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RIFLE - Brad Skinner received a nice birthday gift on Friday night, watching his Rifle Bears girls basketball team defeat Eagle Valley 69-39 in a Class 4A Western Slope League contest.
Every Bear chipped in for the win from Quincey Snyder's 17 points, six rebounds and six assists, to Sandy Samson's 12 points and six rebounds to 11 and 10 points from Megan McWilliams and Chelsea Webb, respectively.
"I think we were pretty balanced tonight. All across the board, not just scoring, but steals, assists, rebounds - everybody contributed tonight," Skinner said. "It was very much a nice team effort."
The Bears relied on their defense, which came up with 22 steals, to generate their offense, which frequently ended with fast break layups. Eagle Valley head coach Ken Reagan said he even thinks the Devils' press breaking is one of their strengths, but it was no match for Rifle.
"They got us tonight. We keep track of how many scores they got off of our steals in their halfcourt and they scored 25 points just of mistakes on our own half court," Reagan said. "That's a lot of points."
Outside of Snyder's six steals, Ciara Euler had five and McWilliams, Alissa Skinner and Samson each had three.
"They are fast, we couldn't play our normal starting five girls because we didn't have any matchups we could match up with," Reagan said. "That kinda got us off key too."
Euler, a freshman who started on the season on junior varsity, proved why she is seeing more varsity time as she added four points and three boards to her five steals.
"She is really quick, with long arms," Skinner said of Euler. "She's kinda got a knack for scoring. We have bumped her up to full time varsity."
Despite 15 steals in the first half, part of Eagle Valley's 20 turnovers, the Bears couldn't take a big lead. Instead, it was Eagle Valley who got hot as Yvette Parra cashed in on back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Devils a 25-23 lead with just over two minutes to go in the second quarter.
After Skinner called a timeout, his team went on a stealing rampage, scoring 11 straight points to close out the half with a 34-25 lead.
"I was really happy with the girls intensity," he said.
Rifle, 5-7 overall and 2-2 in league, will play another WSL game today at Battle Mountain at 7 p.m., while Eagle Valley 2-9, 1-3 WSL will be at Battle Mountain on Tuesday.
Every Bear chipped in for the win from Quincey Snyder's 17 points, six rebounds and six assists, to Sandy Samson's 12 points and six rebounds to 11 and 10 points from Megan McWilliams and Chelsea Webb, respectively.
"I think we were pretty balanced tonight. All across the board, not just scoring, but steals, assists, rebounds - everybody contributed tonight," Skinner said. "It was very much a nice team effort."
The Bears relied on their defense, which came up with 22 steals, to generate their offense, which frequently ended with fast break layups. Eagle Valley head coach Ken Reagan said he even thinks the Devils' press breaking is one of their strengths, but it was no match for Rifle.
"They got us tonight. We keep track of how many scores they got off of our steals in their halfcourt and they scored 25 points just of mistakes on our own half court," Reagan said. "That's a lot of points."
Outside of Snyder's six steals, Ciara Euler had five and McWilliams, Alissa Skinner and Samson each had three.
"They are fast, we couldn't play our normal starting five girls because we didn't have any matchups we could match up with," Reagan said. "That kinda got us off key too."
Euler, a freshman who started on the season on junior varsity, proved why she is seeing more varsity time as she added four points and three boards to her five steals.
"She is really quick, with long arms," Skinner said of Euler. "She's kinda got a knack for scoring. We have bumped her up to full time varsity."
Despite 15 steals in the first half, part of Eagle Valley's 20 turnovers, the Bears couldn't take a big lead. Instead, it was Eagle Valley who got hot as Yvette Parra cashed in on back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Devils a 25-23 lead with just over two minutes to go in the second quarter.
After Skinner called a timeout, his team went on a stealing rampage, scoring 11 straight points to close out the half with a 34-25 lead.
"I was really happy with the girls intensity," he said.
Rifle, 5-7 overall and 2-2 in league, will play another WSL game today at Battle Mountain at 7 p.m., while Eagle Valley 2-9, 1-3 WSL will be at Battle Mountain on Tuesday.
