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Lady Wolves start basketball with blowout
The Dalhart Lady Wolves played their first actual basketball game of the season at home on Saturday November 8 after scrimmaging earlier in the week, taking on the Bovina Fillies. The Fillies were unable to keep up with the Lady Wolves, and Dalhart ended up scoring slightly more than double the points of Bovina for the win.
Dalhart started off a little slow for the first couple of minutes, but by the end of the first quarter had built up a double-digit lead. Joie Read led the team in scoring during the first, draining a threepointer and scoring 12 points. Kammi Maddox also hit a three and had five points, and Avi Day nailed one threepointer while Aubree Ramirez scored two points. Dalhart held a 22-8 lead as the first period ended.
The Lady Wolves added 14 points to their lead in the second quarter, outscoring the Fillies 24-10. Maddox hit another three and led the team with nine points in the second. Day scored five points, including an oldfashioned three-point play as she was fouled while hitting a layup and also put in the free throw. Ramirez added three points, including a fast break layup at the buzzer, and Kaetlin Sundvahl and Luxie Woolley each scored two points. At halftime the score was 46-18 in favor of Dalhart.
The third quarter was closer, but Dalhart still expanded the lead. Maddox led in scoring again, nailing another three and scoring eight points. Ramirez also hit a three, and Sundvahl scored three points while Read put in a free throw. Dalhart outscored Bovina 15-8 during the stanza, led 61-26 at the end of the third quarter. The Lady Wolves closed out the win in the fourth quarter, putting 20 points on the scoreboard while Bovina scored 13. Maddox scored six points in the final period. Read hit a three and added five points, Sundvahl scored three points, Maggie Hartman and Woolley each put up two points, and Day hit a free throw. Dalhart won by a final score of 81-39.
Seven different Dalhart players scored during the game. Maddox led with 29 points. Read scored 21 points, Day had nine points, and Sundvahl and Ramirez each added eight points.
The Lady Wolves were open on Tuesday November 11. They will play Perryton at home on Saturday November 15, which will also be the first game for the boys team. The JV girls play at 11 a.m., and the freshmen actually play Stratford at the same time in the back gym. The varsity girls play at 12:15 p.m., and the varsity boys will play at 1:30 p.m., although it won’t be the full varsity team since football hasn’t finished yet.
Female Athlete of the Week
BY BILL KELLY
The Dalhart Federal Savings & Loan Female Athletes of the Week are the members of the Dalhart High varsity cheer squad. They include Addison Ramirez, Arianna Chacon, Joie Read, Reese Jenkins, Alyra Rivera, Circe Johnson, Gracie Vermedahl and Kambry Kitchens. Ramirez, Chacon, Jenkins and Johnson are seniors, Read, Vermedahl, and Kitchens are juniors, and Rivera is a sophomore. Johnson and Jenkins were named athletes of the week earlier in the year as individuals, and Read and Ramirez have been named in previous years.
Cheerleaders aren’t always thought of as athletes, but that is a mistake, as they are often more athletic than many of the players they support. Tumbling and dancing take athleticism, as do some of the stunts that the squad does. All of the cheerleaders either play a sport or participate in another athletic activity in addition to being a cheerleader. Ramirez and Jenkins both just finished playing volleyball, and Jenkins won a bronze medal at State in the pole vault last year while Ramirez has also played softball in the past. Jenkins is also one of the squad’s main tumblers. Johnson has been All-State in cross country for three straight years (this year’s All-State team has not been named yet), and she runs track as well and is playing club volleyball. Chacon just started her senior year of basketball, after helping the Lady Wolves make it to the Regional final last year, and she runs track too.
Juniors Read and Kitchens both also just finished varsity volleyball and are starting varsity basketball. Read has been on varsity her entire time in high school in basketball, and Kitchens joined last year. They both also compete in track and field. The other junior, Vermedahl, dances for Lone Star Ballet, and was featured as one of the leads in The Nutcracker Suite in Amarillo a couple of years ago. The sophomore on the squad, Rivera, moved up to varsity volleyball for the playoffs and was the starting catcher on the varsity softball team last spring, and will play softball again this spring.
The cheerleaders put on the Senior Pep Rally last week. They usually just do one dance, but along with their own dance (which came from the movie Pitch Perfect), they also performed a dance with the Pack Moms. They then cheered at the football game that night, and a few cheered at the first basketball game of the year the next morning. Throughout the year, they provide the different athletic teams support in any way they can.
Honorable Mention:
Kammi Maddox:
Dalhart basketball. Maddox is a senior and was athlete of the week earlier in the year for volleyball. She led the Lady Wolves in scoring in the first basketball game of the year, putting 29 points on the scoreboard against Bovina last Saturday.
Avi Day: Dalhart basketball. Day is a senior on the Lady Wolves basketball team. She scored nine points against Bovina on November 8. She hit one three-pointer and had an old-fashioned three-point play, putting in a layup and hitting the free throw afterward.
Aubree Ramirez: Dalhart basketball. Ramirez is a freshman on the Dalhart varsity basketball team. She played very well against Bovina, helping with the full-court press and playing point guard while she was in the game. Ramirez scored eight points against Bovina on Saturday November 8, which included a threepointer.
