The Monday Morning Blast

This Day – Weekend scores from around The Blast Zone; plus LCC vs Mt. Hood basketball ('01), and Wahkiakum vs Mark Morris basketball (1980)

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High School Football

The Toledo Riverhawks lineup against Tri-Cities Prep in the 2B State Championship game, Saturday, Dec. 6, at Husky Stadium. Toledo went on to lose 47-34. / Photo by Ben Hendrickson for Blast Zone Media

2B State Championship

• Tri-Cities Prep 47, Toledo 34

High School Boys Basketball

Saturday

• Columbia Adventist 53, Winlock 49

Friday

• Kelso 60, Mark Morris 36

• Castle Rock 62, Toutle Lake 44

• Adna 74, Winlock 30

• Clatskanie 61, Central Linn 29

High School Girls Basketball

Friday

• Mark Morris 59, Kelso 38

• Castle Rock 51, R.A. Long 37

• Woodland 68, Kalama 25

• Willapa Valley 62, Ilwaco 25

• Central Linn 44, Clatskanie 40

Men’s College Basketball

• Lower Columbia 79, Lane 74 (Sunday)

Women’s College Basketball

• Peninsula 60, Lower Columbia 54 (Saturday)

• Chemeketa 88, Lower Columbia 84 (Sunday)

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This Day In History

• Dec. 7, 2001: The LCC men’s basketball team turns the ball over 26 times, commits 32 fouls, and allows Mt. Hood to corral 24 offensive rebounds and take 49 free throws, but the Red Devils score enough to outweigh all of that in a 109-92 barnburner of a win at Myklebust Gymnasium. The Devils were led by a pair of R.A. Long alumni: Joe Rowberry, who poured in a game-high 30 points, and Jay Van Hook, who scored 29 and added 13 rebounds and seven blocks off the bench.

• Dec. 8, 1980: The Cathlamet girls basketball team has to make due with two of its starters out with injury, but does so well to take down Mark Morris 57-51 in a cross-classification matchup. Junior Shelley Merriman stepped into the leading scorer role for the Mules with 23 points and 14 rebounds, and put the guests ahead for good with a pair of free throws in the final minute. Denise Rose pitched in 14 points for Cathlamet, while Laura McInnis led Mark Morris with 16 points.

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