Mead girls avenge early loss
The Mead girls upended Lewis and Clark 64-57 Tuesday, setting up a showdown at Central Valley on Thursday for the GSL championship.
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By
Staff writer
The first time the Lewis and Clark and Mead girls faced off this
season, the three-time state champion Tigers throttled the Panthers 80-50.
Mead coach Regan Drew asked her players to flush that game from
their memory.
“The team that I saw that night isn’t what I think our team is
made of,” Drew said.
It’s the team she saw Tuesday that most resembles the team she
envisioned this year. Mead knocked off Lewis and Clark 64-57 to set up a
showdown Thursday at conference-leading
The Panthers (15-4 overall, 11-3 league) could have been forgiven
if they had a few lingering doubts early in the rematch. Their slow start was
probably more because of poor shooting – Mead made just 3 of 15 from the field
in the first quarter – as the Tigers (12-7, 10-4) opened a 9-0 lead, and that
margin held up as LC took an 18-9 advantage into the second quarter.
The Tigers’ lead grew to 26-13, but a late first-half charge
allowed Mead to go into halftime trailing 34-26.
“Our goal was to get it to single digits by halftime,” Drew said.
Then moments after LC scored the first basket of the second half,
it’s as if somebody hit the intensity switch for the Panthers. They used a 14-0
run to take their first lead. A three-point play by Jazmine Redmon put Mead
ahead 40-36 with 1:37 left in the third quarter.
The Tigers tied it at 40-40, but Mead regained the lead for good
on a basket by Chenise Pakootas.
LC’s Devyn Galland, who had a team-high 16 points, pulled the
Tigers within 56-54 when she made a 3-pointer with 1:54 remaining, but Redmon
answered 21 seconds later with a 3-pointer.
“The big difference for our girls was energy, taking care of the
ball and our rebounding got better,” Drew said.
It was the rebounding – particularly on the offensive boards –
that LC coach
“We gave up 11 offensive rebounds in the second half,” he said.
“I thought that gave them enough momentum to get the lead. Then Jazmine kind of
took over once that happened.”
She finished with a game-high 29 points, 18 in the second half
and 13 in the fourth period. She also had nine rebounds and three assists.
Redmon is looking forward to visiting CV and another opportunity
to avenge an earlier defeat (55-47).
“We’re going to go out and get CV,” Redmon said. “We’re going to
play our best game on Thursday.”
CV outrebounded U-Hi (7-12, 5-9) 28-17.
Gallaway had all 10 of CV’s points in the first
quarter.
Zoe Scott led the Titans with 11 points.
Gonzaga Prep 63,
Ferris 47: Behind solid defense, the Saxons opened a 26-18 lead in the
first half, but the visiting Bullpups used four 3-pointers to knock out Ferris
in the third quarter.
Tia Presley led G-Prep (14-5, 10-4) with 23 points
and 10 rebounds. Katara Belton-Sharp led Ferris (5-14, 4-10) with 13 points and
seven rebounds.
Alicia Christiansen led EV with 11 points and seven
rebounds. Kendra Knutsen led Shadle with 11 points.
North Central 52,
NC (11-8, 8-5) outscored
Mead 64, Lewis and
Clark 48: The visiting Panthers zipped to a 25-2 lead in the first quarter
and coasted thereafter.
The Panthers (14-5, 12-4) made 7 of 10 3-point shots
in the first half. Bo Tully led Mead with 15 points. LC’s top two players, Levi
Taylor and Austin Ehlo, were held to two combined points.
EV (3-16, 2-11) pulled within six in the fourth quarter,
but the Highlanders made 10 of 14 foul shots to hold off the Knights.
Ryan McIntyre led EV with 14.
University 52,
Danny Nimri led CV with 11 points.
North Central 74,
Isaiah Antoine led NC with 23 points including 13 of 13 from the foul line. Kellen Clute led the Wildcats with 11 points and seven rebounds.
Gonzaga Prep 73,
Ferris 64: The Bullpups’ 6-foot-7 standout post Ryan Nicholas eclipsed the
1,000-point milestone as the Greater Spokane League-leading at Ferris.
The University of Portland-bound Nicholas finished with a game-high
24 points. Ten of his points came off of offensive rebounds.
Ferris (10-9, 8-6) opened a 13-5 lead, but the second-ranked
Bullpups (18-1, 13-1) pulled within 16-14 by the end of the first quarter.
Four other Bullpups scored in double figures. They were Parker
Kelly (14), Chris Sarbaugh (12), David Nelson (11) and Shane Schmidlkofer (10).
Chris Wilson led Ferris with 17 points and Riley Stockton had
14.
League play concludes for all boys and girls teams Thursday.