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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Eagle/Rudy Diaz
Dayville/Monument senior Denali Twehues, right, attempts to pass around Ukiah/Long Creek junior Dorotha Johnson in Friday’s game.
Dayville/Monument girls win twice over the weekend
Ukiah/Long Creek girls continue to make progress
By Rudy Diaz
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Dayville/Monument girls
basketball team got a 36-17 victory
over Ukiah/Long Creek Friday.
The first half of the game was
relatively close with the Tigers in
the lead, 17-9.
In the second half of the game,
the Tigers increased their lead
while minimizing the scoring
opportunities for the Ukiah/Long
Creek girls. Tiger senior Denali
Twehues scored a game-high 14
points, and teammate Aubrey
Bowlus was not far behind with 8
points.
“We had a slow start, but we
played a hard game last night so
the girls were a little tired,” said
Tigers head coach Cheyenne Per-
kins. “The team ended up waking
up, and once we got up to a reason-
able score, I took the starters out
and put the younger girls in, and
they did very well.”
Perkins was happy with the
strength of the team leaders in
helping the younger girls improve
on the basics.
The Tigers were coming off a
close non-league loss, 32-36, to
Sherman on Jan. 23. The team kept
Friday’s momentum heading into
Saturday’s game, where the won
41-31 against Huntington, bring-
ing their league record to 3-0 for
the season.
“We are going to keep chipping
away at what we need to work on
and with the basics to prepare for
the next games,” said Perkins. “No
matter what’s going on, this team
has been good at not getting frus-
trated at each other and keeping it
together.”
The Tigers will play against
Crane in Monument at 5 p.m. Jan.
31, and then against Adrian the fol-
lowing day in Dayville at 2 p.m.
While the Mountain Lions lost
against the Tigers, the team has
been working together to develop
their teamwork and offensive
plays.
Ukiah/Long Creek head coach
Amos Studtmann highlighted the
progress that the girls team is mak-
ing. The team did well in their
defensive plays during the game,
Studtmann said, but one focus
for the team will be to reduce the
turnovers.
“They are starting to understand
their offensive scheme and are
starting to get more teamwork on
defense,” Studtmann said. “We got
some good blocks and good steals.
We have to keep working on our
strengths and try to eliminate any
weaknesses.”
On Saturday, the girls faced
Adrian at Ukiah and lost 21-63.
The Mountain Lions will face
Four Rivers at Ukiah High School
at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, and then
Harper Charter the following
day in Ukiah at 4:30 p.m. Moun-
tain Time, according to OSAA’s
schedule.
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