PORT ANGELES — In the final home game of their high school careers, Port Angeles’ three seniors gave fans a great last impression.
Jessica Madison, Alison Knowles and Taylyn Jeffers each scored in double figures as the Roughrider girls basketball team throttled rival Sequim 84-28 in Tuesday night’s Olympic League finale.
Madison had 23 points, seven rebounds and four assists, Jeffers added 12 points and 14 rebounds and Knowles 12 points as Port Angeles finished perfect in league play for the second straight season.
Port Angeles (16-0 in league, 17-3 overall) already had the Olympic’s top seed into Class 2A sub-district locked up heading into Tuesday night’s affair.
But that didn’t stop the Riders from putting on a show.
Led by Madison’s 8-for-13 night, the Riders shot 52.3 percent from the field (34 of 65) to earn their fourth straight season sweep of Sequim.
All three seniors were a part of that run, one which has also seen the Riders claim at least a share of the league title each of the past four years.
Of course, Tuesday night’s win was the last time they got to play at home.
The Riders next face the SPSL’s No. 2 seed at Foster High School on Thursday night in a four-team bracket that will determine the top four seeds in the 2A Bi-District.
“It feels like it’s all over, but I still feel like there’s so much left,” said Alison Knowles, once the Rider girls ball girl years ago.
“We know the level of play [in the playoffs] is going to be way different than our league, but I feel like we’ve been preparing for it well.”
Junior Kiah Jones added 17 points and eight rebounds for the Riders, who outscored Sequim 52-7 in the second half.
Up until then, the Wolves had actually played the Riders competitively, even making a 10-2 run in the second quarter to climb within nine at 30-21.
Unfortunately for Sequim (7-9, 10-11), the Riders caught fire in the second half (22 of 34 from the field) and the Wolves never recovered.
“I think we just kind of fell back onto our heels [in the second half],” Sequim head coach Stephanie Lewis said. “We played defense in the second quarter and first quarter, but the third and fourth quarter they scored like 50-something points, which is ridiculous.
“We’re going back to the drawing board on the defensive end for our next game.”
Haleigh Harrison led the Wolves with 10 points, while Rylleigh Zbaraschuk added nine.
The Wolves, the Olympic’s No. 4 seed into the 2A sub-district, will now face Renton on Friday night in Sumner in a loser-out pigtail playoff.
Port Angeles 84, Sequim 28
Sequim 4 17 7 0 — 28
Port Angeles 15 17 26 26 — 84
Individual Scoring
Sequim (28)
Haupt 7, Hopson 2, Harrison 10, Zbaraschuk 9.
Port Angeles (84)
K. Jones 17, Knowles 15, Walker 2, Northern 4, Madison 23, Frazier 4, Johnson 5, Rodocker 2, Jeffers 12.
