HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
At St. John
St. John 48, Pratt-Skyline 26
ST. JOHN (1-0)
Teresa Wade 10 4-8 24, Morgan Osborn 3 0-0 7, Jamie Waters 2 0-0 5, Rhian Collins 2 2-2 6, Alexis Witt 2 0-0 4, Kendra Hacker 1 0-0 2. Totals 18 6-10 48.
Pratt-Skyline (0-1)
Ashley Timm 4 2-8 10, Leah McPherson 3 0-2 6, Morgan Flowers 1 4-6 6, Becca Swisher 1 0-0 2, Whitney Renner 1 0-0 2, Kaitlyn Petrowsky 0 0-1 0. Totals 10 6-17 26.
St. John 12 15 12 9 — 48
Pratt-Skyline 10 10 0 6 — 26
Three-point goals — St. John 2 (Osborne 1, Waters 1).
ST. JOHN — The St. John High School girls basketball season-opening 48-26 win against Pratt-Skyline came quickly became the Teresa Wade Show on Friday night.
Wade led the Tigers, scoring half of their points, finishing with 24.
Alexis Witt, a 5-foot-9 freshman, got the Lady Tigers started with a shot off the glass on an inbounds pass.
After that, Wade took over. Wade finished the first quarter with 10 points, including a three-point play.
“She’s really strong and you talk about some contact, we just hammer on her in practice and she’s a strong player that’s only going to get better,” Lady Tigers head coach Danny Smith said.
In spite of Wade’s strong showing in the first quarter, the Thunderbirds still closed the gap to two on a two-point buzzer-beating jumper by Anna Petrowsky. The first quarter finished with a 12-10 advantage.
The Lady Tigers were able to keep themselves ahead of Skyline, even with the free trips to the line.
The Lady Thunderbirds made only 6 of 17 free throws (35 percent) in the first half.
“It’s not always what you hope for,” Smith said. “We are just really young and we were showing a lot of nerves in the first half. It was one of those things where we were fouling and not playing very well defensively.
“We made a couple changes at halftime, played good defense. That was the thing in the second half.”
Morgan Osborne, a 5-8 sophomore, was the Lady Tigers second-leading scorer with seven points, including one of the team’s two 3s.
In the third quarter, the Lady Tigers jumped ahead of Skyline, being the only team to score.
Wade, who led the Lady Tigers with five points in the quarter, began the second half with a layup off the glass.
Jamie Waters, a 5-5 sophomore guard, drained a trey for St. John. Osborne scored two and Kendra Hacker added another two points to jump the Lady Tigers to a 39-20 lead by the end of the third quarter.
“It was kind of what I expected,” Smith said of the game. “We’re young. We only have 12 girls so we don’t scrimmage a lot in practice so we’re going to have to learn through our games. I was proud of them. It was good to come out with a win. We saw a lot of improvement.”
