Teams have to pay full attention to Shadow Mountain's Senya Rabouin, especially when her shooting radar is locked in.

Rabouin sizzled for 17 second-quarter points, finished with a game-high and season-high 32 allowing the Matadors to pull away and eventually record a 67-52 victory over 6A #1 Pinnacle in a battle of the Paradise Valley district's top girls hoops teams and conference title contenders at Pinnacle High.

Shadow Mountain (18-3 overall, 12-1 power-ranking games), the defending 4A champs, brought a #2 ranking in 4A. Pinnacle, playing its fifth game in nine days fell to 16-6 and dropped its first power-ranking game after 12 wins.

"We needed a game like that from her," Shadow Mountain coach Erica Matthews said. "She's been sick this week. To have the energy to come through like that is something."

Shadow Mountain posted a modest 14-10 lead after the opening quarter. A 25-17 advantage in the second period made bumped the margin to double digits at the half. Rabouin connected on 7 of 9 shots from the field in the quarter. She sank three threes and two were 25-foot range rather than toeing the arc. 

An additional boost for Shadow Mountain came from reserve post Malaysia Gibson. The stout 6-foot senior took advantage of the absence of Pinnacle's 6-6 post Kennedy Basham, who missed here second game this week with a puffy ankle suffered in an accident mid-week. Gibson posted up for seven points in the first half, including a three-point play in the second quarter.

Pinnacle felt it could rally from the 39-27 halftime deficit, but out of the gate in the third it didn't happen. Shadow Mountain's Sissy Paloma and Rabouin alternated making three-point shots in a 9-1 run that increased the lead to 48-28. 

Pinnacle had one burst left and managed to cut the deficit in half briefly and 52-41 heading to the final quarter. The Pioneers got no closer than 10 the rest of the way.

"I know (Pinnacle) had a full week of games," Matthews said. "They played hard. I think we had a little more gas in our tank."

Pinnacle endured a revolving door of its top two scorers during the last nine-day, five-game stretch. Leading scorer Ally Stedman paced the Pioneers on Saturday with 15 points. Stedman missed three of the five games returning from a bad back for Friday's win over Boulder Creek and Saturday. Basham missed Pinnacle's games Friday and Saturday. Basham may be able to return to action next week.