CENTURY LEAGUE GIRLS’ BASKETBALL : Foothill Survives a Cold Night

It is not a good sign when one team’s field goal percentage begins with .0 and the other team’s begins with .1.

But that’s the way Foothill High School and Santa Ana Valley shot Tuesday night in the first half of Foothill’s 35-32 victory in a Century League girls’ basketball game.

Two teams combined to make 20 of 104 field goal attempts. Santa Ana Valley shot 17.5% (10 of 57) and Foothill managed 21.2% (10-47).

“I don’t know what (the problem) was. I wish I knew. I guess both teams were just asleep,” Santa Ana Valley Coach Beth Lovett said.

The victory moves Foothill (9-8 overall and 4-0 in league) into sole possession of first place in the league. Santa Ana Valley is 8-7 and 3-1.

“We’re not a good shooting team to start with,” Foothill Coach Sheila Adams said, “but you’d expect to shoot better than we did.”

Santa Ana Valley was 2 of 24 (8 percent) at the half and Foothill was 4 of 24 (16 percent). By quarters: Santa Ana Valley was 1-14, 1-10, 3-18 and 5-15. Foothill was 1-7, 3-17, 3- 15 and 3-8.

“Defensively I thought we did a good job,” Adams said. “Offensively we didn’t execute like we wanted to. We weren’t concentrating. We have a habit of doing that.

“But at the times they needed to (execute), they did,” she said.

One example was center Nancy Russell, who was Foothill’s leading scorer with nine points, passing to forward Amy Steinle, who scored to put Foothill on top, 33-25, with 1:10 remaining.

Guard Nilda Valdez led the Falcons in scoring with 11 points. Forward Brenda Robinson had 15 rebounds, but was 0 of 15 from the floor with no points.

Villa Park 46, El Modena 42--Center Evonne Caouette scored 13 points and added 12 rebounds to lead host Villa Park (3-8, 2-2). Jeanette Yahiro scored 10 points including making four free throws down the stretch to help Villa Park. El Modena led, 36-32, after three quarters before Villa Park rallied. El Modena is 5-8, 1-3.