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Woods guiding Open Bible to fast start
Buckaroo girls pick up another win
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Tigers manhandle Dragons
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NHS holds on, drops Dallas |
The Tiger girls basketball team limits Dallas to 11
first half points and secures a 50-42 win |
By B. Scott Anderson, Newberg
Graphic sports editor
E-mail Scott at banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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Normally, an eight-point
win in the Pac-9 Conference is something most teams would be
delighted with.\
Not the Newberg High School girls basketball team.
The Tigers (1-3 overall, 1-0 Pac-9 Conference) were subdued after
their 50-42 home win over Dallas Tuesday, mostly because they had a
20-point lead the majority of the game. Dallas outscored Newberg
31-19 in the second half.
“We started off really slow in the fourth quarter,” said NHS coach
Marianne Funderhide. “Part of it is that you (substitute) and those
kids haven’t been in that position before and so they’re not quite
sure how to handle it and that happens. We can’t take anything away
from the kids and that they won and that they played well for the
most part.”
Newberg dominated the Dragons in the first half. The Tigers jumped
to a 7-0 lead on a shot in the key by Sara Zahler with 5:22 left in
the first quarter. The Tigers cruised from there, leading 16-5 after
the first. In the second quarter, a three-pointer by Jessica Parrish
pushed Newberg to a 31-11 halftime lead.
“In the first half, the kids did a great job of sharing and moving
the ball,” Funderhide said. “We got some open shots because we were
moving the ball so well. It was a pretty flawless first half. The
kids played pretty well.”
Dallas outscored Newberg 10-8 in the third before its 10-point
advantage in the fourth quarter.
“I wouldn’t say it was one of our top performances in the second
half with this group, but they built up enough of a lead that it was
OK in the second half,” Funderhide said.
The Tigers, who shot 18 of 31 from the free-throw line, were led by
the 18 points of Parrish. Zahler added 13 and guard Nikki Turnidge
chipped in seven points for the Tigers.
Newberg came into the game off a pair of losses at a tournament at
West Linn. Funderhide said even though the Tigers played well and
lost, Turnidge was key in both games.
“She really picks up the defensive intensity and really sets it for
the whole team,” Funderhide said. “She was really important at our
tournament during the weekend. She made the other team’s point
guards do what they didn’t want to do.”
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From
Dec. 11,
2004, Newberg Graphic
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