Girls’ basketball: Morro Bay gets an English lesson
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Until Wednesday night, I thought the only way you could prevent St. Joseph from running amok on the scoreboard was by shutting down its top three players -- namely Ane McPike and sisters Devin and Analise Riezebos.
Well, Morro Bay did find a way to keep this tremendous trio under control, but the Pirates couldn’t stop Kelsie English taking control of the game. The freshman guard scored all of her 18 points in the second half as the Knights erased a late-game deficit thanks to some clutch free throw shooting to take a 46-44 victory over the Pirates.
It was a career-high scoring output for English, who came into the game averaging a little under six ppg.
‘She came out of nowhere,’ Morro Bay Coach Cary Nerelli said. ‘We just couldn’t stop her and it hurt us.’
And it’s this kind of resiliency that will make the Knights a team to watch once the playoffs get under way next week.
As for the Pirates, I know it’s got to be a bummer losing a couple heartbreakers in a row to Los Padres League rivals, but no one’s stayed that close with the Knights since December. We’ll see if Morro Bay can keep up the competitive play on Friday when it closes out the regular season with a nonleague game against a very tough Mission Prep squad.
-- Austin Knoblauch
