The Ballard High School girls basketball team opened their season with a win against Highline last night.

Highline hosted the Beavers for a non-conference game and the Ballard started off strong with a 28 to 3 lead in the first quarter.

By halftime the lead was expanded to 47 to 10, making it difficult for the Burien team to catch up.

Ballard scored ten more points before the end of the game and while Highline’s scoring increased in the second half, they couldn’t catch up to the Beavers.

The Beavers won with a final score of 57 to 25.

Sophomore Cailey Becket lead the team with 13 points, followed by Sophomore Shelby Bailess with 12 points, and with Freshmen Makeylah Kirkwood with 11 points.

The Lady Beavers play again on Friday in a non-conference home game against Rogers (Puyallup) at 7:30 p.m. in the BHS main gym.