A 29-2 outburst within the third quarter led the host girls’s basketball group Moffat County Bulldogs to a convincing 65-17 victory Saturday morning over the visiting Steamboat Springs Sailors.
Within the victory, the Bulldogs had been led by senior Emaleigh Papierski’s 18 factors.
This was solely the fifth sporting occasion to be performed on MCHS in Season B after followers had been allowed in. Which is one thing that bought the dad and mom in attendance excited, together with Keri Hamilton, junior Halle’s mom and spouse of head coach Eric.
“Oh that is all the time enjoyable, yeah. Now we have basketball in our home all day daily, ”mentioned Hamilton. “So now that they’ll lastly get to a sport, it is nice, extremely anticipated.”
One of many gamers who made the bounce from junior varsity to varsity for Saturday’s sport was freshman Brooke Wheeler. Wheeler contributed an influence increase off the bench for the Bulldogs. The daddy of the freshman was within the stands watching as her mom saved the tally on the sidelines. They had been each excited to see their daughter in motion.
“It feels actually good. I want they might reopen it, ”mentioned Jason Wheeler.
In line with head coach Eric Hamilton, the group got here into this sport with a defensive aim to maintain the Sailors underneath 20 factors. The Bulldogs checked that field Saturday, permitting simply 17 factors.
The Bulldogs went far to the road scoring 10 factors from the charity band 18 occasions, for a 55% conversion price. That was one thing that inspired Hamilton.
“Properly, we wish them to be aggressive and I do not know what to throw from the free throw line. We did not take loads of free throws, however I feel our submit gamers did an excellent job of understanding when to go to the opening and when to kick it, ”mentioned Hamilton. “So I used to be very pleased with our free throws right this moment.”
That is the group’s fifth straight season opener win, one thing the gamers are enthusiastic about.
“It felt actually good to begin the season with such a powerful victory, particularly because it felt actually contemporary and I believed our group labored collectively very nicely,” mentioned Halle Hamilton.
Moffat County hits the highway Thursday, February four for a showdown with the Cedaredge Bruins at 5:30 p.m.
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