The Friday Morning Blast

This Day – Scores from around The Blast Zone; plus Mark Morris vs R.A. Long basketball (2004)

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High School Boys Basketball

R.A. Long’s Rylan Burleson celebrates on the bench as the crowd goes wild behind him during a 75-53 win at Mark Morris in the Civil War, Thursday, Feb 5, at Bakamus Gymnasium. / Photo by Benjamin Hendrickson

• R.A. Long 75, Mark Morris 53

• Columbia River 60, Woodland 54

• Kalama 64, Castle Rock 51

• Morton-White Pass 66, Winlock 47

• Naselle 65, North Beach 53

• Oakville 67, Three Rivers Christian 35

High School Girls Basketball

• Oakville 38, Three RIvers Christian 27

This Day In History

• Feb. 6, 2004: The Mark Morris boys basketball team goes on a 10-0 run midway through the fourth quarter to pull away to a 64-60 Civil War win over R.A. Long at the Lumberdome, getting the Jacks back for a defeat on the other side of the lake earlier in the season. Chris Hutton led the Monarchs with a 20-point, 10-rebound double-double, while Josh Wilson poured in 16 points. Adam Perry had 22 points for R.A. Long.
  The Monarchs’ decisive run bookended a fracas at the scorers’ table after a hard foul by Jonah Hobson on Ryan Campbell, between RAL coach Kyle Fowler — who said that MM boss Bill Bakamus had called Hobson an unkind name — and Bakamus — who hadn’t been thrilled with Fowler’s quote to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the month prior comparing Mark Morris’ transfers to a college program. The fiesty night turned out to be the beginning of a historic streak of crosstown success for the Monarchs, who went on to win the next 27 Civil War matchups.

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High School Girls Basketball: Castle Rock sends Coach Garbe out with a win