Grade A: Lakeside Takes 7th:
A girls
Four seasons ago, the Lakeside High School girls basketball team was winless in the Northwest Class A League.
This season it is the seventh-place team in the state.
Despite losing to Foster dogs 56-48 Saturday in the fourth- or- seventh place game at the Class A girls baketball tournament in the Tacoma Dome, the Eagles took another positive step in building a strong girls basketball tradition in Nine Mile Falls.
“We’re just taking one step at a time,” said Lakeside coach Lisa Schultz. “Each year we’re getting a little bit better. We’ll be back next year.”
Lakeside (23-5) played strong defense and forced Foster (25-2) to turn the ball over 24 times in the first three quarters. Foster protected the ball better in the final quarter to hold on for its fourth consecutive state medal.
The Eagles were 21 of 60 (35 percent) from the field, 2 of 7 in the final 4 minutes.
Foster led by as much as 10 in the third quarter but Lakeside cut the margin to 51-48 when Brianne Jolley hit a short jumper with less than two minutes left.
Lakeside, however, couldn’t score again. Foster finished on a 5-0 run.
Foster 56, Lakeside 48
Lakeside 6 14 16 12 - 48 Foster 12 18 12 14 - 56
Lakeside — Waddell 4, B. Rowse 2, B. Jolley 14, Long, Hatch 2, K. Rowse 8, Traber 5, L. Jolley 10, Guenther 3.
Foster — Burgess, Shearer, Gratzer 6, Valley, Dudek 11, Roberts, Thomas 4, Apodaca 12, Fowler 15, Balch 8, Mitchell.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
East Valley 55, Cle Elum 36
Jennifer Sharp and Pam Lay scored 14 points apiece and Jenny Frank grabbed 18 rebounds as Yakima’s undefeated No. 1-ranked East Valley (27-0) thumped No. 9 Cle Elum (22-8).
East Valley (Yakima) 6 13 11 25 55 Cle Elum 5 11 7 13 36
EAST VALLEY (55) - Heintz, Sharp 14, Lay 14, Stecker 10, Frank 11, Decclo, Sybouts 1, Seibel 3, Chauvin, Ray 2.
CLE ELUM (36) - Dahl 3, Carter 5, Fields 16, Simpson 8, Moen 4, Blackburn, Miller, Eames, Randleman, Hein.
THIRD-SIXTH PLACE
Ilwaco 52, Lynden Christian 48 Ilwaco 14 10 17 11 52 Lynden Christian 7 20 15 6 48
ILWACO (52) - Newell 14, Land 10, Je. Brown 4, Ja. Brown 8, McClintock 14, Manley, Staudenraus 2.
LYNDEN CHRISTIAN (48) - Dirksen 9, Dykstra 6, Geleynse 2, Berendsen 17, Eshuis, Hamstra 4, Holleman 5, Pecarich 5.
Eatonville 43, King’s 35 Eatonville 6 12 12 13 43 King’s 8 12 9 6 35
EATONVILLE (43) - Lucht 11, Fleshman 3, Engelker 7, Dawkins 11, Harris 7, Fuhrman, Cox 2, Geggre 2.
KING’S (35) - Sherfey 4,Huebner 5, S. Roosendaal 8, L. Roosendaal 2, Vicknair 8, Blackmer 6, Travis, Reichmann 2, Lalley.