Monday, February 05, 2007

WARRIORS WORKING ON THE WEEKEND

For the second straight weekend, the Warrenton Warriors girls and boys basketball teams won back-to-back games.

Friday night, the boys got a career-high 23 points from Ryan Lampi and a double-double from Jordan Little in a 51-27 victory over the Vernonia Loggers. Saturday night, Lampi bested his previous night's effort, scoring 28 points, including the game-tying basket and eight more points in the extra period of a 67-59 overtime victory at Portland Adventist.

The Warrior girls also got some heroics from a young guard Saturday night, as freshman Brooklyn Campbell sank seven 3-pointers on the way to 34 points in a 60-44 victory over PAA. The Warriors defeated Vernonia 43-30 at home Friday night.

With second place essentially locked up, the Warriors girls have their sights squarely aimed at Rainier as the Columbians visit Warrenton Tuesday night. Rainier stayed a game up on the Warriors with convincing wins at Riverale (59-13) and home against O.E.S. (56-31)

Friday night, the Lady Warriors trailed Vernonia 8-5 at the end of one quarter before catching up by halftime and steadily pulling away in the second half.

First period Landers opening possession right down the middle for defense. Lindauer scored three on an inbounds play, then scored on a putback three point play.

We just didn’t shoot very well," said head coach John Mattila, who picked up his 200th coaching win with the victory. "We’ve come out cold the last couple of games."

The Loggers' Joreigh Landers knifed through the lane to score their first basket on a layup. Brittany Lindauer, who led all scorers with 19 points, scored on a 3-point shot and a 3-point play for Vernonia's first quarter points.

Audrey Dove led the Warriors offensively with a career-high 14 points and 16 rebounds

"She always is really solid defensively and rebounding-wise," said Mattila. "She always gets a lot of shots. She missed 15 shots in the game, but got a lot of offensive rebounds. Obviously, 14 points and 16 rebounds is a good night."

The Warriors boys were a little slow starting as well, but turned things on in the third quarter against Vernonia, outscoring the Loggers 14-0 in the period.

Lampi's 23 points picked up a less than 100-percent Eric Gantenbein, who scored only five points, but missed most of the second half resting a sore toe. Gantenbein did a strong defensive job on Vernonia's leading scorer Byron Schorzman, who finished with just seven points in the game. Little had ten points and ten rebounds and Kevin Moore continued his recent strong play in the post with nine rebounds to go with four points.

Moore played more minutes Friday with Michael O'Casey out of the lineup with apparent food poisoning, which severely limited his minutes Saturday night as well. At Portland Adventist, the Warriors trailed by seven points with 1:30 to go and faced a four point deficit with eight seconds left in regulation.

Eric Gantenbein hit a pair of free throws, then Ryan Lampi intercepted a pass from a backcourt trap, taking the ball to the hole for a game-tying layup to send the game into overtime.

"He's been shooting the ball pretty well as of late," said head coach Josh Jannusch. "Tonight, PAA focused on Eric and we needed Lampi to step up and take some shots. He had two threes in the fourth quarter, but he really spurred us in the overtime session when he got eight of our 13 points.

"He's been really coming on and coming into his own in the last week or so. He's always been a really good, smart player for us. But I feel like he's gaining the confidence that's really going to help him become a leader."

Gantenbein added 15 points and Little had 11 for Warrenton. Greg Damazo paced the Cougars with 13 points.

The Lady Warriors faced a 7-point deficit in their game against Portland Adventist, but that's when Brooklyn Campbell took over, scoring 30 of her season-best 34 points in the middle part of the game as the Warriors stormed ahead and closed out the game strong. The freshman guard nailed seven threes in 14 attempts. The point total is the highest scored by a Warrior boy or girl this season and is believed to be a freshman single-game record.

"Every shot she puts up there has a chance to go," said Mattila of his freshman sharpshooter. "She nice a nice trajectory on them."

The Warriors shot a red hot 70% from the field (14-for-20) in the second half after connecting on just 7-of-36 field goal attempts in the first half.

The Warrenton girls also played without a key post player, as Chelsea Neahring sat out the last two games with a sprained ankle suffered against Riverdale.

"[Emily] Ogren got in foul trouble and we didn’t have Chelsea Neahring," said Mattila. "I don’t know if I ever took her out at all.

"Defensively we played pretty well. [Sierra] King only ended up with two baskets in the second half. We adjusted enough on her. I think she’s one of the premier players in the league."

Mattila hopes to have Neahring back in uniform for Tuesday's first place showdown against Rainier

"She’s walking on it, but its really black and blue all the way down to her toes." She’s not limping when she’s walking but she has trouble pushing off. Friday she really wanted to play, we really taped her up tight, but she couldn’t go. She’s tougher than nails. If she can go, she will."

GIRLS
VERNONIA 8 4 4 14 -- 30
Levenseller 2, Sohler, VanMeter 2, Nutting, Lindauer 19, Landers 7, DeWitt, Cheney, Cota.
WARRENTON 5 11 10 17 – 43
Ju. Marxer, Ogren 4, McBride 2, Jo. Marxer 7, Wilkins, Hackwith, Holt 7, Hayward 2, Campbell 7, Dove 14 (16 r).
FIELD GOALS-VER: n/a; WAR: 15-59-25%
3-PT FG’S-VER: n/a, WAR: 2-16-13%
FREE THROWS-VER: 7-13, WAR: 11-17
REBOUNDS-VER: 19, WAR: 30
TURNOVERS-VER:n/a , WAR: 13

WARRENTON 11 14 24 11 -- 60
Ju. Marxer, Ogren 8, McBride, Jo. Marxer 5, Hackwith 2, Holt 4, Hayward, Campbell 34, Dove 7.
PORTLAND ADVENTIST 9 17 10 8 -- 44
White 7, Grise 3, Nelson 8, Butler 3, Sprague 6, King 17.
FIELD GOALS-WAR: 21-56-38%, PAA: n/a
3-PT FG'S-WAR: 8-21-38%, PAA: n/a
FREE THROWS-WAR:10-13-77%, PAA: 4-6-67%
REBOUNDS-WAR:32, PAA: 23
TURNOVERS-WAR:8, PAA: n/a

BOYS

VERNONIA 8 6 0 13 -- 27
Eaton 2, Willer 6, Baker 3, Davis 4, Barura 3, Schorzman 7, Rice, Toney, Gilbertson.
WARRENTON 12 10 14 15 -- 51
Davis 3, Patterson 1, Gantenbein 5, Garcia 3, Moore 4, Little 10, Lampi 23, Aira 2, Burkhart, Morrison, Bentley, Hackwith.
FIELD GOALS-VER: 10-37-27%, WAR: 18-39-46%
3-PT FG'S-VER: 4-18-22%, WAR: 5-15-33%
FREE THROWS-VER: 3-9-33%, WAR: 10-17-59%
REBOUNDS-VER: n/a, WAR: 33
TURNOVERS-VER: n/a, WAR: 7

WARRENTON 10 16 12 16 13 -- 67
Davis 9, Gantenbein 15, Moore 1, Little 11, Aira 2, Lampi 28, Garcia, O'Casey.
PORTLAND ADVENTIST 9 18 11 17 6 -- 59
Damazo 13, Polk 9, Pholsena 11, Kim 5, Stapf 6, Linfoot 7, Lincoln 8, Brandes, Torkelson, Mote.
FIELD GOALS-WAR: 23-27-49%, PAA: 20-46-43%
3-PT FG'S-WAR: 10-19-53%, PAA: 3-13-23%
FREE THROWS-WAR: 9-15-60%, PAA: 16-25-64%
REBOUNDS-WAR: 31, PAA: n/a
TURNOVERS-WAR: 13, PAA: n/a

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