|
This page is part of the
Tourneytown.com archives and is no longer updated. |
| Published March 7, 2004 :: Home |
Pendergraft Sets School Mark
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC With a layup off a nifty inbounds feed from Hawkins Gebbers midway through the second quarter of the Bears’ championship victory over N.W. Christian, Pendergraft passed the Brewster career scoring record. That Pendergraft’s mark came in a title game was appropriate; the guy he passed, Dale Smith, was the star of back-to-back-to-back Brewster championship teams in 1975-76-77. And Pendergraft did it despite missing the district, bi-district and state playoffs of his sophomore year, when he was out with a broken hand — or he would very likely own the state-tourney career scoring record as well. CARDINAL DREAMS: Asked on the eve of the championship game how long it had been since Brewster’s boys had been worried about a Class 1A opponent, sophomore guard Michael Taylor said the politically — or competitively — correct thing. “Hey, they all play basketball. You see upsets all the time,” he said. He grinned and added, “Except for when Stanford and St. Joseph’s play.” Ahhh. Would that be an indication of somewhere Taylor dreams one of one day ending up? “Oh, definitely,” he said. “Stanford sent me something in the mail this week, a questionnaire thing. That was pretty cool. It said to keep up my grades, that kind of thing.” That shouldn’t be a problem. Taylor’s GPA is one B short of a perfect 4.0, and his assessment of Stanford’s invincibility was slightly off. Washington knocked off the Cardinal on Saturday. FOR THE RECORD: Chris Faidley never really got rolling during the last two games of the tournament even though he became its career scoring leader Friday. But after enduring a 2-for-17 nightmare in a semifinal loss to N.W. Christian, Faidley warmed up enough to help King's to a 60-50 overtime triumph over Freeman in Saturday's game for third and sixth places. His game-high 23 points, coming on 5-for-13 shooting including 2-for-7 from 3-point range, ran his career total to 282. La Center's Dustin Van Weerdhuizen had scored 252 points from 1995-98. Faidley, voted Most Valuable Player of the tournament as a sophomore when King's won its second straight title, finished his four-game stint this season with a 20.8 per-game scoring average. He shot 38 percent from the field (22 for 58), 24 percent from 3-point range (8 for 33) and 71 percent from the foul line (31 for 44). The 6-foot-2 guard also was King's second-leading rebounder with 27, a 6.75 average, and also had seven assists. TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE: As part of the tournament's Teaming Up program, Cedar Park Christian's boys were scheduled to speak to students at Easat Valley Central School on Friday. When they mistakenly arrived at East Valley Intermediate, they told a teacher in the gym they were there to speak and went ahead with their presentation. Then they went to East Valley Central and repeated their performance. TWO-TIME REGIONAL SWEEP: The District 6/7 Region, consisting of the Caribou Trail and Northwest leagues, swept both boys and girls titles for the second straight year. In fact, all four teams in Saturday night's finals -- the Brewster and Northwest Christian boys and the Colfax and Lind-Ritzville girls -- all came from the same region.
Last season, Brewster's boys and girls both won state
championships.
ADVERTISEMENT
©
2002-2008 All photos, content and design |
