St. Mary's Bay View Basketball Reaches Championships

Bay View ended a great basketball season by playing in the RI State Championship on Saturday February 28th. The Bengals last won a state championship in basketball in 2005-06 and was on a roll this year through the playoffs. However, the title will have to wait as Bay View was defeated by a determined Barrington High squad. It was the Eagles first state championship in girls basketball. The game was never really in doubt as Barrington, finishing 2nd the last two years won the game 48-37.

Bay View (15-4) easily defeated a good LaSalle basketball team to reach the state championship game against Barrington (18-1). Elfreda Hoff scored 17 points in a non-starter role to help the Bengals in their impressive semi-final playoff win over rival Catholic High School, LaSalle Academy. BayView was leading by just one point when they broke open the game a bit and jumped to an 11 point lead early in the second half.