SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sophomore post Chidera Okoye posted team highs of 13 points and eight rebounds while the Troubie defense held one of the conference's top scorers to no field goals, as St. Francis dispatched Davis by a 45-21 final in Delta League girls' varsity basketball Saturday afternoon.

The Troubadours gain redemption for a loss against the Blue Devils less than 18 hours earlier, improving to 11-8 overall and 4-3 in Delta League play.

Okoye was one of two SF players in double figures, with guard Jo Jo Myers hitting a pair of three-pointers as part of her 10-point output. Okoye drained three treys of her own, all in a pivotal second quarter that saw the Troubies pull from a 5-5 tie to a 23-11 halftime lead.

St. Francis scored 11 unanswered across a two-minute span in that second frame. Myers' first three-pointer started the run at the 6:25 mark for the fourth and final lead change. Nikki Sutliff-Soto and Anne Sale each had rebound-and-putback combinations while Okoye buried a corner three in that stretch.

Meanwhile, the Troubies stifled the Blue Devils' potent front court, particularly in the second half. Sophomore Tessa Schouten, who entered the week with a 13.4 scoring average, finished with no buckets and three free throws. Senior Mara Bledsoe, who ranks third in the league behind Schouten, managed only two field goals after the break.

St. Francis extended its lead to 31-14 when Sale sank a baseline runner at 2:59, then Okoye dropped in a putback on a fast break a minute later. That margin grew to 19 as Brianna McGahan assisted Oge Okoye at the 5:31 mark then scored in transition just 17 seconds later, setting the board at 38-19. Sale stretched the lead even further soon after, getting the kiss off the glass with 4:36 to make it 40-21 then feeding Myers on another fast break with 4:12 left.

The Troubadour offense truly got kick-started by Sophie Harris, a reserve with just nine points to her credit entering the game. The junior guard sank a three-pointer from the left wing with 1:12 to go in the first, ending an early scoring drought and erasing the Devils' initial 5-2 lead.

The varsity win preceded a dominant 66-25 victory by the St. Francis junior varsity Gold squad, which improves to 16-4 overall and with a perfect 7-0 mark against Delta League foes. Eva Karamanoukian led the Troubies with 17 points while twin sister Emma Karamanoukian added another 11.

St. Francis scored 15 straight to start the game, not allowing a Davis basket until the 2:37 mark in the first. The Troubies held a 21-2 lead after the opener but managed just a Sianna Squires layup in the second. They led 23-10 at the break, then scored 30 points in the third, mostly in transition. Blue Devil Natalie Roessler scored eight in that third quarter but SFHS still extended its lead to 53-23 entering the fourth.

The JV Gold game also had an unusual play in that third quarter. A Davis player inadvertently scored a layup into the wrong goal, but also drew a shooting foul in the process and was awarded an "and-one" free throw at the other end of the court. She converted from the line, completing a three-point play in which the scoring was split between the two teams.

St. Francis returns to action for a non-league tilt at Del Oro on Monday. This also ends a 10-day layoff for the school's JV Red team, which will kick off the tripleheader at 4 p.m.