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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2022
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PREP GIRLS
BASKETBALL
BOYS PREP BASKETBALL | 5A STATE TOURNAMENT
Redmond loses to Churchill, takes fifth
Ridgeview takes
third place in 5A
CORVALLIS — No. 4
Ridgeview defeated No. 11
Putnam 58-43 in the third-
place game at the Class 5A
girls basketball state tour-
nament at Gill Coliseum on
Saturday night.
Kyrah Daniels led the
Ravens with 31 points, six
rebounds and four assists.
Jenna Albrecht added 10
points and three assists.
Putnam held a slim 27-
25 lead at halftime, but
Ridgeview surged ahead
in the third quarter and
never looked back. The
Ravens shot a blistering
52% from the field.
“We played the best
we’ve played all week
tonight,” said Ridgeview
coach Alicia Love. “Shot
were falling, we played
together as a team. Our
defense was crazy. We did
all the little things we’ve
been focusing on all year,
and we made it happen
tonight.”
Rylee Lemen led Put-
nam with 13 points.
Ridgeview fell to No.
9 Crescent Valley Friday
night in the semifinals.
— Bulletin staff report
In Class 4A, Madras
takes third place
COOS BAY — No. 7
Madras defeated No. 13
Hidden Valley 48-41 on
Saturday to take third
place in the Class 4A girls
basketball state tourna-
ment at Marshfield High
School.
Kalise Holliday led Ma-
dras with 12 points, three
assists and three steals,
and Sasha Esquiro and
Lily Libokmeto added 10
points each.
Madras (17-9) trailed
26-25 at halftime, but
outscored Hidden Valley
13-8 in the third quar-
ter to take control of the
game.
Teryn Powers led Hid-
den Valley (15-12) with
10 points, and Sana Noga
added nine points.
The White Buffaloes
lost to Corbett 60-36 in
the semifinals on Friday.
‘Poetic’ ending for former longtime Panthers coach Kelly Bokn
BY MARK MORICAL
The Bulletin
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Redmond’s Garrett Osborne (10)
shoots over a Churchill defender
during the third quarter at Gill
Coliseum in Corvallis on Saturday.
It was a third-place game
that had the feel of a state
championship finale.
No. 1 Redmond and No. 2
Churchill battled to the bitter
end to finish their fantastic sea-
sons with a victory Saturday at
Gill Coliseum in the Class 5A
boys basketball state tourna-
ment.
In the end, the Lancers
withstood a furious Panthers’
comeback to send retiring
coach Kelly Bokn — a former
longtime Redmond coach —
into the sunset on a winning
note with a 67-66 win. While
Churchill took third place,
Redmond settled for fifth
A 3-pointer by Samaje Mor-
place.
gan gave Churchill a 65-61
“Unforgettable season with
the guys,” said Redmond coach lead with 55 seconds left, but
Redmond kept it close, and
Reagan Gilbertson. “It’s not
about the wins and losses. This a Tanner Jones’ 3-pointer cut
the lead to 67-66 with 8 sec-
is a special group of young
onds left. But the Lanc-
men. Our goal was to
ers were able to run
win a state cham-
out the clock with
pionship, but we
Inside
smart passing on
played our hearts
High school
the ensuing pos-
out, we just abso-
schedule and results
session.
lutely battled. It
in Scoreboard, B2
Garrett Os-
just shows what
borne led Red-
kind of people
mond with 28
they are and what
points. Evan Otten
grit they have.”
added 14 points and 18
The game was tied
rebounds, and Nathan Wachs
34-34 at halftime, but the
finished with 10 points and
Lancers went on a run in the
five assists.
third quarter to take a 46-39
“It was a special season for
lead by the end of the period.
sure,” Osborne said. “We were
a lot better than I thought
we ever would have been. It’s
something special that I will
remember for a long time.”
Otten said he will remember
this season as “playing basket-
ball with my best friends.”
“You’re making deeper
friendships,” Otten said. “The
season was awesome. Coming
into this No. 1 and going 10-0
in league, that was awesome. I
will never forget this season.”
Morgan led Churchill with
28 points, seven assists and
three steals.
“He’s a special player, on
both ends of the floor,” Gilbert-
son said of Morgan.
See Redmond / B3
PREP BOYS BASKETBALL | 6A STATE TOURNAMENT
Storm toppled
in state final
Summit’s dream season, long winning streak
come to a close in 67-49 loss to Tualatin
— Bulletin staff report
Crook County
finishes sixth in 5A
CORVALLIS — No. 3
Crook County lost to No. 1
Willamette 61-54 Saturday
in the fourth-place game
at the Class 5A girls bas-
ketball state tournament
at Gill Coliseum.
The Cowgirls (22-5)
finished in sixth place,
and the team accepted
the state trophy after the
game.
Emma Bales led Crook
County with 19 points and
14 rebounds in the loss.
Josie Kasberger added 13
points and 10 rebounds.
“They gave everything
they can give,” Crook
County coach Bob Boback
said. “They got down and
they didn’t lose any confi-
dence, they kept playing
hard. That’s what these
girls have done all year.
They work till the very end.”
The Cowgirls trailed
20-7 at the end of the first
quarter but came back to
make it close toward the
end. A layup by Kasberger
cut the lead to 56-52 with
1:57 left in the game, but
that’s as close as they
would come.
“We came out and won
the second half,” Boback
said.
Brynn Smith led Wil-
lamette with 19 points.
Victoria Nguyen added 14
points, six assists and five
steals.
“We won more games
this year than (Crook
County) won the last five
years combined,” Boback
said. “These girls put in the
work and stayed together.
It’s just a great bunch.”
— Mark Morical, The Bulletin
Rockne Andrew Roll/Photos for The Bulletin
Summit’s Caden Harris, center, evades a block from Tualatin’s Jaden Steppe in the Class 6A state championship game Saturday at the Chiles Center in Portland. Harris scored
a team-high 15 points.
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
The Bulletin
PORTLAND — The scoring runs that
Summit often went on throughout the
course of a winning streak that started last
season just never came Saturday. And each
time the Storm looked as though they had
Summit head coach Jon Frazier helps Julian Mora to
his feet after the Storm’s loss to Tualatin in the 6A state
championship game Saturday in Portland.
a scoring outburst brewing, Tualatin would
respond with a bigger run of its own.
When the seconds ticked down and the final
horn sounded, the scoreboard read 67-49 in favor
of Tualatin. The Timberwolves went home with a
first-place blue 6A trophy, while the Storm will re-
turn to Bend with a silver one.
“We had no regrets,” said Summit coach Jon Fra-
zier. “To win that type of game you have you have
to have a few things go your way. I felt like every
time we had a chance to answer and close the gap,
Tualatin answered.”
Tualatin led 8-7 with a couple minutes left in the
first quarter and never looked back, often playing
with a double-digit edge. Noah Ogoli had 24 points
and nine rebounds while Josiah Lake had 12 points
and 15 rebounds for the Timberwolves in the win.
See Summit / B3
MOTOR SPORTS | NASCAR CUP SERIES
Uncomfortably numb: Reddick
deals with leg issues at Phoenix
BY DAVID BRANDT
Associated Press
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Tyler
Reddick is enjoying his status
among NASCAR’s fastest driv-
ers through the season’s first
three races, adapting quickly
to the sport’s Next Gen car that
has provided solid racing and
a new degree of difficulty for
many drivers.
The only issue is Reddick
can’t seem to get comfortable
in his Chevrolet’s seat, leading
to numbness in his legs.
That, of course, is a pretty
big problem for a driver in a
3,200-pound hunk of steel that
can move over 150 mph.
“You know, I just think I was
in a really good place in that
old car for such a long time
and didn’t realize how easy
or how bad you could end up
missing it, the comfort side of
things,” Reddick said.
If Reddick can find a way to
fix his leg issues, he might just
find a spot in victory lane for
the first time in his NASCAR
career.
The 26-year-old, who is in
his third season with Richard
Childress Racing, has led the
most laps (90) of any driver so
far this season.
So far, those laps up front
haven’t led to great finishes in
2022.
He was 35th at Daytona and
24th at Fontana after he was
doomed by a flat tire before a
seventh-place showing at Las
Vegas last week.
See NASCAR / B3
John Raoux/AP
Tyler Reddick stands in the garage after NASCAR Cup Series practice at
Daytona International Speedway Feb. 15 in Daytona Beach, Florida.