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La Pine girls basketball moves on
Hawks reach Class 4A semifinals
By Bulletin Staff Report
Published: March 11. 2010 4:00AM PST
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La Pine's Brittany Glenn advances the ball during a Class 4A state tournament quarterfinal against Cascade Wednesday night at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis. Glenn scored 19 points for La Pine..
Laura McCracken / For The Bulletin
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CORVALLIS — Casey Wright was seven of nine from the field. Brittany Glenn made 11 of 16 free throws. Kassi Conditt blocked nine shots to go with 18 rebounds. And together, the La Pine trio scored 52 points.
Those numbers added up to an impressive 65-54 victory for the Hawks over Cascade in a Class 4A girls basketball championship quarterfinal game Wednesday night at Gill Coliseum.
The win — No. 20 of the season for the defending-champion Hawks — advanced La Pine into the semifinal round of the eight-team state tournament. The Hawks (20-9) will play Sky-Em League rival Cottage Grove on Friday night at 6:30, looking to return to the 4A final.
“A great team effort is what it was,” said Kim Beer, the La Pine head coach, after watching his squad hand Cascade just its third loss of the season. “Nobody was playing for themselves tonight. As a coach, that's fun to see.”
Conditt's nine blocks were a 4A state tournament record, and Wright finished with a game-high 20 points to go with 14 rebounds. But Beer reserved his highest praise for Glenn, a junior guard who helped pick up the slack when Meagan McReynolds encountered foul trouble that limited her playing time and ultimately disqualified her from the game.
“I can't say enough about how she stepped up,” said Beer of Glenn, whose 19 points were a career high. “She really turned it up.”
Glenn was especially clutch in the fourth quarter, when she made eight of 10 free throws to help La Pine salt the game away.
In a mid-December contest at La Pine, Cascade, which went on to win the Capital Conference, beat the Hawks handily, 72-60.
In Wednesday night's game, Cascade (22-3) shot just 26 percent from the field (19 for 73) and made only three of its 24 three-point attempts. Tava Lewis led the Cougars with 18 points.
For the Hawks, Friday night's semifinal game means a rematch with Cottage Grove, whose march to the Sky-Em League title included two victories over La Pine.
The Hawks, who finished third in the Sky-Em, lost at home to the Lions in January, 54-43, and fell at Cottage Grove in February, 57-49.
La Pine and Cottage Grove also met in last year's state tournament — in the championship final, which the Hawks won 40-32.
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