Elk Grove High School
Lady Herd Basketball
Elk Grove, California
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Elk Grove High School
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In the News
2010-2011
Published: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:15 PM PST Girls Basketball
The Lady Wildcats outscored its rival 19-7 in the third quarter and 17-8 in the fourth. Elk Grove allowed just six second-quarter points and led 30-19 at the half. Carlee Gray was the lone Elk Grove player in double figures. She scored a game-high 22 points. Franklin’s Taylyn Handy had 15 points. Elaine Signey had 14, and Sarah Wilson added 10. Elk Grove Citizen Published: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:54 AM PST By Ben Brown - Special to the Citizen * Lady Herd splits DVC’s first week Preseason tournaments and nonleague games are over and done with. Now starts the road to Arco Arena and that’s through league games. If either Elk Grove or Laguna Creek’s girls basketball team have visions of qualifying for the postseason, they are going to have to do it in league. Both teams struggled through the first month-and-a-half. Those struggles continued for Laguna Creek in the Delta Valley Conference opener. Elk Grove led from start-to-finish in a 69-31 rout at Laguna Creek High School. The Lady Herd jumped on the Laguna Creek early by full-court pressing after any made basket, a defensive scheme that gave Laguna Creek fits in the first quarter, and built a 20-3 lead for Elk Grove. The Lady Herd ended up with 19 steals as a team, caused mostly by the full-court press. Along with a full-court press Elk Grove attacked the lane strong. They went to the free throw line 32 times but made only 14 (43 percent). Center Carlee Gray, forward Melayne Alexander, and guard Jordan Brenner each chipped in 12 points to lead Elk Grove in scoring. Alexander grabbed 14 rebounds while Gray collected 12. Both had double-doubles. The win gave Elk Grove two in a three-game stretch for only the second time this season, and the first time since the opening weekend of the regular season. The possibility of the team’s first two-game winning streak stalled in a 55-52 loss to Monterey Trail last Friday. Elk Grove trailed by nine entering the fourth quarter. Gray had 16 points and eight rebounds. Elk Grove and Monterey Trail each went 1-1 in the first week of league. Davis and Franklin are tied for first at 2-0. Laguna Creek joined Grant as the league’s only winless team through two games after a 77-24 loss against Davis last Friday. The Lady Cardinals have lost four straight, including two in league by 91 points combined. With all Delta Valley Conference teams receiving a bye last night, league play resumes Friday. Either Laguna Creek or Grant will get their first win Friday as they face each other at 7 p.m. Elk Grove hosts Franklin in the first of two meetings. * Ben Brown is a journalism student at Laguna Creek High School Elk Grove Citizen Published: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 4:58 PM PST EG girls beat defending champion, place third
br> Inderkum became the latest to join that list after a 61-49 win over Vista del Lago in the championship game last Saturday. It was the first finals appearance for both teams. Nevada Union became the first team outside of Elk Grove, Kennedy and Laguna Creek to win a Cartwright title when they snapped Elk Grove’s bid for a third straight title in 2006. Kennedy’s six titles are the most in Cartwright girls’ history. Elk Grove is second with four titles, and Laguna Creek has two. Kennedy and Elk Grove are the only teams to win back-to-back titles. Kennedy, which also won the inaugural title in 1994 and four of the first six, has done it twice, in 1998-99 and 2001-02. Elk Grove won in 2004 and ‘05. Nevada Union became the first of four consecutive first-time winners beginning in ‘06. Sheldon won in ‘07, followed by Lincoln of Stockton and Napa. Nevada Union won this year’s consolation title with a 55-42 win over Franklin. The Lady Miners outscored Franklin, which trailed 24-20 at the half, by nine points in the second half. Just three games into the season, Elk Grove is nearly halfway to its 2009-10 win total. Struggling through a five-win season, the Lady Herd lost all three games by double digits at last year’s Cartwright Classic. Not this season. Elk Grove won two of its three games and finished third, including an impressive 50-40 win over defending tournament champion Napa in the third-place game. Senior Becca Pasqual and junior Carlee Gray combined for 39 of Elk Grove’s 50 total points. Pasqual scored a game-high 18 points while Gray had 11. Only three other players scored. Maci Hanie had eight, Jordan Brenner had seven and Melayne Alexander had six. Alexander grabbed nearly half of Elk Grove’s total rebounds, finishing with 18 including 11 offensive. Elk Grove made 9-of-12 free throws. The tournament started for Elk Grove with an easy 66-26 rout of Kimball, a first-year varsity program from Tracy. The Lady Herd outscored Kimball by a combined 44-11 margin in the first and third quarters, including a 22-2 differential in the third. Kimball scored just seven second-half points. Elk Grove’s Lauren Chetner scored 17 points and also had seven steals and seven assists. Pasqual scored 10 points. Elk Grove slipped into the third-place game after losing to Inderkum, 56-43, in the semifinals. Inderkum seized control early with an 18-9 lead after the first quarter. After Elk Grove crept back to within five in the second half, Inderkum extended the lead again with an eight-point cushion in the fourth, 19-11. Gray was the lone Elk Grove player in double figures with 14 points. Pasqual had nine. No other player scored more than five. Alexander scored just two points but had 11 rebounds. She collected at least 11 rebounds or more in each of the three tournament games. Elk Grove traveled to West Campus last Monday for a non-conference game before leaving for the four-day San Luis Obispo-Morro Bay Tournament. Scheduled to open against Arroyo Grande tonight at 6:30 p.m., the Lady Herd will play four games in four days. The rest of the tournament schedule is already finalized. They will play Mission Prep of San Luis Obispo on Thursday at 6:30, Morro Bay on Friday at 8 and conclude with Atascadero on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. The Lady Herd will then have two days off before hosting Merced on Dec. 14.
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