Article: Sheldon outlasts North Medford to earn repeat bid to state.(Sports)(Keri Bellotti scores 14 points, and the Midwestern League champs use a late run to advance to the quarterfinals)

Byline: Curtis Anderson The Register-Guard

The early shots didn't fall and the patented scoring run never came.

But the Sheldon girls basketball team still found a way to sneak past visiting North Medford on Saturday to earn a second consecutive trip to the OSAA Class 4A state tournament with a 49-42 victory.

The third-ranked Irish, who improved to 24-2 overall, will open the new slimmed-down eight-team tournament at the University of Portland's Chiles Center against Jefferson at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.

`I still think first-place teams should get to Portland automatically,' Sheldon coach Luke Roth said. `But I also think we'll play ...

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