Friday, March 29, 2024

Billygoats Regional basketball run ends with loss to Naselle

League, District champions

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nough to meet a playoff opponent following a 300-mile bus trip in questionable road conditions. It’s doubly difficult to make the return ride after coming so close to qualifying for your first state appearance since (year).
That about sums up last weekend for the Pateros Billygoats varsity basketball team that saw its post-season end with a 66-48 loss to a solid Naselle team at Mark Morris High School last Saturday, Feb. 24.
Pateros was trying to create a state juggernaut our of its Central Washington 1B League and District championships that earned the Billygoats an 11-1 regular season record before playoff wins over Entiat and Riverside Christian propelled them into the Regionals.
The Comets took an eight-point lead from the first quarter and added another 26 points in the second quarter against only six from Pateros to take a commanding 46-18 advantage into halftime.
“They were able to take advantage of our 20 turnovers and missed shots,” coach Marcus Stennes said.
Senior Logan Robinson made his last game in a Billygoats’ uniform count with an impressive double-double of 16 points and 14 rebounds. Andrew Gonzalez also scored in double figures with 11 points.
Stennes described his six-foot senior’s performance best when he said that Robinson “played a lot taller than he was this year.”
The last time Pateros won the state championship was in 1996 when there was just a single B league rather than today’s 1B/2B, Stennes said.
The good news is that Pateros will lose only one senior, Robinson, to graduation in June. While that is no small loss, the Billygoats will have a strong group of experienced players returning to the hardwood next season.

Pateros: 12-6-5-19  42
Naselle: 20-26-10-10  66 
Billygoats stats 
Logan Robinson - 16 points, 14 rebounds
Andrew Gonzalez - 11 pts, 6 reb
Sam Larsen - 7 pts ,4 reb, 4 steals
Ethan Freels - 6 pts   
Ivan Ceniceros - 2 pts.
 

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