Joshua Hall had 30 points and 10 rebounds, and Justin Schauer added 22 points and seven rebounds as the Hockinson boys basketball team got its first win over Mark Morris in school history, beating the Monarchs 73-66 in Longview on Tuesday.
“Our school has only been open for seven years, but this is still a big win,” Hockinson coach Matt Gruhler said. “It’s the first league loss for Mark Morris since they moved to 2A.”
Hockinson, which hadn’t played a game since Dec. 16, spent the past couple of weeks getting ready for the Monarchs.
“Basically, we played solid defensive,” Gruhler said. “We worked on our defense over the break, because Mark Morris does things on offense that other teams in our league do. And we just made it tough on them.”
Hockinson has won three of its past four game games after starting the season 1-4.
“This was our best performance of the year,” Gruhler said. “We played hard for 32 minutes, and we had some kids step up and knock down some big shots, which is something we haven’t done a lot this year.”
Boys basketball
Hudson’s Bay 64, Prairie 58 — Darius Goldman and Tra Ponder led the way as the visiting Eagles finished strong to defeat the Falcons.
Goldman scored 22 points and Ponder 18 as Hudson’s Bay improved to 9-1 overall, and the duo accounted for 16 of their team’s 22 points in the fourth quarter.
Keaton Jackson had 16 points and 16 rebounds for Prairie.
Camas 60, Columbia River 33 — Jacob Kaler scored 13 points and Bryan Butler added 10 in a balanced attack as the Papermakers rolled. The Camas lead was in double digits at halftime, and doubled in the third period.
The Papermakers shot 50 percent from the field while limiting the Chieftains to 22.5 percent accuracy, Preuninger said.
Isaiah Smith led Columbia River with 16 points.
Mountain View 69, Fort Vancouver 36 — A 24-6 first quarter sent the host Thunder to a comfortable 3A GSHL victory. Zach Torson scored 17 points, Josh Parker 15 and Ryan Johnson 13 for Mountain View (4-5, 1-1).
Ridgefield 63, Toledo 44 — Michael Potter scored 20 points and Sam Landerholm 16 as the Spudders won at home. Ridgefield (6-5, 4-1 Trico) used a big second quarter to take command, outscoring Toldeo 22-12 as Landerholm scored 12 in that period.
Ilwaco 66, La Center 58 — Karl Oman scored 31 points to lead the host Fishermen to the win. Ilwaco attempted 22 more free throws than did La Center and outscored the Wildcats 24-3 from the line. Austin Meyers had 21 points and 11 rebounds for La Center (6-3, 1-2 Trico).
Girls basketball
At Union 56, Battle Ground 51 — Union outscored Battle Ground 27-5 in the fourth quarter and erased a 10-point deficit in the final 3:41 to hand Battle Ground its first loss of the season.
“We just got some momentum,” Union coach Roger Sheppard said. “We’re a young team. They got some stops, hit some shots and got a little belief in themselves.”
Angelique Wiilliams and Tuileisu Anderson had a pair of 3-pointers each in the fourth quarter to spark the fourth-quarter charge for the Titans.
Williams finished with a game-high 21 points, while Anderson added 16. Haley Hamilton and Haley Grossman had 12 points each to lead Battle Ground.
At Skyview 46, Evergreen 43 — The Storm had three players foul out in the fourth quarter as Evergreen whittled a 13-point deficit down to one. But the Storm got a late stop and held on to win.
Skyview led 39-26 after three quarters. In the fourth quarter, Brooke Bowen, Katie Swanson and Delaney Keser fouled out for Skyview.
Aubrey Ward-El led Skyview with 13 points, and Stephanie McDonagh addded 11.
Justine Joudrey had 17 to lead Evergreen, which struggled from the free-throw line, making only 13 of 34 attempts.
Camas 56, Columbia River 22 — The host Papermakers outscored the Chieftains 37-8 over the middle two quarters. Eleven players scored for Camas, led by Kendra Preuninger’s 12 points.
Mountain View 51, at Fort Vancouver 28 — Carly Holboke scored 15 points and Emma Duschesne added 11 as the Thunder pulled away for the victory.
Mountain View outscored Fort 28-12 in the second half. Jenna Jones added 10 for the Thunder.
Prairie 75, Hudson’s Bay 27 — Meghan Lindsley had 19 points as the Falcons improved to 9-0. Ten players scored for Prairie, which led 50-10 by halftime.
At Ridgefield 59, Toledo 35 — Amanda Coulimore and Lizzy Vance combined to scored 15 of Ridgefield’s 21 third-quarter points as the Spudders pulled away after halftime.
Mark Morris 52, Hockinson 48 — Cold shooting from the line sunk the host Hawks, who finished 9 for 23 from the stripe in the narrow loss. Tayler Blackman led the Monarchs with 16 points. For Hockinson, Jenna Haagen had 12 points and Sam Anders scored 10.
Ridgefield led 22-20 at halftime. But Coulimore scored all of her nine points, and Vance scored all six of her points in the third quarter as Ridgefield held a 21-6 advantage in the period. Both players had five steals in the quarter. Jessica Shaffer had her best game of the year with 17 points for Ridgefield.
Woodland 60, R.A. Long 27 — Charity Arn had 26 points, eight rebounds, six assists and five steals as the Beavers rolled to victory in Longview.
Ilwaco 53, La Center 40 — The host Fishermen won the fourth quarter 22-8 as their pressure forced La Center into turnovers down the stretch. Kiley Monson’s 15 points paced the Wildcats.
Three Rivers Christian 48, King’s Way/Seton 40 — Three Rivers from Kelso had three players score in double figures. King’s Way/Seton had two players score. Edrienne Chan had 23 points in her season debut after recovering from a preseason knee injury — before leaving with a foot injury in the third quarter.
