The Wrangell girls’ varsity basketball team lost twice in Metlakatla this weekend.
Friday’s 22-55 loss was typical of scores for Wrangell teams visiting the fiercely competitive Metlakatla teams. Saturday’s 25-31 loss was closer, and from the perspective of Head Coach Edna Abella-Nore, counts as a win.
“Personally, from what I’ve heard around town, you never really win a game in Met,” she said.
The Lady Wolves faced foul trouble early Friday. Junior Darian Meissner eventually fouled out. Amy Jenson recorded four fouls. Sophomore Taylor Bean tallied four. In all, the Wrangell team faced 11 personal and 13 team fouls to just eight fouls total for the Miss Chiefs Friday.
“I had to hold myself together so I wouldn’t get a technical,” Abella-Nore said. “A lot of my girls were pushed and shoved around.”
“Was there home-court advantage?” she added. “Possibly.”
The Miss Chiefs also exploited the outside, Abella Nore said.
“Their outside shooter (junior Theresa Wellington-McGilton) was on fire,” she said.
Saturday the calls were more evenly distributed, Abella-Nore said. The Lady Wolves recorded 15 personal and 14 team fouls, while the Miss Chiefs tallied nine personal and nine team fouls.
The Wolves also led at the half 17-10, mainly on the strength of seven unanswered points in the second quarter.
“From what I understand, that never happens in Met,” she said.
The Miss Chiefs answered with a 14-1 third-quarter effort, and then paced the Lady Wolves with seven points in the fourth to grab the win.
Smith led the Lady Wolves scorers Saturday night with 11 points on two field goals, two three-pointers and one-for-two from the line. Sophomore Taylor Bean, Meissner , and Amy Jenson trailed with three points each. Jenson and Bean got theirs from behind the arc. Meissner sank a field goal and one-for-two from the line.
Wellington-McGilton led the Miss Chiefs with 21 points on seven three-point shots. Senior Alecia Henderson trailed with 14 points on six field goals and two-for-two from the line.
Smith repeated atop the Wrangell score sheets Saturday with 15 points from the field on three field goals and three three-pointers. Bean followed with five points on a three-pointer and two-for-two from the free-throw line.
Metlakatla senior Holly Guthrie lead the Miss Chiefs offense Saturday with three field goals and four-for-five from the line. Senior Monica Hayward followed with seven points on two field goals and three-for-six from the line.
The losses bring the Lady Wolves conference record to 2-8 on the season.
Junior Varsity
The Lady Wolves junior varsity squad dropped two to the JV Miss Chiefs.
They followed an 8-23 St. Valentine’s Day massacre with a two-point heartbreaker Saturday, losing 25-27.
Freshman Alex Campbell led the Wrangell offense Friday night with three points on a field goal and one-for-two from the line. Freshman Dora Voltz and sophomore Kyla Teat followed with two points a piece from the field.
Sophomore Madisyn Janes led the Miss Chiefs with 10 points on four field goals – including one three-point shot — and one-for-two from the line. Sophomore Jessalyn Milne trailed with seven points on a three-pointer and two other field goals.
The JV Lady Wolves led at the end of the first, went into half time tied, and were up two points at the end of the third quarter, before being outscored 10-6 in the closing minutes. The junior varsity team was up by two points as late as the last three minutes of the fourth, Abella-Nore said.
Bean and Jenson teamed up to lead the Lady Wolves’ offense Saturday with seven points each. Jenson did her work in the field, with three field goals, one from behind the arc. Bean shot three field goals and tacked on an additional free throw. Sophomore KayDee Howell followed with six points on one two-point and one three-point field goal.
Milne took the Metlakatla scoring crown Saturday night with eight points on three field goals and two for three from the line. Janes, sophomore Faithe Gray and freshman Kailee Smith followed with six points each.
The Lady Wolves conclude regular season play this weekend on the road against Haines.
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