Charter opens with loss at tourney

| November 11, 2011 8:15 PM

KELLOGG - Senior Courtney Jennings scored 19 points to lead the Wallace Miners past the Coeur d'Alene Charter Panthers 47-37 in the season opener for both at the Silver Valley Tournament on Thursday at Andrews Gymnasium.

Lexi Turkenburg scored a game-high 22 points and had six steals for Coeur d'Alene Charter, which faces Mullan in the consolation game Saturday at 6 p.m.

"Lexi had her work cut out for her tonight," Coeur d'Alene Charter coach Logan Grant said. "They switched to a box-and-1 in the second quarter, but she was able to get some looks and knock them down."

Kellogg beat Mullan in the early game 46-22 to advance to the championship game Saturday at 7:30.

"I thought we played really well," Grant said. "We had four girls starting with no varsity experience, but they stepped in and weren't intimidated. Wallace just beat us up and down the floor. I was proud of the way the girls stepped up tonight."

Cd'A Charter 7 11 11 9 - 37

Wallace 12 12 7 10 - 47

COEUR d'ALENE CHARTER - Turkenburg 22, Rinaldi 0, Verhaeghe 3, Haman 4, Johnson 4, Goodsen 4, Polyajr 0, Babich 0, Hathaway 0.

WALLACE - Hill 0, Woody 0, Dire 4, Jennings 19, Nelson 0, Denson 2, Browning 3, Simmons 3, Pehan 10.