Two Jefferson County girls basketball teams played in St. Charles on Friday night for third place and the championship of the Orchard Farm Tournament.
St. Pius X beat Duchesne 42-35 on Monday in the first round of the tournament, but fell to Principia 60-25 on Wednesday. That kicked the Lancers (3-6) into the third-place game against the host Eagles. Orchard Farm junior Jamie Hopkins led all scorers with 19 points in the Eagles’ 56-36 victory over the Lancers. Senior forward Natasha Davis (14 points) and senior guard Julie Johnston (13) also scored in double figures for Orchard Farm, which improved to 5-3.
St. Pius senior guard Jordanne Mickley led the Lancers with 11 points and was named to the all-tournament team.
De Soto (5-4) beat Brentwood 54-35 in the first round and knocked off the Eagles 42-30 in the semifinals. But Principia had too much offense for the Dragons to handle in a 61-33 loss in the championship, where the mercy rule kicked in for the last minute as the Panthers built a 30-point lead.
Principia (8-1) entered the tournament with four players averaging double-digit scoring and the Panthers’ leading scorer, sophomore Jordan Frederickson (16.9 points) vexed the Dragons from the outside with her 3-point shooting and finished with a game-high 23 points. Prin seniors Cameron Bania and Kate Hinds were named to the all-tournament team. Hinds was the tournament’s most valuable player.
The Dragons had won four straight games going into the final and trailed the Panthers 10-8 after the first quarter in which they led all of nine seconds. The usual reliable scoring combination of senior guard Madalyn Bone and junior forward Kendall Boyer never got in sync and Boyer spent all but 14 seconds of the third quarter on the bench with four fouls. Boyer scored seven points and Bone finished with five points.
Bone and senior Sarah Peoples were named to the all-tournament team, although Peoples fouled out in the fourth when she was given a technical foul.