EVERETT — The Peninsula College women’s basketball team finished with a 1-2 record at the Everett Classic over the weekend.
The Pirates finished the tournament losing 108-69 to Lane in the fourth-place game.
Alison Knowles led Peninsula in Sunday’s game with 16 points. She made 4 of 8 3-pointers and had six rebounds and four assists.
Miranda Schmillen and Pherrari Brumbaugh chipped in 12 points each. Schmillen added eight rebounds.
Pirates post Gabi Fenumiai grabbed 13 rebounds.
The freshman was named to the all-tournament team after averaging 10.3 points and 12.3 rebounds.
Through four games, Fenumiai leads the NWAACC in rebounding with an average of 13 per game.
The top individual performance of the weekend came from freshman forward Madison Pilster, who scored 16 points and pulled down 21 rebounds in Peninsula’s 79-77 overtime win over the Everett Community College Alumni on Saturday night.
Pilster’s 21 rebounds sets a new Peninsula College single-game record, surpassing Shanna Buckingham’s 18-rebound game in January 1998.
The Pirates (2-2) struggled with turnovers throughout the weekend, committing 73 in three games.
Peninsula is off for more than two weeks before playing at Highline on Thursday, Dec. 12.
The Pirates, who return only three players from last year’s NWAACC playoff team, first home game of the season isn’t until Jan. 8 against Edmonds.
Knowles and Schmillen lead the team with 11 points per game. Fenumiai is next, averaging 10.5.
Pilster is averaging 9.3 points and 9.5 rebounds per game.
Men open tonight
The Peninsula College men’s team plays its season opener at home tonight against Clark.
Like the women, the Pirate men return only three players from last season’s NWAACC tournament team.
However, the men’s team also has a new coach, Mitch Freeman, who takes over after previous coach Lance Von Vogt took the head coaching job at William Jessup University.
One of the three returners is Xavier Bazile, who led the Pirates with 18.7 points per game in 2012-13 and was named to the all-region second team.
Tonight’s game tips off at 7 p.m. at the Peninsula College campus gym.
