Everything was going so well for the Blaine boy’s basketball team. They were matched up with a team that was certainly beatable and had them down by nine points after an efficient and suffocating defensive effort in the first quarter.

Going into Tuesday night’s game against the undefeated Lynden Christian Lyncs, head girls’ basketball coach Jeremy Hinchey said he knew his team would have a fight on their hands.

Two stars from the Borderite’s state tournament team of 2009 have made identical selections and are off to California to join their new football team.

An off season of speculation and a two-month search ended December 17, when Blaine athletic director Wayne Vezzetti hired former Borderite assistant coach Alisa Burk to replace the departed Tim Esposito as head coach of girl’s softball at Blaine.

Fielding a team that featured nine players at least 6' 2" or taller and holding a 5-1 record that includes quality wins over Mount Baker and Squalicum, Lynden Christian seemed poised for another deep run in the 1A state basketball rankings coming into their Monday, January 3, contest with Blaine.