Finishing off a busy week of play, the Adna girls basketball team didn’t play its best game of the season, but ticked enough boxes to come away with a 41-31 win over 1A King’s Way Christian to stay perfect on the young season Saturday.
“We did some uncharacteristic things; it didn’t seem like our legs were really under us,” Adna coach Chris Bannish said. “It was a long week, six days straight and three games. The atmosphere was tough with an empty gym.”
The Pirates, who cracked 70 points in four of their first five games, never hit their full stride offensively, but let their defense shine on the second day of a back-to-back.
King’s Way managed to break 10 points in a quarter for the first time in the fourth — by which time Adna held a 20-point lead — while the Pirates held the Knights to five in both the second and the third.
“We had to make some adjustments defensively to what they were doing to attack it, and I thought we did a good job,” Bannish said.
Brooklyn Loose led the Pirates with a 14-point, 11-rebound double-double. She turned the offense on late when it mattered, according to Bannish, hitting a couple of timely shots as the guests tried to extend a small lead.
Karlee VonMoos added 13 points in the post, and Danika Hallom had six.
The offensive effort was hampered mostly by self-inflicted wounds, keeping the Pirates from ever truly putting the game away.
“I think we missed 12-14 uncontested layups, and we have not done that,” Bannish said. “And I’m talking about some fastbreak stuff, and stuff that would break the game open, and we didn’t capitalize.”
No matter how it came, the win boosted Adna to 6-0 overall on the season; every other team in the Central 2B League already has at least two losses. The Pirates will get a few well-deserved days to rest, before jumping back into league play at home Wednesday against Morton-White Pass.
