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Blaine girls win division championship

By Neil MacDonald

Blaine defeated Sultan 60-37 on February 20 down south and Lakewood 66-31 on February 18 at Blaine in NCC girls basketball action to extend their undefeated skein to 22 (they won their last two games while finishing fifth at State in 2002).

This season’s 20-0 overall and 16-0 NCC record made Coach Pat Green’s machine the first Lady B unit to go through a regular season undefeated in the school’s history.

Having earned a bye in the initial round at District, Blaine plays the winner of the Lakewood-Granite Falls first round game on March 1 in Mt. Vernon.

Jessica Summers led the Lady B’s against Sultan, scoring 20 points and getting 9 rebounds. Linsey Taylor added 11 points; Shela Robertson, 7; Ainsley Nix, 6; Kimberly Harmening, 4; Amanda Stull, 4; Jennifer Kramer, 3; Phillina Cain, 2; Rochelle Jackson, 2; and Kristina Francis, 1.

The Cougar contest was the template for the Sultan assault.

Sophomore guard Francis, Blaine’s ruler of the rim, and junior post Summers of Inside Influence Inc. matched the entire Cougar contingent in points. They did a few other things as well. Francis tallied 14 points, 9 assists and 8 rebounds. Summers scored 17 points and recovered 11 rebounds.

Non-starters Harmening and Cain reflected the interchangeable quality of the Green Machine, coming of the bench to score 9 and 8 points respectively. Kramer got 6 points; Nix, 4; and Robertson, 2.

Taylor, the team’s lone graduating senior, was her usual unusually adept offensively defensive guard, scoring 6 points and making defense her domain. Anyone approaching a lane Taylor was guarding was going the wrong way on a one-way street.

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