Lady Pirates steal tight one over Whitefish
Bulldog Annisa Brown drives in for two of her 19 points during a home loss to Polson Saturday night. For more photos, visit www.whitefishpilot.com. (Daniel McKay/Whitefish Pilot)
Payton Kastella launches a three against Polson Saturday night at Whitefish Highs School. (Daniel McKay/Whitefish Pilot)
The Lady Bulldogs bench celebrates after a late-game basket Saturday against Polson at home. (Daniel McKay/Whitefish Pilot)
Lady Dog Kaiah Moore dribbles the ball around a Lady Logger defender Friday night at Whitefish High School. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Lady Bulldog Annisa Brown fights for a jump ball against the Lady Loggers Friday night in Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot
Lady Bulldog Kit Anderson dribbles the ball around Logger Jayden Winslow Friday night at Whitefish High School. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Lady Bulldog Ashton Ramsey goes up for a shot aginst Libby Friday night at Whitefish High School. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
The Lady Dogs were right in it against Polson Saturday evening, but just couldn’t find the three points they needed late in the game.
An Annisa Brown layup off a loose ball got the Lady Dogs within three with 42 seconds to go, down 51-48.
Whitefish got multiple chances to tie the game but couldn’t connect, and fouling to stop the clock gave the Pirates two more points at the free throw line and the 53-48 win.
Whitefish was up 10 points in the third before Polson came roaring back to tie things up with five minutes to go in the third at 44 points apiece.
Brown led Whitefish in a breakout scoring night with 19 points.
Kaelyn Smith tallied 19 of her own for Polson.
Friday night’s game against Libby didn’t go in the Lady Dogs’ favor either.
Down 26-22 at half, Whitefish came out of the locker room and only managed a single point in the third quarter.
That quarter negated solid scoring totals — 12, 10 and nine in each of the other quarters — and put Libby ahead for the 47-32 win.
Payton Kastella led the team with nine points on a trio of threes.
Whitefish heads over to Stevensville to take on the Southwest A opponent Thursday. On Monday they’ll host a make-up game against Frenchtown and the next day they’ll host conference opponent Ronan.
Both those games will be played at 7:15 p.m.
Libby 8 18 11 10 — 47
Whitefish 12 10 1 9 — 32
LIBBY: Emma Gruber 1, Alli Collins 14, Samantha Miller 3, Jayden Winslow 8, Sammee Bradeen 2, Khalyn Hageness 1, Shannon Reny 13, McKenzie Proffitt 2, Brooklyn Rainer 4.
WHITEFISH: Kit Anderson 1, Hope Brown 5, Claire Carloss 2, Kaiah Moore 3, Ashton Ramsey 2, Annisa Brown 6, Payton Kastella 9, Marlee Bender 4.
Polson 10 6 19 18 — 53
Whitefish 9 15 18 6 — 48
POLSON: Marina Mayorga 2, Kaelyn Smith 19, Quinn Motichka 4, Alex Pierre 13, Olivia Perez 3, Jaycee Frydelund 12.
WHITEFISH: Kit Anderson 4, Hope Brown 4, Claire Carloss 2, Kaiah Moore 6, Ashton Ramsey 5, Annisa Brown 19, Payton Kastella 6, Marlee Bender 2.