SELAH – About the time the NFL playoffs kicked off Saturday, second-year Grandview girls basketball coach Payton Bonny and the Greyhounds cranked up their own ‘ground game.’

Grandview’s three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense came in the form of 6-foot senior Angel Torres.

“Getting the ball inside is like the run game in football – you have to get that going, you have to establish that before you get anything on the outside,” Bonny said. “That was a big piece of our focus with getting the ball inside to her.

“We have to start trusting her.”

After Saturday afternoon’s 20-point, 13-rebound effort in Grandview’s 70-48 victory, there should be plenty of faith in Torres, who did most of her damage on putbacks and lob passes into the post.

The victory wasn’t just big in what’s become a four-team race atop the CWAC, but also a flex of the Greyhounds’ resiliency. Less than 24 hours after being pasted at Prosser, Grandview showed the mettle it’ll need for its first to Class 2A state in the SunDome since 2001.

“Last night was rough and we had to flip the switch,” Bonny said. “Flipping the switch for 15- or 16-year-old girls is hard. I’m very proud of how they came out and did that.”

The Greyhounds’ high-scoring backcourt trio of Miya Lopez (19 points), Leyla Rodriguez (16) and Jennalynn Garza (8) did what it usually does, combining for 43 points, just slightly below the combined points per game they brought into the game.

With Grandview trailing by two late in a back-and-forth first half, Rodriguez canned back-to-back 3-pointers to send the Greyhounds to the locker rooms with a 28-24. The Greyhounds never looked back.

Shooting nearly 60% in the second half, Grandview (7-2 CWAC, 11-3 overall) pulled away.

Elise Kingston scored a team-high 17 points for the Vikings (7-2, 10-3), while Selah’s top scorer Makenna Pepper never got going and had just four.

After scoring the final 12 points of the game and handing Prosser its first conference loss of the season Tuesday, Selah has dropped back-to-back home games with Ellensburg on Friday winning in Carl Kellman Gym.

“We haven’t won that big game before while I’ve been here,” Vikings coach Ray Navarro said. “So learning how to win and play another big game right after that is something we haven’t done yet.”

With the victory, the Greyhounds further muddied the race atop the CWAC. Grandview, Selah and Ellensburg all own a 7-2 conference record, and are half a game behind Selah.

The conference gets two state berths with a chance for a third with a winner-to-the-SunDome crossover with the Northwest Conference.

If the first half of the conference schedule, which included Grandview ending Ellensburg’s 82-game regular season winning streak, it should be a wild ride to the district tourney.

“There isn’t a talent gap like there has been the last couple years between the four of us,” Navarro said. “Each night those four play, any of us can get wins and it’s going to be a battle every time we step on the floor.”