Scobey Seventh Grade Hoopsters On The Cusp Of A Perfect Season
Written by Daniels County Leader Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:34
It’s six down and four to go for the Scobey seventh grade girls’ basketball team, which emerged from Saturday’s Scobey Jamboree with a couple more victories to push their record to 6-0.
Following a break this weekend due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the seventh graders will take their peerless record into the Wolf Point Jamboree Saturday,
December 5, hoping to climb to 8-0, and then close out the season Saturday, December 12, at the Frontier Jamboree east of Wolf Point, where Plan A is to finish with a spotless 10-0 mark.
The Scobey seventh graders — Alexis Aguilar, BoDayle Battleson, Shae Cady, Katelenn Davis, Bailey Fugere, Karlee Handy, Sarie Murphy and Erin Wahl — notched win number 5 early
Saturday morning in the Scobey School small gym with a 28-22 victory over Frontier.
The Mustangs took a 4-0 lead in the first two minutes of the game but a pair of layups by Battleson tied it and Fugere’s layup at the 9:07 mark gave the Spartans the lead for good. Cady’s 9-foot bank shot and offensive rebound put-back 46 seconds later with 6:33 left in the first half completed Scobey’s 10-0 scoring run. Wahl scored on a pick-and-roll with Battleson inside the final minute giving Scobey a 12-6 advantage at the half.
Frontier closed within 2 points early in the second half but a 13-footer from the key and offensive rebound basket by Wahl with a Cady fast break layup off a turnover sandwiched in between put Scobey up by 8 and in control. The Mustangs pulled within 4 with 6:50 and 1:17 left but that’s as close as they would get as the Spartans answered with two-pointers of their own.
Cady and Wahl finished with 8 points each while Battleson added 6, Murphy 4 and Fugere 2.
Scobey action shifted over to the new gym for an 11 a.m. tip-off between Frontier and the Spartan eighth graders, with seventh graders Handy and Murphy filling out the roster.
The Mustangs took the first lead 3:43 into the 18-minute half on a pair of free throws and never relinguished it thereafter, scoring a 30-18 victory.
A free throw by Kylan Jensen with 4 and a half minutes to go in the first half closed the gap to 8-7 but Frontier responded with a 6-0 run. Libby Olson’s basket with 23 seconds left made it 14-9 at intermission.
The Mustangs opened the second half with an 8-0 spurt until Zoe Haugo’s 12-foot swish with 8:16 to go and free throw 2 minutes later made it 22-11. Baskets by Handy, Sarah Dietrich and Kourtney Voorhees closed out the scoring for Scobey.
The Scobey eighth graders, with Battleson and Wahl filling out the roster this time, faced Wolf Point in the 1 p.m. contest in the new gym.
This game was tight in the first half as the Spartans led twice, the Wolves led twice, it was tied twice and on 9 occasions the score was within one point, including Scobey’s 19-18 halftime advantage.
Wolf Point took the lead for good at 21-20 with 14:08 left and at the 4:36 mark built a 32-24 margin. The Spartans, however, battled back with two baskets by Dietrich and one by Voorhees to close within 32-30. With 3.9 seconds left Wolf Point missed a free throw, Wahl rebounded, hustled the ball up court and once she crossed midcourt let a field goal fly with one second left, coming within a foot or two of hitting the rim.
In the 2 p.m. tilt back in the small gym the seventh graders took an 8-zip lead on Wolf Point as Murphy struck first down low and Cady hit the next six markers. Following a 3-minute breather at the half, where Scobey was up 14-7, Murphy opened the second half with back-to-back buckets, Cady got hot from the perimeter and Battleson slipped through the defense for a couple of layups for a 13-point lead. Six minutes later the Spartans were enjoying a 34-23 triumph and 6-0 record.
SCOBEY JAMBOREE
November 21, 2009
Scobey (28) vs. Frontier (22), 9 a.m. tip-off, small gym — Scobey players/scoring: Shae Cady 4 0-0 8, Karlee Handy 0 0-0 0, BoDayle Battleson 3 0-0 6, Erin Wahl 4 0-0 8, Katelenn Davis 0 0-0 0, Bailey Fugere 1 0-0 2, Alexis Aguilar 0 0-0 0, Sarie Murphy 2 0-0 4. Totals: 14 0-0 28.
Scobey (18) vs. Frontier (30), 11 a.m. tip-off, new gym — Scobey players/scoring: Zoe Haugo 1 1-2 3, Libby Olson 2 0-0 4, Sarah Dietrich 2 0-0 4, Kourtney Voorhees 1 0-0 2, Savanna Handy 0 0-0 0, Kylan Jensen 0 1-2 1, Karlee Handy 2 0-0 4, Sarie Murphy 0 0-0 0. Totals: 8 2-4 18.
Scobey (30) vs. Wolf Point (32), 1 p.m. tip-off, new gym — Scobey players/scoring: Zoe Haugo 1 0-2 2, Libby Olson 0 0-2 0, Kylan Jensen 2 0-0 4, Savanna Handy 0 0-0 0, Kourtney Voorhees 2 0-0 4, Sarah Dietrich 4 1-2 9, BoDayle Battleson 0 2-4 2, Erin Wahl 4 1-2 9. Totals: 13 4-12 30.
Scobey (34) vs. Wolf Point (23), 2 p.m. tip-off, small gym — Scobey players/scoring: BoDayle Battleson 3 0-0 6, Shae Cady 4 0-4 8, Karlee Handy 0 0-0 0, Alexis Aguilar 0 0-0 0, Erin Wahl 4 0-0 8, Sarie Murphy 4 1-4 9, Bailey Fugere 1 1-2 3, Katelenn Davis 0 0-0 0. Totals: 16 2-10 34. Assists: Cady 3. Steals: Cady 2, Aguilar 1, Fugere 1, Handy 1, Murphy 1.Defensive rebounds: Murphy 5, Wahl 4, Cady 2, Handy 2, Davis 1. Offensive rebounds: Wahl 4, Cady 3, Murphy 3. Blocked shots: Wahl 4, Battleson 1, Cady 1, Murphy 1.
SCOBEY’S BODAYLE BATTLESON (top Photo) gets her hand in the face of Wolf Point’s Ashley Page on a field goal attempt during junior high jamboree action Saturday at the Scobey School. Below, Wolf Point’s Ashley Page tries to cut through the defense of Scobey’s Erin Wahl (left) and Kourtney Voorhees in the 1 p.m. contest. — Leader Photos, mike
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