Pullman Wins Easily, Moves Closer To Title

Boys basketball

Pullman took its biggest step toward the Great Northern League title by jumping on visiting Chewelah 59-37 Saturday.

Brent Cumming scored 20 points and Brooke Randall had seven rebounds as the sixth-ranked Greyhounds (15-2, 10-2) sent the Cougars (12-6, 8-4) into a tie for third place by sweeping the season series.

Pullman has fifth-place Newport and seventh-place Lakeside left on its schedule.

Chewelah’s Travis Meserve had nine rebounds. The Cougars also have no games left against upper-division teams.

Pullman 59, Chewelah 37

Chewelah 12 6 9 10 - 37

Pullman 19 18 10 12 - 59

CHEWELAH - Landram 2, Forsberg 5, Meserve 16, Miller 6, Nitschke 4, Churape 0, Kinley 2, Sunday 0, Parrish 2.

PULLMAN - Brown 3, Cummings 20, Linehan 6, Camp 0, Bray 5, Harms 14, Randall 4, Weeks 0, Camara 5, Poole 0, Dorvil 2, Petz 0.

Newport 54, Colville 48

Danny Ellersick scored 25, hitting 7 of 10 from the floor in the second half, as the Grizzlies (9-9, 4-8) knocked the visiting Indians (11-7, 8-4) out of second place and continued their big improvement in the second half of the season.

Sean Mumford grabbed 16 rebounds for Newport, which is 4-2 against GNL foes in the second half after completing the first half 0-6. Eli Marsh hit 4 of 4 free throws in the final quarter.

Colville 14 15 6 13 - 48

Newport 12 12 16 14 - 54

COLVILLE - Goble 0, Weaver 7, Anderson 0, Ortner 12, Bateman 5, Vaagen 0, Meinhold 13, Spies 0, Mostek 7, Bradeen 0, I.Gordon 4, Shaw 0.

NEWPORT - Kiehn 0, Frandrup 1, Meade 4, Ellersick 25, Drum 4, Marsh 6, Balcolm 4, Martindale 0, Vlasman 3, Mumford 7.

Medical Lake 95, Deer Park 45

Brandon Moore finished with 22 points and 10 rebounds as the visiting Cardinals (12-6, 9-3) topped the Stags (4-14, 2-10) to take over second place alone, one game behind Pullman.

Richard Brown and Jeff Mitchell combined for 17 assists for ML, which played its second consecutive game without top guard Andre Jackson.

Medical Lake 22 29 27 17 - 95

Deer Park 9 15 16 5 - 45

MEDICAL LAKE - Brown 10, Headlee 18, Shirley 15, Meeks 6, Mitchell 4, Miller 13, Nichols 7, B.Moore 22.

DEER PARK - Holmes 7, Henry 0, Westerman 4, Santonocito 0, S.Mitchell 6, J.Mitchell 0, Zimmerer 8, Sebright 4, Frickey 9, Thompson 3, Axel 0, Swinyard 4.

Riverside 82, Lakeside 70

Jim Murphy scored 35, hitting 11 of 16 shots from the field and 7 of 8 from the line, as the Rams (6-12, 4-8) outraced the visiting Eagles (4-14, 3-9).

Matt Miller had 11 rebounds for Riverside, which hit 27 of 34 foul shots and shot 52 percent from the field.

Lakeside 12 22 13 23 - 70

Riverside 25 20 23 14 - 82

LAKESIDE - Day 11, Purkheiser 9, Rowse 4, Spiger 4, K.Skinner 19, L.Skinner 0, Noland 14, Mortlock 2, Clockerty 7, Brown 0, Bjork 0.

RIVERSIDE - Kapelke 6, Lieske 0, Remington 6, Murphy 35, Boone 2, Rizzuto 0, Vannatter 0, Frowick 4, Johnson 0, Crance 11, Dinning 0, Miller 18.

BORDER LEAGUE

East Valley 50, Clarkston 48

Mike Sterling totaled eight rebounds as the visiting Knights (4-16, 3-13) defeated the Bantams (5-15, 3-13) to clinch the third seed to the District 7-3A tournament.

East Valley opens district at EWU Tuesday against No. 2 West Valley (11-9). Clarkston opens against No. 1 seed, 10th-ranked Cheney (15-5).

East Valley 14 10 13 13 - 50

Clarkston 11 11 8 18 - 48

EAST VALLEY - Henderson 1, Sitton 3, Quirk 16, Burgess 12, Shogren 0, Sterling 3, Pooley 0, Horgan 15.

CLARKSTON - Nielson 10, Olson 13, Norland 2, Tucker 0, Smith 2, Blankinship 3, Fuchs 2, Harrington 6, Cummings 3, Cridlebaugh 2, Hayes 5.

Lewiston 75, Sandpoint 40

The visiting Bengals (16-4, 13-3) shot 9 of 11 from the floor in the first quarter to defeat the Bulldogs (6-14, 3-13) and finish one game behind league champion Coeur d’Alene.

Lewiston’s Scott Couch came off the bench to score 15 in the fourth quarter. Sandpoint plays Post Falls on Monday in a regional loser-out playoff.

Lewiston 21 15 19 20 - 75

Sandpoint 6 7 10 17 - 40

LEWISTON - Egland 12, Pierce 3, Holmes 3, Maurer 3, Couch 19, Eck 11, Klamper 7, Reineke 2, Johnson 13, Holder 2.

SANDPOINT - Shelton 2, Nieman 6, Bronk 1, Bowman 4, Gehring 13, Klinert 12, Rust 2.

NORTHEAST A LEAGUE

Colfax 53, Kettle Falls 38

Brent Damery scored 13 points in the third quarter to help the visiting Bulldogs (11-9, 2-4) defeat KF (5-15, 0-6) and secure the No. 3 berth to the District 7-1A tournament.

Colfax opens the double-elimination district at 5 p.m. Friday at Mead High against second-seeded Reardan (13-7). KF opens at 8:30 p.m. Friday against league champion Freeman (15-5).

Colfax 10 11 9 23 - 53

Kettle Falls 13 3 10 12 - 38

COLFAX - Kirkpatrick 4, Damery 18, Hall 0, Wigen 2, Curtis 0, Brownell 4, Keck 12, Robinson 4, Hand 2, VanDyke 7.

KETTLE FALLS - George 14, Weathers 12, Miller 2, Madlin 2, Musson 0, Lickfold 4, Geesey 0, Payne 4.

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