It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall in the Matt Court locker rooms last weekend at the 5A girls state championships when coaches were trying to figure out how to stop Hermiston senior Courtney Walchli.
Assistant Coach: “We’ll just put a taller post on No. 30 one-on-one. She’s only 5-foot-8.”
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