Idaho girls basketball teams are in the midst of state-qualifying tournaments.
The Greater Spokane League and Great Northern League boys and girls basketball teams conclude regular-season play this week before launching into district tournaments next week.
Washington small schools are in the midst of their district tourneys.
And wrestling teams gear up for regionals this weekend - with state next week.
Click the tab below to see the latest GNL boys and girls basketball scoring leaders.
LEADING GNL Basketball Scorers as of 2-6-2011
Leading GNL Boy Scorers
Name School Total Points Number of games Average High Point Games
Peone Deer Park 187 10 18.7 34 pts on 1/7
Langerveld Pullman 194 11 17.6 25 pts on 1/7
Phelan East Valley 144 9 16.0 22 pts on 1/7
Love West Valley 149 10 14.9 23 pts on 1/14 &1/24
D. Adams Clarkston 144 10 14.4 28 pts on 1/13
Dunn Medical Lake 158 11 14.3 29 pts on 1/28
Starbuck Deer Park 143 10 14.3 20 pts on 1/7 & 1/27
Drake Pullman 139 11 12.6 25 pts on 1/27
Sobotta Clarkston 123 10 12.3 20 pts on 1/14
Gassman West Valley 123 10 12.3 21 pts on 1/31
Brown East Valley 108 9 12.0 20pts on 1/7
Mohr Deer Park 115 10 11.5 29 pts on 1/7
Davis West Valley 101 10 10.1 15 pts on 1/31
Paulson Medical Lake 111 11 10.0 20 pts on 1/7
Leading GNL Girl Scorers
Name School Total Points Number of games Average High Point Games
WEISNER CLARKSTON 206 10 20.6 31 PTS ON 1/21
A.BROWN CHENEY 166 10 16.6 25 PTS ON 1/6
HEINS DEER PARK 121 10 12.1 18 PTS ON 1/14
DRAKE PULLMAN 116 11 10.5 19 PTS OM 1/17
MARTIN WEST VALLEY 109 10 10.9 22 PTS ON 1/17
WALLMAN EAST VALLEY 100 9 11.1 20 PTS ON 1/27
ASHLEY-MEEK WEST VALLEY 100 10 10.0 16 PTS ON 1/14
CHRISTIANSON EAST VALLEY 85 9 9.4 15 PTS ON 1/7
BELTRAME DEER PARK 91 10 9.1 17 PTS ON 1/31
NILLES MEDICAL LAKE 99 11 9.0 16PTS ON 1/7
MCCONNELL CLARKSTON 90 10 9.0 20 PTS ON 1/21
4:40 p.m. Feb 7
Here is the likely reason that NC has fallen below the 3A population limit and had to “opt up” in order to stay in the GSL for 2012-14:
http://www2.spokaneschools.org/polpro/View.aspx?id=525
NC does not seem like it is any worse a building than Rogers or LC. What is the deal? Parking? They have a decent Pizza Rita just across the street and a McDonalds in easy walking distance. What more could a kid want? Is District 81 going to have to shift boundaries in order to equalize populations?
7:47 a.m. Feb 8
NC is an adequate facility at best. Rogers, Shadle, LC and soon to be Ferris all have state of the art remodels and updated buildings. No comparison. Not even close.
11:08 a.m. Feb 8
One has to wonder if NC (the school) has a future in District 81. It was built years ago in the wrong location (for sentimental reasons). Could District 81 get by with 2 northside schools (SP and Rogers) and 2 southside schools (LC and Ferris)? Demographics seem to indicate that the slide in overall population is not going to change as families move to the outlying districts like Mead and CV.
The alternative is spending a bunch of money to update NC or build a new one up towards Indian Trail.
2:02 p.m. Feb 8
Not a bad financial plan Al. It is the smallest GSL school by far. Maybe the district could use the building for Alternative Ed. programs, Administrative offices, Teacher training, etc.
LC is pretty big, but Ferris, Shadle and Rogers could all accept a few 100 kids. The shutting down of a building is HUGE savings for a district when you factor in all the costs. Gigantic actually.
However, every study shows smaller schools are more effective. The smaller, the more attention to all student needs and abilities. It is a tough choice in these times.
7:54 a.m. Feb 11
Selling the downtown administrative taj mahal and moving it to North Central would save millions.
Better yet, get rid of about half of the occupants in the downtown taj mahal and save even more millions every year but that is an entirely different discussion.
It would be interesting to see whether North Central could be converted to a smaller, specialized school - AP only? arts? technical? and still provide extracurricular activities as athletics to provide the local community with a rallying point. I would suspect that would require dropping down to 2A and joining the GNL.
With the current student population, NC is probably doing more with less than any other public school in the GSL (Prep excluded, for obvious reasons). But to expect them to compete with Central Valley or LC on a regular basis with half the student body isn’t reasonable.