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For the week of January 2 - 8, 2002

  Sports

Wood River settles for second at McCall tourney

Hailey girls top Vandals 63-27, 
fall to Prairie


It’s a new year for the Wood River High School girls’ varsity basketball team—and coach Brent Carnduff hopes that last year’s road success leads to home-court triumphs for the Wolverines in the weeks ahead.

Wood River (8-4, 6-3 away), having placed second in last weekend’s McCall Christmas tournament, will play six of its final eight games on the Hailey hardwoods starting Thursday, Jan. 3 against Kimberly.

After Thursday, Wood River entertains Valley of Hazelton Saturday, Jan. 5 and Gooding next Tuesday.

The Wolverines are 2-2 in Sawtooth Central Idaho Conference play, but they’ve got six league games left including rematches against Declo (4-0) and Buhl (4-0). Kimberly is 2-2, Filer 0-4 and Gooding 0-4.

At McCall Saturday, Prairie of Cottonwood raced to an early lead and held off Wood River 50-41 for the championship of the four-team holiday tourney. On Friday, Wood River beat McCall-Donnelly 63-27.

Prairie, a perennial Gem State power with seven state girls’ basketball titles from 1977-97, was last year’s State A-3 runner-up with an outstanding 23-2 mark, losing to New Plymouth in the finale.

Leading the Pirates was senior post player Jamie Chicane, who scored 19 of Prairie’s 39 points in last year’s title game. Against Wood River Saturday, Chicane tallied 18 of Prairie’s 50 points.

For the second time in four games, disciplinary problems benched Wood River senior post player Kristine Hilt, who had topped Wood River with 13 points in Friday’s 36-point win over McCall. And Wood River got off to a slow start, trailing 20-13 after one.

Carnduff said, "We had a slow start. We had quite a few good looks at 3-pointers but they didn’t fall. But we out-rebounded Prairie 27-24, and Jessica King had a breakthrough game for us."

King, a 5-10 sophomore, led the Wolverines in rebounding and scored a season-high 12 points. Natalie Green added 9 points, Laurel Williams 8, Kelly Haisley 7, Emily Smith 2, Liz Rippon 2 and B.J. Adams 1.

 

Victory over McCall

Getting scoring from all 10 players, Wood River defeated the host McCall-Donnelly’s Vandals 63-27 Friday in the first round of the McCall Christmas tournament.

Wood River broke open a close game with a 38-18 scoring advantage in the second and third periods. Hilt tallied 9 of her team-high 13 points to get Wood River rolling in the second.

The Wolverines, winning for the fourth time in five games, out-rebounded McCall 39-22.

"In the first quarter we were rusty, trying to figure out a way to penetrate McCall’s 1-2-2 zone," said Carnduff. "Then our defense tightened up and our shots started falling."

Williams (two 3-pointers) tallied 11 points, Tara Rushton 8, Green 8, Haisley 6, Smith 6, King 4, Adams 3, Rippon 2 and Amanda Engel 2. Wood River shot 9-of-12 from the free throw line.

 


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