TACOMA - Mount Rainier's excellent achievements in its first season at Class 4A girls basketball finally ended with a loser-out 46-41 loss to Lake Stevens at the Tacoma Dome on Friday, March 4.

Working with its usual ball movement, Mount Rainier (22-7) led 19-15 at halftime.

Turnovers, low shooting percentages and fouls began to take their toll in a tumultuous third quarter in which the Rams were outscored 17-4 -- including a 13-0 Viking run to begin the second half.

For the game, Mount Rainier committed 21 turnovers to Lake Stevens' 14. The Rams won the rebound battle, 42-38.

Second team All-Tournament player freshman Brittany McPhee scored 21 points to go along with 12 rebounds for Mount Rainier. Kiana Gandy earned eight points and nine rebounds.

Brooke Pahukoa scored 12 points for Lake Stevens.

TOURNAMENT TIDBITS: Mount Rainier had model teammates who shared independent fledgling model careers.

Caroline Codd, a 17-year-old senior who has appered in photo spreads for Seventeen and Harper's Bazaar magazines, was taking acting classes in Seattle in 2009 when she was invited to attend a convention in Los Angeles, where modeling agents would be present.

Codd agreed to go and eventually gave up her AAU basketball summers to devote time to modeling and spent last summer in Thailand. According to Codd, she will move to New York after the school year.

Freshman Brittany McPhee, a 15-year-old, was approached at a mall two years ago about becoming a model, but fits the basketball around the modeling with a super athletic future ahead of her.

Expect to see the Rams in the mix for state honors next season. Only Zerina Kapetanovic, Sage Workman and Codd graduate.