“They have senior leadership and they have kids who have been here before and I think they will rise to any challenge and every challenge. As will our team. I think all the teams that get to the Fi…
The Semiahmoo Totems and Kelowna Owls will clash in the triple-A girls’ provincial basketball championship for a second consecutive year, but there’s a reversal of roles and maybe rolls.
This tournament, the Owls are seeded No. 5 and coach Darren Semeniuk maintained that his charges didn’t play well enough for long enough in their tense 65-64 quarterfinal win Thursday over the No. 4 Yale Lions of Abbotsford. “We’re not going to go too much further in this tournament if we’re not cutting down the critical turnovers. And we missed too many foul shots down the stretch,” Semeniuk said after the Yale game. “We’re really pretty lucky coming out with that one.
Kelowna cut it to one point on a drive by Rylee Semeniuk with 2:26 showing and then went up 64-63 on a Kennedy Dickie layup with 1:21 to go. Dickie connected on one of two free throws with 59.7 seconds left to make it 65-63. For the winners, Jaeli Ibbetson had 21 points and 20 rebounds, while Dickie supplied 15 points and 14 rebounds. Tana Pankratz chipped in with 26 points, 12 rebounds, three blocks and three steals for Yale.Semiahmoo coach Allison McNeill sounded like she believes in her troops as well, saying “I thought we played really well,” in the win over Okanagan Mission.
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