West Canada Valley girls advance to meet Westmoreland for basketball tourney championship
NOTE: The class of West Canada Valley freshman Analyce Grabowski has been corrected from an earlier version of this story.
NEWPORT – The West Canada Valley girls breezed to a 69-30 win to start their season Saturday and earned a spot in Sunday’s championship game at the own inaugural West Canada Valley Sports Boosters Tip Off Tournament.
West Canada Valley’s Indians (1-0) led by 10 points after one quarter and 20 at halftime against Sherburne-Earlville and will be back in action Sunday against Westmoreland, a 31-20 winner over Brookfield in Saturday’s first varsity game.
Sherburne-Earlville (0-1) scored first, taking its only lead on the first of Trinity Thornton’s three three-pointers before West Canada Valley went on a 9-1 run. The Indians added a 13-0 run bridging the end of the first quarter and start of the second. The Marauders never got closer than 16 points after that.
Analyce Grabowski and Reese Fellows each scored 18 points to lead West Canada Valley; Fellows added 16 rebounds for a double-double – she had eight in 14 games as a sophomore during the abbreviated COVID-19 season in the spring – and Grabowski , a current freshman , added eight steals, five assists and four rebounds to her career-high scoring performance. Olivia Morreale scored 13 points with four steals and four assists, Lydia Reimer had nine points, eight rebounds and three steals, and Hanna Burdick scored the other nine points.
Thornton led Sherburne-Earlville with 11 points.
Westmoreland overcame a slow start that saw the Bulldogs score two points in the first quarter and trail 11-9 at halftime, coming back with 10 points to take the lead in the third quarter. Westmoreland outscored Brookfield 22-9 in the second half.
Gabriella Moore led Westmoreland (1-0) with 10 points and eight rebounds. Madelynne Enos scored nine points.
Sara Brean led Brookfield (0-1) with 13 points.
Brookfield and Sherburne-Earlville play at 11:45 a.m. Sunday following a junior varsity game between West Canada Valley and Richfield Springs. The championship game is scheduled to tip off at 1:30 p.m.
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WEST CANADA VALLEY 69, SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE 30
SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE (0-1) – Alexandra Grzymkowski 1 0-0 2; Jalyn McCarthy 0 0-0 0; Chesnee Miller 1 0-0 2; Alysa Brown 1 0-0 3; Alexis James 2 0-0 5; Abygail Shaver 1 1-2 3; Hannah Todd-Rogers 0 3-4 3; Trinity Thornton 3 2-3 11; Amelia Moyer 0 1-2 1. Totals: 9 7-11 30.
WEST CANADA VALLEY (1-0) – Hanna Burdick 4 0-0 9; Bella Borden 0 0-0 0; Erin Gorinshek 1 0-0 2; Jenna Beam 0 0-0 0; Olivia Morreale 4 4-10 13; Lydia Reimer 4 1-4 9; Klohie Bolton 0 0-0 0; Madison Bray 0 0-0 0; Reese Fellows 8 2-5 18; Analyce Grabowski 7 2-4 18. Totals: 28 9-23 69.
Sherburne-Earlville 9 9 3 9 – 30
West Canada Valley 19 19 13 18 – 69
Three-pointers – Sherburne-Earlville 5 (Thornton 3, Brown 1, James 1); West Canada Valley 4 (Grabowski 2, Burdick 1, Morreale 1).
WESTMORELAND 31, BROOKFIELD 20
BROOKFIELD (0-1) – Lily Elliott 1 0-2 2; Sara Brean 6 1-2 13; Stephenie Brean 0 0-0 0; Delaney Karn 0 0-0 0; Emma Stetson 0 0-0 0; Nicole Murphy 0 0-0 0; Grace Reilly 0 0-0 0; Danica Karn 0 0-0 0; Lailia Talarico 0 0-0 0; Megan Kupris 2 1-3 5. Totals: 9 2-7 20.
WESTMORELAND (1-0) – Madelynne Enos 3 2-6 9; Samantha Wilson 2 0-0 4; Ella McGregor 3 0-2 6; Olivia Moore 1 0-0 2; Alessandra Feldman 0 0-0 0; Molly Nestved 0 0-0 0; Alexandra Albrecht 0 0-0 0; Sabrina Coyne 0 0-0 0; Gabriella Moore 5 0-0 10. Totals: 14 2-8 31.
Brookfield 5 6 5 4 – 20
Westmoreland 2 7 10 12 – 31
Three-pointers – Brookfield 0; Westmoreland 1 (Enos 1).
Jon Rathbun is a sportswriter for the Times Telegram. Email Jon at sports@timestelegram.com.
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