The Washington girls’ basketball team saw their season come to a close Saturday night, taking the loss against top-ranked Marion 66-35.

The Demons kept it to within single digits for a stretch in the first quarter after Marion got out to an 8-0 lead, but the three-point onslaught from the Indian offense was enough to make the gap bigger and bigger until they took a 32-point lead into halftime.  They would extend that lead to 40 going into the fourth quarter, but the Demons would hold the Marion reserves to two points in the final eight minutes and get to within 31 by the final buzzer.

Addison Six led all Washington scorers with eight points.  Isabel Bailey was close behind, tacking on 7 in her final game in a Demon uniform.  After the game, head coach Shannon Rugg said he knew it would be tough going in, but was proud of his girls in the end.

“I told them Thursday at practice ‘you know what, we’re going to have to play our best basketball game by far and they’re going to have to have an off night.  But we’re going to go up there and we’ll compete and give maximum effort.  If we come in after the game and I ask you if you gave 100 percent the whole time you’re in there and you answer yes, then we’re winners in my book,'” Rugg said.

“So I went in there and asked them that and they all, with 100 percent certainty, said ‘yes we did.’  And so I said ‘okay, then there’s nothing more we could have done.'”

The loss ends Washington’s season at 8-14, the highest win total for the program since the 2015-16 campaign.  This also ends the careers of six Demon seniors: Isabel Bailey, Christina Brinning, Tori Brush, Allison Hippen, Kira Ropp and Haylee Wilson.