Powder girls start 1-2

Thursday, the Badgers edged Harper 41-39 at North Powder. Then Friday and Saturday, Powder competed in the Union tournament. Friday, the Badgers lost 35-29 to Cove. Saturday, Union topped the Badgers 68-41.

Late-game heroics

Powder Valley trailed most of the game against Harper before rallying in the fourth quarter.

“It went down to the wire,” said Powder coach Brent Gyllenberg. “We took the lead in the final 14 seconds.”

Kelsie White led Powder with 11 points.

“Kelsie had a great game,” Gyllenberg said. “And Kate Jones made some clutch shots in the fourth quarter.

“The biggest key though was that we took care of the ball. We didn’t have a lot of turnovers.”

Harper    13    10    6    10    — 39

Powder Valley    12    7    12    10    — 41

Harper (39) — Steinbach 2, Seiders, Flannery 2, C. White 9, Chandlr 14, Jordan 10, Palmer 2.

Powder Valley (41) — Pedro 4, Abrego, Feik, McClughry 1, Jones 4, Shankle, Sibernagel, Martin 6, Stephens 7, K. White 11, Winston 8.

Three-point goals — Stephens, K. White. Fouled out — none. Total fouls — Harper 14, Powder Valley 16. Technicals — none.

Second-half woes

Powder trailed just 19-17 at halftime against Cove but came out cold in the third quarter.

“We got way behind in the third quarter,” Gyllenberg said. “We were coming back at the end of the game but we just ran out of clock.”

Jones led Powder with 19 points.

“Kate Jones just lit it up,” the Powder coach said. “She shot well, and did a good job.”

Powder Valley    8    9    3    9    — 29

Cove    11    8    8    8    — 35

Powder Valley (29) — Pedro, Abrego 2, Feik 3, McClaughry 2, Jones 19, Shankle, Sibernagel, Martin, Stephens, White 2, Winston 1.

Cove (35) — K. Barnes 1, C. Barnes, Murchison, Harderbrook, Hickey, J. Murchison 9, Prince 19, Witty, Corban, Mils 6, Nostrand, Hultse, Falsorn.

Three-point goals — none. Fouled out — none. Total fouls — Powder Valley 14, Cove 13. Technicals — none.

A Reynolds wrap

Union’s Jessie Reynolds scored 37 points to stuff the Badgers.

“We had prepared a little zone in the post to try to stop her, but our girls haven’t learned it well enough yet, and it just didn’t work so well,” Gyllenberg said.

“And, Union put a zone press on us ad we wren’t prepared for it.”

Jessi Stephens led Powder with 14 points.

Powder Valley    5    14    8    14    — 41

Union    21    16    15    15    — 68

Powder Valley (41) — Pedro 5, Abrego, Feik 4, McClaughry 5, Jones 6, Shankle, Sibernagel 2, Martin, Stephens 14, White 4, Winston 1.

Union (68) — Bauer, Courtney 4, Bunkers 2, Heplr, Reynolds 37, Lansford 2, Southard 4, Kimball 11, Sturm 2, Sheehy 2, Graves, Hammond 2.

Three-point goals — Pedro, Stephens 2, Kimball. Fouled out — Winston. Total fouls — Powder Valley 17, Union 15. Technicals — none.