a free throw to open the fourth quarter and a huge 3 pointer by Lockett put Prairie up by 12 points with 5:35 to play.
A 2-8 run by Grangeville pulled the Bulldogs back with 6 with 2:18 left to play but they would get no closer. In fact that was the last time they would score as Prairie scored the final 9 points of the game. After a basket by Uhlenkott, the final 7 points of the game all came at the free throw line with Shears going 4 for 4 and Wemhoff 3 for 4.
Shears wound up leading all scorers with 18 points with Lockett adding 15 and Uhlenkott 10. Wemhoff scored 5 and Schlader 1. An oddity of the game was that each team’s 5 starters were the only players to score, neither team had any bench points. Vanderwall led Grangeville with 12 points while Barger had 10.
Prairie controlled the boards 44-31 led by Wemhoff with 12. Lockett had a double-double with 10 rebounds and Schlader added 9.
Schlader and Uhlenkott had 3 steals each while Shears had 3 assists with Wemhoff and Lockett picking up 2 assists each.
Prairie was 14 for 36 from the field, 39%, and won the game at the free throw line where they were 18 for 27, 67%. Grangeville was 14 for 59 from the field, 24%, and 6 for 8 at the line, 76%. Despite all the Prairie foul trouble with 3 players winding up with 4 fouls, Grangeville did not even attempt a free throw in the second half.
In the JV game Grangeville scored first but that was the only time Prairie was behind as they went on to win 32-18.
After Grangeville’s 0-2 start, Prairie scored the next 10 straight points with 6 of those by Prigge. Walsh and Rehder each added a basket.
After a Grangeville basket, Rehder closed out the first quarter scoring with 2 free throws for a 12-4 lead.
Klapprich scored the first 4 points of the second quarter before Grangeville answered with a 3. After a free throw by Sarah Lustig, Grangeville closed out the first half scoring with 4 straight points cutting Prairie’s lead to 17-11 at the half.
The third quarter was all Prairie as the Pirates outscored Grangeville 9-0 to take a 26-11 lead into the fourth quarter.
Rehder and Klapprich did all the scoring as each hit a 3-pointer while Rehder added a 2-point basket and Klapprich a free throw.
Grangeville broke the scoring drought by opening the fourth quarter with a basket but Geis answered with a putback.
3 Grangeville points were answered with a basket each by Walsh and Rehder before Grangeville scored the game’s final points with 2:13 to play.
Rehder scored 11 to lead all scorers. Klapprich scored 8 with Prigge scoring 6, Walsh 4, Geis 2 and Lustig 1.
Prairie controlled the boards 42-25 with Prigge pulling down 9 to lead all rebounders. Enneking added 8 rebounds and Geis 6.
Prigge and Klapprich each had 2 steals and Klapprich had 4 assists.
Prairie was 13 for 48 from the field, 27%, and 4 for 8 at the line, 50%. Grangeville was 7 for 36 from the field, 19%, and 3 for 4 at the line, 75%.
Prairie        14 6 14 15 -49
Grangeville 14 4   8   8 -34
Prairie-Lockett 4-12, 6-8, 15; Wemhoff 1-5, 3-6, 5; Shears 5-10, 6-7, 18; Uhlenkott 4-8, 2-3, 10; Schlader 0-0, 1-3, 1; Martinez 0-0, 0-0, 0; Forsmann 0-1, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Shears 2, Lockett.
Grangeville-Barger 2-9, 6-6, 10; Smith 2-15, 0-0, 4; Brown 1-6, 0-0, 2; Lutz 3-11, 0-0, 6; Vanderwall 6-14, 0-1, 12; Green 0-1, 0-0, 0; Edwards 0-2, 0-0, 0; Dame 0-1, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-none.

Madison Shears shoots and hits one of her two big 3-pointers in the third quarter against Grangeville.

Ellea Uhlenkott scores a lay-up against Grangeville.

Delanie Lockett looks to pass against Grangeville.

Kristin Wemhoff makes a pass to Delanie Lockett in the Grangeville game.

Delanie Lockett scores a lay-up against Grangeville.

Ali Rehder and a Grangeville player battle for a loose ball in the JV game against Grangeville. Also shown are Alli Geis, Gracie Farr and Isabella Walsh.

Chloe Rowland passes to Alli Geis in the JV game against Grangeville.

Isabella Walsh puts up a shot in the JV game against Grangeville with the Prairie student section behind her.

Sarah Lustig looks to pass in the JV game against Grangeville.

Taylor Riener with the ball in the JV game against Grangeville.