Balanced Lakeside Advances To Semis Eagles Slow Cascade Star En Route To Quarterfinal Win

Five-on-one will beat one-on-five any day.

So when the Lakeside girls basketball team was faced with stopping the most revered player on the State A level, the outcome was a no-brainer.

Lakeside High School 49, Megan Franza’s Cascade 40.

Franza accounted for 27 points and 18 rebounds. The 5-foot-10 guard put up 27 shots and hit nine. The rest of the team converted 4 of 26 shots and added 16 rebounds.

Lakeside’s balanced attack began with Nikki Petticrew’s 14 points and eight boards, and followed with Kim Wilkins’ 10 points, seven rebounds; Brianne Jolley’s nine points, nine rebounds; and Linsey Heebink’s eight points, four rebounds.

Jolley, who averages 18.6 points per game was just 4 of 14 and picked up her second foul 5 minutes into the game. The University of Washington-bound Franza was on Jolley when the Eagles had the ball. Defensively, Jolley and Petticrew shared time trying to stop Franza.

“We didn’t play a great offensive game. Part of that has to do with the fact they’re a good defensive team,” Lakeside coach Lisa Schultz said. “Cascade is the best defensive team we’ve played all year.”

The win advanced No. 2 Lakeside (24-1) into the semifinal round of the girls State A high school basketball tournament where it will meet No. 7 King’s at 7 p.m. today. The Seattle team beat No. 7 Blaine 44-31 in another quarterfinal game. Blaine was the team that upset No. 1, previously unbeaten Toledo, in the first round. With that, the Eagles’ path became easier.

“Tonight, we’re going have dinner and do a little celebrating,” Schultz said. “But I just told the kids the tournament is just starting. There are teams that are left that are very, very good teams.”

Lakeside already took care of one of the better teams - No. 5 Cascade (22-3). It was the third straight year they met at state. Lakeside holds a 2-1 edge.

Neither team shot the lights out this time around, a fact made evident by the fourth-quarter scoring: Lakeside 5, Cascade 2.

Franza missed her first six shots of the game, but tied the score at 18 when she hit her second straight 3-pointer. She also went 6 of 6 from the free-throw line, all in the first quarter.

Jolley’s turnaround jumper followed by a bucket by Wilkins in the final seconds gave Lakeside a 24-20 halftime lead.

Wilkins, a senior reserve forward, remained hot and scored seven more points in the second half. Her final basket with 4:56 remaining gave the Eagles their first double-digit lead 48-38.

“I’m shocked,” said Wilkins about her performance. “(Guard) Carrie Waddell throws great passes. All I had to do was finish.”

Cascade’s only hope was to keep feeding the ball to Franza, but she only scored one basket down the stretch.

“We were trying to get Megan to get more shots, but at the same time we needed other people to step up,” said Cascade coach Michael Lewis.

Lakeside 49, Cascade 40

Lakeside 12 12 20 5 - 49 Cascade 10 10 18 2 - 40

LAKESIDE (49) - Waddell 4, Heebink 8, Hatch 4, Jolley 9, Petticrew 14, Wilkins 10.

CASCADE (40) - B. Franza 3, O’Neill 1, Fender 7, M. Franza 27, Burgess 2.

King’s 44, Blaine 31

Junior Heather Reichmann scored 19 points and pulled down 12 rebounds and King’s (23-3) started the game with a 13-0 run en route to a quarterfinal victory over Blaine (20-4).

Blaine 4 9 12 6 - 31 King’s 15 10 12 7 - 44

BLAINE (31) - Dietzen 2, Ridnour 7, Bradbury 1, Seeley 8, Dixon 11, Kezes 2.

KING’S (44) - Blackmer 3, Riley 11, Huebner 4, Reichmann 19, Hiemstra 3, Konsmo 2, Lalley 2.

Goldendale 67, Dayton 45

Jill Pimley scored 22 points and Laura Rohrbacher 18 to lead Goldendale (24-2) to a victory over Dayton (22-3) in the quarterfinals.

Dayton 12 10 14 9 - 45 Goldendale 11 23 15 18 - 67

DAYTON (45) - Korsberg 7, Bruegman 4, Simmons 22, Alves 4, Schreck 2, Heinrich 1, Anderson 2, Compson 3.

GOLDENDALE (67) - Vaughns 5, Pimley 22, Amidon 3, Pantages 9, Rohrbacher 18, Svendsen 3, Weiss 3, Bowen 4.

Lynden Chr. 50, Seattle Chr. 37

Julie Wynstra scored 10 of her 20 points in the third quarter as the Lyncs (19-5) broke open a close game and beat the Warriors (15-10) in a loser-out game.

S. Christian 11 11 4 11 - 37 L. Christian 13 11 16 10 - 50

SEATTLE CHRISTIAN (37) - Ridgway 1, Bennett 13, Cowden 6, Summers 4, Bennett 13.

LYNDEN CHRISTIAN (50) - Hamstra 10, Bajema 12, Wynstra 20, De Boer 4, Bode 4.

Toledo 66, Connell 64

Tasha Rico’s jump shot with nine seconds left gave Toledo (23-1) a victory over Connell (17-9) in a loser-out game.

Toledo 17 16 10 23 - 66 Connell 14 19 13 18 - 64

TOLEDO (66) - Miller 13, Sellards 16, Dobosh 2, Truitt 6, Rico 19, Shannon 7, Miller 3.

CONNELL (64) - Freeman 7, Hansen 10, Ewart 10, Wood 6, Booker 10, Garcia 4, Smith 9, Davidson 8.

LaCenter 45, Charles Wright 40

Michelle Phillips scored 16 and LaCenter (20-6) outscored Charles Wright 7-1 down the stretch in a loser-out game.

Charles Wright (17-7) took a 39-38 lead on a 3-pointer by Jamie Guenthoer with 2:49 left, but the Tarriers missed their last five field-goal tries.

Phillips also pulled down seven rebounds for LaCenter, which gained 10 points apiece from Carrie Kissinger and Lyndsey Malone.

C. Wright 9 12 10 9 - 40 LaCenter 10 10 10 15 - 45

CHARLES WRIGHT (40) - Bates 2, Luce 9, Guenthoer 15, Wilcox 13, Wesley 1.

LACENTER (45) - Miles 4, Phillips 16, Slevila 5, Kissinger 10, Malone 10.

Woodland 58, Montesano 42

Woodland (20-4) grabbed a 9-3 lead and never trailed against Montesano (18-8) in a loser-out game.

Becky Cooper scored 10 points and Caryn Cogwill had 10 rebounds for the Beavers.

Mindie Reule led the Bulldogs with 16 points, and Jessica Scherer pulled down 11 rebounds.

Woodland 13 15 13 17 - 58 Montesano 7 15 8 12 - 42

WOODLAND (58) - Bauman 7, Lute 1, Ferris 8, VanderStoep 12, Greenlee 8, Drake 3, Cooper 10, Lefever 5, Cogwill 4.

MONTESANO (42) - Reule 16, Scherer 7, Mattson 7, Schmitz 4, Brittell 5, Fournier 2, Barton 1.

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