The No. 8 seed Sonora Wildcat girls basketball team lost to No. 9 Dixon 60-43 on Tuesday at Bud Castle Gym.

The No. 7 Calaveras Redskin girls suffered a 39-35 defeat against No. 10 Liberty Ranch at Mike Flock Gym. 

Columbia's Ashton Richardson (24) glides to the basket for a left-handed layup on Wednesday against West Hills at Oak Pavilion. Amy Alonzo Rozak / The Union Democrat.

“There were times we did a good job defensively and shut them down in the first half, but I think they just did a good job of slowly grinding away and playing like they wanted to make the playoffs,” said Claim Jumpers head coach Nathan Rien.

After trailing 15-6 roughly six minutes into the game, the Claim Jumpers charged back and put together a 12-4 scoring run over the next five minutes.

The Summerville Bears earned the No. 2 seed and four other area teams earned high enough seeds to host first-round games in the 2012-13 CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Basketball Championships according to the brackets that were released Wednesday afternoon.

The Calaveras Redskin and Sonora Wildcat girls and the Bret Harte Bullfrog boys will each enjoy home court advantage when the playoffs begin next week. The Bullfrog girls will begin postseason on the road.

The Bears (24-3, 15-0 MLL), who haven’t lost since 2012 and have reeled off 15 straight victories to claim the Mother Lode League title, will host No. 15 Delhi of the Southern League (13-13, 8-5 SL) on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Bullfrog Will Whited (3, right) shoots a jumper in the fourth quarter of Friday's cross-county hoops showdown between Bret Harte and Calaveras in Angels Camp. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat.

The 30-year-old Orange County resident was in town with family mourning the deaths of Bret Harte students Alex Marshall, 17, and Macaila Marshall, 14, who authorities say were gunned down last week by their father Philip Marshall, 54, before he killed himself. 

Friday’s thrilling and emotional 51-47 Bullfrog victory came as a ray of light in a week shrouded by darkness for Chamberlain and his family.

A community reeling from the untimely deaths of two teens came together Friday night for healing and friendly competition as the Bret Harte Bullfrogs boys and girls varsity basketball teams hosted the Calaveras Redskins in Angels Camp.

Tributes and memorials for Alex and Macaila Marshall, who were found shot to death  by their father Philip Marshall, 54, Saturday in an apparent murder-suicide at the family’s Forest Meadows home, were scattered throughout the Bret Harte gymnasium.

Summerville 120-pounder Andrew Brennan pins Daniel Schmitts, of Amador, on Saturday on his way to the weight class title at the Mother Lode League wrestling meet. Maggie Beck / Union Democrat.

Bret Harte, who finished in second place, crowned five champions and the host Bears earned one title and finished in third place.

Calaveras had 217 points followed by Bret Harte (137) and Summerville (119.5).

The Summerville Bears jumped all over Linden early Friday night and pulled away to demolish the host Lions 62-35.

The Bears have won 14 straight and remain perfect in the Mother Lode League (14-0) with one game to play.

Summerville essentially put the game out of reach in the first eight minutes, leading 20-3 after the first quarter.

The Sonora Wildcats basketball team was defeated 71-66 by Kimball Wednesday in Tracy.

The Wildcats gave up a season-high in points to the Division II Jaguars.

Everyone around Tuolumne resident Jerry Fischer seemed to become silent as he rolled the final ball of his first-ever perfect 300-game.

“Honestly, I felt pretty nervous,” Fischer said by telephone Wednesday night. “Your legs kind of feel like spaghetti in the 10th frame and then on the last ball everybody stops bowling to watch and it gets really bad.”

However, Fischer didn’t let the pressure get to him and nailed his 12th strike in-a-row to accomplish one of the sport’s rarest of feats.