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NEWPORT —The Newport High School girls’ basketball team started the season with a nonleague win over Riverside, Thursday, Dec. 4 at Riverside.
“The girls played hard all throughout the game,” Newport coach Thad Trepanier says of the win. It was a hard-fought game by both schools.
Sophomore Grace Perry scored a game high 10 points for Newport.
Newport’s players were on the younger side that night, with three freshmen, four sophomores and one junior in the lineup. The one junior, Grace Keck, was out for most of the game after some early foul trouble but gave great leadership from the bench and ultimately helped her teammates win when she got back in the fourth quarter.
But Newport’s inexperience showed Friday, Dec.
5 when the Grizzlies hosted Colville, losing 54-18.
Trepanier says the Grizzlies turned over the ball more than 40 times that night.
“We definitely shot ourselves in the foot by not taking care of the basketball, Trepanier says.
To Trepanier, coming out of back-to-back nonleague games with one win and one loss is completely fine. That just means the Grizzlies learned a lot, and still have a lot to learn.
“We have a very athletic bunch of girls that so far have been willing to run through a wall for our program as far as effort goes,” Trepanier says.
“I’m excited to see what happens the rest of the year.”
The Grizzlies will be busy this week. They next play the border rival Priest River Spartans at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10 in Priest River. They go away again to St. George’s in Spokane at 6 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 12, then host Kettle Falls at 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 13. Newport will end the week at Northwest Christian in Colbert at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16.
