Busy, It's suppose to be Winter Break right?

Playing sports really digs into some of that vacation time, doesn't it. Plenty of high school basketball action involving many of our Southwest Washington girl's teams.

Heritage suffered their first lost of the season to Mt. Tahoma 52 - 51 yesterday afternoon. Three of Heritage's starters, Chawncy McClenan, Amber Myers, and Clara Russell fouled out and had to watch the T-wolve's loss a nail bitter, bye 1 point in the final minutes. Coming back to tie the game after being down by 10 with 4 minutes to play, key eras down the stretch, and big shots by Mt. Tahoma ended Heritage's undefeated season. Heritage was lead by Justine Joudrey with 17 points.

In another 1 point nail bitter, Hockinson held of Elma in a back and forth game. This was a great test for the Hawk's as they get ready for league play. Elma has a good team, and after some early season unbalance blow outs for Hockinson, their last 3 games have been close wins bye 1, 2 & 1 point respectively. Daron Dean lead the Hawk's with 12 points, and Lejla Mlivic had 10.

Although I'm sure, having a great time in Hawaii, Mountain View has drop five games in the tropics, including two yesterday. The bright spot for the Thunder has been Caitlynn Patterson getting her sea legs under her, and averaging close to 17 points a game, with two 20 point games. They play one more game today, before heading home.

LaCenter lead by Hannah Trigg's 21 points defeated West Anchorage, Alaska in the Ilwaco tournament 52 -42. They end the tournament with a 1 - 1 record.

The shocker, Prairie dropping two in a row on the road, losing yesterday 63 - 57 to the host team Greeneville Tenn. Around her we're just not use to seeing the Falcon's lose, least of all two games in a row. Angela Gelhar had a big game for the Falcon's with 24 points, but no one else hit double figures in the lost. Prairie has one more game today before heading home.

In a non-league game at the Tiger tournament between two 3A league competitors Columbia River out played Camas 37 - 33. Laura Luther of the Chieftain's lead all scores with 12 points in the victory.

Also in Battle Ground at the Tiger Tournament, Ridgefield defeated the host team Battle Ground 50 - 42. Leading the scoring for the Spudder's was Nichole Kates with 16, and Anna Pengra with 14. Gabi Dixon lead the Tiger's with 10 points.

At the St. Martin's tournament in Olympia, Woodland crushed Sammamish 68 - 10. McKenzie Heberer tied the Sammamish team total out put with 10 points to lead the Beaver's.

Kelso defeated Mark Morris 40 - 27. No statics available.