Chris Derrick

B basketball notebook Garbage in, garbage out. This week's Associated Press high school basketball poll showed Curlew taking over the No. 1 position among Class B boys teams. Toutle Lake dropped from No. 1 to No. 5. Voters were apparently swayed by a score that ran on the Associated Press wires Friday night: Lake Quinault 58, Toutle Lake 50.

University's Dusty Roberts, top, puts a move on Olympic's 148-pound wrestler in an AAA match at the Mat Classic VII Friday. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

Greater Spokane League wrestlers expect their quality to make up for a lack of quantity this weekend. In old-time terminology, it'll be every man for himself at Mat Classic VII.

Wenatchee 141-pounder Ryan Gutzwiler upends north Central's Josh Robertson, but Robertson came back to win. He eventually placed second. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

Gonzaga Prep's Cory Brannon, left, wraps up Rogers' Daryn Steeneck on the way to a win at 108. Brannon lost to Daryl Groom of Rogers in the final. Photo by Molly O'Hara/The Spokesman-Review

The crowd's objective was to rattle David Schillinger after the West Valley guard tossed up a pair of air balls - one from the free-throw line. The strains of: "Air ball! Air ball!" fell on deaf ears, however, as Schillinger continued to launch away.

As Henry Peterson attempts to become the most successful wrestler in Riverside High School history, first-year Rams coach Randy Miller has been besieged with questions as to how storied that history is. Turns out that Miller can't say for sure. But he has figured out that Riverside's Northeast A title this season was the school's first in at least 20 years.

Riverside wrestling standout Henry Peterson hopes to escape from his senior season with another state title. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

University's Scott Garcia has Central Valley's Dean Jolley right where he wants him early in their 141-pound match. Garcia won with a pin in 58 seconds. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

The Class B girls basketball ranks lost another undefeated team Saturday, and Jennifer Stinson didn't need any deep thinking to figure out why. "It was the running game that got them," Stinson said after scoring 30 points to lead fourthranked Davenport (9-0, 15-1) to a 61-41 Bi-County League win over third-ranked Wilbur-Creston (9-1, 15-1).

Ryan Floyd has run up more than 1,300 career points for unbeaten Sprague-Harrington. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

In her first season at St. George's boys basketball coach, former Gonzaga University star Jennifer Mountain finds herself the center of attention. Photo by Anne C. Williams/The Spokesman-Review

Prep wrestling Mark Rinde is paying for his shift to 148 pounds, but not until his matches are over. Wiped out after his gyrating, no-backing-down win over Central Valley's Shane Yackel on Thursday, Rinde collapsed on his back for several minutes. After he'd had extra time to compose himself, Rinde summed up his crucial match during Rogers' 32-26 Greater Spokane League wrestling win over the previously unbeaten Bears (2-1).

Erin Soliday and the Cheney girls basketball team have turned the corner this season. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Whitman County basketball teams have a 1-in-6 chance of winning the league title. But, oh, how those other five teams can scare a Whitman coach. "Nobody, I think, can go undefeated in league this year," said coach Lorin Carlon of defending girls league champion St. John-Endicott.