Stillwater girls fall to Foothills in MCAA state title game

GREAT FALLS — Stillwater Christian School fell behind early and never recovered in falling to Foothills Community Christian School (Great Falls) 54-34 in the championship game at the Montana Christian Athletic Association state girls basketball tournament on Saturday at Great Falls Central High School.

Foothills jumped in front 15-9 and 30-13 after the first two quarter stops.

Dori Smith was held to nine points and Adrianna Lambert added seven for Stillwater (11-12).

Smith pulled down 17 rebounds.

Adair Henning led Foothills, and all scorers, with 24 points.

“Foothills got a jump on us and we never could quite catch up,” Stillwater coach Sarah O’Rourke said.

“We couldn’t get our shots to fall in the first half. Foothills’ leading scorer was 6-foot-2 senior Henning. We knew we needed to stop her to win this game, but we couldn’t quite do it. When we made a run in the fourth quarter, she answered with big scoring. The girls played with a big heart and battled it out to the end.”

Henning scored 10 of her points in the final eight minutes.

Foothills Christian 15 15 7 17 — 54

Stillwater Christian 8 5 8 13 — 34

FOOTHILLS CHRISTIAN — Josey Lindseth 8, Rainna Lindseth 4, Emma Simpson 5, Keileigh Fulbright 4, Kenzie Huston 9, Adair Henning 24.

STILLWATER CHRISTIAN — Ramey Metzger 2, Haleigh Schwartz 2, Adrianna Lambert 7, Dori Smith 9, Alicia Warricks 2, Helen Hashley 6, LuLu Neumann 2, Selah Neumann 4.