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Published Wednesday, March 3, 2004
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Mosiman Scores Big for
King's The gifted Mosiman — who is, yes, a mere sophomore — scored 11 of her game-high 16 points during a 16-2 run midway in the second half as King’s pulled away for a 49-43 victory. “She’s just a special kid,” King’s coach Eric Rasmussen said of Mosiman, who also had three steals and four assists, including a drive-and-dish to Danielle Clauson for what proved to be the clinching 3-pointer. “She’s a gifted athlete with really good basketball skills, and obviously she doesn’t leave anything on the floor. She kind of makes us go.” In the first half, though, the Knights (21-4) weren’t going anywhere. Neither team was. They combined for a dozen missed shots before the first field goal of the game, a 16-footer by Tonasket’s Shayne Freeman 3 1/2 minutes into the game, and the Knights were 0-for-12 before a Mosiman layup. “We weren’t in control. We definitely had a lot of first-game jitters,” Mosiman said of those early minutes. “It was more us than what they were doing. Things just weren’t dropping. I knew shots would start dropping for us eventually.” They did in the third quarter, during which Rasmussen pulled the Knights’ vaunted press — which wasn’t working — to pick up at halfcourt. The switch flummoxed the Tigers (21-4) just long enough for King’s to take control. “We were tired, and we didn’t get the ball to Daniele (Moser, the point guard) at the right times,” said Tigers coach Gary Smith. “They got that little spurt, and it cost us. “But we just missed too many opportunities in the first half to score baskets. I thought we’d have been 10 or 15 points ahead if we’d capitalized when we had the chances.” Caitlyn Faidley added 10 points for the Knights, who moved halfway through what is by far the toughest quarter-bracket, with King’s, Tonasket and Lind-Ritzville, arguably three of the best four or five teams in the tournament. Now the Knights must face Lind-Ritzville, a 46-37 winner over Onalaska.
“When I first heard (about the tough quarter-bracket),
I thought, ooh, bad luck,” Mosiman said. “But then I kind of thought, if we
win, it’s because we worked for it.”
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