Weiser men suffer disappointing loss against Payette

The Snake River Valley boys varsity basketball tournament started on district tournament play on Wednesday, Feb 17. The Weiser Wolverines hosted the Payette Pirates in the first round.
 Weiser entered the tournament in third place behind McCall in second and Fruitland in first. Payette finished league play in sixth place.
 This has been a season where most of the teams are fairly equal in skill and on any given night either team can come out on top.
 The game opened with Payette winning the tip-off and then it took almost two minutes before either team was able to score. Weiser was first on the board with a drive in and bucket by Sam Kerner.
 With a couple of trips up and down the court the Pirates had jumped out to a five point lead, Weiser 4, Payette 9.
 The Wolverines kicked in a bit, at the halfway point, Weiser was back within one point.
 With Weiser working hard they were able to take the lead 13-12 when Brett Spencer snatched a steal and took it the length of the court for a lay-in with a minute and half left in the first.
 Those would be the last points in the first for the Wolverines. The quarter ended with Weiser  13, Payette 17.
 The second quarter was a low scoring period for both teams. Weiser’s Willy Shirts scored on a rebound put back after two minutes of play cutting Payette’s lead to two points, Weiser 15, Payette 17.
 With the score virtually the same and three minutes to go in the half, Wolverine Evan Haggerty took a charge as Payette drove to their bucket uncontrolled and rolled over Haggerty.
 Kerner took the lid off the basket with 1:25 to go with a nice three-pointer.
 Next trip to offense, Spencer went to the line making both of his free throws.
 Haggerty picked up a tough rebound and put it in to give Weiser the lead going into the locker room, Weiser 23, Payette 22.
 The third was a battle until the four minute mark. Spencer was able to drop in a couple of three-pointers for the Wolverines, but the Pirates seemed to have an answer every time. The game was tied 31 half way through.
 Weiser struggled to make shots while Payette could not miss, allowing them to gain a sizable lead. At the end of the third it was Weiser 34, Payette 43.
 The fourth did not get any prettier for the Wolverines. With multiple missed lay-ups and the Pirates capitalizing on their end, the win got out of reach for Weiser.
 The game ended in a Weiser lost 51 to 68.
 Weiser scoring: Spencer 25, Tyler Pope 6, Evan Haggerty 5, Shirts 4, Eli Ruiz 4, Ray Calley 2.
 Weiser continued tournament play in Weiser on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. as they met up with the Homedale Trojans. The winner of that game will advance to the SRV Consolation Championship game on Thursday and the loser will be eliminated.
 As of press time no scores were available.

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