Selkirk Upends Columbia, 54-38

AA/A/B girls

The South rose again on Tuesday. Molly Carlson scored 29 on 13-of-19 shooting from the field as visiting Selkirk (15-5), seeded third in the South, beat North No. 2 Columbia 54-38 in a Panorama League Tournament opener at Hunters.

South teams won three of four tourney openers. North dignity was saved by No. 1 Inchelium, a winner over No. 4 Springdale.

Selkirk advances to Friday’s semifinal against South champion St. George’s. Columbia (11-9) plays Republic in a Friday loser-out game.

Selkirk 54, Columbia 38

Selkirk 8 14 10 22 - 54 Columbia 7 8 9 14 - 38

SELKIRK Dickinson 1, Gross 2, Jennings 0, Barnes 0, Sharp 0, Smith 0, Weaver 0, Koontz 7, Dury 4, Porter 11, Carlson 29.

COLUMBIA Schrack 0, Covington 0, Etue 5, Skidmore 11, Schurger 6, Strickler 4, MacMillan 0, Brisbois 6, Dale 1, Dashiell 5.

St. George’s 62, Republic 34

Jaime Appling scored 18, Melissa Harvill had 11 assists and Miranda Routh-Corker added eight rebounds as the Dragons (15-6) beat the visiting Tigers (8-12).

St. George’s held Melissa Friend (17.5 ppg) to one basket. Republic came in as the No. 4 from the North.

Republic 8 8 7 11 - 34 St. George’s 14 10 24 14 - 62

REPUBLIC Davis 0, Dinkins 0, Friend 6, Pfaffle 0, Prine 8, Pritchett 0, Stonehocker 9, Tietsort 0, Wilson 11, Young 0.

ST. GEORGE’S Alsaker 0, Davis 2, Chill 0, Boutz 4, Webster 0, DeNiro 2, Swift 0, Trowbridge 17, Routh-Corker 8, Appling 18, Harvill 11, McKelvey 0.

NW Christian 47, Northport 26

Jenni Wright’s nine rebounds and four steals led the Crusaders (14-7) over the visiting Mustangs (10-10).

Jana Huston added eight rebounds for NWC, the South’s No. 2, which advanced to Friday’s semifinals against Inchelium. Northport plays a loser-out game against Springdale on Friday.

Northport 7 5 5 9 - 26 NW Christian 6 11 16 14 - 47

NORTHPORT Knudsen 0, Day 0, C.Young 5, Jimenez 0, M.Regis 0, Ke.Sauvola 0, Sell 9, E.Young 6, Lenhard 0, Ka.Sauvola 6, Hart 0.

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN Storro 1, Simmons 8, K.Smith 3, Moen 0, Greenup 2, E.Smith 2, Ogle 0, Montague 3, Casimir 0, Wright 15, Clouse 3, Huston 10.

Inchelium 60, Springdale 45

Emily Mallory charted 25 points and 20 rebounds to guide the Hornets (12-7) over the visiting Chargers (5-16).

Springdale 7 12 16 10 - 45 Inchelium 17 14 15 14 - 60

SPRINGDALE A.Bade 0, Peone 12, Diedrich 0, K.Bade 2, Campbell 3, Hendricks 0, C.Cates 15, N’Deeo 0, Dixon 7, Swiger 0, Stricker 6, S.Cates 0.

INCHELIUM G.Finley 0, Swan 5, C.Stensgar 17, T.Finley 2, Nugent 0, Boyd 2, L.Stensgar 9, Mallory 25.

Northeast A

Colfax 51, Deer Park 43

The visiting Bulldogs (16-2, 10-2) used their height to pull away from the Stags (10-9, 8-5) in the late stages.

Deer Park closed within one point with 3 minutes to play before falling back. Colfax plays Newport (9-3 NEA) on Friday with a first-round district bye at stake. DP has clinched a district berth.

Colfax 11 12 17 11 - 51 Deer Park 7 11 15 10 - 43

COLFAX Gigray 0, Harder 3, Hall 11, Widman 0, Tribbett 11, Hansen 10, S.Pittman 9, Thiele 7.

DEER PARK Ostrom 0, Watson 10, Davis 0, Nedved 0, Stone 8, Gest 6, O’Brien 6, Oswalt 13.

Postponements

Bad roads forced the postponement of Medical Lake at Chewelah, Newport at Kettle Falls and Lakeside at Freeman. All were rescheduled for today.

Whitman County

Gar.-Pal. 68, LaCrosse-Wash. 40

At Palouse, Kacey Pfaff had eight rebounds and six assists and Kelley McCabe added eight blocked shots as the Vikings (10-10, 3-7) beat the visiting Tigercats (6-14, 0-10) in a makeup game.

Jessica Daniel, L-W’s leading scorer, dislocated her knee 6 minutes into the game. Gar-Pal, the No. 5 seed, plays No. 4 Rosalia (10-10) at 6 p.m. Friday in a league tournament opener at Endicott. The No. 6 Tigercats play No. 3 Colton (11-8) at 3. Both games are loser-out.

LaCrosse-Wash. 9 10 7 14 - 40 Garfield-Palouse 17 25 12 14 - 68

LaCROSSE-WASHTUCNA Camp 7, Daniel 4, A.Bay 7, Kinch 2, D.Bay 11, Wigen 4, Bryan 5, Thompson 0.

GARFIELD-PALOUSE Nelson 0, Main 16, Shelden 10, Pfaff 13, J.Cottrill 8, Hodson 0, Broughton 12, McCabe 9.

Frontier

Clarkston vs. West Valley

The Bantams’ game against WV was not reported.

Cheney at Riverside, ppd.

The Blackhawks’ game at Chattaroy was postponed until today because of poor road conditions.

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