Usually Blaine head basketball coach Dougal Thomas would be thrilled to get 81 shots off in a high school basketball game.

Blaine high school wrestlers brought home a first place trophy in the Mariner Holiday Classic event December 4 in Everett.

Blaine head basketball coach Dougal Thomas has preached strong pressuring defense, rebounding and pushing the ball up the floor to the Borderites.

Blaine junior guard Stefawn Perrin lead the Lady Borderite’s basketball team to a 49-38 non-conference victory against the Meridian Trojans on Tuesday night at Blaine.

“I wish we could have rebounded a little better,” Blaine head basketball coach Dougal Thomas said after his Borderites dismantled Meridian 53-41 for their first victory of the season Tuesday, December 7, “there was a stretch there where we faded a little on the boards.”