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Edmonds-Woodway feasted, while Meadowdale cried fowl at the annual Rubber Chicken clash.
The Warriors outscored the Mavericks 20-7 in the second quarter and withstood a late third quarter rally to prevail 60-42 in a Wesco 3A South boys basketball game Saturday at Meadowdale High School.
After trailing 31-18 at halftime and seeing the deficit grow to 15 points, the Mavericks battled back and trailed by only 7 points late in the third quarter. Meadowdale had what should have been the last possession of the quarter and an opportunity to cut the deficit to 4 or 5 points.
Instead, Edmonds-Woodway forced a turnover and then Benji Parrilla hit a 3-pointer to extend the Warriors’ lead to 41-31 as the third quarter ended.
Edmonds-Woodway (1-0 in the league, 3-1 overall) then came out strong in the fourth quarter and outscored Meadowdale 19-11.
“We had some seniors come off the bench and they gave us some steadying influence,” Edmonds-Woodway coach Robert Brown said. “The guys regrouped. We talked to them. They dug down. They went on a little run. They got some steals, got some turnovers and played some hard defense and applied some pressure. We got the lead back in double digits.”
Meadowdale coach Andy Streit agreed with his counterpart’s analysis, giving credit to the Warriors.
“They forced us into 22 turnovers tonight,” Streit said. “It wasn’t our defense tonight. It was Edmonds-Woodway and then it was us not executing the fundamentals that we needed to keep those possessions in our favor.”
Tre’var Holland led the Warriors with 15 points and was named the Sound Live Sports Network Player of the Game. Teammate Ryan Peterson added 10 points.
“The second and fourth are really quarters that we really seem to excel in,” Brown said.
Meadowdale’s Nathan Heilpop scored a team-high 12 points. The Mavericks (0-1, 2-2) made only 14 of 31 free throws, which unfortunately wasn’t a tremendous surprise to Streit.
“Generally we don’t shoot the ball very well from the free throw line,” he said. “We keep trying to work on it.”
Brown hopes what he describes as a young team can build on Saturday’s victory.
“They’ve coming together and they’re learning how to win games,” he said.
Streit plans to take a hard look at video of the game to see what adjustments need to be made.
“We’re going to get better from this,” Streit said. “We got better from our Kamiak loss. … I know we have a resilient group.”
— By David Pan
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