Trotters eventful season ends

It could have been better and it could have been worse but, in the end, the Trotters played their hardest and that’s all that coach Eddie Fultz was asking for all along.

Going 2-2 in the remotely played District 14C tournament, the Plains Trotters completed season play with a 7-8 record last week.

Starting with a 44-43 win over St. Regis in Plains Tuesday, the Trotters then lost to eventual conference tourney champs Charlo 53-25 in Charlo Thursday before coming back to stay alive with a 51-23 win over Hot Springs in Plains Friday.

The Trotters’ season came to an end in painful fashion with a 48-37 overtime loss to St. Regis in the 14C consolation game in Plains Saturday. The reason it was painful was the fact that the Trotters’ leading scorer, Kimmy Curry bonked her head and received seven stitches on her forehead for her troubles.

After scoring all 11 points for Plains in the first quarter, the sewed-up Curry did come back in the second half but wasn’t near 100% after that Fultz said.

“The injury to Kimmy did hurt us but a lot of other wacky stuff did too,” he said. “We jumped out to a big lead but it could’ve been a lot more. We were missing a lot of wide-open shots and passes all night.”

Curry scored 21 points in spite of the stitches, Krystena Boes seven, Carlie Wagoner five and Kaylah Standeford four.

St. Regis, which went on to lose the 14C challenge game 33-22 to Clark Fork Monday night, was led by Baylee Pruitt’s 22 points.

Against Charlo, Curry scored 12 points, Standeford eight, Izzy Crabb three and Rylee Gannarelli two. Kassidi Cox and Liev Smith each counted 10 points to pace Charlo.

Versus Hot Springs, Wagoner led the Trotters with 12 points, Curry added 10, Celsey VonHeeder seven, Boes six, Genna Deschamps and Chloe French five each, Standeford four and Crabb two.

In the first game with St. Regis Tuesday, Curry finished with 21 points to lead Plains, Deschamps added eight, Standeford five, Grace Horton and Wagoner three apiece, and VonHeeder and Boes two each.

Pruitt canned 17 for St. Regis that night.

Fultz was happy with what his Trotters gave him this season. “It was a strange year with COVID and all, and then we started out 0-4,” he said. “But we ended up turning it around some, won seven of our next 10 games. I am very happy with how we handled all of the adversity this season and still made something pretty good out of it.”