Wolves, Lady Wolves Come Out Of Break With Slow Start

The Wolves and Lady Wolves emerged from the holiday break with District 2B conference losses in Malta Friday, Jan. 3.

A leak in the roof of the Wolf Point High School gym forced caused postponement of a non-conference contest with the Class A Sidney girls from Saturday, Jan. 4, until Monday, Jan. 6. The boys’ game was also postponed and was played in Sidney on Monday.

The Lady Wolves fell 7052 to the M-ettes with Malta leading at all quarter stope.

The Mustangs topped the Wolves 54-42.

“[We] had another slow start. I contribute that to some new defense I am trying to install. [We] got back to our basic defense in the second half and we were a lot better,” head coach Brent Nygard said.

Malta 70, WP 52 (girls)

Wolf Point 13 6 17 16—52 Malta 22 20 13 15—70

Malta 54, WP 42 (boys)

Wolf Point 13 6 17 16—52 Malta 11 9 18 16—54 Individual stats were not available.