The Week in sports

A look at high school athletics in the Valley.

Cormier leads `Cats with 33 points

The Mount Si Wildcats boys’ basketball team clinched

another win last Tuesday night against Cedarcrest 68-63 to add to

their lead in the 3A KingCo Valley Division.

Isaiah Cormier defended his reign as the leading scorer

in KingCo by scoring 33 points for the Wildcats. Cormier

currently leads the conference with 439 points for the season. Rob

Bishop, of Sammamish High School, is close behind with 422 points.

Cedarcrest wins narrow victory

Even Mount Si High School’s leading scorer on the girls’

basketball team, Moriah Hover, who also leads the league in

scoring, was unable to pull out a win for the girls’ basketball team in

last Wednesday’s game against Cedarcrest. They lost 3 -31.

Hover, who averages 16.3 points per game, only scored

six for the Wildcats. Nikki Landdeck led with 12 points with 15

rebounds, and Sarah Gustat had 10 points. Cedarcrest’s Rachel

Salz led with seven points, and Libbye Haddon and Lindsay

Peterson each scored six for the Red Wolves.

Mount Si holds off Sammamish

The Wildcats boys’ basketball team held off Sammamish last

Friday night 68-66 with the help of Isaiah Cormier’s 25 points

and Marc Dahm’s 22 points.

Sammamish’s Rob Bishop, who had been battling

with Cormier for the league scoring title, had 18 points for the

night, and Justin Tate had 19. Cormier successfully outshot Bishop

to lead the league with 464 points. Bishop followed with 440

points for the season.

Cedarcrest loses to Interlake

Demarco McDade’s 27 points, which included five

straight three-pointers in the third quarter, and Bryce Mackay’s 23

points for Interlake helped the No. 2-ranked Valley Division team

beat Cedarcrest 78-63 in boys’ basketball.

Interlake’s Jesse Napenias also helped in the Saints effort

with 11 assists for the night. Cedarcrest finished last in the

Valley Division’s 3A KingCo League with a 1-12 record.

Wolves down Saints

Sarah Gustat scored 15 points for Cedarcrest last Friday to

lead the team in a win against Interlake 50-38. The Red Wolves’

win marks this as the best regular season in school history. The

team finishes the Valley Division in third place with a record of 5-8.

The leading scorer for Interlake was Abby Linker

with 10 points. Ashley Cabulagan and Eileen Barnes each had nine.