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This one’s for all the marbles, so we’re going to lace your sneakers up on what to expect from the Saints’ opponent in the Division 5 state title game. <\/span>The Pinewood Panthers are 26-6, and this is the game that was supposed to happen\u2014the Saints are the no. 1 seed from the South, the Panthers the no. 1 seed from the North. <\/span>Pinewood was the 55-47 runner-up in last year’s Division 5 game, falling to Bell-Jeff. <\/span>The Panthers return much of that team, so they’re used to this stage.<\/p>\n Their best player is Hailie Eackles (#23), who leads the team in points and rebounds, at 16 points and 9 boards per-game. <\/span>The 5-8 junior is backed by a triplet of senior captains who all played on last year’s runner-up team. <\/span>Rachel Marty (#20), Emily Liang (#22), and Lauren Taniguchi (#25) anchor the team and bring a level of experience the Saints haven’t really faced before. The Saints’ big advantage should be inside\u2014the Panthers have just one girl taller than Eackles’ 5-8, while St. Anthony has the post players in Jourdan and Kendall Cooper, and Natalie Williams, to do a lot of work inside if they want to. <\/span>If they can do so successfully, and stay out of foul trouble, these Saints could end up bringing home the school’s second state championship\u2014come back to LBPOSTsports.com on Saturday at 9:30am for live updates from the game! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This one’s for all the marbles, so we’re going to lace your sneakers up on what to expect from the Saints’ opponent in the Division 5 state title game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}