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The Mary M. Knight girls' basketball team holds
friends after losing to Taholah in the final game
on Monday, Feb. 20, in Montesano.
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Journal photo by Emily Hanson
its second-place trophy up for family and
of the District IV Girls' Basketball Tournament
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MMK girls will play Northwest
Yeshiva on Saturday in Lacey
By EMILY HANSON
The Mary M. Knight girls' basketball team lost its fi-
nal district game, taking second place this week.
On Saturday, Feb. 18, the Lady Owls defeated King's
Way Christian 44-42 in Montesano.
"We started out a little sluggish after not playing a
game in a week," head coach Lance Valley said. "Our de-
fensive intensity wasn't there and they were getting easy
baskets."
The Lady Owls were down 30-19 going into halftime.
"In the second half, we switched to a zone defense to
force outside shots," Valley said. "We were down by 13
midway through the third quarter. Our defense picked
up and we started taking care of the ball."
Down by four, the Lady Owls entered the final quar-
ter, where they outscored King's Way Christian 12-6.
"Sophomore Hannah Frost made one of two free
throws to tie the game at 42 with one minute left," Valley
said. "Our defense made a stop on defense and we had
the chance to win with 23 seconds left."
He said King's Way ChriStian deflected the ball from
freshman Miranda Sowle but eighth-grader Jaycee
Valley dove for the ball and passed it to senior Linda
Cook.
"Cook passed to senior Emily Johnson on the free
throw line and she drove for a left-handed layin with 10
seconds left," coach Valley said.
Freshman Lauren Dierkop led the Lady Owls with 12
points while Sowle scored nine and sophomore Ashley
Kiliz put up seven.
Johnson grabbed 14 rebounds, three steals and passed
out five assists while Jaycee Valley snatched four re-
bounds, two steals and handed out four assists. Sowle
grabbed eight rebounds and gave out two assists.
N"I am really proud of the girls' never-
quit attitude," coach Valley said.
On Monday, Feb. 20, the Lady Owls
played for the District 1B Girls' Bas-
ketball Championship against Tahoiah,
losing 48-43 in Montesano.
FRIDAY: "This game came down to taking care
Taholah ....... 48 of the ball and making our kill shots
MarylV[~_43 and neither happened," coach Valley
said. "The first quarter we handled
TOMORROW: their press and ended up by nine at the
Mary M. Knight end of the quarter. In the second quar-
vs. Northwest ter, we made errant passes and missed
Yeshiva, easy shots and they climbed back in the
8:30 p.m. at game."
Timberline He said the Lady Owls did a good job
using the zone defense to force outside
shots but gave Taholah too many sec-
ond-chance points.
"We shot ourselves in the foot all night with costly
turnovers," Valley added. "I give them credit for hitting
big shots when needed."
Sophomore Carlie Adsero led the Lady Owls with 12
points and seven rebounds while Jaycee Valley scored 10
points and grabbed four steals.
Cook put up six points and snatched eight rebounds
while Johnson grabbed 15 rebounds and passed out three
assists.
"We came out really strong and confident because
we've been preparing for these situations all year," Ad-
sero said. "We didn't meet our goal but we're not going
to hang our heads becfiuse we still have a couple games
left. I think this game was an eye-opener that it's still
possible for us to lose and it'll push us in our dedica-
tion."
Lance Valley said he was proud of the girls and the
way they played and never quit.
The Lady Owls begin the 2012 1B Girls' Basketball
Regional Tournament this weekend with an 8:30 p.m.
game against Northwest Yeshiva on Saturday, Feb. 25,
at Timberline High School in Lacey.
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Arena proposal could keep basketball tradition alive
It was as big a moment as any
middle-school basketball player
could imagine.
My seventh-grade YMCA basketball
team had just won our league's
championship. After fours years of
mediocriW, our group often 13-year-
olds did what we never expected --
topped our most bitter rival in the
biggest game of our young lives.
It was a moment I'll always
remember. It was just like that
afternoon I heard that the Seattle
SuperSonics -- the reason I laced up
my sneakers and practiced free throws
in my front yard in the first place --
were leaving town.
In 2008, the Sonics moved from
Seattle to Oklahoma City, taking
with them a legacy of basketball that
I feared would never return to the
Northwest.
Those fears were replaced by
cautious optimism last week.
On Thursday, Feb. 16, Seattle
Mayor Mike
McGinn and King
County Executive
Dow Constantine
unveiled a $490
million arena plan
that, if approved,
would likely bring
By ADAM back the NBA to
RUDNICK the Northwest. The
arena could also
bring an NHL team
to Seattle.
While the particulars of the deal are
still nebulous, I'm embracing the idea.
When the Sonics moved, I was upset
that a generation of 13-year-olds would
not have the same experience that
I did. I worried that a generation of
children would miss out on basketball.
I feared they the would not practice
flat-footed 3-pointers like "Big Smooth"
Sam Perkins used to shoot; the idea of
kids not knowing about "The Glove"
G:::~3, PaY~'c~ was a w(~ i~,~ ! d:-~'~ want
to live in.
This new arena deal gives me hope
-- with a healthy dose ofjournalistic
skepticism I've developed in the years
since we won our Y league -- that our
young basketball fans will not miss out
on what myself and many others had to
look up to when we were younger.
I hope that young Mason County
middle-schoolers are enthusiastic at
the idea of having another professional
basketball team in the area. And who
knows? Maybe the addition of an NHL
team in Washington will encourage
a new generation of children to take
to the ice and become enraptured
by a sport they hadn't otherwise
considered.
While the new arena is by no means
a slam dunk yet, I'm hopeful that
elected officials and private parties can
come together to make my dream a
reality.
If not for me, then they should do it
for the 13 :z-old version of me.
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