If the Medical Lake girls’ basketball team has a deer in the headlights look lately there’s good reason.

The Cardinals have faced the Deer Park Stags in three of their last four games, losing all of them including a 41-34 setback in a District 7 semifinal playoff game on Feb. 14 at West Valley High School.

That game completed the first week of postseason play for Medical Lake (10-13) following a 56-44 victory over Newport (7-14) in a loser-out game Feb. 12. Together they set up loser-out game Feb. 19 vs. Colville (12-10) — also at West Valley.

The series of games with Deer Park (17-5...