ANTHONY MORI • Elko Daily Free Press
Lowry’s Miranda Draper, Savannah Stoker, Autum Sanchez and Bryce Brinkerhoff enjoy a laugh on the bench during Thursday’s game in Spring Creek.
You can’t blame the Lowry High School girls basketball team if they were a little ticked off, as they continued its five-game road trip in Elko County.
The back-to-back state championships, have lost just three league games in the last 2.5 years and are 69-12 overall in that time.
Those three losses are all to the same team — Fernley.
In the latest meeting, the Lady Bucks held a double-digit lead in the first quarter, before the Vaqueros rallied to win 66-52.
Lowry returned to the floor last week and took out it frustrations on Spring Creek with a 57-18 win on Thursday and a 63-28 victory over Elko on Saturday.
The Lady Bucks clinched a playoff berth and improved to 16-5 overall and 6-1 in the Northern 3A East.
ANTHONY MORI • Elko Daily Free Press
Lowry’s Audry Mason passes the ball to a teammate during Thursday win in Spring Creek.
Lowry 57, Spring Creek 18
Spring Creek took the brunt of the Lowry wrath on Thursday night, as the Lady Bucks jumped out to a 30-2 lead in the first quarter.
Lowry put it on cruise control form there, with a running clock midway through the second quarter.
Junior Britain Backus continued her scoring tear, outscoring the Spartans by three points, with 21 to go with five steals, one block, one assist and one rebound.
Senior Savannah Stoker surpassed the Spring Creek total with 20 points, three steals, three assists and three rebounds.
Sophomore Audry Mason netted six points, Natalee Formby had three points and a steal and Maura Braatz, Bryce Brinkerhoff and Cambria Tisue each scored two points.
Brinkerhoff added three steals, two assists and two rebounds. Khlloe Shorey scored one point to go with five rebounds and two steals.
Lowry 63, Elko 28
Lowry traveled back to eastern Nevada on Saturday afternoon and had no problems with Elko.
The Lady Bucks built a double-digit lead in the opening eight minutes of play and used a 17-2 run in the second quarter to hold a 36-9 advantage at halftime. The lead grew to 53-17 after three quarters.
Backus knocked down three 3-pointers and finished with 24 points.
She is nearing the 1,000-point total for her Lowry career. Stoker added 20 points and now sits at 1,807 career-points.
That is the third most in 3A history and 14th in state history.
Mason knocked down a 3-pointer and finished with seven points, Shorey added six, Brinkerhoff three, Tisue two and Formby one.
Lowry wraps up its five-game road trip on Friday at Churchill County with a 6 p.m. tip.
A win over the Greenwave will clinch a first-round playoff game for the Lady Bucks in the Northern 3A Regional Tournament.