10A • January 9, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com
Lady Gulls gain experience for league play
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ABOVE: Seaside’s Paige Ideue, with ball, faces a tall order
against Sutherlin’s 6-foot Kayce Mock, 32.
LEFT: Seaside’s Maddi Utti, left, and Sydney Villegas, right,
apply defensive pressure on Sutherlin’s Ricki Mock, 31.
playoff game.
Sutherlin — which won
the Final Four game 44-28
The Seaside Lady Gulls — posted a 46-33 win over
continued their tour through the Gulls in the Jan. 4 game,
the top 10 teams in Class 4A as senior guard Miranda
basketball.
Mendenhall scored 21 points
Having already faced No. for 11-0 Sutherlin.
3 Henley, No. 5 Cascade and
By the time they hit
No. 7 La Grande, the Gulls league play Jan. 20, the de-
hosted No. 1-ranked Suther- fending league champion
lin Jan. 4, in a rematch of a Gulls should be well-pre-
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from last season.
through the Cowapa.
And the rematch turned
“We’ve been running the
into a near repeat of the gauntlet of good teams,” said
By Gary Henley
EO Media Group
Seaside coach Wally Ham-
er. “It was good scheduling.
It was the opposite last year
— we didn’t play as many
tough teams at the begin-
ning. Hopefully this will
toughen us up.
“The girls have really
played hard overall, but hav-
en’t executed as good as we
need to vs. great competi-
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days we played the No. 1 and
2 teams in the state. We need
to play more consistently on
offense to beat those teams
and it didn’t happen.”
Seaside held an early 4-2
lead on two baskets by Mad-
di Utti, and a three-point play
by Utti had the score tied,
9-9.
Sutherlin answered with
a 12-2 run, highlighted by a
pair of 3-pointers from Men-
denhall, and the Gulls could
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points the remainder of the
game.
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through the second half for
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a 37-23 lead, before Utti
scored twice (including a
trey), to cut the lead back to
37-28.
Kayce Mock converted a
three-point play at the 3:21
mark for a 40-28 advantage,
and the Bulldogs made 4-of-
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minutes to clinch the win.
The Bulldogs were play-
ing their eighth straight road
game, which included a
win at Banks Jan. 2 (which
Sutherlin also won by 13,
40-27).
“They move the ball
around, and they don’t turn it
over,” Hamer said. “We need
to do a better job of that. And
Mendenhall got us — she
made some nice shots. We
chose to play a zone on them,
and I’m not sure if that was
the best move.
“They do so many good
cutting things. We just went
with a game plan, and it
didn’t work out so well.”
Utti led the Gulls with 18
points, while Haylee Dundas
had seven rebounds.