Riverside Whips Depleted Chewelah

NEA

Winning on the road in the Northeast A League is difficult in the best of circumstances. Without your leading scorer, as the Chewelah Cougars found out Friday night at Riverside, it’s impossible.

The Rams held Jeremy Landram to only five points - he came in leading the NEA at 19.1 per game - and hung tough down the stretch for a 67-61 victory that gave them the league championship.

It also gave Riverside a first-round bye in the district tournament which begins next Friday. Chewelah dropped into a second-place tie with Medical Lake and will meet the Cardinals tonight at 7:30 in Deer Park. The winner will get the other first-round bye and the loser plays a loser-out game at home on Friday against No. 6 Newport.

Riverside (13-3, 15-4) led 37-35 midway in the third period when the Rams went on a 10-1 run that ended with 22 seconds left in the period.

The Cougars (11-5, 14-6) had it down to eight early in the fourth, but a banked-in 3-pointer by Rams scoring leader Keith Cook steered Riverside in the right direction.

Cook finished with 21 points, including 14 in the first half. He scored six as the Rams ran to a 12-4 lead in the game’s first 5 minutes. They were 7 for 11 from the field on their way to a 17-12 first-period lead.

Cook shot 8-for-11 from the field and added seven assists. Kasey Ahrens had 15 points and Kevin Kuntz had 10 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.

Chewelah’s Chris Boone and Jeremy Rogers each scored 14 points and Boone had eight rebounds, but the Cougars made only 4 of 20 3-point attempts and shot 37 percent from the field to Riverside’s 55.

Chewelah 12 12 15 22 - 61 Riverside 17 12 18 20 - 67

CHEWELAH Je.Landram 5, Murbach 3, Skok 6, Ja.Landram 0, Boone 14, Belzer 12, Rodgers 14, Rainer 7.

RIVERSIDE Cook 21, Hodgson 4, Koesel 2, Monroe 6, Smith 0, Johnson 6, Nelson 0, Ahrens 15, Kuntz 10, Gannon 3.

Med. Lake 64, Freeman 55

Joe Deutsch had 27 rebounds to set a school career record as the Cardinals (11-5, 14-5) defeated the visiting Scotties (9-7, 11-9) to tie for second place.

Medical Lake plays Chewelah at 7:30 tonight in Deer Park for the second seed to the District 7-AA Tournament. Dan Huston of Medical Lake held Travis Goldsmith, the league’s No. 2 scorer (17.9 ppg), to eight.

Freeman 7 17 11 20 - 55 Medical Lake 15 22 12 15 - 64

FREEMAN VanVoorhis 8, Hill 10, Oberst 7, Goldsmith 8, Miller 8, Reed 10, Friberg 2, Stark 0, Schuerman 2.

MEDICAL LAKE Verstrate 0, Bailey 3, Moffatt 10, Huston 12, Simmons 11, Blum 0, J.Deutsch 18, Fischhaber 10.

Lakeside 72, Newport 55

Chevy Mathews scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, as the Eagles (10-6, 13-6) hammered the Grizzlies.

Nate Carrara had 14 points and 11 rebounds for Newport (7-9, 10-10).

Newport 13 11 17 14 - 55 Lakeside 20 11 28 13 - 72

NEWPORT Larson 6, Randles 5, Wilson 2, Frederick 9, Walden 13, Orth 0, Smyly 0, Taylor 6, Bishop 0, Carrara 14, Knapp 0, Myers 0.

LAKESIDE (Nine Mile Falls) - Bender 3, Nelson 0, Feider 0, Davis 10, Hatch 14, Klein 1, Mathews 21, Miller 7, Petticrew 4, Tenny 12.

Deer Park 80, K.Falls 51

Curran Beardslee scored 20 of his 27 points in the second half as the visiting Stags (2-14, 4-15) beat the Bulldogs (4-12, 5-15).

Deer Park 16 14 27 23 - 80 Kettle Falls 9 10 9 23 - 51

DEER PARK Palmer 2, Beardslee 27, Langbehn 1, Weger 6, Averyt 17, Doffing 6, Miller 3, Baker 18.

KETTLE FALLS Eslick 8, Hartill 0, Williams 5, Graves 8, Rogelette 11, J.Johnston 6, Siegel 8, Dotts 5.

GIRLS

Riverside 60, Chewelah 56

Freshman Abbey Wood made 3 of 4 free throws late in the game, and finished with 10 rebounds as the eighth-ranked Rams (14-2, 17-3) beat the visiting Cougars (9-7, 10-10) to finish in a three-way tie for first place.

Co-champions Lakeside and Colfax, which both lost a coin flip to Riverside, play tonight at Deer Park.

Chewelah 21 8 18 9 - 56 Riverside 10 23 11 16 - 60

CHEWELAH Myers 3, King 18, Bauer 10, Cairns 0, Perkins 15, Kristianson 6, Wood 2, Pickering 2, O’Neal 0, Edwards 0.

RIVERSIDE Carlander 17, Snyder 6, Thompson 8, Day 1, Stime 9, Wood 14, Shorts 3, Peterson 0, McMurphy 0, Nelson 2.

Lakeside 61, Newport 41

At Nine Mile Falls, Stephanie Guenther had 12 rebounds and seven steals, and the Eagles (14-2, 17-3) pressed most of the way during a win over the visiting Grizzlies (9-7, 12-8).

Newport 8 10 9 14 - 41 Lakeside 18 8 14 21 - 61

NEWPORT McGuire 0, H.Almond 0, Casey 2, Powers 0, Schultz 19, M.Almond 0, Stigall 7, Sherman 3, Frandrup 3, Naccarato 0, Valeries 0, Carrara 7.

LAKESIDE Guenther 19, Eastwood 2, Traber 2, K.Rowse 4, B.Rowse 4, Schumacher 4, L.Jolley 15, Waddell 9, Hatch 2, B.Jolley 0, Long 0.

Deer Park 43, K.Falls 38

Jamie Stone made four late free throws to help the visiting Stags (5-11, 6-13) hold off the Bulldogs (4-12, 5-15).

Deer Park 12 5 13 13 - 43 Kettle Falls 5 11 10 12 - 38

DEER PARK Michaels 2, Darrow 4, Watson 17, Axel 5, Nedved 0, Stone 10, Sims 0, Gest 5.

KETTLE FALLS Marco 6, Fredrickson 4, Weathers 0, Harris 6, St. Piere 0, Keenan 4, Burstein 4, L.Matter 14.

Freeman 69, Med. Lake 47

The Scotties (3-13, 3-20) scored 38 first-half points for a 19-point lead at intermission and the Cardinals (0-16, 1-18) finished the season without a league win.

Freeman’s Misty Stark scored 22 points. Medical Lake’s Danielle Walker scored 14.

Freeman 24 14 15 16 - 69 Medical Lake 9 10 14 14 - 47

FREEMAN Wilkerson 0, McCathern 6, Meenach 2, Hyndman 6, Coffey 4, Graham 2, Stark 22, Watkins 11, Smith 2, Boston 12, Brown 2.

MEDICAL LAKE Davis 3, Duckett 8, Falson 2, Hodgson 5, Johnson 0, Kjelland 5, Musser 7, Searls 1, Walker 14.