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Colfax Cruises Into
Finals
By
SCOTT
SANDSBERRY
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
Colfax girls basketball is not beautiful. Just efficient.
Colfax's Natalie Shaw drives the
lane against Napavine during
Friday's early semifinal game.
JEFF HALLER/Yakima Herald-Republic
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The Bulldogs’ game is not about picture-perfect jump
shots, artful passing and dancers’ footwork. It’s about sweaty, panting,
in-your-face, pressing defense that never stops. That’s why Colfax will play
Saturday night for its second Class 1A state championship in three years, in
what amounts to Game Seven of the World Series of 2003-04 1A girls
basketball:
Colfax vs. Lind-Ritzville. For the seventh time this
year.
The story of the Bulldogs’ 43-18 semifinal trouncing
of Napavine can be told in a time span: 11 minutes and 43 seconds. That’s
how long the Tigers, flustered into exasperation by the Bulldogs’ pressure,
went without scoring from midway through first period into the third period.
A 18-5 halftime margin stretched to 38-15, the Bulldogs (26-4) went to
wholesale substitution and had a scare when Natalie Shaw went down with what
looked like a potential knee injury.
It wasn’t, said Shaw, whose 7-for-11, 17-point night
was the highlight of an otherwise ugly offensive night for Colfax.
“I think I just hyperextended it. I was just more
scared than anything,” said Shaw, who missed the second half of last season
with a knee injury. “Even if it was hurt, I’d play (in the championship
game).”
As for a seventh game against Lind-Ritzville — which
topped Winlock 51-39 in Friday’s second semifinal — Bulldogs coach Corey Baerlocher was philosophical.
“It’s just one game,” said the coach, whose Bulldogs
have won four of the previous six. “We don’t look at it as beating them four
times in one year. It’s just one game. They know what we’ll be doing, and we
know what they’ll be doing.”
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Napavine -- Kaut 1-9 2-2 4, Diehl 2-9 0-0 4, Ridley 0-2 0-0 0, R.
McNelly 0-3 0-0 0, Calder 0-3 0-1 0, Winslow 0-3 0-0 0, Wilson 2-13
1-2 5, Hylton 0-2 0-2 0, A. McNelly 1-1 0-0 3, A. Richardson 1-4 0-2
2, Moreno 0-0 0-0 0, B. Richardson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 7-49 3-9 18. |
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Colfax -- Fender 2-9 0-0 4, Vuletich 0-2 3-4 3, Gylling 0-1 0-0 0,
Burns 1-7 0-0 2, Arthur 0-0 0-0 0, Burke 0-0 0-0 0, Watts 3-7 0-0 7,
Dennison 1-3 1-2 3, Swan 1-4 0-0 2, N. Shaw 7-11 2-2 17, K. Shaw 2-7
0-0 5, Mellor 0-0 0. Totals 17-51 6-8 43. |
| Napavine |
5 |
0 |
6 |
7 |
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18 |
| Colfax |
7 |
11 |
15 |
10 |
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43 |
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3-point goals--N 1-18 (A. McNelly 1-1, Ridley 0-1, Calder 0-2,
Winslow 0-3, Kaut 0-5, Wilson 0-6), C 3-14 (N. Shaw 1-2, Watts 1-2,
K. Shaw 1-3, Swan 0-1, Vuletich 0-1, Burns 0-2, Fender 0-3). Rebounds--N
36 (Wilson 8), C 45 (N. Shaw 10). Assists--N 4, C 7. Steals--N 8, C
10. Blocked shots--N 0, C 5 (N. Shaw 3). Fouled out--None.
Total fouls--N 11, C 14. Technical fouls--None. Turnovers--N 21, C
19. |
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Other Games
Saturday
::
Tonasket 54,
Zillah 39
:: King's 55,
Burbank 44
:: Napavine
43, Winlock 35
:: Colfax 53,
Lind-Ritzville 39
Friday
::
Zillah 47,
Seattle Christian 39
:: Tonasket
53, Archbishop Murphy 35
:: Burbank 69,
Toledo 47
:: King's 59,
Warden 45
:: Colfax 43,
Napavine 18
::
Lind-Ritzville 51, Winlock 39
Thursday
::
Seattle
Christian 37, Overlake 33
:: Zillah 64,
Cedar Park Christian 47
:: Tonasket
52, Onalaska 49
:: Archbishop
Murphy 50, Forest Ridge 25
:: Napavine
60, Toledo 55
:: Colfax 66,
Burbank 56
::
Lind-Ritzville 55, King's 50
:: Winlock 54,
Warden 52
Wednesday
::
Napavine 40,
Seattle Christian 39
:: Toledo 58,
Overlake 27
:: Burbank 60,
Cedar Park Christian 40
:: Colfax 47,
Zillah 36
::
Lind-Ritzville 46, Onalaska 37
:: King's 49,
Tonasket 43
:: Warden 58,
Forest Ridge 40
:: Winlock 84,
Archbishop Murphy 79
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