2B Girls Basketball: Tigers Rout Pe Ell

NAPAVINE — The Tigers made short work of Pe Ell and kept pace with Toutle Lake atop the Central 2B League standings with a 68-28 win over Pe Ell here Tuesday night.

Napavine improved to 14-2 on the season and 13-1 in C2BL play with the win.

Grace Hamre led Napavine with 21 points, and Napavine led 47-17 at the intermission.

Napavine plays at Wahkiakum on Thursday and at Morton-White Pass, in Morton, on Saturday.

Pe Ell (1-15, 1-13) hosts Mossyrock on Thursday and Toledo on Saturday.

Lorton Leads Pirates Past Mossy

MOSSYROCK — The Vikings put up a good fight, but Kenya Lorton and the Pirates were a bit too much here Tuesday night in a 75-54 Central 2B League girls basketball victory.

Lorton scored 28 points on 12 of 28 shooting to lead four Adna players in double figures.

Adna led 35-27 at halftime.

“We were able to hang with them,” Mossyrock coach Darin Bullock said. “It was a fun and exciting game. Coming out of halftime, (Adna coach) Chris Bannish did a good job of making adjustments, and we were a little bit slower adjusting to their adjustments.”

Devanie Kleemeyer added 17 points, while Shanay Dotson and Isabella Elwood each tallied 11 for the Pirates.

Lainee Grose led Mossyrock with 25 points.

“She’s been playing really well. Somehow she’s just finding a way to get open right now and she’s been knocking down her shots,” Bullock said. “It’s a testament to her teammates for doing their job, and her doing her job.”

Clementine Schultz added 12 points for Mossyrock, and Paige Moorcroft notched 10.

Mossyrock (1-15, 0-14 league) plays at Pe Ell on Thursday. Adna (11-5, 10-4 league) hosts Morton-White Pass on Thursday.

Bacon Hits Game-Winning Free Throw for Indians in OT

TOLEDO — Ally Bacon only scored 3 points, but Toledo certainly needed one of them to came away with a 38-37 overtime victory against Onalaska here in Central 2B League girls hoops action on Tuesday.

Toledo led 19-4 after a quarter, only to managed just a point in the second and watch the Loggers tie it up by the end of regulation.

"We were flying in the first quarter and really shooting and moving the ball well," Toledo coach J.B. Ewers said. "Onalaska switched up their defense and we really had trouble solving it, turning it over way too many times."

Anna Tauscher led the offense for Toledo, scoring 16 points. Haley Tauscher added 9. Kasey Hoyt scored a team-high 9 points for Onalaska.

With limited time remaining in the extra frame, Toledo’s Leilani Cline was fouled on a defensive rebound. After rebounding her own miss at the free throw line, Cline dished it to Haley Tauscher for the game-tying score with 20 seconds left.

Onalaska couldn't find the bottom of the net on the next possession, leaving Bacon to corral the rebound, being fouled in the process with 3 seconds remaining. From there, Bacon hit her first free throw to take the lead before intentionally missing the second to allow time to expire for the win.

"That first quarter was beautiful but it came to a screeching halt and got ugly," Ewers said. "In the past, these are games where we would've had meltdowns and lost by 10 points. I was really proud of the girls for keeping it together and executing at the end."

Toledo (7-9, 6-8 league) travels to Winlock and Onalaska (7-9, 6-8 league) will host Toutle Lake on Thursday.

Cards Dispatched By Toutle, 64-28

TOUTLE — Winlock ran into the machine that is Toutle Lake, falling 64-28 to the No. 1 team in the Central 2B League here in girls basketball play on Tuesday.

The Cardinals kept up in the first quarter, even knotting things up at 10-10 at one point. The Ducks began to crack down on defense in the second quarter, pulling away quickly.

"We were tied 10-10 at one point in the first quarter," Winlock coach Scott Ashmore said. "The second and third quarter, every time we'd try to dribble the ball, they would just take it away. We couldn't even get a shot up."

Makala Gardner led Toutle with her presence inside, scoring 15 points while reigning C2BL MVP Sam Woodley added 14 points.

Rianna Whitehead chipped in a team-high 13 points for the Cardinals, who shot 11 of 34 from the field compared to Toutle's 27 of 73.

"They got 73 shots up," Ashmore said. "You don't have to hit many of those to get a good score. We just didn't get enough shot attempts. It's that simple."

Winlock (3-11 league, 4-12 overall) will host Toledo on Thursday.

Souvenir Shoots Mules Past MWP

RANDLE — Peyton Souvenir heated up in the second half and proved to be too much for Morton-White Pass to handle here Tuesday night in Wahkiakum’s 59-48 C2BL girls hoops win.

Souvenir, a junior guard and the lone returning starter off the Mules’ state finalist squad last year, scored 18 of her game-high 29 points in the third quarter.

“We just didn’t have an answer for her,” MWP coach Tom Griffith said. “We flat double-teamed her for a while. Everything she threw up was going in.”

The game was tied at 22 at halftime, at which point Souvenir had scored just 7 points. She finished 12 of 24 from the field with four 3-pointers.

Sharon Hazen led MWP with 17 points, and Haley Kolb added 11. Sierra Dotson chipped in with 7 points and a team-high nine rebounds.

Morton-White Pass (10-6, 8-6 league) plays at Adna on Thursday.