The Brewster girls basketball team took a big step Monday at the MLK Day Tourneytown.com Shootout with that 48-41 victory over No. 2-ranked Colfax at the Yakima SunDome.

Saw Colfax’s volleyball team go to war with King’s at the state tournament in that same building this past fall. A lot of those same girls are on the basketball team and that makes the Bears’ win today even more impressive.

For a little town, Colfax sure grows the ladies big up there. Jordan Harazin, Sadie Lazzarini and Megan Teade were all key cogs on the volleyball squad that went on to win the state title and eight of the 10 players that took the court for Colfax against Brewster also played on the volleyball team at state.

When that match against King’s started everything else stopped. Those were the two teams everyone wanted to see and the fans got every dime’s worth of action. Every point was contested and one hit was harder than the next. Very impressive.

For Brewster to go into neutral ground like that and hold Colfax to five first-quarter points is a feather in the cap of Bears coach Jerry Riggan and Co. Might not be the last time they see Colfax on neutral ground.