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The last day of January 2012 was a downer for most Mt. Shasta area high school basketball teams.
At the varsity level, Dunsmuir’s boys defeated visiting Redding Adventist, 78-59, but the Dunsmuir girls, Weed boys and girls and Mount Shasta boys and girls all lost.
The defeats were setbacks in the league title hopes for both Mount Shasta teams and the Weed girls.
Weed’s JV boys lost for the first time after a 20-0 start, and lost in spectacular fashion, 60-31, at Fall River.
Mount Shasta’s JV boys and girls both defeated Modoc; the JV girls game went to overtime.
Mount Shasta’s girls lost their first Shasta Cascade League game of the season to visiting Modoc, 41-32. That left the Bears (4-1) in a first place tie with Fall River (4-1), which won its Tuesday night home game, 48-34, over visiting Weed (4-2). Modoc’s girls left town with a 2-4 SCL record.
Mount Shasta’s boys (3-2) fell two games off the pace in the SCL when they lost at home, 68-56, to Modoc (5-1).
Fall River’s boys (5-0) stayed perfect in league with a 66-48 win over Weed (1-5).
Results for Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012:
At Mount Shasta
Modoc varsity boys 68, Mount Shasta 56
The game was delayed in the third quarter when Paul Thelander, the Bears’ second leading scorer this season, hit his head while diving for the ball and was taken by ambulance to the hospital as a precautionary measure. He was later released from the hospital, and he said the following day that all tests were negative. Thelander said he will probably sit out this Friday night’s game, but expects to return to action next week.
The Bears fell behind 17-6 in the first quarter, trailed at half time 34-23, rallied to tie it in the third quarter 41-41, then fell back again.
Coach Donny Gray said the Bears did many things just the way he wanted, but missed open shots and never found the range from beyond the three-point line.
Kegan Snure 17, Josh Copeland 13, Dylan Padula 9, Paul Thelander 8.
Modoc varsity girls 41, Mount Shasta 32
The Bears led at the end of the first three quarters, 7-6, 18-16, and 24-22. They led 30-28 with 4:30 left in the game, but Modoc finished with a 13-2 run.
Kathryn Andrus 13 points, 9 rebounds; Jeanette Ricci 8 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists.
Mount Shasta JV boys 47, Modoc 34
After losing for the first time in league Friday against Weed, the JV Bears made that ground up with a home court win while the JV Cougars were losing at Fall River.
The last day of January 2012 was a downer for most Mt. Shasta area high school basketball teams.
At the varsity level, Dunsmuir’s boys defeated visiting Redding Adventist, 78-59, but the Dunsmuir girls, Weed boys and girls and Mount Shasta boys and girls all lost.
The defeats were setbacks in the league title hopes for both Mount Shasta teams and the Weed girls.
Weed’s JV boys lost for the first time after a 20-0 start, and lost in spectacular fashion, 60-31, at Fall River.
Mount Shasta’s JV boys and girls both defeated Modoc; the JV girls game went to overtime.
Mount Shasta’s girls lost their first Shasta Cascade League game of the season to visiting Modoc, 41-32. That left the Bears (4-1) in a first place tie with Fall River (4-1), which won its Tuesday night home game, 48-34, over visiting Weed (4-2). Modoc’s girls left town with a 2-4 SCL record.
Mount Shasta’s boys (3-2) fell two games off the pace in the SCL when they lost at home, 68-56, to Modoc (5-1).
Fall River’s boys (5-0) stayed perfect in league with a 66-48 win over Weed (1-5).
Results for Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012:
At Mount Shasta
Modoc varsity boys 68, Mount Shasta 56
The game was delayed in the third quarter when Paul Thelander, the Bears’ second leading scorer this season, hit his head while diving for the ball and was taken by ambulance to the hospital as a precautionary measure. He was later released from the hospital, and he said the following day that all tests were negative. Thelander said he will probably sit out this Friday night’s game, but expects to return to action next week.
The Bears fell behind 17-6 in the first quarter, trailed at half time 34-23, rallied to tie it in the third quarter 41-41, then fell back again.
Coach Donny Gray said the Bears did many things just the way he wanted, but missed open shots and never found the range from beyond the three-point line.
Kegan Snure 17, Josh Copeland 13, Dylan Padula 9, Paul Thelander 8.
Modoc varsity girls 41, Mount Shasta 32
The Bears led at the end of the first three quarters, 7-6, 18-16, and 24-22. They led 30-28 with 4:30 left in the game, but Modoc finished with a 13-2 run.
Kathryn Andrus 13 points, 9 rebounds; Jeanette Ricci 8 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists.
Mount Shasta JV boys 47, Modoc 34
After losing for the first time in league Friday against Weed, the JV Bears made that ground up with a home court win while the JV Cougars were losing at Fall River.
The JV Bears broke open a close game by outscoring Modoc 15-6 in the fourth quarter.
Daylon Blakey 12, Jonathan Clemens 11.
Mount Shasta JV girls def. Modoc (OT)
The JV Bears trailed the whole game but held Modoc scoreless in the fourth quarter, rallied to tie, then won in overtime.
At Dunsmuir
Dunsmuir boys 78, Redding Adventist 59
Jake Mekeel scored 29 for the Tigers, who trailed 36-33 at half time, then took the lead with a 24-13 third quarter and pulled away in the fourth.
Jake Mekeel 29 points, 9 rebounds, Daniel Ballard, 18 points, 7 rebounds, Mason Mekeel 11 points
Redding Adventist girls 54, Dunsmuir 33
Chelsea Helms 21 (5 three-point baskets), Marki Stibi 10
At Fall River
All four Cougar teams lost in McArthur
Fall River girls 48, Weed 34
The Cougars fell behind 22-1 in the first quarter
Fall River boys, 66, Weed 48
Weed played the Bulldogs nearly even the rest of the way after falling behind 29-14 in the first quarter
Fall River JV boys 60, Weed 31
After 20 wins in a row, “it was one of those trips you shouldn’t get off the bus,” said Weed coach Bob Zalunardo. “We couldn’t do anything right.”
Zalunardo said Fall River had the same players that the Cougars faced in mid-January when Weed won by 20 points.
He credited the Bulldogs with playing “a perfect game; they out-hustled us, out-rebounded us, out-shot us; they played a lot differently.”
Edgar Casorla made 3 threes and scored 17 for Weed. “He tried to bring us back,” said coach Z. Spencer Hall 9.
Fall River JV girls 28, Weed 25
