The Mount Shasta High School boy’s basketball team lost a heartbreaker in the last few seconds of Thursday evening’s Holiday Tournament game against the Yreka Miners, but there’s plenty more action to be had through Saturday, said Annarae Baldi of the MSHS Boosters.
Ten boys and girls varsity basketball teams and cheer squads from California and Oregon, including Mount Shasta, Weed, Yreka, Lassen, Hidden Valley, Pierce, Illinois Valley, Del Norte, U-Prep and Fall River are taking part in the tournament, which is organized and hosted by the Boosters.
“We want to encourage everyone to come out and support local athletics,” Baldi said.
The MSHSâgirls won their first game on Thursday afternoon, as did U-Prep. On the boy’s side, the MSHS Bears won one of two games. Hidden Valley and Weed were the other winners.
On Friday afternoon, Hidden Valley’s Cody Krauss won the slam dunk contest after a shoot off with Mount Shasta High School’s Erik Thelander. Lassen’s Brandon Whitestone and Torin Thompson and Illinois Valley’s Jesse Bethke also took part in the competition.
The three-point competition winners were Lassen’s JP Faulkner and Del Norte’s Lauryn Lesina, who each made 11 free throws in thirty seconds.
This was Lesina’s third free throw win in the past four years.
Other participants in the boy’s free throw competition were Hidden Valley players Tayor Bars, Dylan Amanino and Jonathon Kantimoto; Pierce players Albert Huerta and Tim Alaniz, Lassen’s Jake Estes; Weed’s Tanner Shelton and Robert West; Illinois Valley Roger and Fred Hults; and Mount Shasta’s Jake Padula and Robert West.
In the girl’s section, free throw participants were Yreka’s Ashley Lemos and AmMathee Stolt; Del Norte’s Rachel Lawrence and Lexie Nelson; Fall River’s Sam Ranquist, Yarely Contreras and Lauren Vestal; and Mount Shasta’s Kismet Prosper and Jeana Michels.
Later Friday evening, the Boosters will host a dance in the multi-purpose room at Mount Shasta Elementary School from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Good food, good competition and a festive atmosphere await all who attend the tourney, which will.
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