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Sophomore girls win district tournament to end 20-1 season
The Mountain Home Lady Tiger sophomores did something no other sophomore girls basketball team has been able to do this season -- beat Middleton. They did it once in the last game of the regular season, and they did it again Saturday morning to win the District III 4A Sophomore Girls Tournament championship.
Earlier in the week they beat Columbia to advance to the championship game.
Mtn. Home 39
Columbia 14
Mountain Home had little problem with Columbia last Monday night, rolling to a 39-14 win over the Lady Wildcats in the semi-finals of the district sophomore tourney.
Mountain Home led, 13-4, after a quarter, and extended its lead to 22-7, at halftime. An 11-1 edge in the third quarter put the game out of reach, and they coasted from there, 39-14.
Rachel Warila led Mountain Home in scoring with 10 points, Amanda Osborn, Jennica Quintal and Alex Schmidt each scored eight. Lindsay Sessions added four, and Arlene Futch had one point.
Mtn. Home 45
Middleton 41
Mountain Home made it two straight over Middleton, beating the Lady Vikings 45-41 for the district sophomore championship at Nampa High School Saturday morning.
Mountain Home shot out to a 14-6 lead in the first quarter, but Middleton narrowed the lead to 14-11 after a quarter.
The Lady Tigers kept the lead throughout the second period, and went into the locker room at halftime up 21-17.
Middleton regained the lead late in the third quarter, 29-28, but Alex Schmidt scored and added a free throw to put Mountain Home up, 31-29, with 1:07 left in the quarter. Kenna Hopkins scored in the closing seconds to tie the game at 31-31, heading into the fourth quarter.
Rachel Warila and Amanda Osborn scored early to put the Lady Tigers up 35-31. Middleton cut it to 35-33, but Rachel Warila hit two free throws and added a basket with 5:20 left to make it a 39-33 Mountain Home lead.
Kenna Hopkins and Ashley Bryant scored for Middleton to cut the lead to 39-37, but Rachel Warila scored again, and Lindsay Sessions scored with 1:08 left to push the lead back to six, 43-39.
Lil McKinley scored for Middleton, and Shelby Grever sank two free throws with 21 seconds left to cut the lead to 43-41.
Rachel Warila sank two free throws with two seconds left to make it a 45-41 final.
"Pre-game I said it would come down to consistency -- they're going to make runs, we're going to make runs, and that's what these girls have to do is stay consistent if they they want to win, and consistency is going to win the game," said a happy Lady Tiger sophomore coach Stehvn Tesar after the game.
Rachel Warila led the Lady Tigers with 15 points and nine rebounds. Alex Schmidt added 11 points and eight rebounds as Mountain Home won the battle on the boards, 33-22. Amanda Osborn scored nine points, Jennica Quintal and Lindsay Sessions both had four, and Arlene Futch scored two.
Other members of the Lady Tiger sophomore team are Fatima Guillen, Brittany Wagner, Erika Hyde and Cheyenne Castillo.
The Lady Tiger sophomores finished 20-1 overall.