Soliday’s 3 Lifts Reardan To A Victory

A/B boys

Robb Soliday’s 3-pointer at the buzzer Friday lifted visiting Reardan (1-0, 3-0) to a 52-49 win over Sprague-Harrington (0-1, 1-3) in a Bi-County League opener at Harrington.

Soliday also had another 3-pointer in the fourth quarter and made 3 of 4 free throws. James Kiger led Reardan with 12 rebounds. David Countryman scored 20 for S-H, the defending East Division champion and sixth-place team at state.

Reardan 52, Spr.-Harr. 49

Reardan 13 13 13 13 - 52

Sprague-Harrington 11 13 8 17 - 49

REARDAN Jenkin 0, Lane 0, Ro.Soliday 18, Re.Soliday 3, Kiger 8, Titchenal 12, Eastman 5, Eller 0, Krupke 4.

SPRAGUE/HARRINGTON Carroll 0, Newcomb 4, Wagner 0, Bly 9, Shields 2, Putney 0, Countryman 20, Kupers 0, Hattrup 8, Carper 6, Vold 0.

Odessa 47, Lind 46

Jared Praetorius scored 20 points, including a deciding free throw with 8 seconds left, as the Tigers (1-0, 1-1) beat the visiting Bulldogs.

Odessa failed to pull away early when it missed several easy shots. Rob Schrenk of Lind (0-1, 0-4) scored 24.

Lind 13 11 14 8 - 46

Odessa 13 11 13 10 - 47

LIND Sheckells 5, Montejano 4, Pennel 6, Schrenk 24, Palmer 7.

ODESSA Melcher 14, Carlson 5, Grall 8, Praetorius 20.

Ritzville 66, Wilb.-Cres. 49 Travis DeVore scored 11 of his 21 points in the second quarter and John Galbreath added seven of his 18 in the period as the Broncos (1-0, 3-1) beat the visiting Wildcats (0-1, 0-2).

Galbreath added 14 rebounds. Mike Bahr and Beau Tonasket had five rebounds apiece for W-C, which shot just two free throws.

Wilbur-Creston 10 8 17 14 - 49

Ritzville 12 24 15 15 - 66

WILBUR-CRESTON Leonard 10, Sapier 7, Tonasket 10, Gleason 10, Samuels 0, Bahr 7, Goodwin 3, Wippel 2, Billars 0, Marchand 0.

RITZVILLE T.DeVore 21, Marcus 0, Benzel 6, Duff 3, S.Galbreath 5, D.DeVore 9, J.Galbreath 18, Taylor 0, Russel 0, Arlt 4.

ACH 86, Christian Heritage 40

All 12 players scored, and Matt Elder and Jason Evers had five rebounds apiece, as the Almira/Coulee-Hartline Warriors (1-0, 2-0) beat the Patriots (0-1, 2-2) at Edwall.

ACH made just 15 of 29 free throws. Joe Bell led CH with five rebounds.

Almira/Coulee-Hartline 20 18 26 22 - 86

Christian Heritage 6 10 10 14 - 40

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE R.Higginbotham 2, A.Higginbotham 8, Murray 15, Elder 13, Behne 2, Carstensen 18, Neilsen 5, Goodwin 6, J.Evers 3, K.Evers 8, Leander 2, Pate 4.

CHRISTIAN HERITAGE J.Bishop 2, Klein 0, J.Fischer 4, B.Bishop 4, J.Newbill 2, Bell 11, T.Fischer 17.

Non-league Newport 58, St. Maries 56 Nate Carrara scored 15 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, including the game-winning free throws with 12 seconds left, as the Grizzlies (2-1) overcame a 14-point deficit to beat the visiting Lumberjacks (1-2).

Carrara also had 13 rebounds. Wes Larson of Newport had seven assists and made three of his four 3-pointers in the fourth quarter. St. Maries had just two fourth-quarter field goals and threw away the ball on its last possession.

St. Maries 11 18 13 14 - 56

Newport 6 13 9 30 - 58

ST. MARIES Spooner 8, Sindt 2, Craner 2, Eberlin 4, Konkright 13, M.Raebel 3, Holdahl 2, Dawson 4, S.Raebel 18.

NEWPORT Larson 16, Sherwood 1, Ellersick 10, McClean 0, Martindale 2, Carrara 24, Myers 0, Knapp 2, Richter 3.

Gar-Pal 44, Troy 43

B.J. Hill scored 19, including a layup with 17 seconds left after a steal at midcourt, as the Vikings (1-2) beat the visiting Trojans at Garfield.

Troy jumped ahead 12-0, but Gar-Pal used pressure defense to come back. Logan Coles of the Vikings came off the bench to hit a pair of late free throws.

Troy 14 10 8 11 - 43

Garfield-Palouse 5 11 12 16 - 44

GARFIELD-PALOUSE Hill 19, Bischoff 4, Coles 6, Fox 3, Gearhart 2, Miller 2, Hegg 2, Thurston 6.

TROY, Idaho Potter 2, Payne 3, Hazeltine 4, LeBlanc 10, Smith 18, Kozeni 6.

Medical Lake 74, Royal 56

Dan Huston had 10 rebounds and 10 assists as the Cardinals, last year’s State A runner-up, opened with a win over the visiting Knights (2-1).

Brandon Moore also had 10 rebounds for ML, which held Royal to 33-percent shooting from the floor.

Royal 10 12 20 14 - 56

Medical Lake 21 18 18 17 - 74

ROYAL Vermeen 0, Iverson 4, Harris 13, Allread 2, Barker 1, Anderson 3, Dickson 7, Wardenaar 0, Grimmer 4, Christenson 2, Brown 14, Messenberg 6.

MEDICAL LAKE Jackson 4, Bailey 17, Headlee 0, Huston 17, Simmons 18, Blum 3, Johnson 4, V.Moore 0, Campbell 0, Nichols 0, Bahr 0, B.Moore 11.

Chewelah JV 53, Inchelium 46

Still waiting for their state football semi-final players to get in enough practices to join the basketball team, the Cougars beat the visiting Hornets (0-1) with a junior varsity lineup.

Shawn Christianson of Inchelium scored 24.

Inchelium 15 8 12 11 - 46

Chewelah JVs 6 11 16 20 - 53

INCHELIUM J.D. Finley 5, M.Finley 2, Evans 1, Desautel 4, Phillips 4, Pakootas 10, Lawrence 0, Sutton 0, Flett 0, Christianson 24.

CHEWELAH JV Meserve 16, Landrum 2, Wissink 5, Sunday 15, Edwards 4, Churape 0, Parrish 5, Nitscke 2, E.Forsberg 0, Wright 2, R.Forsberg 2.

Colton 62, Kendrick 58

Kellen Moss had 19 rebounds and scored seven fourth-quarter points as the Wildcats (3-1) beat the visiting Tigers.

Matt Tefft of Kendrick scored 23.

Kendrick 19 11 17 11 - 58

Colton 15 14 15 18 - 62

KENDRICK Tefft 23, Frolov 4, Harris 12, Hutcheson 1, Wallace 7, Greer 7, Sneeve 4.

COLTON Busch 0, Bingeman 5, Truong 4, Weber 2, Wallace 13, E.Druffel 9, Fowler 0, Bates 14, Semler 0, Moss 15.

Pomeroy 61, LaCros.-Wash. 51

At Washtucna, the Tigercats (1-2) cut the Pirates’ double-figure lead to five points in the second half, but could get no closer. Troy Nealy scored 21 for L-W.

Pomeroy 21 17 11 12 - 61

LaCrosse-Washtucna 13 10 16 12 - 51

POMEROY A.McCabe 6, Gwinn 12, Cox 15, Klaveano 0, Kimble 4, E.McCabe 8, Young 3, McKernan 0, Edvalson 13.

LaCROSSE/WASHTUCNA Nealy 21, Camp 2, Swenson 0, Rouleau 4, McIntosh 2, Daniel 8, Kinch 4, J.Whitman 10.

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