The Ballard High School girls basketball team hung with first-place Woodinville for one half of their Feb. 5 matchup, but Woodinville was able to pull away in the second half for a 61-47 victory.

The loss is the eighth in a row for the Beavers.

Junior Taylor Hall and senior Kayla Wenger both finished with 14 points for Ballard in a losing cause.

The loss puts Ballard at 1-13 in KingCo and 3-15 overall. Last season the team finished 1-15 in the conference and 3-17 overall.

The Beavers have two games to get a win and show some improvement over last year.

The best opportunity for Ballard to do that is on the horizon when they take on Bothell, a team winless in KingCo, at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 at Bothell High School.

The Beavers got their only conference win against Bothell 56-54 on Jan. 8.