SEBASTOPOL — Still looking for their first wins of the 2006-07 basketball season are the Kelseyville and Middletown varsity girls” basketball teams after a rough weekend at the Analy Tournament in Sebastopol.
Kelseyville, Lake County”s most successful girls” team last season at 23-6, dropped a 58-37 decision to Piner High School of Santa Rosa on Saturday in final-round action, dropping the Knights to 0-3. And the Middletown Mustangs fell 62-21 to Arcata in another final-round game, dropping to 0-4 overall.
Piner 58, Kelseyville 37
Slowed by injuries and a lack of practice time, the Knights couldn”t hang with the Prospectors in the second half. Kelseyville led 24-23 after the first two quarters.
“We ran out of gas and they (Prospectors) started hitting some good shots,” Kelseyville coach Jim Salmina said. “We”re young and still trying to come together. Being young is hard enough but the injuries aren”t helping either.”
The Knights are without veteran post Katie King until later this month at the earliest. Another three-year starter, point guard Jill Bailey, is playing at less than 100 percent.
“She”s giving me everything she has but she”s not completely healthy,” Salmina said of Bailey, who scored a team-best 11 points against Piner.
Sophomore Kaitlyn Goff and senior Lauren Nixon added eight points apiece but the Knights didn”t get much offense outside of those three players.
“We need more offense but I don”t know where we”re going to get it from right now,” Salmina said.
Piner outscored Kelseyville 19-6 in the third quarter and 35-13 in the second half.
Arcata 62, Middletown 21
The Middletown Mustangs ran into a buzz saw in the Arcata Huskies, who led 20-4 after one quarter.
“They”re a solid team that goes 10 players deep,” Middletown coach Marnin Pyzer said. “They use a zone press (in the backcourt) and then go man-to-man,” Pyzer said. “They”re a real athletic team and it hurt us a little bit. They”re not really tall but they don”t need to be.”
While Middletown”s best effort might not have been good enough to beat Arcata, Pyzer said the effort put forth by the Mustangs on Saturday was nowhere close to being good enough.
“We had to play a great game and we didn”t play an average game,” Pyzer said. “We have to learn to get better and we have to play better defense.”
Julia Leathers” 10 points paced the Mustangs. No other player had more than two.
In other girls” action Saturday:
n Durham 55,
Clear Lake 44
At Colusa, the Clear Lake Cardinals had trouble getting to the free-throw line in the fourth quarter of a tight contest against Durham in the consolation championship game of the Colusa Tournament.
And it certainly didn”t escape the attention of Clear Lake coach Jen Goff, who watched Durham outscore her Cardinals 19-9 in the final period.
“They got to the line nine times and we got to the line three times,” Goff said. “The fourth quarter was brutal for us.”
All-Tournament selection Brittany Rumfelt scored a team-high 16 points for the Cardinals, Molly Ryan added eight and Emilee Meyer had seven.
Clear Lake (2-2) led 15-10 after one quarter and 28-24 at halftime.
Berean Christian 51, Lower Lake 30
At Walnut Creek, after hitting 12 on the scoreboard early in the second quarter, the Lower Lake Trojans” offense went into an early hibernation against Berean Christian in the championship game of the four-team Berean Christian Tournament.
“We sat on 12 virtually for what seemed like the entire second and third quarters,” Lower Lake coach Andrew Carpenter said.
The Trojans (3-2) scored just one more point the remainder of the quarter and went into halftime trailing 30-13. Berean Christian outscored Lower Lake 17-5 in the third quarter for a 47-18 advantage.
“We went 10-for-51 from the field (including 2-for-21 from behind the 3-point stripe) for the game,” Carpenter said. “We were cold as ice. We struggled getting up and down the court.”
The Trojans also ran into a solid Berean Christian team, according to Carpenter.
“They can do it all,” Carpenter said. “They have outside shooters and a good post player.”
Rissy Prude”s nine points paced Lower Lake and Passion Allen added seven points and five rebounds.
