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Baker boys tune up for district

Written by Gerry Steele February 20, 2010 07:17 am

Baker tuned up for this week’s Greater Oregon League boys basketball district playoffs with a 76-35 victory at Mac-Hi Friday.

As the No. 2 district seed, the Bulldogs will host the winner of Tuesday’s Ontario-Mac-Hi contest Thursday at BHS. No time has been set as yet.

It took Baker a little time to get going Friday at Mac-Hi, but once the Bulldogs started their engines their never looked back.

Mac-Hi led 9-7 midway through the first quarter before Baker went on a 9-0 run. B.J. Quintana, Derek Blankenship and Dekker Smith each scored a basket before Trace Richardson completed the run with a three-pointer.

Blankenship scored seven points in the first quarter, and Richardson six as Baker forged a 21-13 lead.

Blankenship added eight points in the second period to help Baker take a 31-20 halftime edge.

Mac-Hi stayed as close as it did thanks to solid rebounding.

“We didn’t rebound real well in the first half,” said Baker coach Craig Woods. “We talked about it at halftime.”

Woods said the Bulldogs switched to a man defense in the second half, cleaned up their turnovers and rebounding. Baker finished the game with a 41-28 rebounding advantage.

“The kids worked on some things,” Woods said. “We had some kids in foul trouble and a couple of those guys had to play with the foul trouble. They did a good job.”

Jesse Brown, scoreless in the first half, scored 11 third-quarter points as Baker outscored the Pioneers 27-9 in the quarter.

Eight different Bulldogs scored in the fourth quarter.

Blankenship led the Bulldogs with 21 points. Brown added 13, and Richardson 11.

Baker 21 10 27 18 — 76

Mac-Hi 13 7 9 6 — 35

Baker (76) — Cripe 0 0-2 0, Brown 5 3-4 13, Barr 1 0-0 3, Everson, Curtis 1 0- 02, McEnroe 1 1-2 3, Durflinger, Richardson 4 0-1 11, Blankenship 7 5-5 21, Quintana 3 2-2 8, Lay 2 2-2 6, Smith 3 3-4 9. Totals 27 16-22 76.

Mac-Hi (35) — Stanford 3 0-0 8, Croghan 0 3-4 3, Riley 2 0-0 5, Flores, Salazar 1 2-4 5, Conlee 0 4-6 4, C. Brown 2 0-0 4, K. Brown 2 0-0 4, Hair, Knight 1 0-0 2. Totals 11 9-14 35.

Three-point goals — Barr, Richardson 3, Blankenship 2, Stanford 2, Riley, Salazar. Fouled out — Conlee, C. Brown. Total fouls — Baker 15, Mac-Hi 21. Technicals — none.