A Soaring Display

River Ridge reverses Prosser charge to secure girls championship ||

YAKIMA, Wash. — With 6:20 left in the third quarter Saturday night, the Prosser Mustangs were in full gallop.

They had scored the first six points of the second half to complete a 13-point comeback and tie the game at 28. They seemingly had top-ranked River Ridge on its heels, their large and loud contingent of fans on its feet and the ever-precious commodity called momentum on their side.

But then the Hawks changed everything.

 

Scoring 13 unanswered points on six shots without a miss, River Ridge rode its abrupt reversal to a 57-46 victory and the Class 2A state girls championship in the SunDome.

The win ended a spirited run by the underdog Mustangs, who came in with a No. 7 state ranking and, by most accounts, second billing to the Hawks, West Valley and Archbishop Murphy.

But still they left with the No. 2 trophy in the school’s first title-game appearance since 1997.

“It was phenomenal,” an emotional coach Mark Little said after a lengthy locker-room meeting with his players. “I can’t even begin to describe … what these girls have done this year is remarkable. They got better every single game.”

River Ridge, meanwhile, finished 26-1 and celebrated its third title in four seasons, and second-year coach Tom Kelly said the decisive burst was not an aberration.

“These girls can do that,” he said. “They can just turn it on. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Jennifer Cole, a 6-foot junior who scored a team-high 16 points and was voted the tournament’s MVP, got the first two baskets of the River Ridge run. She would add another bucket to the spree, which was capped by Monteaka Norwood’s 3-0 pointer.

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But the Hawks’ heroics would not have been needed had it not been for a nails-tough Prosser squad that finished 22-4, and was keyed by a 20-point, nine-rebound, three-steal night from 5-8 junior Tayshia Hunt.

After Rachel Anderson, who with Kelli Wilson were the only two seniors on the Mustangs’ roster, scored inside to start the third quarter, Tamara Jones converted a three-point play and Hunt maneuvered inside for yet another hoop.

Tie game.

But River Ridge, which had struggled initially with Prosser’s switch from a man-to-man defense to a 2-3 zone, responded swiftly and decisively.

Up 43-32 at quarter’s end, the Hawks increased the margin to 47-32 early in the fourth.

The Mustangs battled back, making it a two-possession game at 50-44 when Anderson rebounded Hunt’s free throw miss and scored at 1:55.

A slashing layup by Jasmine McDonald, who had 11 points along with Samira McDonald, and two free throws by Kelsey Russell, younger sister of Central Washington standout Sophie Russell, sealed it.

Jones a first-team, all-tournament selection, totaled 13 points and seven rebounds despite the Hawks’ suffocating interior defense. Hunt was named to the second team.

“This (game) doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story,” Little said. “These girls have grown so much as people, and the way they treat each other is so meaningful to the bigger picture.”

Hawks’ Options Tough to Beat

YAKIMA, Wash. — This target was moving and quick and well-disguised — difficult to isolate and, ultimately, too tough to beat on this night.

Prosser’s girls, so good this week at breaking down boulders, couldn’t place the chisel long enough to crack top-ranked River Ridge in Saturday’s Class 2A state championship game.

 

Having broken down one scoring star after another to power their way into the title game, the upstart Mustangs encountered a Hawks’ crew with no stars and that made a big difference in the 57-46 outcome.

Tournament MVP Jennifer Cole had 16 points in the finale, but the four other starters had eight points or more.

“That’s been such a big help all season long and especially here,” Cole said. “Everybody put in their points and that makes us hard to defend.”

River Ridge coach Tom Kelly insisted that balance wasn’t just a key, it was the whole lock, stock and barrel.

“Look at the individual tournament stats — we weren’t in the top five in anything,” he said. “Teams just can’t key on one or two players and that’s what our whole season was about.”

The Hawks were fortunate to have that balance because otherwise the Mustangs could well have snared the big prize. Locking in and shutting down an opponent’s main weapon was perhaps Prosser’s main weapon this week.

And the list of victims grew daily.

On opening day it was Kingston’s Sophia Baetz, a 20-points-a-game guard who went 1-for-12 for two points. The next night she had 23.

In the quarterfinals, it was Elma’s four-year standout and Western Washington recruit Katie Colard, who was near her average with 13 points but got there with 3-for-19 shooting.

Then came the big showdown against West Valley in the semifinals. Eager for some payback for a trophy loss to the Eagles last year, the ‘Stangs got that payback in large part because of the defensive job on Hannah Love, an 18-point forward who made 2 of 12 shots and finished with five points.

That’s 56 points of scoring punch held to nearly a third of that.

But the trouble that River Ridge presented was that the trouble came from all directions.

When the Hawks jumped out to a 10-2 lead, the five field goals came from each of the five starters.

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“We got better with each game here, but River Ridge shot a little better than we expected,” said Prosser coach Mark Little, who never takes credit for Prosser’s successes and always takes the blame for the Mustangs’ rare stumbles. “This stings, but what a phenomenal team. They grew so much together.”

The other key to Prosser’s march through the state bracket was its rebounding, an advantage the hard-working Mustangs earned and won every night — 40-32 vs. Kingston, 41-30 vs. Elma, 43-33 vs. West Valley and 42-39 vs. River Ridge.

And first-team all-tournament pick Tamara Jones averaged 19 points this week, bringing her three-year state total to 220 points. Should the Mustangs return next year — and with only two seniors that appears highly possible — Jones would certainly overtake the tournament record of 235 career points set by Blaine’s Jessica Summers in 2004.

But on this day it was River Ridge, which secures the program’s third state title in four years — and under three different coaches to boot. With two starters held over from the ‘08 team that clipped Ellensburg 43-42 in the state final, the Hawks are in the full throws of a juggernaut run.

“We could tell Prosser was going to be tough,” Cole said. “We had a great start and they came back hard. But we’ve got a lot of experience and that balance. That was the difference.”

Ellensburg Goes Fourth

Bulldogs rally from early 25-8 deficit to finish with a victory ||

YAKIMA, Wash. — For a quarter and a half Saturday afternoon, Ellensburg’s girls turned themselves into some freak form of anti-matter.

They weren’t hitting shots, they weren’t clamping down on defense and — most baffling of all in this weird world of opposite identities — they were simply getting outworked.

It was a nasty start to the trophy game for fourth and seventh place in the Class 2A state tournament, and one Pullman took full advantage of while racing out to a 25-8 lead.

“I saw that score — 25-8 — and it was like, girls, we have got to get our stuff together,” said senior Kim Kelly. “We can play so much better than this and everybody knew it.”

So everybody did it.

Kelly hit a 3-pointer. Deaira Gordon hit another. Shannon Bland dove for a steal, and her sister Andrea attacked the lane for a basket. And before the first half was over the Bulldog express was back on the tracks.

With Kelly’s 16 points leading a balanced comeback, Ellensburg caught Pullman late in the third period and pushed on for a 62-58 victory that was sealed with Andrea Bland’s two free throws with 16 seconds left.

“That was a little scary,” said Gordon, a four-year starter and one of six seniors on the team. “But we knew if we stuck together we’d be all right, and everybody started making plays. By halftime we had it under 10 and we had the momentum back.”

Gordon’s 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter put Ellensburg up 44-42, and the Bulldogs made a big 9-0 charge for a 57-48 lead with four minutes left. That run would have settled it if not for the constant threat of Pullman’s towering Shelby Cheslek.

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The 6-foot-5 junior made 9 of 17 shots, scored 26 points and had eight rebounds and three blocks. She scored nine of those points in the final period and helped give the Greyhounds a chance.

When Katie Guettinger canned a 3-pointer with 40 seconds left to trim the margin to 60-58 and Danielle Hodge stole the inbound pass under the basket, a chance grew into a real shot.

But Hodge missed her attempt at tying the game, then fouled Bailey Carlson — another hustling senior — on the rebound.

“This was just huge for the seniors. What more can you ask than an effort like that?,” said Ellensburg coach Craig Faire, whose team secured the program’s third top-four trophy since 2006. “We got down big to a good team but turned it around — what a credit to these kids. To win on the last day was perfect for these kids, especially the seniors.”

Kelly, who finished 7-for-10 from the field, was the first to answer Pullman’s 25-8 lead with the first of two 3-pointers in the second quarter that helped bring the Bulldogs within 31-24 at the break.

“We had trouble getting our offense going, but we’ve come back before and always been a second-half team,” Kelly said. “We got our shots to start falling, and Shannon got us going on defense. She was an animal.”

Shannon and Andrea Bland combined for 24 points, nine rebounds, nine steals and eight assists. Gordon scored Ellensburg’s first nine points of the third quarter to keep the comeback going.

“We all just started working harder,” said Gordon, whose 15 points completed her career total at 1,208. “We really wanted to go out playing well in our last game.”

With the program’s fifth consecutive state trophy and sixth total under Faire, the Bulldogs finished 21-7.

“It started on the defensive end, and that comes from working hard,” Faire said. “These kids can really go after it when they set their minds to it. They won this with their heart and energy.”

Red Devils Rally, But Can’t Line Up Victory

Missed free throws prove costly for East Valley, which takes eighth place ||

YAKIMA, Wash. — In the end, the difference between a fifth-place trophy and the one that goes to the eighth-place team wasn’t much. For the East Valley Red Devils, who came away with the latter, it ultimately came do down to something that’s supposed to be free.

But anybody who has ever played basketball in the nail-biting intensity of a state tournament knows a free throw is anything but.

The sixth-ranked Red Devils fell 46-41 to No. 4 Archbishop Murphy in Saturday’s Class 2A fifth-place game when, after slicing a 30-17 second-half deficit to seven points late in the third quarter, they missed seven straight free throws (and eight of nine), one of them the front end of a one-and-one situation.

It wasn’t that the foul-line drought dug East Valley into a deep hole; it didn’t, primarily because the Red Devils were holding their own at the other end. The missed free throws simply removed any chance they had of eating enough into that lead.

“If we hit some free throws,” East Valley coach Robi Raab said, “that allows us to close the gap a little bit, apply some pressure on them and, at the same time, maybe put a little more hop in our step, boost our confidence a little bit.”

Instead, the shots didn’t fall, and the Bulldogs simply remained a few steps behind.

“We kind of go off and on with our free throws,” said senior guard Mary Orthmann, who led East Valley (20-6) with 12 points. “Some days we’re so good, and some days we’re not just not hitting.”

Still, though, with Annie Martinez picking up 10 points and Kaylah Gonzales coming up with five steals, the Red Devils managed to stay within striking distance.

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But they simply couldn’t match up with the Wildcats’ 1-2 inside punch of 6-foot-2 Savannah Fletcher and 6-1 Megan Carlson, who combined for 17 rebounds in helping ATM (for Archbishop Thomas Murphy) grab a 42-31 advantage on the boards. Fletcher also scored 11 points, joining guards Nickole Bartholomew (11 points) and Shelby Lynn (10) in double figures for ATM (24-3).

Raab emptied his bench with 1:21 remaining and his team trailing 45-37, and a half-minute later — with the score still the same — Archbishop Murphy coach John Barhanovich did the same. Things got interesting when, led by Mikaela Zimmer, the Red Devil reserves cut the lead to four points. But Raab never considered reinserting his starters into the game, and neither did his counterpart.

“You don’t do that,” Raab said. “Those (reserve) kids have earned it; they’ve probably earned more than that. For that minute and a half, those kids got to get that real state-tournament experience, to feel what it’s like playing at this level. Those kids have worked very hard, and they’re our future.”

As for the graduating seniors who are now the Red Devils’ past — Magaly Carrillo, Gonzales, Martinez and Orthmann — they leave knowing they’ve put more hardware into East Valley’s trophy case.

“Nobody really believed in us from the beginning,” Orthmann said. “That was pretty much the whole theme for the season, to prove people wrong and keep on pushing and try to make it to Saturday at the state tournament. Whenever we were lagging in drills, Coach would say to us, ‘Is that what you’re going to do when you get to state? When you’re tired and you’ve got nothing left in your legs?’ You have to push through it. You have to keep working.

“That’s what we did.”

Greyhounds Can’t Find Their Mark

Grandview finishes eighth ||

YAKIMA, Wash. — It started less than ominously with an errant 3-pointer by Tony Vela.

For Grandview, that’s bound to happen now and again. The Greyhounds shoot a lot of 3-pointers, and the majority of those are going to miss the mark.

But then the next five Grandview shots, all of them 2-point attempts, found rim but not net. Then a couple of 3-pointers went wide. And the next four shots after that missed the target.

Five minutes and 50 seconds and, for the Greyhounds, there was nothing to show for it. Mount Baker, the Greyhounds’ opponent in Saturday’s fifth/eighth-place game, made excellent use of that time with 12 unanswered points, and the Mounties were well on their way to their 62-55 triumph.

“They weren’t bad shots. They just weren’t going in,” Grandview coach Roy Garcia said. “Tony (Vela) had some great looks, and his mechanics were fine. The shots just were not falling in.”

“Nothing was falling,” Vela said. “I felt really confident coming into this game. I thought for sure we were going to knock down a lot of shots, but they just weren’t falling.”

With their outside game simply not producing, the Greyhounds turned to a more aggressive, attacking style, and Vela ultimately accrued most of his team-high 17 points on drives through the lane.

“I don’t know why our shots weren’t falling,” sighed junior guard Daniel Nielsen, a normally deadeye marksman from long distance whose 15 points included three 3-pointers but also six misses from that range. “So we tried to go at them more, attack the basket, bang the boards to get some rebounds and hopefully draw some fouls, but …”

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… but that didn’t work either. Grandview, which finished with an 18-10 record and the eighth-place trophy, simply couldn’t overcome that first-quarter drought. Although they closed to within 50-49 with 2:49 remaining on an NBA-distance trey by Nielsen, the Mounties responded with a driving layup by guard Caleb Buchanan and a layup by center Zach Stalin, then salted the game away at the foul line.

“You gotta give credit to (the Mounties), they came out ready to play and we came out a little sluggish,” said Grandview junior guard Christian Schrank. “I think we were all just worn down after coming out here and playing hard for four days. We’re small and we know that, and it’s tough. But we play with as much heart as anybody here.”

The height differential, though, was profound.

For much of the game the Greyhounds, with their starting lineup averaging 5-foot-11, were giving up an average of three inches per man. It cost them dearly in the rebounding battle, with 6-foot-6 Spencer Backstrom and the 6-5 Stalin combining for 21 rebounds to lead Mount Baker (19-9) to a dominating 54-30 advantage on the boards. The pair also combined for 31 points, with Stalin going 6-for-11 in the lane and spending much of the game at the foul line to rack up a game-high 19 points.

“Those guys were definitely a lot bigger than us, that’s for sure,” Vela said. “But we fought hard. We just couldn’t quite get it done.”

But with the team losing only two seniors, Derek Newhouse and Jericho Ramos, Grandview can look forward to the possibility of improving on this year’s trophy run.

“This team plays with so much heart,” Schrank said. “We just came up a couple of inches short.”

Figuratively and literally.

One Last Dollop of Dribblies

OK, we know you’ve been sitting at home all week, catching up on those Oscar-nominated movies you missed last year instead of heading out to the SunDome for this week’s Class 2A tournament. So we here at the Academy of Motion Offense, Hearts and Sidelines — being all about public service — would like to provide your mental DVR with some of the feature-film moments you missed.

For your eternal edification, we present the 2010 Class 2A Dribblies. The envelopes, please …

BRAVEHEART: To the MOUNT BAKER boys, who opened their season 1-6, had to win their final six games of the regular season just to make it into the district tournament, won their only loser-goes-home district game and then, facing a 10-point deficit midway through the third quarter of their Thursday loser-out game against Hockinson, somehow came back to win. Not good enough? On Friday, they came from 13 down in yet another loser-out game to eliminate Clarkston and ultimately captured the fifth-place trophy.

A TOUCH OF CLASS: To CARMEN JENKINS and the rest of the BLACK HILLS girls. After their Thursday loser-out game, when officials presented Jenkins with the sportsmanship medal traditionally given to one member of each team after every game, she did something her team had two hours earlier unanimously voted to do — she promptly gave the medal to Julie Hata, the young woman who for years has volunteered to sweep the court and carry water to the referees during timeouts. Julie, obviously touched by the gesture, continued to wear the medal for the rest of the tournament. At halftime of Saturday’s fourth-place girls game, the referees themselves had a special ceremony at midcourt to acknowledge Julie’s tireless efforts.

THE COMEBACK: To the KINGSTON girls, who found themselves 20 points down in a loser-out game to a much taller and far more talented Squalicum team. In a situation that all too often leads to desultory, lay-down-and-die slopfests, the Buccaneers played with the kind of emotion and fire often reserved for winners-bracket games or even championship contests and actually cut the Storm’s lead to four points in the final minute. Even the jaded, old-troll-sportswriter Academy was inspired.

THE COMEBACK (THE SEQUEL): And in this rare case, the sequel was better than the original. For that matter, it would be come up with a better come-from-behind-to-ahead plot than ELLENSBURG’s girls pulled off on Saturday and have it still be believable, considering that the Bulldogs trailed Pullman 25-8 … and won. The Academy’s official response: Holy moly.

LOVE STORY: To AUDREY ARNESON, who recruited the entire BURLINGTON-EDISON student rooting section to help her make her Sadie Hawkins-worthy marriage proposal to John Fasso, who was on the air webcasting the Tiger boys’ semifinal against Lynden for Internet broadcasting company WinNW.com. Seemingly the only person not in the know was Fasso, whose color analyst, Fred Lee, insisted that he turn around, saying “Somebody wants to say something to you.”

Fasso was in the middle of a webcast and didn’t want to turn around. When he finally did, the student section shouted out en masse, per Arneson’s plan, “Will you marry me?” Fasso didn’t understand it, and turned back around to continue his webcast. Lee convinced him to turn around again, and this time he saw Arneson, whom he’d been dating for five years, and was able make it out when the student section shouted out the question again. He said yes, the crowd went wild and Fasso, clearly flustered and emotional, went to a commercial.

DO THE RIGHT THING: To the CLARKSTON boys who, when they had a two-on-nobody break in the final 10 seconds of their consolation-bracket victory over Steilacoom in a game they already had won, didn’t go in for some kind of silly, showboat dunk attempt or, for that matter, even another basket. It wasn’t needed, and they chose not to pile on. Instead, TREY SOBOTTA and DUSTIN McCONNELL both cut away, simply dribbling out the final seconds.

BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY: Or quickly, as is the case with ELLENSBURG’s drum corps, which did a riveting, almost mesmerizing rhythmic routine — on “drums” that look suspiciously like trash cans — at halftime of each Bulldog game for the first three days. Great stuff. Anybody who went to the concessions stand or the restroom and missed it was really missing out. If you don’t believe us here at the Academy, go to Tourneytown.com and see the video for yourself.

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER: To SQUALICUM senior guard DEREK DICKERSON, whose deluge of eight 3-pointers in the Storm’s highly anticipated semifinal against Ephrata helped turn the game into a one-sided affair. Three of  his treys came during an unbelievable string of 27 straight Squalicum points that erased an early 6-2 Tiger lead, turned the game into a 29-6 laugher and made Dickerson the real shining light of the tournament. Derek’s dad, Tim, was a star at Bellingham High who never got to win a state championship but went on to set the 3-point record at Western Washington University. Well, Dad, your kid has one-upped you.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: To MEL WALKER, a longtime bus driver in the PROSSER district and a retired police chief who celebrated his 86th birthday with some of his biggest fans — the Mustang girls basketball team, of which he in turn has been as one of their biggest fans. He has followed faithfully the Mustangs for years, even traveling to road games to root them on. After Prosser’s tremendous semifinal victory over unbeaten West Valley, Mustangs coach Mark Little reminded his players that celebrating their own triumph was no more important than celebrating the people who matter to them — he invited Walker into the locker room, where the players sweetly serenaded him with a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday,” complete with happy hugs.

ALL THE RIGHT MOVES: To EAST VALLEY coach ROBI RAAB and ARCHBISHOP MURPHY coach JOHN BARHANOVICH, who had already pulled their starters with ATM’s lead at eight in Saturday’s fifth-place game and — when the Red Devils cut the lead back to four in the final 20 seconds — both left their reserves in the game. Those coaches rightly decided the game was going to be won or lost by those senior reserves who had earned it with years of hard work on the practice floor and the younger players who will be the future of both programs.

FIVE-STAR FINAL: To the girls from PROSSER and RIVER RIDGE, the class of a very strong girls’ field that made Saturday’s 9 p.m. championship game well worth the wait. Prosser’s road to the finale was by far the toughest, with quarterfinal and semifinal victories over No. 3 Elma and No. 2 West Valley. And what did that get the Mustangs? A date with none other than the No. 1 Hawks. Talk about a tough row to hoe.

THE RIGHT STUFF: To the SQUALICUM boys, whose arsenal of weapons — crisp passing, tremendous ballhandling, an unrelenting fast break and the best lineup of pure shooters in the state — made them not only by far the best team in the Class 2A boys ranks, but an absolute pleasure to watch for anybody who loves basketball being played the right way. Man, those guys were good.

Storm’s repeat complete

Squalicum tops B-E behind Greene’s 24 ||

YAKIMA, Wash. — Squalicum’s victory Saturday could’ve been met with a no-kidding indifference, but this was no rubber-stamp coronation for the Class 2A pre-tournament favorites.

Needing to lean on every ounce of experience, and a (nearly) perfect Storm player, Squalicum managed to hold off a determined Burlington-Edison squad, winning 67-63 Saturday night in the SunDome.

“Nothing beats this feeling,” said senior Storm guard Derek Dickerson, the tournament MVP. “This is the way the seniors wanted to go out.”

Dickerson certainly left his mark, scoring nine of his 11 points in the second half, but it was senior forward Michael Green who had the biggest say in this victory.

The 6-foot-5 Green made 10 of 11 shots en route to a team-best 24 points. He scored 11 points in a 24-14 surge spanning the third and fourth quarters that allowed Squalicum to shake free from a 38-all tie.

“He’s a big, strong kid and a good finisher,” Burlington-Edison coach Rick Skeen said of Green, who also grabbed a game-best 11 rebounds.

Squalicum (26-1) becomes the first 2A team to win back-to-back state championships since Luke Ridnour’s Blaine teams in 1999 and 2000, although B-E could’ve just as easily been the team holding up the trophy.

“The kids fought hard and executed the game plan,” said Skeen, whose team lost in the title game for the third straight season and second straight time to Squalicum.

What the Tigers (22-5) did Saturday was all the more impressive considering they suffered a 27-point loss to the Storm just one week ago.

Evan Coulter led the way with 25 points and Colin Stewart added 16, but it was one dry spell early in the fourth that doomed B-E.

Down 49-47 after a Coulter free throw 34 seconds into the final period, the Tigers missed their next seven shots over a 4-minute span as Squalicum pushed the lead to 56-47.

“We’ve always had confidence in our offense,” Green said, “but when we get stops, were a dangerous team.”

The Tigers made one last run, getting within 62-59 with 22.9 seconds left, but the Storm made 5 of 6 free throws from there to close it out.

“Our motto this year was ‘Play hard and play as one,’” Dickerson said. “We stayed together and kept our poise.”

Filliol repeats as Coke champ

YAKIMA, Wash. — West Valley’s Alexis Filliol repeated her No. 1 singles title and Seattle Prep’s boys and Mercer Island’s girls claimed the team titles in Saturday’s Coke Classic prep tennis tournament.

Filliol cruised through three straight-set wins. Davis’ Megumi DeMond won No. 3 singles to help the Pirates place fourth as the highest local team.

West Valley’s boys finished second behind Seattle Prep by two points. Mitchell Anderson was the No. 3 singles winner for the Rams.

BOYS

Team scores: Seattle Prep 48, West Valley 46, Gonzaga Prep 40, Eastmont 33, Davis 31, Hanford 30, Eisenhower 24, East Valley 18.

No. 1 singles — Championship: Luke Thompson (H) d. Taylor Hunt (SP), 7-5, 6-2. Third: Aaron Farmer (WV) d. Nathan Mount (Ike) 6-1, 6-1.

No. 2 singles — Championship: Alex Marcinkowski (GP) d. Cooper Anderson (WV), 6-2, 6-3. Third: Andrew Lea (Han) d. Sam Blattner (SP), 6-0, 6-4.

No. 3 singles — Championship: Mitchell Anderson (WV) d. Alex Hattamer (GP), 6-2, 6-2. Third: Andre Gurule (Ike) d. Kyle Ketchum (Dav), 3-6, 6-3, 10-5.

No. 1 doubles — Championship: Jason Bediones-Andrew La Cava (SP) d. William Coleman-Martin Roger-Reyes (Dav), 6-0, 6-0. Third: Quinton Dicken-Kevin Sands (Han) d. Justin Canada-Dillon Delabarre (Ea), 7-6, 6-2.

No. 2 doubles — Championship: Nick Phillips-Briton Richardson (SP) d. Tanner Briggs-Logan Patterson (Ike), 6-3, 6-2. Third: Josh Bricel-Kyle Suave (WV) d. Liam Johnston-Chris Lopaze (Dav), 6-3, 6-1.

No. 3 doubles — Championship: Jack Santucci-Pinkoske (SP) d. Ryan Bailey-Dilbar Chokar (EV), 6-2, 6-2. Third: Matt Baker-Lewis (GP) d. Mike Burchett-Evan Winter (Ea), 6-2, 6-3.

GIRLS

Team scores: Mercer Island 52, Gonzaga Prep 48, Wenatchee 40, Davis 36, West Valley 33, Mountain View 31, Eisenhower 15, Eastmont 15.

No. 1 singles — Championship: Alexis Filliol (WV) d. Anna Lambert (GP) 6-0, 6-1. Third: Amy Scheumann (Wen) d. Julia Zook (MI) 7-5, 6-0.

No. 2 singles — Championship: Lizzie Reiner (GP) d. Ellie Rudee (MI) 6-7 (5-7) 6-2, 6-0. Third: Karina Garcia (Mt.V) d. Erica DeMond (D) by forfiet.

No. 3 singles — Championship: Megumi DeMond (D) d. Mary Carpenter (GP) 3-6, 6-2, 7-5. Third: Carissa Ham (MI) d. Alexa Glomb (Wen) 6-0, 6-0.

No. 1 doubles — Championship: Chelsea Bailey-Julia Schubach (MI) d. Julie Christen-Chaeran Kim (Mt.V) 6-2, 6-1. Third: Taylor Bobovsky-Becca Sherman (WV) d. Amelie Baecker-Emily Thies (GP) 6-3, 5-7, 10-7.

No. 2 doubles — Championship: Valerie Gage-Sophia Gage (MI) d. Megan Tedrow-Heather Yancey (Wen) 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), 10-4. Third: Jenna Grillo-Shannon Lavaran (Mt.V) d. Brooke Lybeck-Lindsey Smith (D) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.

No. 3 doubles — Championship: Erica Baska-Saloni Parikh (MI) d. Mary Lowe-Emilie Poirier (Wen) 6-4, 6-1. Third: Kristina Carpenter-Alex Gruber (GP) d. Alexa Farley-Jessica Rodriguez (D) 6-0, 6-0.

3/14/10 Prep Baseball Roundup

YAKIMA, Wash. — Gil Plath had two hits, two RBI and scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as West Valley defeated East Valley 5-3 in a non-league baseball game Saturday at East Valley.

Plath, who was 2-for-4 with a double, stole second base with two outs in the eighth and scored on Konnor Wyckoff’s single. An error scored Wyckoff with an insurance run.

Wyckoff also pitched four innings of relief, giving up one hit while striking out eight

Daniel Taylor went 2-for-2 with an RBI, and Ryan Schoonover added an RBI for East Valley in the season opener for both teams.

West Valley    003    000    02    —    5    5    1
East Valley      120    000    00    —    3    5    3

Hinton, Wyckoff (4) and Dusin; Cameron, Janis (4), Davido (7), Schoonover (7) and Janis, Cruse (4).
Highlights: Gil Plath (WV) 2-4, 2b, 2 RBI; Wyckoff (WV) RBI, 8 K’s; Lucas Hinton (WV) 6 K’s; Daniel Taylor (EV) 2-2, RBI; Ryan Schoonover (EV) RBI.

SELAH 11, GRANITE FALLS 1: At Selah, Alex Fickes had a two-run double in the fifth inning, Kurt Lindemann had a two-run triple in the fourth inning, and Allen Noble went 2-for-3 with a double and a RBI to lead the Vikings over Granite Falls in a non-league game.

Granite Falls        100    00    —    1    1    4
Selah                        011    36    —    11    8    0

Major, Benson (2), Millican (4), Walls (5) and Bernard; Schmidt, K. Fickes (4) and Noble.
Highlights: Alex Fickes (S) 2-run 2b; Kurt Lindemann (S) 2-run 3b; Allen Noble (S) 2-3, 2b, RBI; Andrew Gonzalez (S) 2-3, RBI.

3/14/10 Prep Soccer Roundup

YAKIMA, Wash. — The CBBN boys soccer season opened with a thriller on Saturday as Davis prevailed over West Valley in a shootout at Davis Field.

The Pirates won the shootout 5-3, and goalkeeper Alexes Garcia made three saves overall.

West Valley goalie Kevin Madson made eight saves.

First half: No scoring.

Second half: No scoring.

Shootout — Davis: Jorge Sanchez, Rudy Sanchez, Oscar Martinez, Alexio Garcia, Johnny Mendoza. West Valley: Christian Gonzalez, Forrest Chapin, Aparicio Fischer.

Saves: Alexes Garcia (D) 3, Kevin Madson (WV) 8.

EISENHOWER 4, HANFORD 0: At Hanford, Marco Marmolejo scored a goal and assisted on another and Adrian Tinajero and Cesar Aparicio combined for four saves in the Cadets’ shutout.

First half: 1, Ike, Guillermo Silva, 31:00; 2, Ike, Jonathan Herrera (Marco Marmolejo), 34:00.

Second half: 3, Ike, Gustavo Razo (Gerardo Mendoza), 65:00; 4, Ike, Marmolejo (Silva), 78:00.

Saves: Adrian Tinajero (E) 3, Cesar Aparicio (E) 1, Kyle Stewart (H) 6.

KENNEWICK 2, SUNNYSIDE 1 (OT): At Sunnyside, Mike Chavez scored in the third minute of overtime to lead Kennewick past Sunnyside in their league-opener.

Alfredo Gomez scored Sunnyside’s lone goal on an assist from Jesus Godino in the second half to send the game into overtime.

Noe Diaz gave the Lions a 1-0 lead late in the first half.

First half: 1, Kennewick, Noe Diaz, 37:00.

Second half: 2, Sunnside, Alfredo Gomez (Jesus Godino), 72:00.

Overtime: 3, Kennewick, Mike Chavez, 83:00.

Saves: Jared Gower (K) 9; Luis Garcia (S) 4.

NON-LEAGUE

WAPATO 3, NACHES VALLEY 0: At Wapato, Jesse Chavez scored twice, seven minutes apart late in the first half, and he added an assist as Wapato won its season opener.

First half: 1, Wapato, Jesse Chavez (Jose Espinoza), 28:00; 2, Wapato, Chavez, 35:00.

Second half: 3, Wapato, Jeff Ruiz (Chavez), 79:00.

Saves: Naches Valley (goalie not reported) 9, Edgar Grimaldo (W) 1.

TOPPENISH 4, HIGHLAND 0: At Toppenish, goalkeeper Leo Fuentes stopped seven shots and Luis Alcala assisted on two second-half goals for the Wildcats.

First half: 1, Topp, Michael Rodriguez, 20:00.

Second half: 2, Topp, Faustino Teran (Luis Alcala), 50:00;  3, Topp, Abraham Martinez, 59:00; 4, Topp, Evan Zaragoza (Alcala), 69:00.

Saves: Leo Fuentes (T) 7, Highland 11.

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