SEQUIM — Jordan Miller and Adrienne Haggerty led Sequim to a 56-31 nonleague girls basketball victory over Port Townsend.
Miller scored 18 points and Haggerty put up 16 for the Wolves, who improve to 2-2.
Ella Christiansen added eight points as eight Sequim players scored in Monday’s win.
The Wolves jumped out to a 16-4 lead after one quarter, and extended that lead to 37-8 at halftime.
Port Townsend was down but not done.
“[Our players] never quit, even when they get into a hole early on,” Redhawks coach Scott B. Wilson said.
“We made some halftime adjustments and played the Wolves better than even in the second half.”
Port Townsend outscored Sequim 13-6 in the third quarter and 23-19 overall in the second half.
The Redhawks were led by sophomore Kaitlyn Meek, who scored 13 points, nine of them in the third period.
“Junior post Jenna Carson showed some great moves beneath basket on her way to 10 points,” Wilson said.
The Redhawks (0-5) play their first Olympic League 1A game Thursday at home against rival Chimacum (2-3).
Sequim opens its Olympic League 2A season tonight at Kingston (0-1, 1-3).
Bremerton 54, Chimacum 46, OT
CHIMACUM — The Cowboys took the Knights down to the wire and then some.
Chimacum stared slow and due to unforced turnovers trailed 22-14 at halftime Monday.
“In the second half, Mechelle Nisbet really set the tone for us with lock-down defense that earned us points and seemed to really bring up our overall defensive energy, when she made back-to-back steals for scores,” Cowboys coach Trevor Huntingford said.
“Mechelle can be an absolute defensive monster when she is locked in.”
Nisbet paced Chimacum’s offense as well with 13 points. Bailey Castillo added 10, Shanya Nisbet had eight and Maddie Dowling scored seven.
“Offensively we had several girls scoring again, and that is big for us moving forward, as people can’t attempt to take away just one player,” Hungtingford said.
“Through the first four games we had three girls averaging nine [points] a game and two averaging six, so the offensive load is getting shared, and that should continue to get better when senior captain Nicole Cerna is back with the team after Christmas break.”
Foul trouble caught up to the Cowboys late in Monday’s game.
“The final piece in what was a tight back-and-forth second half was that we fouled out key players in the fourth, leaving us playing the bench a lot in OT, and we made a couple of crucial mistakes, giving up two big 3s in overtime, and just couldn’t recover,” Huntingford said.
Also, the Cowboys also only made 10 of 26 free throws, while Bremerton made 18 of 30.
“We just have to work on getting off to a better start and playing with a higher level of intensity from start to finish,” Huntingford said.
“This week we will need it going into our first division game with rival Port Townsend.”
Chimacum (2-3) plays at the Redhawks (0-5) on Thursday at 5:15 p.m.
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Compiled using team reports.
