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Photos: St. Mary's defeats Folsom 57-51 in Sac-Joaquin Section Division 1 girls basketball championship

View images of title game between two of the best teams in California from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento
Photos: St. Mary's defeats Folsom 57-51 in Sac-Joaquin Section Division 1 girls basketball championship
Photos: St. Mary's defeats Folsom 57-51 in Sac-Joaquin Section Division 1 girls basketball championship

It was a record 22nd Sac-Joaquin Section championship for the St. Mary's Rams girls basketball team Wednesday at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

Remarkably though, it was a first for McDonald's All-American Jordan Lee.

The 6-foot senior who is headed to the University of Texas didn't have her best shooting night (5 of 18) — few did — but she had 20 points, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals in a 57-51 SJD Division 1 victory over top-seeded Folsom, the team that defeated the Rams last year.

Lee had plenty of help from freshman Kori Rogers, who had a game-high 21 points with six rebounds and had four of her team's nine 3-pointers. Both teams are 25-5 heading into next week's Northern California Regional when both will likely be placed in the Open Division.

Who knows, they might face off again. Folsom came into the game ranked fifth in the state by SBLive, St. Mary's was No. 10. 

Folsom couldn't overcome cold shooting, making just 15 of 54 from the field. Ella Uriate was the only Bulldog with a hot hand, scoring 21 points and adding four steals. Dixie McClanahan added 12 points and six rebounds, but 6-foot-1 Cal commit Kamryn Mafua finished with just four points, but added a game-high 13 rebounds.

St. Mary's was upset in the last two SJS playoffs, including losing to Folsom in last year's final. This season the Rams turned that around. 

(Photos below by Ralph Thompson)

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Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
MITCH STEPHENS, SBLIVE SPORTS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.

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