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Portagers pull away in second half for win
over Lakers By DYLAN SAVELA, News Advocate
Sports Writer
Onekama —
Twenty-four hours after the Onekama boys tipped off their rivalry game
with Bear Lake, it was the girls’ turn to host the Lakers Friday night,
in a match-up the Portagers went on to win, 52-34.
“I thought we came out aggressive
right away,” Onekama coach Nathan Bradford said. “It seems like it has
been taking us a while to get going lately, but tonight we played pretty
good from the get-go.”
Taylor Hagen led the Portagers
(8-3, 8-3) with 14 points. “We had a good game,” Hagen said. “We were
able to make our open shots.”
Also scoring for Onekama was Chelsea
Miller and Sherece Revolt with nine points apiece, Paige Rutowski had
eight, Stacey Keith scored six, Jennica Mathieu had four, and Olivia
Bolthouse added two.Revolt
had a game-high 11 steals and five assists while Miller led the
Portagers with nine rebounds.
We had a great first half,” said
Bear Lake coach Scott Brown. “The girls played hard but we start to run
out of gas as the game goes on. When we run out of gas, we get
lazy,” Brown added, “Lazy passes turn into turnovers, and turnovers turn
into easy buckets. We have to keep the gas tank full and work on the
fundamentals.” |
Ashley Crawford led the Lakers (6-7,
4-6) with 14 points, while Tobi Schoedel had nine, Ashley Ringel scored
seven, and Rachael Smith added four.
The game began to look like a
defensive battle between the rivals, as both teams were knotted at five
for four straight minutes.
With two minutes left in the
quarter however, both teams began to make up for lost time. The
Portagers scored 10 more points before the first quarter ended while the
Lakers scored five.
Going into the second quarter
down 15-10, the Lakers looked to Crawford to keep up with the Portagers
spread-out scoring. Crawford had nine points in the quarter which
included a five-for-five shooting display at the line.
The Portagers led the Lakers by
four points at halftime, 29-25.
Bear Lake scored the first basket
of the half which cut the Portagers’ lead to two, but that would be the
Lakers’ only points of the quarter.
The Portagers managed to get 10
third-quarter points and capture the game’s first double digit lead.
Onekama controlled the fourth
quarter, outscoring the Lakers 13-7. The victory gives the Portagers
their second win over Bear Lake this season.
Bear Lake junior varsity team
beat the Portagers 39-47. Shelby Dansby and Ashley Rupert each had 14
points for the Lakers. Jaylee Brown scored 14 for Onekama. |
