Lakeside Girls Stopped In Bid For State A Crown

Lisa Schultz could barely speak.

A nasty case of laryngitis and a reality-jolting loss in the semifinals of a state tournament will do that to a coach.

“We didn’t shoot well, we didn’t rebound well,” said a teary-eyed Schultz after the game, leaning against the wall outside the Lakeside dressing room at the girls State A high school basketball tournament at the Tacoma Dome.

The Eagles, ranked No. 2 in the state and riding a 23-game winning streak, were defeated Friday night by No. 4 King’s of Seattle 48-42. The best they can hope for is a repeat of last year’s third-place finish when they face Omak (21-6) today in the 2:30 p.m. consolation final. The Pioneers lost to Goldendale in the other semifinal 62-53.

During the off-season, Lakeside will long remember the dominating play of King’s (24-3) Heather Reichmann. The 6-foot-1 junior post accounted for a game-high 21 points and 16 of the Knight’s 37 rebounds.

Lakeside’s (23-2) money player, Brianne Jolley, also was a factor, but not in her usual way. Jolley, a 18.6 points per game player, finished with just two points from the free-throw line. She was 0 for 11 from the field.

“She’s trying hard. She’s taking it hard,” Schultz said. “I told the team, ‘We don’t win and we don’t lose just with Brianne.’ We needed just one or two more people to step up. We can’t ride her shoulders.”

Lakeside’s Linsey Heebink and Nikki Petticrew filled that role in the first quarter when the Eagles punished King’s triangle-and-two defense by hitting 4 of 5 3-pointers. They carried a 16-10 lead into the second quarter.

Petticrew, averaging 14.3 points in three tournament games, scored a team-high 14 points and pulled in six of the Eagles’ 20 rebounds. Heebink scored five in the first quarter and finished with 12.

“And then we disappeared,” Schultz said.

Lakeside was outscored 13-4 in the second quarter and found itself trailing at the half 23-20. King’s, a team that hadn’t made it out of the first round with a win in the previous four state tournaments, took its first second-quarter lead 21-20 on Sarah Hiemsta’s lunging layup.

King’s never trailed after that and built the lead to as many as 12 points, 42-30 with 3:10 remaining when Reichmann burned the Eagles on one of her many layups. King’s scored 9 of 9 layups to Lakeside’s 0 of 0.

“(After leading 42-30), we didn’t play very smart for a couple of minutes,” said King’s coach Eric Rasmussen, who instructed his team to switch to a successful match-up zone defense in the second half.

The lapse would have allowed Lakeside to jump back into the game, had they taken advantage of the Knights’ 0-for-5 free-throw shooting in the final 24 seconds. They were 7 of 20 on the night. After Petticrew made 2 of 3 free throws to cut the lead to 46-42 with 25 seconds left, the Eagles fouled on three different occasions.

King’s continually missed its foul shots, but pulled down every rebound before running out the clock.

“If we made those free throws, it’s not a game,” Rasmussen said.

King’s 48, Lakeside 42

Lakeside 16 4 10 12 - 42

King’s 10 13 15 10 - 48

LAKESIDE (42) - Waddell 6, Heebink 12, Hatch 4, Jolley 2, Petticrew 14, Wilkins 4.

KING’S (48) - Blackmer 9, Riley 4, Huebner 5, Reichmann 21, Hiemstra 4, Burk 4, Lalley 1.

Goldendale 62, Omak 53

Laura Rohrbacher scored 17 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to pace Goldendale (25-2) to a semifinal win over Omak (21-6).

Goldendale took the lead for good with three minutes left in the first half, 28-26, on a basket by Jill Pimley.

Amber Pantages hit for 13 points and Lindsay Weiss 11 for the Timberwolves, who were 21 for 43 from the field.

Shae McCormack led Omak with 13 points and nine rebounds. Amanda Taylor and Trish Wipprecht added 11 points each and Tauni Lisenbey 10 for the Pioneers, who were 27 for 57 from the field.

Goldendale 17 17 15 13 - 62

Omak 13 15 17 8 - 53

GOLDENDALE (62) - Vaughns 6, Pimley 8, Amidon 4, Pantages 13, Rohrbacher 17, Weiss 11, Bowen 3.

OMAK (53) - Lisenbey 10, Wipprecht 11, Short 6, Taylor 11, McCormack 13, Orr 2.

Toledo 51, LaCenter 37

Tasha Rico had 17 points and seven assists to lead Toledo (24-1) to a win over LaCenter (20-7) in a loser-out game.

Rico has scored 51 points in the first three games for Toledo, which entered the tournament undefeated but lost its first-round game to Blaine.

LaCenter scored the game’s first two points but the Indians went on an 11-0 run to take a commanding lead.

Brooke Sellards added 10 points for Toledo and Tiffany Dobash pulled down 12 rebounds.

LaCenter, which committed 31 turnovers, was led by the 18 points of Lyndsey Maylone. Michell Phillips had 12 rebounds.

LaCenter 6 4 16 11 - 37

Toledo 19 9 8 15 - 51

LACENTER (37) - Phillips 8, Slevila 5, Kissenger 6, Maylone 18

TOLEDO (51) - Miller 8, Dobash 4, Sellards 10, Truitt 4, Rico 17, Buswell 4, Shannon 4.

Lynden Christian 60, Woodland 47

Julie Wynstra had 24 points and 11 rebounds as Lynden Christian (20-5), last year’s state champion, defeated Woodland (20-5) in a loser-out game.

The 6-foot-2 senior was 9 of 17 from the field for the Lyncs, who lost their first-round contest to Goldendale.

Karla Eshuis added 10 points and Kari Hamstra 11 rebounds for Lynden Christian.

Woodland, trailed only 25-23 at halftime, but was outscored 19-8 in the third period. Kelli Bauman led the Beavers with 22 points and Caryn Cogwill added 11.

L. Christian 12 13 19 16 - 60

Woodland 10 13 8 16 - 47

LYNDEN CHRISTIAN (60) - Van Dyk 9, Hamstra 6, Bajema 2, Wynstra 24, Eshuis 10, De Boer 8, Bode 1.

WOODLAND (47) - Bauman 22, Lute 4, Ferris 4, VanderStoep 3, Greenlee 4, Cogwill 10.

Cascade 62, Blaine 57

Cascade outscored Blaine 8-2 in the final three minutes in a loser-out game.

Megan Franza, a senior, had 16 points, nine assists and six rebounds for the Kodiaks (23-3). Her sister, Becky, a junior, scored 19 points. The Borderites (20-5) were led by the 20 points and 12 rebounds of Caroline Bradbury.

Cascade 19 12 15 16 - 62

Blaine 12 21 13 11 - 57

CASCADE (62) - Franza 19, Fender 4, Franza 16, McGregor 8, Burgess 10, O’Neill 3, Crowsion 2.

BLAINE (57) - Dietzen 5, Ridnour 13, Bradbury 20, Seeley 7, Dixon 12.

Foster 48, Dayton 45

LaShaunda Fowler scored 21 points and Foster (21-4) withstood a furious Dayton (23-3) rally.

Dayton 6 13 10 16 - 45

Foster 12 7 16 13 - 48

DAYTON (45) - Korsberg 18, Anderson 5, Simmons 7, Schreck 4, Anderson 11.

FOSTER (48) - Burgess 2, Silva 5, Apodaca 13, Fowler 21, Mitchell 5, Krantz 2.

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