The Rockets, a basketball team of girls from Puyallup, Sumner, Buckley and Lake Tapps, started the 2010 season with a championship in the seventh-grade division of the Oregon Prep Basketball Tournament.

The team, which participates in the Sumner/Bonney Lake/Puyallup recreation department’s joint select basketball league, practices weekly and plays in local and out-of-area tournaments. The team participated in and won the seventh- and eighth-grade select league with mostly a corps of sixth-grade players.

The girls are good students, too. They currently have a combined 3.8 grade-point average.