SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sophomore post Tayli Paeu-Lindgren posted a double-double of 22 points and 13 rebounds while junior Lexi London added 11 points and six boards, as St. Francis battled back from a five-point deficit to craft a 50-45 win over Granite Bay in the varsity nightcap of a Sierra Foothill League girls' basketball doubleheader Wednesday night.

The Troubadours improve to 7-8 for the season and even their league record to 1-1. The Grizzlies slip to 6-8 overall and an 0-2 mark in SFL play.

Paeu-Lindgren shot 8-for-12 from the floor and 6-for-8 from the line, including two three-point plays, as part of her second 20-point performance and her eighth double-double of the season. Senior Sydney Teoh added another eight points, six of which came after the halftime break, and drained the team's go-ahead three-pointer with 2:24 remaining in the fourth period.

St. Francis dominated the opening frame, 17-6, with Paeu-Lindgren scoring or assisting 13 of those 17 points. She scored three buckets around the rim, sank 4 of 5 of her foul shots, while finding an open London for a three-pointer with 28 seconds left. Paeu-Lindgren helped extend that lead to 20-10 early in the second, with her backcourt steal giving way to a Laila Mendoza transition score at the 5:44 mark.

Still, Granite Bay managed to chip away at the Troubie lead in the second, cutting the margin to 26-22 at the break. Sophomore Kati Powell drained two of her five total treys in that period, then the Grizzlies held their hosts scoreless for the first 4:30 of the third to take a 29-26 lead. Lindgren's goal-and-one play knotted the contest at 29-29, but Kati Powell reclaimed the lead yet again a made bucket followed by an assist to Alli Powell, making it 33-29 with 2:34 left in the third. The two Powells teamed up for a three-pointer at 1:06 to push GB up to a 36-31 advantage, its largest of the game.

Facing a 38-33 deficit, the Troubies rallied early in the fourth. London opened action with a baseline jumper nine seconds in, then later fed Paeu-Lindgren down low to cut the margin to 40-37. Less than a minute later, sophomore Natalia Zitelli buried a three-pointer from the left sideline to tie the contest at 40-40. Teoh made 1 of 2 from the line to give SF its first lead since midway through the third, then London's coast-to-coast push completed a 10-2 overall run to start the fourth.

Alli Powell assisted Kati Powell yet again for a three-pointer at the 4:49 mark, equalizing the game at 43-43, only to have Teoh make both charity throws after getting fouled on a putback. Granite Bay sophomore Madeline Benedyuk tied the contest for a fourth time at 45-45 with 2:41 left. This began a key Troubadour sequence on both sides of the court. Annie Swanson found Teoh wide open for a three-pointer near the top of the key to give SF the 48-45. Then Swanson and London made diving efforts to force a turnover: Swanson went to the floor first, knocking the ball loose from GB junior Anna Craven. Then London and Kati Powell raced for the errant ball deep in the Grizzly backcourt, with the Troubie junior forcing Powell to tip the ball out of bounds.  

On the following play, Swanson delivered a pass to Paeu-Lindgren in the paint. With the 6-foot-2 Alli Powell matching her every step, the SF post instead found Karly Okamoto near the left block. Okamoto knocked down the short jumper for her only field goal attempt of the game, bumping the score to its final of 50-45. The senior guard later posted a steal with 48 seconds left, then notched two offensive rebounds to allow her team to run out the remaining clock for one extended possession.

Teoh inched closer to becoming just the second player in the school's MaxPreps era (2004-present) to score 1,000 career points. She now has 982 total heading into Friday's road matchup at Whitney.

The SF varsity win followed a 37-31 setback for the Troubie junior varsity squad. Freshman Emmy Cheatham scored nine of her team's 11 points in the first period and finished with a team-leading 13 overall, but the jayvees saw their 11-5 lead wither to an 18-17 deficit at the halftime break before the Grizzlies pulled away to as much as a 10-point advantage early in the fourth.

Granite Bay took its first lead in unusual fashion, with reserve guard Lexie Gordon draining a long shoulder shove with two seconds left before the halftime buzzer, completing an 8-1 comeback across the last five minutes of the second period.

Jocelyn Dickinson scored eight points, with her 18-footer and four free throws leading the Troubies in the final frame. Catherine Gustafson added another seven points to go with seven rebounds.

The two SF teams split up against Whitney later in the week, hosting a JV-only matchup against the Wildcats on Thursday at 7 p.m. The varsity team joins the Jesuit varsity for a doubleheader on Friday, with the Troubies playing at 5:30 followed by the Marauders at 7 p.m.