Published:
March 9, 2005
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Brittnee Lee, right, and Jena
Jacobs react after the East Valley Red Devils lost to Riverside
36-30 Wednesday night in the Class 2A girls state tournament.
JEFF
HALLER/Yakima Herald-Republic
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Riverside stops EV
Free
throws the difference in Rams' 36-30 win
By
ROGER UNDERWOOD
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
Their first loss, in last weekend’s district final,
was harmless.Aside from maybe bruising an
ego or two, it had no negative effect on East Valley’s girls aside from
theoretically matching them opposite a better first-round foe in the
Class 2A state tournament.
Not so with Wednesday night’s defeat at the
SunDome.
The Red Devils’ 36-30 setback at the hands of
Riverside ended their dream of perhaps securing the third state
championship in the past four years for their school.
Now EV, 22-2, must regroup for a 2 p.m.
loser-out game with Eatonville with its highest possible finish fifth
place.
Riverside, meanwhile, will take its 19-5 record
into a 9 p.m. quarterfinal matchup with Lynden Christian.
“What we have to do right now,” said Red Devils
coach Robi Raab, “is worry about one game. Nothing more.
“But we have quality people and I really expect
a terrific effort out of us tomorrow.”
The effort, from purely a physical exertion
perspective wasn’t their problem in this one. Making shots was.
East Valley made only 25 percent of its field
goal attempts — 12 of 49 — which clearly would have been palatable had
not Riverside shot just 20 percent and won.
A 47-38 rebounding advantage, led by 6-foot-2
senior Angela Hartill’s 16 retrieves to go with her game-high 20 points,
was crucial.
Still, thanks to the Red Devils’ typically
troublesome 2-3 zone defense combined with varying types of full-court
pressure, East Valley led 21-20 during the third quarter and was tied
30-30 with 3:10 to play.
But the Rams, who had managed no field goals
during the second quarter and just two from the 1:17 mark of the first
quarter through the end of the third, seized the moment.
Dianne Kasinger’s free throw at 2:47 broke the
tie and at 2:08 Hartill scored inside for a 33-30 Riverside lead.
While EV continued to miss from just about
everywhere, Jamie Hinkley added one free throw at 1:02 and another at
0:32 to close it out.
“One thing that really gets lost in all of
this,” Raab said, “is we have only one senior and we have only four
girls who played much for us in last year’s tournament.
“I wasn’t worried about our defense. What did
concern me was our offensive consistency and having people step up and
take big shots at big moments.”
The Red Devils were at least developing some
semblance of an attack during the third quarter, with 6-0 junior Tana
Stickney scoring on back-to-back possessions over Hartill, who seconds
earlier had been called for her third foul.
But with the score tied 19-19, and EV having
rallied from a 15-5 first-quarter deficit, Stickney went down with what
Raab described as a pinched nerve.
She left the game with 5:44 to play in the third
quarter and returned with 2:26 left in the period, with the Red Devils
ahead 21-20, but Riverside the next four points.
Stickney nonetheless finished with 13 points and
five rebounds, but no other East Valley player scored more than four
points.
Subtract Stickney’s 5-for-9 field goal shooting
and the rest of the Devils were 7 for 40, or 17 percent.
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Riverside -- Paul 0-9 0-1 0, Dalnes 1-3 1-2 3, Kettel 2-5 0-0 5,
Tam. Davis 0-1 0-0 0, Arras 0-5 0-0 0, Hinkley 0-4 3-8 3, Tar. Davis
0-0 0-0 0, Kasinger 1-8 2-4 5, Hartill 5-10 10-13 20. Totals 9-45
16-28 36. |
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East Valley (Yakima) -- Alexieff 1-3 0-0 3, Mohsenian 2-5 0-2
4, Lee 1-6 0-1 2, Price 0-6 0-2 0, Bigby 0-1 0-0 0, Jacobs 2-8 0-1
4, Valicoff 0-0 0-0 0, Huntington 1-10 2-2 4, Stickney 5-9 3-4 13,
Komstadius 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 12-49 5-12 30. |
| Riverside |
15 |
1 |
9 |
11 |
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36 |
| East Valley (Yakima) |
5 |
10 |
9 |
6 |
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30 |
3-point goals--R 2-21 (Kettel 1-3, Kasinger 1-7, Tam. Davis 0-1,
Paul 0-1, Hinkley 0-4, Arras 0-5), EV 1-10 (Alexieff 1-2, Mohsenian
0-1, Bigby 0-1, Lee 0-2, Huntington 0-4). Rebounds--R 47 (Hartill
16), EV 38 (Mohsenian 7, Jacobs 6). Assists--R 5 (Hinkley 3), EV 5. Steals--R
5 (Hartill 3), EV 5 (Price 2, Huntington 2). Blocked shots--R 2, EV
3. Fouled out
--Lee.
Total fouls--R 12, EV 22. Technical fouls--None. Turnovers--R 10, EV
9. |
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:: East
Valley (Yakima) 60, Connell 54
:: Mount Baker
54, Lynden Christian 43
:: Riverside
57, Chelan 54
:: King's 59,
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:: Connell 56,
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:: Mount Baker
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:: Chewelah
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:: Chewelah
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:: Chelan 52,
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