The Rochester girls basketball team overcame a slow offensive start and a halftime deficit Thursday night in Grays Harbor County, beating Aberdeen 45-43.
“Nothing came easy tonight, but the girls kept their composure and played through adversity,” Rochester coach Keeli Rivas said.
The Warriors (5-2, 2-2 2A EvCo) went an ugly 13 for 29 from the free-throw line, but two of those makes came with less than two seconds left on the clock out of the hands of Delany Winter, which broke a 43-43 tie and gave Rochester the win.
Mandy Andree-Cordell led all scorers with 15 points, Grace Hoover had 12 and Winter came in on 11. Lizzie Hoover only logged three points, but Rivas credited her with leading the defensive effort.
Aberdeen bounced out to a six-point lead after a quarter, and led 20-13 at halftime after a rockfight of a second quarter that featured seven total points. Rochester trimmed the gap down to one point by the end of the third, and capped the comeback late in the fourth.
The Warriors will get a week off, then head to Montesano for a non-league game next Thursday.
