WEED – The Weed Lady Cougars picked the perfect time to get their first win of the season-the start of Shasta Cascade League play. The Lady Cougars (1-7, 1-0) defeated the Trinity Lady Wolves (0-10, 0-1), 42-38, on Tuesday night.

Weed dominated the first five minutes of the game, sprinting out to a 13-0 lead. Kera Vogel took a dish from Sierra Skeen and cooked up a 3-point play the hard way to open the scoring. Skeen followed with a hoop, 5-0. Nicolette Neel added a pair of freebies on a technical foul against Trinity for an incorrect player number, 7-0. Skeen made it 13-0 on back-to-back 3-balls.

The Lady Wolves finally got on the board with 2:57 left in the first quarter via a freebie that started a 7-0 run for Trinity. The first five points came at the charity stripe. Katrina Mounivong scored off a rebound for Trinity’s first field goal of the game, making it 13-7, with about a minute to go in the quarter.

After Skeen fed Vogel for another basket, 15-7, Mounivong scored two from the line, 15-9. Neel drained a trey for Weed, 18-9. Stevie Zeck answered with a 3-pointer, and then added a steal-n-score to cut the margin to four points, 18-14, going into the second quarter.

Weed led 24-17 at the half, and 33-26 at the end of three quarters. The Lady Cougars led the contest from start to finish. But, except for the game-opening run, were never able to pull away from the pesky pack of Wolves, winning by four points 42-38.

Weed’s Sierra Skeen and Nicolette Neel led all scorers with 14 points a piece. It was Skeen’s first game back from an early season injury. It was Neel’s second game back from injury. Kera Vogel contributed 10 points.

Katrina Mounivong and Taylor Christensen each had 8 for Trinity. Stevie Zweck added 6 points.