LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Four Lake County middle school girls basketball teams traveled to Crescent City last month to compete in the 2012 Crescent City Jaycees Eighth Grade Girls Basketball Tournament.

Teams from throughout Northern California and Oregon look forward to this annual competition as a highlight of their eighth grade year.

Representing Lake County were Middletown (fifth seed) and Kelseyville (eighth seed) in AAA, Terrace from Lakeport (fifth seed) in AA Division and Upper Lake (third seed) in the B Division.

This is the first year that a Middletown Broncos have been placed in the highest AAA Division. This current Broncos team has not lost a school-league game yet at the middle school level, winning all their games and the championship as seventh graders, and going undefeated so far in 2012-13 at the eighth grade level.

Middletown lost in the first round to the eventual AAA Division winner Toddy Thomas, and then won in a close three-point game against Kelseyville in the consolation bracket. Middletown went on to lose 40-33 to Zane to claim sixth place.

Caitlin Lemoine from the Broncos was named an All Tourney Player in Division AAA

Kelseyville uncharacteristically lost all three of their games, falling to Saint Bernard’s Blue (fourth place finisher) in the first round, to Middletown in the consolation round, and then to Fortuna – falling to eighth spot.

Terrace lost a three-point squeaker against Coastal Grove in the first round and then beat the Crescent Elk A’s by seven before losing to Fortuna to take sixth place in AA Division.

Upper Lake won big 41-16 over Crescent Elk B in their first round, moving to the championship bracket.

They lost a close one-point game to Trinidad in the quarter-finals, and then came back to beat Saint Bernards White for third place overall in the B Division.