Girls demolish New Plmouth

The Lady Wolverine's basketball team are now 2-1 on the season. After suffering an opening game loss to New Plymouth, the ladies travled to Melba on Saturday, December 19. The gals played much better as a team and won 50-27 accomplishing half of their goals they set for the game. Here is a recap as I was unable to attend the game. Weiser led from the start finishing the first quarter ahead 13-7. They continued to pad the lead thusly, 31-8 at half, 38-22 end of third quarter (a quarter where Weiser struggled to find the hoop and Melba closed the gap) and of course, the final score of 50-27. Points were made as follows: Marquita Palmer and Kellyn Fuller shared top honors with 12 apiece. Palmer was 6 of 14 from the floor. Fuller was 4 of 7 field goals and 1 of 4 from three point range and 1 for 2 for free throws. Nella Redman chipped in 8 points, 2 for 8 from the field and 4 of 7 free throws. McKenzie Johnson had 6 points making 3 of 6 from the field and 2 of 2 free throws. Sadie Shirts and Alex Mink each had 3 points, Rachael Lee and Kyndra McKie had 2 each.

The New Plymouth (NP) game was in Weiser on Tuesday, November 29th. I will post pictures with this blog as soon as I can. Keith Bryant graciously sent me three to use. The frosh/soph team lost 41-20 and the JV also lost 34-19. The varsity did so much better and that was due to no foul trouble. If you remember, two of our starters sat quite a bit the first time these teams met. Weiser would have no problems defeating NP 51-33. Shooting wasn't the greatest as the team was 21 for 67 shots from the field.
  Redman had the hot hand in the game shooting lights out for 24 points. She scored first in every quarter and she had a beautiful inside bank shot that was unstoppable. Palmer had a block on defense and then putback an offensive ("O") rebound. Johnson had a steal for two but the rest of the points belonged to Nella. At the end of the first, Weiser 16, NP 10.
  Fuller hit a baseline three in the top of the second quarter after Redman had hit her fifth field goal. Redman would accept a pass from Johnson for the THREE! Coach Nick Reed was quite upset with the foul calling and made his concerns known earning a Technical foul. Palmer would pick up a loose ball and drain the shot. Weiser had the lead 33-20 at half time.
  Redman was fouled early in the third quarter and made one. Johnson would take down a defensive rebound and go coast to coast for the bank shot, 36-22 Weiser. Johnson was dribbling the ball up the court with a full court press on. The NP player tipped the ball away, Johnson corralled it before it went out of bounds. The ball was tipped again and again, Johnson was able to get it back. This time, she dribbled to the key and hit the pull-up jumper. How's that for concentration? Weiser led 42-28 with a quarter to play.
  Palmer had a steal and went the distance to score in the top of the fourth quarter. Shirts inbound to Redman down low. Nella dribbled and banked the shot home. Redman and Palmer each put back an "O" rebound. Weiser would savor the win 51-33.
  Scoring: Redman 24, Palmer 14, Johnson 9, Fuller 3 and Shirts 1.