Lakeside Finishes Below Expectations Second-Ranked Eagles Lose To Omak 50-40 To Finish Sixth In Girls State A Tournament
Sixth place and not a dry eye in the dressing room.
“I’m trying to look for answers and I really haven’t come up with one,” said Lakeside coach Lisa Schultz, after her team lost to Omak 50-40 to finish sixth at the girls State A high school basketball tournament Saturday afternoon at the Tacoma Dome.
“Maybe that Cascade game (a quarterfinal win) hit us too early. It kinda took some of the wind out of us,” she added, while unsuccessfully fighting back tears for the second straight postgame interview.
Eventual-state champ King’s of Seattle and then Omak (22-6) blew away their dreams all together.
“We really had our sights set a little higher,” said Schultz, whose Eagles entered as the No.2 team and finished at 23-3 in their last year at Class A.
But sub-par shooting (16 of 46 for 35 percent) and getting outrebounded 37-28 resulted in a sixth-place finish.
Lakeside’s top player Brianne Jolley, a 5-foot-11 junior guard, who scored only two points in Friday night’s game, got five in the first quarter Saturday. Jessica Hatch added four, but the Eagles still found themselves trailing at the end of the first period 13-10.
The game was knotted at 24 at the half, and Lakeside even enjoyed a 24-22 lead when Jolley drained her first of two 3-pointers.
Her other trey came in the second half. Those were the only points she scored in the second half as she finished with a team-high 15 points on 5-of-14 shooting and six rebounds.
“We can’t ride the backs of one or two kids,” said Schultz, her exact words after Friday’s 48-42 loss to King’s.
“We’ve never played back-to-back games like this.”
Lakeside’s usually sound defense - one that forces 28 turnovers a game - forced 17 turnovers, but the Eagles also turned over the ball 17 times.
The Eagles cut the lead to 43-38 with 3:39 left on Hatch’s 4-foot bucket. Hatch finished with 10 points and Linsey Heebink added 11.
But like Friday, when Lakeside put Omak on the foul line down the stretch, the Pioneers continually missed but pulled in the rebound.
At the same time, Lakeside was held scoreless in the final 2 minutes.
Nikki Petticrew, who was averaging 14.3 points in three tournament games, went 0 for 8 with six 3-point attempts.
Omak 50, Lakeside 40
Lakeside 10 14 9 7 - 40 Omak 13 11 12 14 - 50
LAKESIDE - Waddell 4, Heebink 11, Hatch 10, Jolley 15, Petticrew 0, McElroy 0, Wilkins 0, Long 0.
OMAK - McCormack 14, Lisenbey 6, Wipprecht 16, Short 2, Taylor 12.
King’s 40, Goldendale 29
With junior Heather Reichmann scoring eight points and grabbing nine rebounds, King’s (25-3) defeated Goldendale (25-3) in the championship game.
King’s 9 6 11 14 - 40 Goldendale 12 2 9 6 - 29
KING’S - Blackmer 6, Riley 6, Huebner 9, Reichmann 8, Hiemstra 1, Konsmo 3, Burk 3, Lalley 4.
GOLDENDALE - Pimley 2, Amidon 2, Pantages 15, Rohrbacher 8, Guenther 2.
Lynden Christian 55, Toledo 51
Senior forward Kari Hamstra scored 11 of her 18 points in the fourth quarter as Lynden Christian held off Toledo to take fifth place.
Toledo 14 8 12 17 - 51 Lynden Chr 12 8 14 21 - 55
TOLEDO (51) - Sarah Miller 14, Brooke Sellards 13, Tiffany Dobosh, Hope Truitt 4, Tasha Rico 18, Tammy Dykstra, jeri Shannon 2, Beth Miller, Michelle Caldwell.
LYNDEN CHRISTIAN (55) - Tarelle Van Dyk, Krista Kooy 2, Kari Hamstra 18, Megan Bajema 10, Julie Wynstra 18, Karla Eshuis 2, Tessa De Boer 5, Shara Bode.
Cascade 55, Foster 47
Megan Franza capped off a superb tournament with 21 points and 13 rebounds to lead Cascade to a victory over Foster and fourth place.
Cascade 15 16 8 16 55 Foster 11 12 15 9 47
CASCADE (55) - Franza 12, O’Neill 2, Fender 2, Franza 21, McGregor 6, Crowsion 4, Bradshaw 2, Burgess 6.
FOSTER (47) - Silva 2, Apodaca 15, Fowler 20, Mitchell 10.
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MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: A GIRLS RESULTS Championship King’s 40, Goldendale 29 3rd and 6th Omak 50, Lakeside 40 4th and 7th Cascade 55, Foster 47 5th and 8th Lynden Chr. 55, Toledo 51