The Valdez basketball teams will be having three separate trips for a basketball tournament filled weekend away from home. The Boys varsity team will be traveling back up to Delta this Thursday to compete in Dean Cummings Invitational tournament. While the boys varsity is competing in Delta, the Lady Bucs will be traveling to a separate tournament. On Thursday, instead of going to Delta the Lady Bucs will be making their way to the Nikiski Invitational. The JV boys and girls team will also be traveling to Wasilla to compete in tournament hosted by Redington High School.
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The VHS girls varsity team traveled to compete in a string of three games this past weekend. Last Thursday the Lady Bucs competed in their first game of three for the weekend, their opponent the Delta Huskies. Valdez won in emphatic fashion by a score of 60-41. They were led to victory by their upperclassmen, Bobbi Mott who scored 28 points with 7 blocks as well as tallied 17 rebounds and Tori Franciosi who scored 16 points and grabbed 7 rebounds.
On Friday, the Lady Bucs traveled to Fairbanks to face off against the Hutchison Hawks. In the beginning both teams came in with defensive mindsets, but had complications with scoring. At the end of two quarters of play the two teams were tied at 11. In the 3rd quarter the Lady Bucs had a small lead that they continued to build on going into the 4th quarter and won the game 33-20. Valdez was led by Bobbi Mott who scored 9 points and grabbed an impressive 26 rebounds over the course of the game.
The Lady Bucs played their last game of the weekend on Saturday in a rematch against the Hutchison Hawks. The Hawks outscored Valdez in the first two quarters and led at the half by 3 points. The Lady Bucs responded by holding the Hawks to single digit scoring in the final two quarters, which allowed them to jump ahead and win 37-25. Once again Mott led Valdez to victory with an impressive double-double stat line of 15 points and 15 rebounds.
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The boys varsity team finished the weekend with a 2-1 record for the first conference games of the season. The Bucs first game of their road trip was against Delta last Thursday. The 1st and 2nd quarters were even for the teams with the Huskies leading at half 21-19. In the next half the Bucs couldn’t seem to diminish the deficit and lost 66-53. Valdez was led by senior Seth Auble who scored 17 points and tallied 7 rebounds.
On Friday, the Buccaneers travelled to Fairbanks to play two games against the Hutchison Hawks. Valdez had a much better outing against the Hawks winning 60-20. The Bucs shot 59% as team for the game and had every player on their roster score. Defensively, Valdez racked up 13 steals and only allowed the Hawks to score double digits in one quarter.
On Saturday, Valdez jumped out early outscoring Hutch 16-4 in the first quarter. Little by little, the Bucs began to slowly increase deficit and eventually went on a 15-8 scoring run in the 3rd quarter. Ultimately, Valdez played consistently throughout the game and swept the Hawks winning 63-45 in their final game of the weekend. Seth Auble led the way in this game scoring 20 points on 7-9 shooting and grabbed 7 rebounds. Also contributing to the win was sophomore Bennett Hinkle who scored 18 points and helped on the defensive end tallying 5 steals for the game.
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