A big part of my life that isn't politics, is high school (yeah yeah). This is a quick tip of the hat to the Phoenix Pirates and Illinois Valley Cougars, who both won on the road last night and will share the Skyline Conference (3a) Girls' Basketball Title.
A quick roundup can be found here at the Mail Tribune, but I'll add a bit.
Phoenix's Jaclyn Unruh led all scorers in Murphy with 18, as Phoenix downed Hidden Valley 50-32. Jac (also the 1st team All-State goalkeeper from my soccer team) leads the league with 295 points scored over 22 games. IV's Sheena Cole tallied 22 in toppling the Mazama Vikings in Klamath Falls. Both are solid contenders for Player of the Year (so is IV's Emily Dudley).
Both teams finish league play 10-2, though IV's season mark seems a solid 19-5 while Phoenix managed a 12-10 mark for their season campaign, thus far. IV did get wins against 2a teams while Phoenix was weathering contest with 4a South Medford, Crater, and Eagle Point. The teams are fairly even when measured agains other Oregon 3a teams (IV 13-4, Phx 11-5). (I get my numbers from NC Eagle, an expatriate Oregonian (from Stayton, living in North Carolina) maintains a great 3a hoops page, which allows Oregon's basketball fans to track pretty much anything they want.)
While the league had a two-way tie at the top, they also had a three-way tie at #3. North Valley, Hidden Valley, and Henley all ended up 6-6, and when sorting out that situation, the first tie-breaker was the collective head to head records within the three of them HV was 3-1, NV 2-2, and Henley 1-3 in games just involving each other. Oddly enough, Hidden Valley is the one team in that trio to be 0-4 to the co-champs - both NV and Henley snuck in wins against the Bucs or Cougs.
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