The Prince Charles Secondary School Bulldogs never missed a tournament final from start to finish of a successful 2014-15 senior boys’ basketball season.
Six events, six championship game appearances — and six runner-up finishes, including the East Kootenay zone finals Feb. 27 and 28 in Kimberley.
Heavily favoured Golden, the defending champion, survived a determined second-quarter push-back from the Bulldogs to run away with a 132-66 victory and advance to the provincials for the second year in a row.
Donovan Osterreicher and Jamond Dortman paced PCSS with 15 points apiece. Leo Evans added 14 and Jordan Czar eight.
The Bulldogs were full value for their sixth set of silver medals, however, having posted a solid semifinal victory the day before against the host Selkirk Storm in what might have been their most complete game of the year. Osterreicher netted 26 points and Evans 14.
Two weeks before that, they reached the final of a tournament in Fernie, bowing to the host team in the final after posting two earlier victories, including a 73-68 overtime thriller against Kimberley.
Previously, PCSS reached the championship game of their own tournament, as well as three others in Kimberley, Invermere and Nelson, going 2-1 in each for an overall tournament record of 12-6.
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