ARBUCKLE, CA (MPG) - Coming off its Valentine’s Day victory over Corning in the regular season finale, the Live Oak girls’ basketball team couldn’t carry that momentum forward. As a result, the team fell 26-58 to No. 5 seeded Pierce High School in the first round of the Northern Section California Interscholastic Federation Division IV playoffs in a Feb. 18 game.

A squad of which half are underclassmen, the No. 12 seeded Lions put forth a spirited effort but simply lacked the experience of the Bears and as a result saw their season come to an end.

Playing in her last game for the purple and gold, Sandrea Janda scored a team-high eight points, while sophomore Rhyen Bidasha and freshman Meredith Bole dropped in seven apiece.

Live Oak finished the season as the sixth-place team in the Butte View League.

With the victory, the Pierce High School Bears moved on in the Northern Section CIF Division IV playoffs to face the West Valley High Eagles, in Cottonwood on Feb. 20. The Bears fell to the Eagles by a final score of 51-41, ending the Bear’s season.