Moy, Bravettes top Pack convincingly
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Flathead's Maddy Moy (5) drives into the lane for a bucket against Glacier at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Kiera Sullivan (5) shoots a three-pointer against Flathead at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Olivia Pate (2) looks to shoot against Glacier's Bethany Sorensen (10) at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Noah Fincher (22) shoots a three-pointer against Flathead at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Maddy Moy (5) drives to the basket against Glacier's Noah Fincher (22) at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Kennedy Moore (14) shoots over Glacier's Sarah Downs (3) at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Avery Chouinard (13) knocks down a three-pointer against Glacier at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Bethany Sorensen (10) drives to the basket against Flathead's Kennedy Moore (14) at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Clare Converse (15) shoots a three-pointer guarded by Glacier's Kiera Sullivan (5) at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Clare Converse (15) shoots a three-pointer guarded by Glacier's Kiera Sullivan (5) at Flathead High School on Friday, Jan. 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Looking at the final score from the girls crosstown basketball game Friday — Flathead won 52-23 on its homecourt to stay unbeaten — it’s easy to forget that Glacier looked right as rain nine minutes in.
At that point Bethany Sorensen had bombed in her second 3-pointer of the game, putting the Wolfpack ahead 11-10. Then the Bravettes got going.
Maddy Moy scored 18 points as Flathead, 9-0 overall and 5-0 in the Western AA, stopped a nine-game skid in the crosstown series. The prettiest of her eight buckets was a layup off a down-the-lane bounce pass from Akilah Kubi that slid through the Glacier defense.
“Holy,” Moy, a junior, began. “I don’t know how it got there, but that was impressive. It was good. Set me up perfectly.”
“She’s dropping dimes out there,” Flathead coach Sam Tudor said of Kubi. “She passed it between three kids’ legs and it rolled into Maddy’s hands, who somehow shot a reverse layup. It was exactly how I drew it up out of that time out.”
It made it 24-13, and answered a basket by Sidney Gulick for Glacier (3-6, 0-5 in league) early in the second half. Gulick’s field goal was the only one the Pack made between the 6:20 mark of the second period until Bailey Gable scored on a drive with 2:15 left in the game. By then, Flathead was up 36.
Kubi scored just once herself, but she had 10 rebounds and four steals and quite a few cross-key passes. Beneficiaries included Ivy Gannon (scored to make it 27-13) and Kennedy Moore (14 points, including a bucket that made it 29-14).
“She finds other ways to make us better,” Tudor said. “She’s sharing the ball. It stems from that post play – that’s kind of where we started opening it up, with our post play and sharing the ball.”
A 2-3 zone extended out on Sorensen and Co.; Kubi and Moore (10 boards) owned the glass. The streak was over.
“Freshman year to now we’ve lost every time, until tonight,” Moy said. “It’s a good feeling.”
Sorensen led the Pack with seven points.
“We knew they had some shooters out there,” Tudor said. “It was a little bit of an unorthodox 2-3, because we had to extend out. When Akilah can do what she does in the block, that makes our guards’ lives a lot easier.”
Glacier 8 3 4 8 - 23
Flathead 7 13 19 13 - 52
GLACIER — Bethany Sorensen 2-5 1-2 7, Sidney Gulick 2-8 1-2 5, Reese Ramey 0-7 0-0 0, Kiera Sullivan 1-3 0-0 3, Noah Fincher 1-8 0-0 2, Haven Speer 0-1 0-0 0, Aubrey Price 0-1 0-0 0, Colette Daniels 0-1 0-0 0, Bailey Gable 1-3 1-4 3, Mady Osler 0-0 0-0 0, Charlotte Osler 1-2 1-1 3, Emma Cooke 0-0 0-0 0, Sarah Downs 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 8-43 4-9 23.
FLATHEAD — Maddy Moy 8-16 0-0 17, Akilah Kubi 1-5 0-2 2, Kennedy Moore 5-8 3-3 14, Avery Chouinard 2-5 0-0 6, Clare Converse 1-4 1-3 3, Ivy Gannon 3-3 0-0 6, Liv Pate 0-0 2-4 2, Tali Miller 1-2 0-0 2, Harlie Roth 0-1 0-0 0, Lauryn Burke 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-45 6-12 52.
3-point goals — Glacier 3-18 (Sorensen 2-4, Sullivan 1-3), Flathead 4-10 (Chouinard 2-4, Moy 1-3, Moore 1-2). Rebounds — Glacier 28 (Fincher 5), Flathead 32 (Moore 10, Kubi 10). Fouls — Glacier 9, Flathead 15. Blocks — Glacier 1 (Downs), Flathead 1 (Moore). Steals — Glacier 5 (Fincher 2), Flathead 7 (Kubi 4). Turnovers — Glacier 16, Flathead 12.
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