St. Helens is about to blow, and the Papermakers are the magma.
After a week without any seismic activity, the Camas High School boys basketball team plunged into the Ring of Fire and wound up in first place.
Jacob Kaler scored 21 points and grabbed six rebounds, and Bryan Butler provided 14 points, to propel the Papermakers to a 58-45 victory over the Prairie Falcons Saturday night, in Camas. The Papermakers cracked through the magma chamber, after the Hudson’s Bay Eagles lost to the Mountain View Thunder on the same night.
Hudson’s Bay (10-2, 3-1) had a foothold on first place in league, after outlasting Camas (8-3, 4-1) 79-68 in a tectonic shakedown from start to finish. Both teams erupted for 23 points in the first quarter, but that was only the beginning of the rumbling.
Kaler rocked the rim with a slam dunk in the third quarter that registered a 6.9 on the Richter scale.
“It was the first dunk in my high school career, and it felt really good,” Kaler said. “In the back of my mind, I knew I was going to dunk it. I just wanted to throw it down, and give us some momentum.”