The pressure hung heavy on freshman Jayda Noble as she stepped to the free throw line with 1 second remaining in her team's 1A regional game against LaSalle and Medical Lake trailing 47-45 last Saturday in the Cheney High School gym.
When the first foul shot clanked off the rim, then the tears welled in her eyes because it meant the Cinderella season for the Cardinals had the wheel fall off the carriage on the way to the state championship ball.
But it wasn't that miss, nor the subsequent hard shot off the backboard with the idea of quickly recovering the rebound and putting up a hope shot as the tenths of seconds wound off the clock that ended an 18-game winning streak for a team that finished 20-3.
"One shot, one player never loses a game," head coach Kyle Lundberg said.
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