Alvarado finishes Lady Irish stint in style

Waldport senior Camilla Alvarado closed her Irish career on Tuesday and helped keep her team competitive against East Linn in the first half. (Photos by Jovita Ballentine)

A sprained ankle, bloody lip and a couple condemned passes that she wished back weren't going to rain on Camilla Alvarado's senior night on Tuesday.

The sole senior on the Waldport girls' basketball team – who was so significant in helping the Irish end a woebegone two-year winless drought by winning a pair of preseason games, so valuable to an unseasoned squad that looked to her for everything from pre-game speeches to bearing the brunt of the scoring to organizing team meetings – wasn't ending her career on the bench. She couldn't go out like that.



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