Dover girls advance in Class B district

Dover’s girls had no problem moving into their district championship game.

The Lady Longhorns opened the Class B playoffs Thursday by thumping Billings 71-21.

Dover hosted Mulhall-Orlando, 4623 winner over Medford, in Saturday night’s district title game.

Boys’ elimination district games were Friday night (after press time).

The Lady Longhorns were already up 18-4 after a quarter when they went on a 27-6 spurt in the second.

Karlee Harviston scored 13 of her 17 points in that second quarter.

Rylee Buck led all scorers with 20 points.

The sophomore scored at least four points in every quarter.

Katelyn Harviston added 15 points.

••• Karlee Harviston scored 16 points Tuesday as Dover ended its regular season with a 35-24 win at Pioneer-Pleasant Vale.

The Lady Longhorns entered the playoffs with a 19-5 record and ranked 12th in Class B.

Dover led Pioneer all night, but couldn’t fully pull away.

The Lady Longhorns never scored more than 10 in a quarter, but never allowed more than nine.

Harviston had seven in the first half as Dover led 17-9.

She added six more in the third as her team extended the lead to 12 points.

Harviston had seven field goals in the game while Dover held all of Pioneer to just eight.

Katelyn Harviston added five points while Ashley Gamez and Rylee Buck scored four apiece.

••• Despite a big rally in the third quarter, Dover’s boys couldn’t quite manage a win streak to end the regular season.

Pioneer held on for a 46-44 victory, denying Dover a second straight win.

The Longhorns went into the playoffs with an 8-15 record.

They trailed 26-18 at halftime, but outscored Pioneer 18-10 in the third to tie it up.

Orlando Lazano made two of Dover’s four 3-pointers in the quarter.

However, the Longhorns didn’t make any in the fourth and Pioneer was able to take a late two-possession lead.

It was 46-42 with 15 seconds to play, but it took Dover nearly all of the time before Pedro Valles drove and scored.

The Longhorns fouled with just over one second left, but couldn’t get off a shot after Pioneer’s missed free throw.

Valles scored 12 for Dover, as did Damion Turner.

Nathan Cohee added nine and Lozano scored eight.