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Cards, Eagles Go Through

Brian Coddington Correspondent

Northeast A

Two teams were crowned champions, one champion was eliminated and four teams survived to earn another chance in the Northeast A District basketball tournament at Mead High Friday night.

The Medical Lake boys used a big third quarter to beat Lakeside 71-48. The win sends the Cardinals to the Class A state tournament as the NEA district champions and No. 1 seed.

While the Cardinals were busy chasing their crown, the Lakeside girls were being fitted for theirs.

The Eagles defeated Riverside 41-33 to win the girls’ NEA title and the No. 1 seed in the Tacoma Dome next week.

In loser-out play, the Chewelah boys ousted Riverside 81-69, and the Colfax girls eliminated Chewelah 46-43.

Boys

Medical Lake 71, Lakeside 48

The banner that stretched from one long, gangly limb to the other said it all.

“Medical Lake Northeast A District Champions,” the banner displayed by senior forward T.J. Fischhaber read.

Randy Moffatt had just drained four 3-pointers on his way to 26 points and Joe Deutsch quietly added 15 points as the Cardinals dismantled an Eagles team that had derailed NEA regular season champ Riverside in triple OT a week earlier.

“He’s been real patient all year,” Cardinals coach Dave Olzendam said. “He’s a very team oriented player and he waited his turn a let the game come to him.”

And the Cardinals are glad it did.

“I just didn’t want to lose,” Moffatt said. “The team wasn’t playing very good and needed a lift.”

Moffatt provided more than that, drilling a pair of 3s in the second quarter to keep Lakeside from gaining any momentum. In the third quarter, he poured it on, burying his fourth 3 during a period where the Cardinals ran off 11 straight points to take control.

“Time was running out and I knew I could do it,” Moffatt said.

Lakeside 13 17 8 10 - 48 Medical Lake 16 16 25 14 - 71

LAKESIDE (Nine Mile Falls) - Bender 3, Nelson 2, Feider 0, Davis 2, Hatch 14, Klein 2, Mathews 5, Miller 6, Petticrew 8, S.Tenny 4, J.Tenny 2.

MEDICAL LAKE Verstrate 0, Bailey 7, Moffatt 26, Huston 10, Simmons 4, Blum 0, Delp 2, J.Deutsch 15, Campbell 0, M.Deutsch 2, Fischhaber 5, Cortez 0.

Chewelah 81, Riverside 69

The Cougars outscored the Rams 25-13 in the final quarter to end Riverside’s season and keep its own state berth hopes alive.

The Cougars’ Jerry Landrum went 8 of 10 from the foul line, including hitting the front end of all five of his one-and-one attempts, to turn what had been a 56-56 tie into a 12-point victory.The Rams finished their season at 15-6, despite Kevin Kuntz’s 20 points, including four 3-pointers.

Riverside 20 16 20 13 - 69 Chewelah 20 16 20 25 - 81

RIVERSIDE Cook 11, Hodgson 2, Koesel 2, Baker 0, Monroe 3, Smith 2, Johnson 18, Ahrens 4, Kuntz 20, Hansen 0, Gannon 7.

CHEWELAH Je.Landram 24, Jaques 1, Murbach 2, Wissing 0, Skok 10, Keeley 0, Boone 15, Belzer 16, Rodgers 11, Rainer 2, Wymer 0.

Girls

Lakeside 41, Riverside 33

That proverbial glass, er basket, was half full for Brianne Jolley and the Eagles.

That’s because, while her performance from the foul line wasn’t dazzling (3 of 6), she hit all three of them during a fourth-quarter stretch wneh she and her teammates were unable to hit a field goal. Her points were enough to keep the Eagles (21-3) in the game.

“That was clutch,” Eagles’ coach Lisa Schultz said. “If they foul you and you don’t make your free throws, it’s a turnover.”

Brianne Jolley’s performance wasn’t the only one worth mention.

Sister Lora preferred to keep it all in the family by handing out a pair of assists with less than 2 minutes to play, stopping a Rams spurt. Her first pass found Stephanie Guenther for a layup, and her second was finished off neatly by - who else? - Brianne.

“Coach tells me … if you don’t have the ball, make eye contact with Steph,” Lora Jolley said. “That way it will be that much easier when you do (have the ball).”

Lora Jolley finished with eight points, but maybe even more important was her hustle in the second quarter that got her lathargic teammates going.

“The shoes fit,” Lora Jolley said when asked why she chose to take over for her team. “I just kind of jumped into them. I thought I could handle the pressure and take some pressure off Steph.”

Alana Carlander had 13 points to top the Rams, who will meet Colfax in a loser-out, winner-to-state matchup at 6 tonight at Mead.

Lakeside 7 13 12 9 - 41 Riverside 10 6 8 9 - 33

LAKESIDE (Nine Mile Falls) - Guenther 11, Traber 8, K.Rowse 0, B.Rowse 0, L.Jolley 8, Waddell 5, Hatch 0, B.Jolley 9, Long 0.

RIVERSIDE Carlander 13, Snyder 1, Whittekiend 0, Thompson 2, Day 4, Stime 2, Wood 6, Shorts 2, Peterson 3, McMurphy 0.

Colfax 46, Chewelah 43 The Bulldogs built a 13-point lead to end the third quarter, a lead large enough to withstand a Cougars comeback that saw Chewelah score 19 of the games’ final 28 points.

Shelby Pitman highlighted a 19-point third quarter for the Bulldogs (17-7), knocking down 10 of her 16 points. Brook Hansen added 13 points, seven in the openning quarter.

Hayden Kristianson’s 13 points led the Cougars. Chewelah finished 11-12.

Chewelah 5 8 11 19 - 43 Colfax 12 6 19 9 - 46

CHEWELAH Myers 0, King 8, Bauer 12, Cairns 0, Perkins 6, Kristianson 13, Wood 4, Pickering 0, Hughes 0, O’Neal 0, Naccarato 0.

COLFAX Gigray 7, Harder 0, Miller 0, Tribbett 4, Widman 6, Pittman 16, Hansen 11.