CORVALLIS — Second chances should be taken, not given. Todd Ervin will be the first to tell you that.

Bend High was pounding the paint at Gill Coliseum on Friday, allowing the No. 6-seeded Lava Bears to overcome a slow start and build an eight-point lead over No. 5 Silverton by the middle of the second quarter. During Bend’s run, the Foxes were shooting a meager 13 percent from the field, at one point missing nine straight shots.

Still, the Lava Bears could not pull away. Turnovers and errant shots kept the door open for Silverton — which sprang at the opportunity to knock the door off its hinges.

The Foxes closed the second quarter strong to trail by just one point at the half. Another 10 straight points to end the third quarter put Silverton in control, and nine consecutive points to open the final period allowed the Mid-Willamette Conference champion to pull away for a 47-29 girls basketball win in the third-place game at the Class 5A state tournament.

“We didn’t capitalize on mistakes that we caused, and they made us pay,” said Ervin, Bend’s coach. “That’s what good teams do. You give them second opportunities, and they’ll take advantage.”

Bend (22-6 overall) placed fifth at the final site for the second straight year, matching the program’s best finish at the state tournament.

“They’re awfully good, and they’re well-coached,” Ervin said of the Foxes, state runners-up last year and 5A champions in 2016. “They have experience at the tournament and in big games. We hung around for a while, but they just kind of took it to us.”

Jori Paradis hit a 3-pointer and followed with a steal and a layup to put Silverton (22-6) on top 5-0. But the Lava Bears, who fell 36-25 at Silverton on Dec. 19, responded with a heavy dose of inside play. While the Foxes went the final five minutes of the first quarter without a point, the Lava Bears grabbed a 6-5 lead heading into the second period and added seven straight points to go up 13-5. Silverton snapped a scoreless drought in excess of eight minutes when Ellie Schmitz hit a jumper midway through the quarter, triggering a 9-2 spurt that helped the Foxes go into the half down 19-18.

“We were pleased at halftime,” Ervin said. “But we just didn’t have a good (third) quarter. And they did.”

After going 2-for-16 from 3-point range in the first half, Silverton found a rhythm from deep in the third quarter, as four 3s and nine points off six Bend turnovers helped the Foxes go up 35-25.

“We knew we weren’t going to shut them out on 3s,” Ervin said. “But when they hit four in the third quarter, that really made it a challenge for us.”

Silverton continued to pull away in the fourth period, and the Lava Bears were held to just four points on 1-for-8 shooting before falling to the Foxes for the second time this year.

Cambree Scott had eight points and seven rebounds for the Lava Bears, and Kaycee Brown added eight points and six boards. Kylee Roath finished with seven points, five rebounds and four assists. Bend will graduate five players from its semifinal team, including Scott, this season’s Intermountain Conference player of the year. But the Lava Bears expect to return the bulk of their roster, including tourney contributors Brown, Sydney Gardner, Trinity Barudoni and Caitlin Wheeler.

“You can’t put a price on that,” Ervin said of those younger players returning after competing at the final site. “It’s an experience you have to be in and go through and learn from to have four kids who played a ton of minutes and come back. It’s huge. It’s absolutely huge.”