PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls basketball team ran into a traveling Australian team with a lot of size and a lot of skill playing the inside game in a 65-55 loss Friday in Port Angeles.
The game against the Surfcoast Chargers out of Melbourne, Australia, was an exhibition contest and will not count in the standings.
The Chargers had a lot of size with 6-foot-1 Ella Condon an especially tough match-up in the paint. She finished with 22 points. The Chargers also had another 6-fo0ter, Sienna Stone, who finished with 15. The Chargers showed off a lot of slick inside passing and cuts to score 42 points by halftime.
“That was the best inside game we’ll see all year unless we get to state,” said Port Angeles coach Michael Poindexter. The Roughriders had just returned from a tournament in Meridian and played their fourth game in five days during the Christmas-New Year’s break.
“We got better. I was impressed with how we hung in. We got down in a hole and we could’ve climbed into it and gone to sleep,” Poindexter said. “I liked our second half fight. I thought our kids showed resilience.”
Down 42-26 at the half, the Riders did hold the Chargers to just 23 points in the second half and outscored them in both the third and fourth quarters.
Lindsay Smith led the Riders with 17 points, while Sariah Doherty had 13, Teanna Clark 11 and Morgan Politika nine.
Port Angeles (2-0, 4-5) hosts Sequim (3-1, 3-3) at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in a return to Olympic League action.
Surfcoast Chargers 65, Port Angeles 55
PA 13 13 15 14 — 55
SC 19 23 12 11 — 65
Port Angeles (55) — Smith 17, Doherty 13, Clark 11, Politika 9, Stevens 3, Manson 2.
East Jefferson 59, University Prep 30
PORT TOWNSEND — The East Jefferson girls got a monster game from Penina Vailolo and shared the ball well with 12 assists in a 59-30 victory over University Prep.
Vailolo scored 37 points, a career high, part of her triple-double, adding 11 blocked shots and 11 rebounds.
“Everybody played well, it wasn’t just Penina,” said coach Trish Williamson. Dylin Schockley added 10 points and seven assists, while Breanne Huntingford and Kaydence Plotner each had eight steals.
The victory evened the Rivals’ record at 3-3. East Jefferson (1-2, 3-3) hosts Klahowya (2-0, 5-6) at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Port Townsend.
East Jefferson 59, University Prep 30
UP 7 6 7 10 — 30
EJ 13 12 18 7 — 59
East Jefferson (59) — Vailolo 37, Shockley 10, Huntingford 4, Plotner 4, Liske 2, Harris 2
Forks 50, Ilwaco 21
ILWACO — The Forks girls basketball team got most of its roster back just in time for the Spartans’ Pacific 2B League opener, a 50-21 romp over Ilwaco.
Coach David Hurn said they knew Ilwaco was a little down this year, but the team didn’t want to take anything for granted in a league opener.
“We played good defensively, that was our focus going in,” Hurn said. He said the Spartans held Ilwaco to just four points an zero field goals in that first half, getting up 33-4. In fact, Forks opened the lead up to 50-11 after three quarters as the reserves played the whole fourth quarter.
The Spartans got back Karee Neel and Fynlie Peters who have been out a few games. Peters contributed 15 points.
“I’m very proud of our younger kids. They picked up some big minutes [with Peters and Neel out]. It will make our team stronger,” Hurn said.
Bailey Johnson led the team with 17 points, while Avery Dilley and Chloe Gaydeski each scored seven.
The Spartans (1-0, 4-6) have a big game at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday against Raymond-South Bend, which is considered one of the teams to beat in the Pacific 2B League.
Forks 50, Ilwaco 21
Forks 14 19 17 0 — 50
Ilwaco 2 2 7 10 — 21
Forks (50) — Johnson 17, Peters 15, Dilley 7, Gaydeski 7, B. Rondeau 3, Neel 1.
Concrete 61, Crescent 35
CRESCENT — The Crescent girls basketball team hung tough with Concrete for a half, but illness and foul trouble caught up with the Loggers and they fell to the Lions 61-35 on Saturday.
Coach Brian Shimko said he had three girls with the flu. Then in the third quarter, Mia Chester and Kali Hopper fouled out.
“It was chaos after that,” he said. The Loggers were down just 26-21 at the half, but got outscored 20-6 in the third.
Naomii Sprague led the Loggers with 21 points.
Crescent (6-6), which has already played 12 games, gets a few days off before beginning league play Wednesday, hosting Clallam Bay at 5:45 p.m.
Concrete 61, Crescent 35
Conc. 9 17 20 15 — 61
Cres. 10 11 6 8 — 61
Crescent (35) — Sprague 21, Chester 4, White 3, Dunavant 3, Hopper 2, Currie 2.
The Surfcoast Chargers girls basketball team traveled from Melbourne, Australia to play the Port Angeles girls Friday night. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)
East Jefferson’s Penina Vailolo makes one of her 11 steals against University Prep on Friday night in Port Townsend. Vailolo also scored 37 points as the Rivals won 59-30. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
