The pink uniforms might stay.

The Dakota Ridge girls basketball team donned the pink threads for two games this week in recognition of breast cancer awareness month, and things have gone so well, it will be tough to abandon them.

"That'd be sweet, actually, to go into the playoffs wearing these," center Liz Malik said.

On Friday night, the Janelle Baal-led Eagles pulled off the improbable by wiping out a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter to shock visiting Columbine 49-46 in the Class 5A Jefferson County League regular-season finale.

Baal drilled six three-pointers, including three straight in the final quarter, on the way to a game-best 25 points.

"I knew I needed to hit some shots," Baal said. "They were falling, so I kept taking them."

Four teams, including Columbine and Dakota Ridge, entered the night tied atop the league with 9-3 marks. Ralston Valley also won Friday, and the Mustangs beat out Dakota Ridge for the tiebreaker after beating the Eagles during the regular season.

Dakota Ridge (13-10 overall, 10-3 league), though, gladly will take the league's second seed after graduating its top four players from last season.

"It was rebuilding for the first part of the season, but it's finally meshing and it feels great," said Malik, who scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds.

Things weren't as rosy for Columbine (17-6, 9-4) after a rough final week. The Rebels entered the week in sole possession of first place, but they lost Tuesday to Green Mountain and appeared to have this one sealed before Baal's barrage of threes.

"We went into the fourth quarter with the lead, and I think we just tried to hold the lead instead of trying to keep scoring and keep the momentum going," Columbine senior Alyssa Maccan said.

Columbine led 43-34 early in the fourth, but Dakota Ridge went on a 13- 0 run that included Baal's sequence of threes. The second tied it, and the third put Dakota Ridge up 46-43 with 1 minute, 34 seconds to play.

"We can always rely on Janelle," Malik said. "She's always the foundation for our team."

Columbine cut it to 47-46 on a three- pointer by Maccan 36 seconds left, but drew no closer. Point guard Demitra Apergis led the Rebels with 21 points and nine rebounds but did not score in the fourth.

The Dakota Ridge defense also limited Rebels top scorer Randee Hayes to four points.

"Right now I feel amazing because everyone doubted that we could keep up this year," Baal said.

Columbine11 14 13 8 - 46

Dakota Ridge12 10 8 19 - 49

C - Demitra Apergis 9 1-3 21, Heather Van Halen 1 2-2 5, Alyssa Maccan 1 0-2 3, Aimee Thomas 1 1-2 3, Randee Hayes 1 2-2 4, Noelle Hoelsken 2 0-0 4, Olivia Leyshock 3 0-0 6. Totals 17 6-11 46.

DR - Janelle Baal 8 3-4 25, Jaime Brandhorst 1 2-3 4, Elisa Schauer 0 4-6 4, Sarah Fine 1 0-0 2, Liz Malik 4 0-0 8, Brooke Orcutt 1 0-0 2, Lexi Chavez 2 0-0 4, Skippy Tripp 0 0-0 0. Totals 17 9-14 49.

Three-point goals - C, Apergis 2, Maccan. DR, Baal 6.