Friday, January 19, 2024
Basketball Slide Continues
[photo] Gowanda’s Quentin Centner (#1) is seen driving towards the hoop early during the January 16 home game versus Frewsburg. Also seen is Trelin Warrior (#11).
On January 16, both the Gowanda Varsity girls and boys basketball teams were in action. While the girls issues on offense have been ongoing the boys have also had issues lately. Both teams took significant losses on the day.
The Gowanda Varsity boys basketball saw the only home action of week for the school on January 16 hosting Frewsburg. Gowanda’s Quentin Centner opened the scoring in the game from 3-point range. Three more Centner scores, including a second 3-pointer had Gowanda up 10-7. That margin grew to 12-7 with a basket from Blake Herman. Frewsburg fought back tightening the game to 18-15 by the end of the 1st Quarter. In a relatively tightly contested 2nd Quarter, Frewsburg gradually worked their way into their own 37-29 lead. The Frewsburg momentum continued into the 3rd Quarter where they outpaced Gowanda 27-18. Going into the final quarter with 64-47 Frewsburg lead, an even exchange of points moved the totals forward through the middle of the period. A very late Gowanda surge closed the gap to 84-74 by the final buzzer. The last three points coming from Seth Geiger from long distance. Leading the Gowanda offense were Quentin Centner (32 points) and Trelin Warrior (19 points).Center totaled five 3-pointers in the game with Warrior also having one. Also scoring for Gowanda were Seth Geiger (9 points), Troy Jimerson (8 points), and Blake Herman (6 points).
While the boys were hosting Frewsburg, the Gowanda girls were at Frewsburg. After a one game absence, the team had their top scorer, Corrina John, back for the game. In some ways that was a mixed blessing as the rest of the team tends to defer to her, when she is in the game, rather than taking shots themselves. It was a quick Gowanda start with Corrina John and Layla Gamble both hitting 3-pointers to open the scoring. That 6-0 lead quickly faded as Frewsburg scored the next 11 points. Although John did land a second 3-point shot in the period, Gowanda was still down 27-13 at the end of he quarter. Frewsburg rolled over Gowanda for the rest of the game. An 18-5 scoring advantage had Frewsburg up 45-18 by halftime. The assault continued with Frewsburg controlling the 3rd and 4th Quarters 23-8 and 16-0, respectively. Corrina John had 17 points in the game to lead Gowanda. In addition to Gamble’s early 3-pointer for her only points in the game, two other Gowanda girls contributed to the scoring. They were Lauren Kelly (4 points) and Karice John (2 points).
Also on the 16th, the Gowanda Varsity bowling teams were at Genesee Valley. The Gowanda boys dropped to 8-1 with their first loss of the season 3-1 with Genesse Valley getting off to a slow start in game one. Game scores in the match were 888-873, 974-1133 and 990-1062 for a match total of 2852-3068. Grouped very tightly the bowling for Gowanda were Gavin Whitcher (139-206-180/525), Drezden Spire (145-151-199/495), Morgan Ruff (176-153-148/477), Kory Degenfelder (165-146-158/469), Zachary Hojnacki (127-149-171/447) and Nicholas Smuda (136-169-134/439).
The Gowanda girls recorded a 4-0 victory over a Genesee Valley team that fielded only three bowlers. The other three spots were filled by absentee bowlers using previous averages. Gowanda also used one absentee bowler in the match with a 137 average (x3) for a 411 series. Game scores in the match were
780-699, 698-593 and 694-590 for pin totals of 2172-1882. Bowling full sets for Gowanda were Bailey Sheilds (194-127-135/453), Emma Golden (125-130-92/347), Tayleigh Williams (89-129-128/346), Lila Offenbach (100-101-134/335) and Natalia Elliott (135-74-71/280).