Wednesday, January 3, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Girls basketball squad posts annual tournament
Rongi Yost
Correspondent
The girls basketball
team hosted the annual
Sisters Holiday Tournament
held Thursday-Saturday,
December 28-30. The Lady
Outlaws had a tough time,
and lost all three of their
games.
Sisters started the tourney
with a 45-37 loss to Estacada
on Thursday. The Lady
Outlaws had a rough start,
and quickly found them-
selves down 12-2, and at the
close of the period trailed
the Rangers 14-7. Estacada
scored 10 in the second, and
the Outlaws were on their
heels with eight, but the
first quarter deficit hurt, and
Sisters trailed 24-15 at the
half.
Sisters was outscored by
six in the third, but did come
back in the fourth to outscore
the Rangers 12-8. It just
wasn’t enough to dig them
out of the hole they’d dug
themselves into in the first
period.
Alexa Stewart, Gracie
Sundstrom, and Kaylee
Huber each scored nine
points for the Outlaws, and
Sydney Head and Sundstrom
each grabbed six rebounds.
The Outlaws did do a
much better job with turn-
overs. The squad averages
20-plus turnovers per game,
and they cut that number to
12. Sisters only shot 30 per-
cent from the field.
“Once we get our shoot-
ing percentage to the 40-45
percent range, and keep our
turnovers down, I think we’ll
be very successful,” said
Coach Alan Von Stein. “We
were down in numbers with
only eight players, but the
girls played hard.”
On Friday, Sisters was
defeated 47-19 by Molalla.
The young Outlaws did have
an excellent first quarter, and
according to Von Stein, it
was their best quarter of the
season.
Sisters jumped out to a
quick 6-2 advantage against
the Indians, who are a bigger,
stronger, and faster squad,
but at the end of the quarter,
Molalla had tied it up 9-9.
With only eight players,
the Outlaws ran out of gas in
the second quarter, and only
put nine points on the score-
board the remainder of the
game.
Sundstrom, Huber, and
Rheanna Salisbury scored
three points each, and Olivia
Hougham added two.
“They were more talented,
and had a lot more people
to draw from on the bench,
which made the game more
of a challenge as the quarters
went on,” said Von Stein.
“The girls are definitely
making progress and getting
better. They’re starting to see
it, and I think we’ll see it as
we enter conference play,”
added Von Stein.
We were down in
numbers with only
eight players, but the
girls played hard.
— Coach Alan Von Stein
On Saturday, the Lady
Outlaws dropped their final
game of the tournament, with
a 44-29 loss to Crook County.
Sisters stayed with them
the first two quarters, and
entered the half tied up
16-16, but couldn’t hold on
and keep pace with them in
the second half.
Stewart scored 10 points
for the Outlaws, and Head
and Huber added four points
each.
“They were a much better
PHOTO BY OUTLAWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Rylee Weber goes up for a score vs. Culver.
team today than we were;
very physical and deserving
of the win,” said Von Stein.
The Outlaws play at
Redmond on Wednesday,
January 3, with the game
scheduled to begin at
5:45 p.m.