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Girls: Day 3 recap

Published March 7, 2009

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Taelor Braun scored 21 points and grabbed 15 rebounds for Pomeroy, paving the way for a trophy finish today for the first time in school history. The Pirates will play Orcas Island for fifth and eighth places.

Kacie Uto added 13 points and five steals and sank 9 of 11 free throws, none bigger than the two she made to seal the game with 27 seconds left. The free throws came after a steal and score from the Tigers' Mandy Southard that cut the Pirates' lead, once 10, to 58-53.

Southard, a 5-foot-2 freshman, scored 21 and had five steals for the Tigers. Jamie Wilson also had 18 points and 14 rebounds for Entiat.

 Entiat (18-6) - Southard 21, Diaz 0, Quezada 1, Montgomery 8, Hodge 5, Thrift 0, Wilson 18, Mulvaney 0.

Pomeroy (21-7) - Uto 13, Wolf 6, Bott 4, Braun 21, FitzGerald 2, Martin 5, Slaybaugh 3, Bartlow 6.

Orcas Island never trailed after jumping out to a 16-5 lead in the first quarter, defeating Seattle Lutheran and guaranteeing its first trophy at the state tournament.

The Vikings play Pomeroy today at noon for fifth place.

Sydney Harris led a balanced Vikings attack with 14 points. Lanie Padbury added 11 points and five rebounds, Maddy Smith eight and three, and Anika Thomas eight and 10.

Maddy Williams had 15 points and made 10 of 14 free throws for Seattle Lutheran. She was 2 of 12 from the field, however, for a team that shot 14 percent for the game and turned it over 23 times. Orcas Island converted those turnovers into 23 points.

La Conner takes on Liberty Bell for the fourth- and seventh-place trophies today at 1:45 p.m.

 Orcas Island (12-9) - Padbury 11, Shaw 3, Thomas 0, O'Toole 2, Smith 8, Hofmann 2, Diepenbrock 3, Thomas 8, Harris 14, Parnell 4.

Seattle Lutheran (13-10) - McCray 2, Williams 15, Norton 0, Bigliardi 0, Smart 5, Antioquia 2, Mahboub 0, Crunican 0, Smith 0, French 0, Dunn 0, Watford 2.

Kelsey Kennedy had 23 points and six rebounds to lead the Braves past the Ducks.

The Braves jumped out to a 19-3 lead in the first quarter and never trailed.

Megan Raymond added 14 and nine rebounds for La Conner, and Julie Hulbert's five blocks anchored a defense that held the Ducks to 9 of 52 shooting.

Kelsey Kent hit four 3-pointers for Toutle Lake. Sarah Andrews did all she could in the fourth quarter, scoring six of her nine, to try and bring the Ducks back into it.

The Ducks have been without leading scorer Kiana Saluni throughout the tournament.

 Toutle Lake (14-13) - Wall 0, Kent 12, Andrews 9, Hoff 3, Carlson 7, Timm 3, Locke 0.

La Conner (19-5) - Raymond 14, McClung 0, Hulbert 2, Kennedy 23, Pedroza 3, Allman 1.

Shelby Scott scored 22 points, grabbed five rebounds and dished out four assists in the Lions' win.

Liberty Bell had two other players in double figures – Mariah Clements with 10 and Bri Kulsrud with 14. Kulsrud also pulled down 10 rebounds.

Liberty trailed by just eight at the half, but saw its shooting go cold after the break, dropping from 46 percent to less than 29.

The Lancers made several runs, and got to within eight with 4 minutes left to play before a spinning bank shot from Mariah Clements put the lead back up to double digits.

Teara Cornmesser led the Lancers with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Teammate Kelly Hennessey had 12 points and three assists.

Liberty Bell takes on La Conner for the fourth- and seventh-place trophies today at 1:45 p.m.

 Liberty (Spangle) (19-11) - Sievers 0, Hennessey 12, Kjack 8, Breidenbach 0, Conklin 0, K.Cornmesser 0, Brooks 5, T.Cornmesser 16, Janson 0, Collins 7, Browning , Fredericks 0.

Liberty Bell (22-4) - Bradshaw 5, Ferrill 5, Labanauskus 0, Stevie 0, Clements 10, Scott 22, Gray 6, Pennock 0, Watson 0, Stahl 2, Kulsrud 14, Reggitore 0.

The Tigers fought off run after run from La Salle before pulling away for the 10-point victory and ensuring their second straight trip to the State 2B championship game.

In a rematch of last year's championship game, a La Salle win, the Tigers led the most of the way.

After trailing by as many as 12, the Lightning clawed their way to within four points with less than 2 minutes left, thanks in part to Napavine's 16 percent shooting in the second half. The Lightning's comeback took advantage of a 10-minute scoring drought from the Tigers.

With 2 minutes left in the game, La Salle's Melissa McCanna drew a foul inside and hit both free throws to make the score 44-40. Elaun Sherwood scored to extend Napavine's lead to six, and on La Salle's next possession Savanah Bonny's lob pass went through the hands of Alicia Ashby.

Sherwood then drew a foul and made the second of two free throws to give the Tigers a 47-40 advantage. La Salle was forced to foul the rest of the way.

 La Salle (19-6) - Vickers 4, Hernandez 0, Bonny 12, Ashby 9, McCanna 10, Knoebel 0, Adkins 0, Sullivan 0, Wytko 3, DeGrooyer 4.

Napavine (26-0) - Goettelman 0, Potter 7, Morris 3, Hamre 8, Hylton 6, Williams 0, Foster 3, Sherwood 5, Lantau 10, Brossard 4, Foster 6.

Kayla Johnson scored a tournament-high 26 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Bulldogs into today's title game against Napavine.

Johnson was 8 of 12 from the floor and 10 of 14 from the free-throw line for her second straight 20-plus scoring game of the tournament.

White Pass frustrated the Bulldogs with a full-court press early on, leading 13-9 after the first quarter. Freshman point guard Morgan Wilson wasn't fazed by the pressure of the big stage or the Panthers' defense, however, committing only one turnover in 21 minutes, breaking the Panthers' press and leading the Bulldogs' 18-7 second-quarter charge.

Colfax shot 47 percent from the field while holding White Pass to 16 percent.

 White Pass (22-6) - Sankwich 0, Rashoff 0, Eastman 5, Muir 0,Mullins 0, Inman 0, Nilus 0,Elliott 15, Gillispie 8, Mullins 2, Coleman 3, Anderson 0.

Colfax (25-2) - Wilson 4, Webber 4, King 0, R.Johnson 0, Hart 5, Erickson 4, K.Johnson 26, Simonson 0, Burke 0, Shaw 8, Berdal 0, Maltone 3.