SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Senior Lexi London scored a team-leading 20 points while Colleen Medina grabbed five rebounds with a team-best four steals as two of the three Troubadour seniors honored prior to a 64-49 loss to Davis in the Sierra Foothill League girls' basketball season finale Thursday night.

The Troubadours close their regular season with a 10-16 overall record, including 4-10 in the SFL. The Blue Devils improve to 15-13 for the year with a 5-9 league mark.

London, Medina and guard Laila Mendoza were recognized in a Senior Night presentation prior to the pregame warmups. Mendoza has been sidelined by injury all year, but got to suit up for the game and score a ceremonial field goal prior to the official tip.

Freshman Elise Vipond hit 3-for-5 from three-point range en rout to 12 points. Junior Audrey Bashore added another five points, Hassanah Ramsey-Gilbert matched Medina's four, while Natalia Zitelli and Keanna Daneshvar turned in buckets for St. Francis.  

Following a recent trend, the Troubies kept pace early in the contest before falling into a hole before halftime. Vipond's step-back three followed by London's 2-for-2 trip to the free-throw line evened the game at 7-7 by 3:34 point in the first period. Then Davis scored 14 unanswered across the next four minutes to take a 21-7 lead. Bashore interrupted the Blue Devil outburst with a weak-side putback at the 6:49 mark of the second period, only for Davis to score three straight in the span of a minute to claim a 27-9 advantage. Sophomore Lorelei Nachman hit a pair of three-pointers toward her game-high total of 23 in that 20-2 stretch, with senior post Riley MacDonald also turning in three field goals.

London completed a three-point play, Daneshvar scored a transition goal, then London turned a Ramsey-Gilbert pass into a three-pointer for an 8-2 SF finish to the first half, but the Troubies trailed by a 37-21 margin going to the break.

Davis maintained at least a 13-point edge throughout the second half, and swelled its lead to as much as 21 when Nachman scored a three-pointer and assisted three other scores in a 9-2 run that ended with a 60-39 Blue Devil margin early in the fourth. London buried a corner three at the 1:50 mark to pull SF to within a 51-37 deficit in the third. Vipond, Bashore and Vipond again scored three consecutive treys in the fourth, cutting a 22-point margin into a 62-49 hole at 1:01 in the fourth.

Prior to the Senior Night ceremony, sophomore Emmelyn Cheatham scored 15 points with Catherine Gustafson adding nine points and a team-high 13 rebounds, but St. Francis JV Gold saw a 19-19 tie late in the first half slip away to a 48-37 loss to the Blue Devils.

The two teams matched up to five ties and six lead changes before the halftime break, at which Davis clung to a 21-19 lead. Lena Mundhenk assisted one of Cheatham's three treys to start the third period for a 22-21 Troubie edge, but Blue Devil sophomore Julia Schlemmer answered with a three-pointer followed by a layup form the right block to put her team back up, 26-22.

Mundhenk responded with a three-pointer of her own then followed with a blocked shot against Lucero Valle on the other end to bring SF to within a single point of 26-25, but the Troubadours never equalized nor regained the lead. Schlemmer initiated a fast break to end the third, then scored seven in the fourth to keep the Blue Devils in front for the remainder of the contest.

Finally, St. Francis JV Red closed out its season with arguably its best overall performance of the year despite a 30-16 loss on the record. Freshman Emily Nguyen scored eight points plus an assist to Natalia Esparza to lead the Troubies offensively. Lily Jimenez chipped in another four points while delivering the dime to a Ella Renzo's turnaround make with two minutes left in the first half.  
Nonetheless, freshman Sarah Black-Holcroft personally scored eight straight points, including the game's first basket, to lift DSHS to a 9-1 start and a 17-8 halftime lead. Jimenez' three-pointer at 5:18 resulted in the Troubies' closest margin of eight points, or a 21-13 Blue Devil lead.

St. Francis will now await its placement in the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs. The Troubadours entered Thursday's game ranked 10th in Division II by MaxPreps, slightly behind No. 9 Whitney and effectively even with No. 11 Lodi. The SJS first-round games take place on Tuesday at home sites.