SPORTS: Capital beats Port Angeles in a girls basketball bi-district seeding game; other prep reports

OLYMPIA — The Port Angeles girls basketball team played three solid quarters in its sub-district seeding game against Capital on Tuesday night.

Yet the Roughriders needed one more to beat the Western Cascade Conference champions.

The Cougars rode a 22-6 third quarter to a 66-53 victory Tuesday, dropping the Riders into the No. 2 seed for the Class 3A Bi-District tournament.

“Capital is a game that we should win, but we have to play four quarters,” Port Angeles coach Mike Knowles said.

“In our league we can play three quarters and win. Here we’ve got to play four quarters.”

That’s especially true of the Riders’ first-round opponent in the 3A Bi-District, SPSL champion Kennedy (18-3 overall), on Saturday night in Auburn.

It’s the same team that knocked off the Riders in the first round of last year’s Bi-District.

Port Angeles (18-3) must win one of its next two games in the double-elimination tournament in order to advance to state.

Considering the Riders are coming off a 13-game win streak — snapped by the Cougars on Tuesday — Knowles was still upbeat after the loss.

“We’ve got to go into it with a positive attitude,” Knowles said. “We’re a better team than we were last year. I think we can give them a good run.

“We’ve got to win one of the next two games to get to the next level and that’s our focus.”

Game-high 29 points

Capital’s Tosha Hollingsworth, the WCC MVP, scored 24 of her game-high 29 points in the second half.

That included a 13-point third quarter which vaulted the Cougars to a victory.

“In the second half she started attacking the rim and our defense wasn’t stopping her,” Knowles said.

“She’s a good, solid player. She’s quick and strong. We just didn’t do our job tonight in the second half.”

Hollingsworth’s scoring outburst offset a game performance from Port Angeles’ Jessica Madison, who scored 24 points while battling through an illness.

Teammate Skylar Jones added 16 points for the Riders, who got points from only four players on the night.

The Riders got back to within four points in the fourth quarter, but Capital responded with a couple of baskets to put the game away.

“We just had a dead third quarter and could never fight out of it,” Knowles said. “We just could not shoot the ball. We came out real flat.”

Port Angeles’ game against Kennedy is set for 8 p.m. on Saturday at Auburn High School.

Capital 66, Port Angeles 53

Port Angeles 20 11 6 16 — 53

Capital 16 10 22 18 — 66

Individual Scoring

Port Angeles (53)

Knowles 7, S. Jones 16, Madison 24, Jeffers 6.

Capital (63)

Hollingsworth 29, Wright 2, Antles 6, Eclenstrom 6, Goodman 13, White 2, Myers 3, Wilkerson 5.

Cedar Park 45 Port Townsend 44

BOTHELL — Down by nine points in the third quarter, the Redskins came battling back to tie the game late in the final minute, only to have their season end by a single point difference to Cedar Park Christian.

“The way we played this game was a perfect example of how well we improved at the end of the regular season,” Port Townsend coach Randy Maag said.

The Redskins went 7-9 at the free-throw line in the final quarter to close in on a lead.

Brooke Little led the scoring for Port Townsend with 11 points.

Bell Fox had 10 while Caroline Dowdle added nine for the Redskins.

With the loss, Port Townsend’s season is over.

Cedar Park 45, Port Townsend 44

Port Townsend 10 8 13 13 — 44

Cedar Park 10 17 12 6 — 45

Individual Scoring

Port Townsend (44)

Little 11, Dowdle 9, Fox 10, Evalt 5, Russell 4, Barnett 3, Maag 2.

Cedar Park (45)

Stauderacher 19, Raschick 18, Halverson 5, Fouts 3.

Boys Basketball Eatonville 66, Sequim 57

TACOMA — The Cruisers ended Sequim’s state tournament hopes behind a fourth-quarter offensive eruption in Tuesday night’s loser-out sub-district game.

Erik Swartout scored nine of his team-high 19 points during a final frame that saw Eatonville outscore the Wolves 24-12.

“We came out of the locker room and played pretty well, and then they got hot,” Sequim (10-12 overall) coach Greg Glasser said.

“A couple of their big guns made some big shots.”

So, too, did Sequim’s.

Senior John Textor ended his Wolves career with 23 points, while sophomore Corbin Webb added 17.

Yet that wasn’t enough to beat an Eatonville team that answered every Sequim run with a run of its own.

“We just gave up a lot of easy lay-ins in the first and second half that just killed us,” Glasser said.

Sequim had to play the loser-out sub-district game after KingCo power Interlake qualified for the 2A West Central District tournament with a 7-13 record.

The Wolves finished tied for fourth in the Olympic League with a 9-7 league record, beating rival Port Angeles twice in the same season for the first time since 2001.

“I’m very proud of the team,” Glasser said.

“I’m happy that we competed almost every time we stepped on the floor.

“When they got down they still battled back. I will remember them for how they kept fighting.

“They battled all year long and every game that we played.”

Textor is one of four seniors, including Clancey Catelli, Jeremie Oliver and Jordan Alcafaras, who played their last game Tuesday.

Another, guard Michael Dunning, was unable to play because of an ankle injury.

“John played real well [tonight],” Glasser said. “I’m happy for the way he went out. It’s nice for him to finish with one of his better offensive games.

“This group of seniors has made some great memories, and that’s what I think it’s all about.”

Eatonville 66, Sequim 57

Eatonville 14 18 10 24 — 66

Sequim 9 19 17 12 — 57

Individual Scoring

Eatonville (66)

Callahan 18, Evans 6, Hancock 12, Swartout 17, Fareheart 3, Horiskey 10.

Home (57)

Meier 3, Webb 17, Textor 23, C. Catelli 3, Oliver 4, F. Catelli 7.

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