R.D. Parker Collegiate’s senior girls’ basketball team went undefeated at the Zone 11 championships in The Pas March 1-2 to earn a spot in the AAA provincial high school basketball championships.
The Trojan boys won one of three round-robin games to end their season.
The RDPC girls beat the Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education Resource Centre (HBO) Huskies from Norway House 54-45 to claim the title in what was their closest game of the tournament. They had beaten the same team 77-49 in the round robin, which also saw them defeat Mikisew School from Cross Lake 92-22 and the host Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute (MBCI) Spartans from The Pas 68-15.
The boys’ only win of the tournament was 60-58 over Mikisew. They lost 70-44 to eventual champions MBCI and 84-65 to HBO.
The provincials are March 14-16 at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate in Winnipeg.