Wednesday, January 26, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Girls basketball team splits games against tough opponents
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
In hoops, the Lady
Outlaws kicked off their week
with a 40-32 win at home
over Newport on Tuesday,
January 18, and three days
later lost 50-25 at home to
top-ranked Philomath.
Sisters got off to a good
start in Tuesday9s action
and outscored the Cubs
12-5 in the first quarter.
Ashlynn Moffat and Nevaeh
McAfee each hit a long ball
to highlight the period. The
Outlaws offense cooled in
the second quarter, but their
defense stayed strong. Reese
Harwell was especially tough.
Sisters was able to win the
quarter 6-4 and go up 18-9 as
teams entered the half.
The Outlaws kept at it in
the third period, and five dif-
ferent players scored points
to stretch the lead to 29-18 at
the close of the quarter. The
final period was a good test
for the Outlaws, as they9d
let leads slip away a couple
times this season. This night,
they played hard and held on
to the end.
The Cubs did rally and
score 14 points in the period,
six of them from the charity
stripe, but the Outlaws were
able to put up 11 points of
their own. Payden Petterson
hit two huge three-point
shots and finished with seven
points in the quarter to help
secure the eight-point victory.
Scoring and stats were
spread out between several
players.
Petterson led the team in
scoring with 11 points. She
also tallied five rebounds and
three steals. Ila Reid scored
seven points and had seven
rebounds in the contest. Both
Emma Lutz and Ellie Mayes
scored six points, and Lutz
also had three assists and
three steals. Moffat added
five points in the scoring
effort.
Friday9s match-up was
tough for the Lady Outlaws as
they faced Philomath, ranked
No. 1 in the state for 4A girls
basketball. The Warriors
boast last year9s Player of the
Year, Sage Kramer, who put
up 32 points in the contest.
Sisters played without
Emma Lutz, their starting
point guard, and her younger
sister, Maggie, had to step
into that role. Junior varsity
point guard Juhree Kizziar
also had to step up and play
more minutes in the varsity
contest.
Coach Paul Patton said,
<Both Maggie and Juhree
performed admirably against
a very good opponent.=
The Outlaws finished
strong and actually outscored
Philomath (11-8) in the final
quarter.
Haleigh Froehlich had a
strong all-around game with
nine points and five boards.
Reid scored six points and
had five rebounds, and
Petterson led the team with
seven rebounds. Mayes added
four points, and Josie Patton
brought energy to the defen-
sive end of the court.
Coach Patton said, <We
stuck to our tactics of play-
ing as many girls as we could,
with 15 girls seeing action in
the game. It doesn9t get much
easier for us in our next game
as we travel to Turner to take
on No. 2 ranked Cascade on
Tuesday.=
Following Tuesday9s con-
test at Cascade the Outlaws
will play on the road at
Woodburn on Friday, January
28. Like the boys, they will
be on the road for three
weeks, and six consecutive
road games.
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