Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Victories and Losses of Note

Victories of Note

Prairie 54 Union 28

In what looked like a 1-2 match-up in the 3A Girl's Greater St. Helens Conference, the Prairie Girls dispatched what appears to be their closest competition with a 26 point drubbing.


Napavine 59 Pe Ell 38

The Napavine girls just keep on winning! They are 8-0 and 6-0 in the tough Central 2B League.

Kalama 69 Ilwaco 56

Robby Sanders continued his torrid ways with a 22 point effort Tuesday night as Kalama took another step towards the Trico League lead. Mark Pollock scored 24 and while Brandon Walker had 8 assists with 12 points from the point position. Kalama continues to impress.

Stevenson 68 Castle Rock 47

Stevenson made the most of a home game and dealt a serious blow to Castle Rock. Stevenson and Ilwaco are now the ones to watch for 2nd in the Boy's Trico.

Toledo 80 Rochester 34

Toledo is now 8-1 and what is more surprising is that Tiffany Tornow put up her usual numbers but Candi Zion scored just 6 points. Several unheralded names like Brittany Hope, and Lia Lucas put up double digits.

La Center 57 White Salmon 25

The La Center girls have just quietly won. That now sets up a great match-up with Castle Rock on Friday.

Losses of Note

Black Hills 59 Centralia 48

In my continuing crusade that says you can’t rank them without watching them in person. My economic stimulus plan would have more prep reporters in the stands actually watching games.

This goes under the heading of "the experts know nothing". Centralia, unbeaten and ranked 5th in the state were taken to the woodshed by 2-6 Black Hills. The Tacoma News Tribune had Centralia ranked 5th this week, but a pair of eyes would reveal that Centralia's unbeaten streak was the result of little competition not superior play and talent by the Tigers. In a pre-season jamboree, 1A Winlock put 27-14 licking on them in a quarter of play. Now, how does that match-up with 9th ranked River Ridge look on Friday?

9 comments:

  1. I believe Centralia is 6th in the state and River Ridge is 4th in the state. But i get what your saying about how Centralia hasn't beat anybody good yet.

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  2. You are right...but my point was that they never blonged on the list to begin with. Perhaps in the upper 1/3 of all 2A schools, but definately not 6th.

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  3. Well looking at Centralia's schedule they play River Ridge friday, and then they play at Hoquiam next tuesday, and Hoquiam is also ranked 10th in state so Centralia by look at things have a good chance at going on a 3 game loosing streak, and a 1-3 league record and thats not how you want to start out in league play this year.

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  4. Good call...Centralia will be on the cusp of making District. I hope they can come through.

    Thanks for your comments!

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  5. Do you know who Centralia plays after Hoquiam?
    and if its home or away?
    I really like the site you got going here too.

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  6. 1/16 River Ridge
    1/20 at Hoquiam
    1/22 at Elma
    1/24 Aberdeen
    1/28 W.F. West

    That is a tough four game stretch!

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  7. Well except for Elma.
    How many teams from The Evergreen conference do you think will make it to state?

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  8. Ya, I was getting the Elma girls team mixed up with the Elma boys team. So they will go 2 and 3 over the next couple of weeks.

    I think two...from the Evergreen (River Ridge and Hoquiam) and Mark Morris from the St. Helens.

    Did you see the note that I wrote you on your site?

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  9. Hey yea i just saw it and i think it would be great.
    I was just trying to get some talk going.

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