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Alex Schumacher scored 20 points to lead the Storm to a 4A Greater St. Helens League win at home.
Squeeky Johnson added 15 points, hitting five of Skyview’s 11 3-pointers.
“Just a solid overall team game,” Skyview coach Matt Gruhler said. “Everybody played. Everyone contributed.”
Skyview (13-4, 4-1) jumped to a 39-19 halftime lead. Heritage (5-11, 0-5) pulled within 12 late in the third quarter, but Skyview ended the game on a 25-11 run.
Skyview’s Kyle Gruhler had a team-high 11 rebounds along with nine points.

Skyrocketing student loan debt put homeownership out of reach for 400,000 Americans in their 20s and 30s from 2005 to 2014, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve.
Starting from census data showing a drop of 8.8 percentage points in homeownership among that age cohort, the Fed’s researchers estimate that rising student loan balances account for roughly 2 percentage points of that drop, or nearly a quarter of it.

In 2013, a top executive at Netflix famously announced that the company’s ambition was to “become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” The declaration made headlines at the time for its audacity: Netflix was gunning for the king of premium television.
But now it seems Netflix has identified an even bigger rival: the massively popular video game Fortnite.