Shorewood girls play district basketball tournament elimination game at home Friday

Corrected 02-09-2013 12:29am

The Shorewood girls' basketball team will try to stay alive in the Northwest District 3A tournament in a consolation game at home Friday at 7pm against Meadowdale after a 55-46 first-round home loss to Everett Tuesday.

With Shorewood down 6 points and 2:07 left in the game
with Everett, Masha Shtikel is fouled.
Photo by Wayne Pridemore

In Shorewood's loss to Everett, the Thunderbirds trailed 15-11 after the first quarter, 29-27 at halftime and 43-36 after three quarters before losing 55-46. Masha Shtikel led Shorewood with 17 points in the loss to Everett.

Everett’s Darian Rielly comes up with the rebound
Photo by Wayne Pridemore

Shorewood takes a 14-7 overall record into the game with Meadowdale  (13-8). Shorewood came into the tournament as the No. 2 team in the Western Conference 3A South (9-4) with Meadowdale No. 4 (8-5) after the Thunderbirds defeated Meadowdale at home, 60-50, Dec 12, and lost to the Mavericks at Meadowdale, 51-46, Jan 23,

The winner of the Friday Shorewood-Meadowdale elimination game advances to a Tuesday, Feb 12, game against the loser of a Friday semifinal game between Ferndale (19-1) and Glacier Peak (16-5), with the winner of the Tuesday elimination game advancing to a Friday, Feb 15, game for the District’s No. 3 berth in the State 3A tournament.

Thunderbird Lily Gustafson shoots over the Everett defensive player
Photo by Wayne Pridemore

Everett 55, Shorewood 46

At Shorewood High School, Tuesday, Feb. 4

Everett ------- 15 14 14 12 -- 55

Shorewood --  11 16   9 10 -- 46

Shorewood Scoring -- Masha Shtikel 17, Lauren Thompson 3, Kayla Bradley 3, Gabby Hager 0, Salyna McDonald 5, Lily Gustafson 8, Abby Gustafson 0, Angel Tulee 4, Kassie Rasmussen 6,

See game photos by Wayne Pridemore.