Naselle girls start season with loss

Courtesy of The Chinook Observer
12/6/2006 Naselle girls start season with home hoops loss
NASELLE - The Naselle Comets girls' basketball team was able to open its 2006-07 season with an 11-point lead on the Warrenton Warriors in their season opening game played in Lyle Patterson Gym Friday, Dec. 1. The Comets led 16-5 at the end of one quarter but that was to be their last hurrah as they lost to the Warriors 27-42.Ashley Ahlstrom led the Comets early spurt with eight of her nine game points in the first period. But she, like Cheryl Steppe, got into early foul trouble and had to go to the bench. Naselle coach Bob Torppa said, "We lost what momentum we had and couldn't hit our shots after the first quarter. Colette (Beaulaurier) came in and did a fine job but the rest of our shooters just could not hit their shots. We only scored seven points in the second period and four in the whole second half, with no points in the fourth period," Torppa lamented.The Comets still managed to hold the lead at 23-21 at the half, but the second half was all Warrenton as the Comets went stone cold. Naselle was outscored 4-21 in the last 16 minutes as the Warriors won going away. "We don't have as much help in the middle as we had planned on as Sylvia (Herrold) decided not to turn out and to play club volleyball instead of basketball. When we don't hit our shots (22 percent for the game) things don't go well. In our summer league games, we had our outside shooters scoring in double figures at times, but that didn't happen in this game. That was especially true in the second half when we taking our shots from outside instead of working it inside.
"WARRENTON (42) - Amber Hackwith 9, Audrey Dove 9, Jordan Marxer 6, Ogren 6, Hayward 6, Holt 3, Justine Marxer 2, Nearing 1, McBride, Wilkins; Shooting: FT: 11/20, Total Rebounds: 34; Total turnovers: 18
NASELLE (27) - Ashley Ahlstrom 9, Beaulaurier 5, Keightley 4, Saari 3, Pakenen 2, Steppe 2, Rodriguez 1, Klinger 1, Fletcher, Landis; Shooting: FG: 10 for 46 - 22 percent, FT 6/20; Total Rebounds: 32; Total turnovers: 26
Warrenton 5 16 11 10 - 42
Naselle 16 7 4 0 - 27

The Naselle JVs also lost their game. JV Coach Greg Nelson said, "We played the first half like it was the first game of the season. We did better in the second half, but by then Warrenton had a pretty good lead."