Girls basketball: Eagles notch big win

MISSION VIEJO - The Estancia High girls basketball team defeated El

Toro, 45-33, in a pool-play game of the Jim Hill Memorial Tournament

Wednesday at Mission Viejo High.

The win avenged a 50-42 loss to El Toro (7-4) in the Eagles’ second

game of the season.

Junior Xochitl Byfield scored eight of her team’s 10 first-quarter points and finished with a game-high 20, including four three-pointers,

to pace Estancia (3-5).

Tisha Gray chipped in 15 points and Trisha Wase added eight for the

winners.

“El Toro didn’t shoot very well against our zone,” Estancia Coach Paul

Kirby said. “This was a good win for us, especially since they had

already beaten us.”

Estancia, which hosts Notre Dame Academy in a nonleague clash tonight

at 5:30, concludes pool play Friday at 4 p.m. against West Torrance,

which was beaten by El Toro Monday.

If Estancia beats West Torrance, it would win Pool B and play the

winner of Pool A in Saturday’s 5 p.m. championship game.

JIM HILL MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

Pool play

Estancia 45, El Toro 33

Score by Quarters

Estancia 10 10 12 13 - 45

El Toro 8 9 12 4 - 33

Estancia - Byfield 20, Pena 2, Gray 15, Wase 8, Mino 0, Garcia 0,

Maldonado 0, Castro 0.

3-pt. goals - Byfield 4, Wase 1.

Fouled out - Mino.

Technicals - none.

El Toro - Garcia 4, Jose 10, Sickmeier 3, Travers 8, Ewaskey 8.

3-pt. goals - Jose 1, Sickmeier 1.

Fouled out - none.

Technicals - none.