Davis' Elizabeth Tejeda battles for a loose ball with Chelan'sKristin Millette, left, and Kim Harter, right, in the fourth quarter of Monday's game at the Tourneytown.com Shootout.   GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic

Davis coach Tim Lee likes what he sees from his young girls in spurts, and now the challenge is extending those positive moments.

The Pirates got off to a slow start against Chelan and never recovered on their way to a 58-37 loss Monday in the Tourneytown.com Shootout in the SunDome. The Goats, ranked fifth in Class 1A, opened the nonleague game with a 19-2 run that Davis struggled to chip into from there.

Poor shooting has been a bane of the Pirates (1-13 overall) all season, and Lee viewed the 23 percent (12 of 52) from the field against Chelan as one of his team’s better performances this year. The girls even managed to take the second quarter 18-11 to pull within 30-20 at the half.

Davis' Aselin Osuna drives the baseline and shoots over Chelan's Darby Jenkins in the first half Monday.   GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic

“We started settling down and executing,” Lee said. “That’s all it was, and we started getting the steals we needed to get.”

An individual scoring leader is yet to develop on this young team — there are only two seniors on the roster — and the scorer’s book reflected this against the Goats. Jazznea Elmore led the team with nine points, and Crystal Johnson and Ciarra Thorgerson both added eight each.

Many of the Davis girls still are gathering experience and finding out the type of players they will be. Fifteen Pirates saw action compared to only 10 Chelan players, and nine Davis players scored at least one point.

“Execution, it all comes down to execution,” Lee said. “We just didn’t run anything we were supposed to run in the first half.”

Chelan (10-3) pulled away behind 32 points off turnovers but struggled to dominate around the basket against the diminutive Pirates, barely taking the rebound battle 35-34. Alisha Love and Kelli Bowers scored 12 each to tie for the team-high, and Kim Harter added 10 to round out the Goats in double figures.

Davis forced 26 turnovers in the game but didn’t turn them into easy offense as well as Chelan, finishing with only 19 points off the miscues. The Pirates never managed to hold the lead as the Goats were ahead by as much as 23 with 5 minutes, 33 seconds left in the contest.