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It’s very likely that this season could be similar to last year in terms of who the top Big Sky League girls basketball playoff contenders will be in 2023.
The Big Sky West Division champion Trout Lake High Mustangs and runner-up South Wasco will likely be the top squads again this season. Big Sky Champion Echo High Cougars (19-6 last year) and the Ione/Arlington High Cardinals (16-6) each have starters returning from their 1A state playoff teams.
In a rematch of a Big Sky League district playoff game two weeks earlier, the Echo High Cougars ended the Trout Lake High Mustangs’ season, 58-49, in a consolation round game of the OSAA Class 1A girls basketball state championship tournament March 4 at Baker City High School.
Appearing in Oregon’s postseason basketball playoffs for the first time ever, the Trout Lake High Mustangs — “Road Warriors” — advanced to the OSAA Class 1A girls state tournament following a, 37-33, second-round state playoff win over the St. Paul Buckaroos (20-3) Saturday at St. Paul High School.
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Competing for the first time ever in the OSAA Class 1A girls basketball state playoffs, the Trout Lake High Mustangs had a successful debut as they won, 45-34, over the Powder Valley High Badgers in a first-round road game Wednesday in North Powder.
The No. 8-ranked Trout Lake High Mustangs earned the West Division’s No. 1 seed into the Class 1A girls basketball Big Sky League District playoffs with a, 55-46, road win Saturday at Dufur.
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The local Gorge girls basketball teams all resumed their Class 1A Big Sky League schedule Friday after having over two weeks off because of a COVID pause for health and safety protocol issues for athletic events at area high schools.
After winning four straight games, the South Wasco County High Redsides girls basketball team is starting to look like a Big Sky League championship contender again.
The undefeated and No. 1 ranked Trout Lake High Mustangs (1-0 Big Sky, 4-0 overall) continue to be the most dominate Class 1A girls basketball team in the Gorge as they extended their win streak to 13 games overlapping the last two seasons.
