Doug Drowley, seattletimes.com, December 3, 2015
Yes, it’s the first week of December.
Yes, Thursday night’s season-opening girls basketball game was just a nonleague contest between Bellevue and Todd Beamer.
The Wolverines, new and returning, had more going on than that, however.
A packed Bellevue High gymnasium watched the home team roll to a 92-58 victory over the visiting Titans, expected to be one of the premier teams in 4A come next March.
“We wanted to get revenge from last year,” “We kind of got our butts kicked.”
A year ago at Todd Beamer, the Titans did a little racing away of their own in a 64-40 season-opening win.
“This was an important rematch for us,” Bellevue coach Leah Krautter said. “The score was kind of opposite last year. We wanted to make a statement.”
Bellevue made statements all game long.
The first came from new point guard Anna Wilson — sister of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson — who transferred into Bellevue for her senior year. Wilson scored the first basket of the season for the Wolverines with 6:57 to play in the first quarter.
The 5-foot-9 guard softly banked a short shot off the glass and in, getting bumped in the process. She reacted to the Bellevue student side with a yell and a pump of her fist. Her brother jumped up and cheered the play.
After the free throw, Bellevue had its first lead, 3-2.
It wasn’t until a 13-0 run that all but ended the first quarter and staked the Wolverines to a 21-12 lead after the first eight minutes that Bellevue started to pull away.
By the half, Bellevue led it 44-25, and the lead grew to as much as 34 .
While Wilson, who had just those three in the first quarter, wound up with 15 in her first effort.
“Talent comes from how hard you work,” Krautter said. “And they are the hardest workers I’ve ever seen. It’s about chemistry. And this is the right group.”
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