High School Girls Basketball: Toutle Lake run down by Cle Elum-Roslyn in State quarterfinals
The 2B Tournament – Fighting Ducks fall 68-43; will face No. 7 Adna in loser-out affair Friday
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2B Prep Girls Basketball / State Report
SPOKANE – The No. 6 ranked Toutle Lake girls basketball team went cold from the field at a most unfortunate junction on Thursday. After working hard to keep things close before halftime, the Fighting Ducks scored just three points in the third quarter on the way to a 68-43 loss to No.5 ranked Cle Elum-Roslyn in the quarterfinals of the 2B State Tournament.
“We made a little run in the second and it was manageable at the half,” Toutle Lake head coach Daren Dean said. “But offensively we just went cold in the third quarter and had a few turnovers that were costly.”
The defeat sends the Ducks to the dark side of the bracket where they will face a familiar foe in a loser-out contest – the No. 7 ranked Adna Pirates.
In their quarterfinal affair the Ducks came out looking like they were ready to get the worm in their second straight 9 a.m. tipoff at the Spokane Arena. Toutle Lake came out and went toe to toe with the Warriors over the first four minutes, but a clerical snafu was the first sign of bad things to come for the East Cowlitz County crew.
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