FOREST GROVE — Early-morning woes were apparently not an issue for Sisters High on Friday.

Maintaining a hot hand, however, was a different story.

The No. 8-seeded Outlaws seemed unstoppable in the first half of a consolation semifinal game against No. 4 La Grande, hitting 5 of 7 3-pointers and shooting a scorching 61.9 percent overall to build a 10-point halftime lead.

After the break, however, Sisters returned to earth. The Sky-Em League champion shot just 6-for-18 in the second half, including 1 of 7 from long range, and La Grande, on a layup with four seconds remaining, erased a 13-point deficit to rally for a 57-56 victory at the Class 4A boys basketball state tournament at Pacific University to end the Outlaws’ season.

With Jack Berg scoring 10 of his 12 points during the first two quarters and Zach Anderson recording eight of his 11 points over the same span, Sisters (17-10 overall) went into the half on top 37-27. The Outlaws closed the second quarter with a 14-4 surge and were cruising, while La Grande shot just 38.9 percent from the floor.

Anderson buried a jumper midway through the third quarter to stake Sisters, in the state tournament for the first time since 2012, to its largest lead of the game at 46-33. The Outlaws, however, then went cold.

Over the next 7 minutes, 21 seconds, Sisters was 0-for-5 shooting and committed six turnovers.

“We had trouble with turnovers,” said Outlaws coach David Godfrey, “and kind of shot ourselves in the foot.”

The Tigers, meanwhile, ripped off a 15-2 charge to even the score 48-48 before a Ty Horner tip-in with just over three minutes to go gave Sisters a two-point lead. After La Grande (18-8) went up 53-52, Horner hit a layup to put the Outlaws back in front 54-53 with 1:33 to play. A Tigers turnover led to two made free throws by Sisters’ Isaiah Rush, pushing Sisters’ advantage to 56-53 with 34 seconds remaining.

But La Grande, champion of the Greater Oregon League, closed strong. Hunter Youngblood, who scored eight points on 4-for-5 shooting in the fourth quarter, made a layup with 23 seconds to go, and after a missed free throw by the Outlaws’ Noah Richards, Youngblood found space for another lay-in with four seconds left. And a missed 3-pointer by Horner at the buzzer sealed La Grande’s comeback win.

Horner, a senior who has committed to play for NCAA Division II Biola University (La Mirada, California), led Sisters with 18 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks. Berg was 5-for-6 from the floor and had five boards for the Outlaws, whose four turnovers in the fourth quarter resulted in eight points for La Grande. Nojah Chamberlain and G.T. Blackman each scored 16 points for the Tigers.

“It was a great experience for us,” said Godfrey, a former Sisters assistant who took over for the Outlaws shortly before the start of the season when longtime head coach Rand Runco unexpectedly stepped away from the position for the year.

“I feel sorry for our seniors,” Godfrey added. “We were real competitive. We had a chance to win both games here, and that’s a positive thing.”