Sentinel girls bash Wolfpack

Hasquet hits seven 3-pointers, scores 28 points

By the way Glacier High School girls' basketball coach Doug Hashley was coaching Friday night, the game could have been perceived as being close.

But it wasn't.

Missoula Sentinel sophomore Bryn Hasquet - the sister of Montana Grizzlies' star, Jordan - went 7-for-8 from 3-point range en route to scoring 28 points and seniors Reagan Cole and Meghan Eisenmann combined for 17 assists to help lead the Spartans to a 68-47 Western AA victory over the winless Wolfpack in the GHS gym.

The Spartans (1-0 in conference, 4-1 overall) led by as many as 30 points early in the fourth quarter. They got up quick, using a full-court press to force seven Wolfpack turnovers while committing just one, and went on a 13-2 run in the first quarter to take command.

"We're not going to be a team that can push it and we're going to have to work on handling pressure because we don't handle pressure at all right now, obviously," Hashley said.

Sentinel made 51 percent of its shots and tallied 23 assists. Hasquet, a 5-foot-10 guard, was lethal. She was 2-for-2 from the inside in the first quarter and missed her first 3-pointer. Then she made another 2-pointer in the second quarter before nailing seven straight treys. She made three in each of the middle two quarters.

"Bryn played out of her mind," Sentinel coach Karen Deden said. "All the other girls created the open shots for her and got her the ball when she was open and she hit them. She's the type of player that can go 7-for-10 from the 3-point line in a game. She's got it in her. It's in the family. Her brothers, Jordan and Kellen, are both good 3-point shooters so obviously she's hung out with them a little."

As lopsided as the result was, the Wolfpack did some good things.

Junior Emilee Hashley finished with 20 points and nine rebounds to lead the Wolfpack in equaling Sentinel in rebounds, 40-40. And in the final three quarters, Glacier held a 14-10 turnover advantage.

"We have been searching for an identity and I think we have found it," coach Hashley said. "We started to attack. The first three quarters of the first five games we've been dribbling around in a horseshoe and not making anybody pick up two-on-ones. But we challenged them to get into the paint, rise up and shoot it or dish it out to the open girl. It made a huge difference in the ball game.

"That fourth quarter was the start of where we are going to go - with the intensity and the desire we brought and the heart we came out with. Yeah, we got beat on a few easy buckets. But we outscored them in that fourth quarter - granted it was their (reserves)."

Hashley scored 11 of her points as the Wolfpack outscored the Spartans, 18-10, in the fourth quarter. Junior Lindsea Vaudt finished with nine points and six rebounds. Freshman guard Ashlee Waggener had seven points and four rebounds. Junior guard Kayla Smart had four points, six rebounds, three steals and two assists. All told, Glacier made 34 percent of its shots.

"Glacier is young but Hashley is tough," Deden said. "She took it to us. They moved the ball well in the second half and did some good things."

Sentinel's senior forward Michele Powers finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and two blocks. Tiffany Seeberger had 11 points, three rebounds and two blocks. Eisenmann added three blocks to her nine assists. Senior Emily Garland had six points and five rebounds.

But Glacier was just as happy with the way it finished.

"We got beat by 20, but we were down by 30," coach Hashley said. "We've got girls starting to believe in each other. I was really pleased. Now it's going to be up to me to keep the enthusiasm up because that can go a long way."

Sentinel 16 19 23 10 - 68

Glacier 6 14 9 18 - 47

SENTINEL (1-0, 4-1) - Reagan Cole 0-3 1-2 1, Cassie Kavran 1-4 0-1 2, Lauren Costa 1-2 0-0 2, Tiffany Seeberger 5-8 1-3 11, Caitlin Gaul 0-1 0-0 0, Meghan Eisenmann 1-8 1-2 4, Bryn Hasquet 10-13 1-1 28, Brette Rubie 2-4 0-0 4, Michele Powers 4-7 2-4 10, Emily Garland 2-4 2-4 6. Totals 26-51 8-17 68.

GLACIER (0-1, 0-5) - Kayla Smart 2-8 0-0 4, Jolee Kampf 1-6 3-4 5, Kadie Latimer 0-4 0-0 0, Maddey Frey 0-6 0-0 0, Lindsea Vaudt 4-11 0-0 9, Emilee Hashley 8-11 4-6 20, Ashlee Waggener 3-4 0-1 7, Sydney Sharaf 0-5 0-0 0, Zoey Pettit 1-1 0-2 2. Totals 19-56 7-13 47.

3-point goals - Sent. 8-23 (Hasquet 7-8, Eisenmann 1-7), Glac. 2-7 (Waggener 1-1, Vaudt 1-1). Rebounds - Sent. 40 (team 8, Powers 7, Garland 5, Cole 4, Rubie 4, Seeberger 3, Gaul 3, Hasquet 3, three with 1), Glac. 40 (Hashley 9, team 8, Smart 6, Vaudt 6, Waggener 4, Kampf 3, Frey 2, two with 1). Assists - Sent. 23 (Eisenmann 9, Cole 8, Hasquet 2, four with 1), Glac. 8 (Sharaf 3, Smart 2, three with 1). Steals - Sent. 8 (Hasquet 2, Kavran 2, four with 1), Glac. 8 (Smart 3, five with 1). Blocks - Sent. 7 (Eisenmann 3, Seeberger 2, Powers 2), Glac. 0. Turnovers - Sent. 15, Glac. 17. Total fouls - Sent. 13, Glac. 18. Fouled out - none.