Doing Some Comparison Shopping, Er Scoring

East Valley had won five straight, never scoring less than 71 points, before losing the regular-season finale at Lewis and Clark 46-33. EV won the first meeting 72-45… . Central Valley won at Shadle Park 63-58 and took the Highlanders to overtime at CV before losing 76-69.

On the girls side, Ferris won 62-51 at CV, the Bears beat the Saxons 61-56 at the Arena. Gonzaga Prep swept Shadle, 69-37 and 61-54.

A look at history books

The CV girls are making their 23rd appearance (missing in 1987), the Shadle Park girls their 21st and the CV boys their 20th… . The Ferris boys lead with seven district titles, Shadle boys and girls have six each, along with Mead girls… . EV, in its first year in the GSL, and LC, have not won district titles. All six girls teams have won titles.

Tie breakers and streaks

University earned its bye into regionals by surviving two tiebreaker games after the girls finished in a three-way tie for second. The Titans beat CV on Friday and Prep on Saturday. That gave U-Hi an 11-game winning streak… . Thursday, the Titans ended a 13-game losing streak to CV. That dramatic 49-47 win forged the three-way tie… . U-Hi has its first bye to regional since 1990… . Mead girls claimed their eighth GSL title (four shared) by winning their last five games… . The CV boys beat U-Hi in their finale to end a five-game losing streak… . The Ferris boys snapped Shadle’s 12-game winning streak in the last game.

Regional things

EV made the 3A regional last year. … The U-Hi girls get the bye into regional with five losses, the most ever. Twice in the past 12 years the No. 2 team has had four losses and once three. Six times its been two losses and three times one. … A GSL girls champion hasn’t had four losses, like Mead this year, since the league was formed for the 1976-77 school year. Only once has the champ had three losses… . Twice the boys champ has had four losses and five times it has had three.

Scoring matters

An error in addition (or maybe it was an inability to read chicken scratching) confused the girls scoring race.

Sara Shogren of East Valley had 259 points when she was injured and missed the last four games. Her average in 15 games - she missed an earlier game with illness - was 17.26. Raeanna Jewell of CV was held to six points in her last game, giving her 370 in 20, a 16.8 average. Jewell needed 10 more points to win the title… . CV’s Kyle Boast scored 38 in his last game and came up one short of EV’s Andrew Burgess, who had 13 in his last game for a 371 total. Burgess was 18.55 and Boast 18.50.