THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015
SPORTS
7A
Valiants crush Seaside’s championship hopes
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
HILLSBORO — The league
with the most may also be the
league with the best, in this
year’s Class 4A girls basketball
state tournament.
Entering the tournament with
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Cowapa League is well-repre-
sented this week in Hillsboro,
where the Valley Catholic Val-
iants — the second-place team
in the Cowapa — could make a
serious bid to prove that they’re
the best in the state.
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hind Seaside in the league stand-
ings, the Valiants had the hot
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at Liberty High School, scoring
an impressive 61-30 win over
the Gulls.
Valley Catholic — the run-
ner-up at the Class 3A level
last season — moves on the 4A
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will face Henley Friday.
Seaside is bounced into the
consolation round, where the
Gulls will play Banks in anoth-
er Cowapa League matchup
at 10:45 a.m. today, at Century
High School.
The Gulls found themselves
in a deep hole early in Thurs-
day’s game.
Three baskets by Molly Dan-
ielson helped Valley Catholic
grab a 10-0 lead, and the Val-
iants led 12-2 after one period.
Two 3-pointers by Valley’s
Kaylynn Bush in the second
period led to a 19-point halftime
lead for the Valiants.
Meanwhile, the Gulls went
to the break in foul trouble, as
Maddi Utti had four fouls and
Whitney Westerholm was whis-
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A 9-0 run by Valley Catholic
to start the third quarter gave the
Valiants a 37-9 lead and all the
points they would need.
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half, Seaside’s Maddi Utti had
14 in the second half, highlight-
ed by six points in an 11-2 run
by the Gulls midway through
the fourth quarter.
Utti also had a team-high
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Forlorn Seagull fans Aubrie Taylor, left, 8, and Tristyn Mc-
Fadden, 12, watch helplessly as Seaside stumbles in their
Cowapa League rematch with Valley Catholic in the quar-
terfinals.
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Seaside’s Maddi Utti drives through the Valley Catholic defense for two.
eight rebounds and four steals.
Valley Catholic had four
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by Danielson’s 18 points. Emily
McLeod scored 11, with Mad-
die Vinson and Noelle Mannen
adding 10 points apiece.
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the 3-point line), while the
Valiants held a 37-23 edge in
rebounding and forced 24 Sea-
side turnovers.
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Seaside coach Wally Hamer ponders his team’s next move
as Valley Catholic continues to build their second-half
lead.
SCOREBOARD
BASKETBALL
HIGH SCHOOLS
Class 4A Girls Quarterfinal
Valley Catholic 61, Seaside 30
SEASIDE (20-6): Maddi Utti 6-12
1-3 14; Sydney Villegas 2-8 2-3 6;
Haylee Dundas 2-7 0-0 5; Whitney
Westerholm 1-10 1-1 3; Jetta Ideue
1-1 0-0 2; Alie Zagata 0-0 0-0 0; An-
nuka Brown 0-0 0-0 0; Brittany West
0-0 0-0 0; Allison Bussert 0-4 0-0 0;
Jesse Trott 0-0 0-0 0; Paige Ideue
0-3 0-0 0; Shelby Miller 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 12-46 4-7 30.
VALLEY CATHOLIC (21-5): Molly
Danielson 5-7 8-8 18; Emily McLeod
2-4 5-7 11; Noelle Mannen 2-4 6-6
10; Maddie Vinson 5-7 0-0 10; Kay-
lynn Bush 2-9 2-4 8; Petra Flemmer
0-2 2-4 2; Rachel Jones 1-1 0-0 2;
Bailey McDevitt 0-2 0-0 0; Sannah
Braun 0-1 0-0 0; Mattie Thurman
0-0 0-0 0; Kate Nguyen 0-0 0-0 0;
Mady Moore 0-0 0-0 0.
Totals 17-37 23-29 61.
Seaside
2 7 10 11—30
Valley Catholic 12 16 18 15—61
3-Point Goals: Seaside 2-17
(Utti, Dundas); Valley Catholic 4-15
(McLeod 2, Bush 2). Fouled out:
Seaside-Westerholm. Rebounds:
Seaside 23 (Utti 8); Valley Catholic
37 (Vinson 11). Assists: Seaside 4
(Utti 2); Valley Catholic 8 (Mannen
3). Fouls: Seaside 22, Valley Cath-
olic 13.
Players of the Game: Maddi Utti,
Seaside; Molly Danielson, Valley
Catholic
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Seaside’s Whitney Westerholm takes an off-balance jump-
er as Valley Catholic defenders clog the paint.
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Seaside’s Haylee Dundas attempts to put some pressure
on Valley Catholic’s Kaylynn Bush. Though the Seagulls
defense was able to force turnovers, it was also called for
a sizable number of personal fouls.
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Seaside’s Allison Bussert sprinwgs off the bench to the
cheers of her Seagull teammates during player introduc-
tions prior to tip off of Thursday’s game against Valley
Catholic.
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Seaside’s Sydney Villegas battles a pair of Valiants for the
ball, eventually drawing a foul on Valley Catholic.
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Seaside’s Sydney
Villegas hoists up a
long-range jumper as
the Seagulls look to get
back on track during
the second half against
Valley Catholic. The
Seagulls were unable to
overcome a slow start
Thursday, losing 61-30
during the 4A quarterfinal
matchup at Liberty High
School in Hillsboro.
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