West Lafayette falls to Northwestern in home opener

The Red Devils suffer their first loss of the season.

While harrison and mccutcheon will remain idle for the next couple of weeks..

The west lafayette girls basketball program has kicked its season off..

Jane schott's red devils welcoming defending class 4a state runner-up northwestern to berberian gymnasium..

Kennedy martin and west lafayette looking to make it three straight wins to open the new season ..

More on martin in a moment ..

Home opener for the red devils ..

Fans and officials masking up ..

First quarter action ..

Ellie boyer finds mckenna layden on the backdoor cut ..

The sophomore finishes with the layup ..

Layden's older sister madison is a freshman at purdue ..

Northwestern led 21-7 after one ..

Schott's squad trying to regroup ..

Martin left alone ..

She makes the tigers pay ..

Now off the inbounds ..

Martin buries another three-ball ..

The sophomore is cooking..

A couple possessions later ..

Martin again from behind the arc.

She had 13 points ..

But r-d-p still trails by 10 ..

Final seconds of the first half ..

Boyer weaving her way through the red devils' defense ..

She banks it home ..

Northwestern tops west lafayette 61-47.

A simple, yet familiar story line for the purdue