Girls Summer basketball

The girls were at a big tournament in Vancouver, at Prairie HS this past weekend. I wasn't there as our family was participating in the Relay for Life in Oak Harbor. I don't have many details, but Coach McLeod shared on highlight - and that was a 6-overtime win against Greater St. Helens League powerhouse Prairie, then again winning against Oregon City, a high-quality Oregon girls basketball program.

Monday saw all the girls in action, with both varsity teams and the JV Gold & Black playing two games each. I don't have any results or details from Varsity Purple, JV Gold or JV Black, so if someone would shoot me an email, I'll get something posted.

Varsity white played two games in the MVHS field house against Anacortes. The most remarkable highlight in this game was a rain delay.

Yep, you read that right - a rain delay. It started raining hard outside, and a gutter or something must have been blocked, as there was a lot of water running down the inside wall and onto the court. It took almost 10 minutes before it finally stopped. OH won the first game 51-35 after building to a 20-10 halftime lead. The high scorer was Jessica Denmon with 13 - 8 in the first and 5 in the second. Kathryn Fisken, off the bench, was 2nd with 10. Other scorers were Ro Smith 7, Nicki Mowbray 7, Cori Hendricksen 2, Mariah Ferguson 8, and Becca Moeai with 4. Although Clarissa Abadesco didn't score in the first game, she had an awful lot of assists.

The second game, against Shoreline Christian, was closely fought all the way. Shorline came out with a full-court press, and it took us a while to adjust and get the ball downcourt. After starting down 7-0, our girls came back to hold a 1-point 26-25 halftime lead. It was back and forth again in the second. Kathryn Fisken had a nice steal of a pass and took it to the hoop on the other end to tie the game at 33 with just over 7 minutes left, and Clarissa Abadesco hit her only bucket of the night to give the 'Cats a 1 point lead, 42-41 with 1:40 remaining. Unfortunately, that was our only scoring, and Shoreline was able to get 5 more for a 46-42 win. Denmon again led OH scoring with 16, and Fisken again 2nd with 5. Mowbray and Hendricksen both got 4 and Abadesco 2.

Shoreline had an athletic, well-coached team, including one girl that seemed to be everywhere on the court - steals, assists, 3-pointers - you name it, she was there. I spoke with #2 after the game and asked her if she was an incoming Senior, and she said she was only a Freshman!

Right after the OH-Shoreline game, Shoreline played against the Burlington-Edison Rejects - a team from B-E High School with former Oak Harbor resident Lauren Watts on the team, so some of the girls stayed to watch their former teammate play for a while.

Wednesday the JV purple plays two games at LaVenture Middle School, at 7:05 and 8:05, and the boys JV is in action in the Mt. Vernon HS field house also at 7:05 and 8:05.