The Wrangell Lady Wolves had a successful series of games against the Haines Glacier Bears last weekend. The Lady Wolves played strong this weekend, after a rough pair of losses to Metlakatla the weekend before. These two wins give the Lady Wolves a 11-3 record in conference games for this season.
The first game took place on Saturday, Feb. 23. The Lady Wolves started strong, taking the lead early on. Haines could not get much of an offensive game going, and struggled to make baskets. They were not able to get their score into the double digits until the third quarter.
Several starting members of the Lady Wolves had to sit out of the game due to injuries. Despite this, they had a very strong offense and were able to keep far in the lead through the whole game. The final score was 59 to 26, favoring Wrangell.
At the beginning of the first quarter on Sunday, the teams stayed fairly close together score-wise. At one point, Haines was able to tie the game. However, the Lady Wolves pulled ahead by the end of the first quarter, and remained in the lead for the rest of the game. Once again, Haines struggled to score through most of the game, and only got into double digits by the third quarter. The final score was 60 to 18, another win for Wrangell.
“So this was a really good weekend for us to develop our younger players, let our bodies rest up,” Coach Laurie Brown said. “A lot of injured players this weekend, so we’re just trying to get healthy by Regionals. So this was a good weekend for them to take some time off and rest those muscles, those injuries and whatnot.”
The Lady Wolves will be heading to Petersburg this weekend for one more round of games before Regionals. The team is looking ahead to Regionals, and Brown said she is confident in her team’s abilities. Regionals will be held in Sitka, from March 5 to 9.
“I think we’re going to get in some solid practices, some good games against Petersburg, and go into Regionals strong,” Brown said.
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