KELSEYVILLE — Kendra Schwegerl scored a season-best 20 points and junior guard Liz Berry continued her hot-shooting ways on Tuesday night as the Kelseyville Knights turned back the Lower Lake Trojans 53-41 in a North Central League I North varsity girls” basketball game at Kelseyville.
Both teams are 1-1 in the league standings.
Schwegerl, averaging 5.1 points a game entering play, helped defeat the Trojans” defensive strategy, according to Lower Lake coach Jim Salmina.
“She had the night of nights, the game of games,” Salmina said. “We did a great job on their guards (Monique) Santana and (Skyler) Olsen. We held them to seven and eight points and if you had told me we would do that before the game I would have really liked our chances.”
Schwegerl hurt the Trojans on the boards, especially on the offensive end, according to Salmina.
“She hurt us right out of the gate, we couldn”t board with her,” Salmina said. “That”s the best I”ve seen her play.”
“I”ve been expecting it from Kendra,” Kelseyville coach Caitlin Andrus said. “She works hard in practice every day. It”s finally coming together for her.”
Fourteen of Schw-egerl”s points came in the second half. She also led the Knights with 14 rebounds.
Berry (11 points) reached double figures for the third straight game, including three more 3-pointers, giving her 10 in the last three games.
“Liz is getting more shots,” Andrus said. “She”s a lot more active away from the ball. She”s moving all the time.”
Andrus also had high praise for Santana, who had a team-best nine steals to go along with her seven points, and for Sarah Johnson”s play off the bench.
“She makes everything happen,” Andrus said of Santana. “She shows up every game.”
Johnson dished out three assists during a five-minute span late in the game, according to Andrus.
“She had a great game off the bench,” Andrus said.
Kelseyville (1-1, 11-7) made a 20-6 lead after one quarter stand up the rest of the way.
“We dug a huge hole and spent the rest of the night trying to come back,” Salmina said.
Tashee Denson led the Trojans (1-1, 12-7) with 11 points, Veronica Wilder added nine points and seven rebounds, and April White had eight points and seven rebounds.
St. Vincent 40, Clear Lake 34
At Lakeport, St. Vincent made a 15-8 lead after one quarter hold up and the Mustangs beat the Clear Lake Cardinals in NCL I South play.
The Cardinals (0-2, 5-11) opened the game in a man-to-man defense before switching to a zone. They went on to outscore St. Vincent (2-0) 26-25 over the final three quarters.
“Switching to a zone helped,” Clear Lake coach Jennifer Goff said. “It took a little bit of the middle away from them.”
That the Mustangs were able to outrebound the Cardinals didn”t help, according to Goff.
“We”re still not rebounding, we”re still getting beat,” Goff said.
Katie Reynolds led the Cardinals with 17 points, including four more 3-pointers. No other Clear Lake player had more than five points.
Boys” basketball
St. Vincent 54, Clear Lake 53
At Petaluma, Michael Meiswinkel”s driving layup with 5.4 seconds remaining lifted the St. Vincent Mustangs to an NCL I South win over the Clear Lake Cardinals, who had gone up 53-52 moments earlier on two technical free throws by Ryan Grady.
Clear Lake (0-2, 6-13) had a chance to win the game in the final seconds but missed a shot as time expired.
Jordan Ross” 21 points ? all on 3-pointers ? paced the Mustangs, who may have caught a break in the game”s final minutes when Ryan Richardson, Clear Lake”s leading scorer, fouled out.
“He only had four fouls,” Clear Lake coach Glenn Wienke said.
According to Wienke, Richardson had been charged with a foul that wasn”t his earlier in the fourth period and the mistake wasn”t caught in time.
“Jason Edwards committed the foul and they gave it to Ryan,” Wienke said.
Richardson picked up three fouls in the first quarter and spent most of the second and third quarters on the bench. He came back strong in the fourth period with 10 of his team-leading 19 points.
“It was a heartbreaker over here,” Wienke said. “I felt really confident until then (Richardson”s fifth foul).”
Ross scored 18 of his 21 in the first half as the Mustangs built a 32-22 lead. Tanner Mansell guarded Ross in the second half and limited him to a single 3-pointer.
“Mansell did a great job,” Wienke said.
John Glazier had 12 points for the Cardinals and Meiswinkel finished with 17 for the Mustangs.
Willits 61, Upper Lake 47
At Upper Lake, the Willits Wolverines outscored Upper Lake 18-5 in the third quarter to put the NCL I interlock game out of reach.
“We didn”t get to the basket much in the third quarter,” Upper Lake coach Forrest Stogner said.
The Cougars (5-12) entered play minus their two point guards and Brandon Bills had to run the offense, according to Stogner.
“Brandon did a pretty good job,” Stogner said.
Bills was the Cougars” high scorer with 13 points and Billy Armstrong added 12. Tyler Warren added six points and a team-best 10 rebounds.
Stogner praised the play of Nick Schell, who came off the bench to score all five of his points in the fourth quarter.
“He really played great,” Stogner said. “He also had four rebounds and two blocks.”
Armstrong just missed a double-double with nine rebounds.
Odeh Karkar led the Wolverines with 24 points and Tim Compton had 13.
