PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Crescent girls basketball gets defensive in win; other area reports

PORT ANGELES — Crescent held the Port Angeles C team scoreless in the second half to claim a 22-10 nonleague girls basketball victory.

“Stellar defense and unselfish offense won this one for the ladies,” Loggers coach Chris Ferrier said of Monday’s game.

“[I’m] proud of the progress.”

The win was the third on the season for the young Crescent team (0-5, 3-14).

The Loggers have just one senior this season, Leonie Hoffman.

Three Crescent players scored six points in the game: juniors McKenzie Brannan and Ashara Dodson and sophomore Hannah Lee.

Dodson added nine rebounds.

Alyssa Hutto totaled 13 rebounds, five assists and scored two points for the Loggers.

Crescent wraps its season on the road today at Clallam Bay.

Crescent 22,

Port Angeles C 10

Crescent 4 8 4 2— 22

Port Angeles C 2 8 0 0— 10

Individual scoring

Crescent (22)

Brannan 6, Lee 6, Dodson 6, Hutto 2, Belford 2.

Bainbridge 56, Sequim 40

SEQUIM — The Wolves couldn’t overcome a scoreless first quarter in a nonleague loss to the Class 3A Metro League’s Spartans.

Katie Usellis scored nine of her game-high 23 points for Bainbridge in the first quarter of Monday’s game.

Sequim played relatively evenly with the Spartans for the remainder of the game.

Jordan McMinn led the Wolves with 11 points, all of them coming in the fourth quarter.

Jordan Miller hit three 3-pointers and scored nine points for Sequim.

Adrienne Haggery added six points and Ella Christiansen had five for the Wolves (2-9, 6-12).

Bainbridge 56, Sequim 40

Bainbridge 14 12 15 15— 56

Sequim 0 11 12 17— 40

Individual scoring

Bainbridge (56)

Usellis 23, Bredy 11, Loset 9, Tye 9, Loverich 2, Peato 2.

Sequim (40)

McMinn 11, Miller 9, Haggerty 6, Christiansen 5, Bauer 4, Bentz 3, Montelius 2.

Seattle Lutheran 47, Quilcene 45

SEATTLE — The Rangers fell just short to the second-place Saints in a SeaTac League contest.

“The girls sure played hard and it was, for the most part, a well-played game,” Quilcene coach Briana Weller said.

“We had a some trouble containing Abbi Sanders, Seattle Lutheran’s star.”

Sanders scored 26 for the Saints.

Megan Weller led the Rangers with 23 points.

“[She] had to work hard for her 23 points, as she was double and triple teamed all night,” Briana Weller said.

“She fought hard on both ends of the floor and urged her teammates to excel.”

Allison Jones added 10 points for Quilcene and McKenize Kieffer scored seven points and had eight rebounds, two blocks and a steal.

Abby Weller grabbed a team-high 19 rebounds.

The Rangers (5-3, 10-7) will wrap their regular season with nonleague home game against Mary M. Knight on Thursday.

Seattle Lutheran 47, Quilcene 45

Quilcene 10 8 10 17— 45

Seattle Lutheran 10 11 13 13— 47

Boys Basketball

Port Angeles C 52, Crescent 34

PORT ANGELES — The Loggers were upended by the Roughriders C squad in a nonleague contest.

“[We] played hard, just didn’t make enough shots,” Crescent coach Chris Ferrier said of Monday’s game.

The Loggers connected on 15 of 43 attempts from the floor.

Wyatt McNeece led Crescent with 10 points and eight rebounds.

KC Spencer, Luke Leonard and Kyle Buchanan each added six points for the Loggers.

Neil Peppard added eight rebounds and four points for Crescent (0-5, 1-15).

The Loggers close out their season today at Clallam Bay.

Port Angeles C 52,

Crescent 34

Crescent 9 11 10 4— 34

Port Angeles C 18 14 12 8— 52

Individual scoring

Crescent (34)

McNeece 10, Buchanan 6, Leonard 6, Spencer 6, Peppard 4, Story 2.

Girls Bowling

Sequim trio rolls at district meet

TACOMA — Destiny Stauss led a trio of Sequim girls bowlers with a three-game series score of 417 at the Class 2A/3A West Central District Tournament at Pacific Lanes Bowling Center.

Stauss’ notched a high game of 159.

Dakota Henderson bowled a 404 series with a high game of 150 and Kaleigh Cassal rolled a 351 with a high game of 130.

None of the Wolves qualified for the state tournament.

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Compiled using team reports.

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