Blanchet Eases To Repeat Of Crown

AA girls

A rematch was just another mismatch as defending champion Blanchet beat Sea-King District rival Kennedy 60-29 Saturday for the girls State AA high school basketball championship at the Tacoma Dome.

Forward Nadia Morgan scored 19 points and center Holly Millard added 17 for the Braves (28-1) in the most lopsided title game in the tournament’s 19-year history. The old mark was set by Lakeside, 75-49 over Meadowdale in 1994.

Blanchet’s lone loss in its last 49 games was a 70-50 defeat against Chief Sealth in the district title game a week earlier. Reserve Porsche Austin scored seven for the sixth-ranked Lancers (24-6).

Blanchet 60, Kennedy 29

Kennedy 8 6 5 10 - 29 Blanchet 23 12 12 13 - 60

Kennedy - C.Chase 5, Quitiquit 4, Chidsey 2, Perkins 3, Ka 6, Heffron 0, Austin 7, Avakian 0, L.Chase 0, Johnson 0, McDowell 2, Aurelio 0.

Blanchet - Pagon 8, Sifferman 0, Zampera 13, Morgan 19, Millard 17, Heathcote 0, Miller 0, Delaunay 0, Cunningham 0, Madigan 3.

Monroe 50, Mount Si 42

Kristen Stringer scored 13 as the Bearcats (21-6) beat the Wildcats (22-7) in the game for third and sixth places.

Monroe 7 15 15 13 - 50 Mount Si 10 8 7 17 - 42

Monroe - Kirk 9, Carter 2, Olson 4, Schultz 8, Stringer 13, Edelbrock 0, Kloeck 0, Andrist 0, Elmgren 4, Skillen 3, Keating 7, Erickson 0.

Mount Si - Ewing 5, Lovely 11, Ratcliffe 0, Stubbert 8, Hover 13, Gross 5, Jorgensen 0.

Ellensburg 52, Prosser 48

Tami Standish had 22 points and 13 rebounds as the fifth-ranked Bulldogs (25-4) beat the fourth-ranked Mustangs (22-5) for fourth and seventh places.

Ellensburg 8 18 18 8 - 52 Prosser 8 13 13 14 - 48

Ellensburg - J.Chrismer 4, Maras 2, Standish 22, S.Canterberry 0, Detjen 12, Miller 2, Bannister 0, Wippel 0, Oltman 10.

Prosser - Seymour 2, Reade 19, Collins 2, Schell 0, Baddeley 16, McKeown 3, Dawsey 0, Brulotte 0, VanKlinken 1, Walker 5.

Chief Sealth 68, White River 53

Sophomore Sheila Lambert scored 34 to lift the third-ranked Seahawks (21-4) over the Hornets (20-8) in the game for fifth and eighth places.

Renae Ross scored 25 for White River. Ross finished with a tourney record four-game total of 98 points, three more than Jessica Schutt of Sunnyside in 1991.

Chief Sealth 14 15 20 19 - 68 White River 13 18 9 13 - 53

Chief Sealth - Ortega 2, Siatunuu 14, Keni 7, Talamaivao 5, Lambert 34, Foss 0, Clinton 2, Meyers 4, Chaffen 0, Ellison 0.

White River - Ruley 0, R.Ross 25, M.Ross 5, Anderson 7, Ray 13, Crain 2, Norsworthy 1, J.Johnson 0, A.Johnson 0, Hiam 0, Meske 0.