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Saturday boys
Medical Lake knocked off Chewelah 72-47 at Deer Park on Saturday to earn a first-round bye at next week’s Northeast A League tournament. The two teams had been locked in a second-place tie behind NEA-leader Riverside, which earned the other bye. Chewelah will face Newport at home on Friday in a loser-out game.
Randy Moffatt scored 22 points and Joe Deutsch added 21 points and 12 rebounds for Medical Lake.
Chewelah 10 10 11 16 - 47 Medical Lake 13 16 20 23 - 72
CHEWELAH Jaques 0, Murbach 0, Wissing 0, Skok 13, Keeley 2, Ja.Landram 2, Boone 8, Rodgers 13, Rainer 4., Meserze 5, Wymer 0.
MEDICAL LAKE Verstrate 4, Bailey 6, Moffatt 22, Huston 6, Simmons 10, Blum 3, Delp 0, J.Deutsch 21, Campbell 0, M.Deutsch 0, Fischhaber 0, Cortez 0.
Bi-County League
In the league tournament at Reardan High School, Sprague-Harrington and Almira/Coulee-Hartline advanced to the title game with wins.
Sprague-Harrington beat WilburCreston 68-60 and ACH topped Reardan 74-56. The two will play Friday at Reardan.
In consolation games on Tuesday, W-C faces Rizville and Reardan meets Davenport. Lind and Valley Christian, which both lost, were eliminated.
Sprague-Harr. 68, Wilbur-Cres. 60
Ryan Floyd led the Falcons (22-0) with 25 points in their win over the Wildcats (12-10).
Brett Bly added 17 points for the Falcons while Joey Turner led the Wildcats with 22 points.
Wilbur-Creston 12 11 12 25 - 60 Sprague-Harr. 17 17 17 17 - 68
WILBUR-CRESTON Gochenour 14, Leonard 0, Katich 6, Turner 22, Harris 0, Kuchenbuch 4, Bahr 0, McMurray 6, Krause 0, Nelson 3.
SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON Newcomb 4, Floyd 25, Bly 17, Korby 2, Putney 0, Countryman 2, Schmitt 7, Hattrup 5, Carper 0, Colbert 8.
ACH 74, Reardan 56
Although the Warriors (18-4) trailed the Indians (13-9) at the half, they outscored the Indians 44-25 in the second half.
Pat Andersen led the Warriors with 21 points while Joe Holwegner paced the Indians with 17.
Reardan 15 16 16 9 - 56 ACH 16 14 20 24 - 74
REARDAN Titchenal 7, Jones 0, Lane 0, Graham 10, Soliday 8, Krupke 0, Jenkin 0, Schultz 2, Harkness 8, Holwegner 17, Blomgren 4, Flaa 0.
ALMIRA COULEE-HARTLINE Higginbotham 0, Pierce 8, Murray 6, Elder 8, Cunningham 0, Janzen 11, Slahtasky 4, Carstensen 10, Roberts 2, Goodwin 2, Evers 2, Andersen 21.
Davenport 63, Lind 55
Tom Turnbough led the Gorillas (11-12) with 14 points in their win over the Bulldogs (10-13).
The Bulldogs’ Rob Schrenk tossed in a game-high 30 points.
Lind 12 12 15 16 - 55 Davenport 20 8 16 19 - 63
LIND Keltz 12, Watson 4, Montejano 0, Schrenk 30, Palmer 4, Pennel 2, Ruiz 3.
DAVENPORT Hogan 12, Swain 10, Parsons 11, Goodman 0, Turnbough 14, Deal 9, Hammond 5, Buchanan 2, Telecky 0.
Ritzville 63, Valley Chr. 51 John Galbreath, Travis DeVore and Rock Roberg combined for 57 of the Broncos’ 63 points in their win over the Panthers (12-11).
The Broncos (9-13) trailed by four points after the first quarter, but came back with a 21-point second quarter to take the lead for good.
Ritzville 8 21 10 24 - 63 Valley Chr. 12 11 14 14 - 51
RITZVILLE Russel 0, S.Galbreath 0, J.Galbreath 20, DeVore 19, Noble 4, Boness 2, Duff 0, Roberg 18, Barden 0, Roth 0, Weber 0, Powers 0.
VALLEY CHRISTIAN Schlafmann 0, Tobin 5, M.Spuler 5, P.Spuler 7, Harken 9, Sandin 4, Wright 2, Asbury 11, Sears 0, Gerrells 8.
Panorama League
In the league tournament at Kettle Falls, Curlew and Northwest Christian reserved spots in Friday’s championship game.
Curlew stopped St. George’s 70-49 and NWC edged Republic 43-38 in overtime to advance.
St. George’s faces Inchelium and Republic meets Springdale in loser-out games on Wednesday.
Wellpinit and Selkirk were each eliminated.
Curlew 70, St. George’s 49
The Cougars (22-0) were led by Gary Hughes’ 20 points in their easy win over the Dragons (14-8).
Wes Paul chipped in 15 points for the Cougars.
St. George’s 9 14 11 15 - 49 Curlew 12 21 14 23 - 70
ST. GEORGE’S Davis 2, Tseng 0, Kennedy 3, Charbonneau 0, Laugen 11, Ala 16, Averett 2, Cook 2, Treybig 0, Thomas 13.
CURLEW Brucklier 0, Engeland 0, Baker 4, Paul 15, Brown 7, Miller 0, Edwards 4, Hughes 20, Thurik 0, Wakefield 12, Nelson 8.
NW Christian 43, Republic 38 OT
Adam Rapelje led the Crusaders (19-3) with 12 points and 11 rebounds in their overtime win over the Tigers (13-9).
The Tigers’ Mark Rickard had a gamehigh 21 points, including 13 points in the first quarter.
Republic 14 8 9 4 3 - 38 NW Christian 4 7 15 9 8 - 43
REPUBLIC Hanks 0, Krohn 0, Baldwin 8, Rickard 21, Symmes 0, J.Kuchenmeister 7, K.Kuchenmeister 0, Hunt 2. NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN Whelham 0, Iverson 7, Murphy 0, Rapelje 12, Woods 2, Dunham 9, Meyers 8, Crouch 0, Dryden 0, Klaja 5.
Springdale 72, Wellpinit 53
Ben Peterson led the Chargers (11-11) in an easy win over the Redskins (10-12) with 19 points.
Jim Blanchard added 16 points and Brad Coe contributed 15 for the Chargers.
Wellpinit 16 11 12 14 - 53 Springdale 10 13 18 31 - 72
WELLPINIT L.Ford 9, Moses 0, D.Flett 0, Holt 10, Lebret 2, A.Flett 14, Payne 2, S.Flett 2, Andrew 6, Pakootas 6, Tonasket 2.
SPRINGDALE McCurdy 4, Mann 3, Melville 7, Peterson 19, Bri.Coe 8, Blanchard 16, Bra.Coe 15.
Inchelium 63, Selkirk 55
Joe Pakootas led the Hornets (5-16) with 15 points in their win over the Rangers (11-11).
Mike Finley and Brandon Sutton contributed 13 points apiece for the Hornets.
Selkirk 12 18 12 13 - 55 Inchelium 9 24 16 14 - 63
SELKIRK Coppock 0, A.Kinney 0, Larson 0, Smith 0, Pichette 16, Davis 13, Garrett 0, Newman 1, Hays 13, Fandrey 2, Dial 8, Farris 2.
INCHELIUM Pakootas 15, C.Desautel 2, M.Finley 13, G.Desautel 0, Sutton 13, C.Finley 0, Christianson 12, Evans 0, C.Desautel 4.
Whitman County League
At the league tournament in Endicott, LaCrosse-Washtucna beat Colton 74-66 and will face league-leader GarfieldPalouse (18-2) in tonight’s 7:45 p.m. championship game.
Colton faces St. John-Endicott in a loser-game at 4:15 today. TekoaOakesdale was eliminated.
LaCrosse-Wash. 74, Colton 66
Cory Goll led the Tigercats (13-8) with 19 points in their win over the Wildcats (10-11).
Troy Nealey scored 10 of his 17 points in the Tigercats’ 25-point second quarter.
Colton 13 14 17 22 - 66 LaCrosse-Wash. 18 25 14 17 - 74
COLTON Merk 0, Bates 5, Bingeman 0, McArthur 8, Wallace 21, Druffel 0, Mayer 0, Busch 13, BeLieu 13, Moss 4, Cuellar 0, Truong 2.
LACROSSE-WASHTUCNA Nealey 17, Swenson 0, Henley 0, Ledbetter 8, Bryan 8, Wigen 0, Daniel 9, Goll 19, Kinch 2, Rouleau 9, Bay 0, Whitman 2.
St. John-End. 52, Tekoa-Oak. 49
Justin Roths led the Eagles (10-11) with 25 points, including a basket that put the Eagles up 50-49 with 35 seconds left in the game, in their win over the Nighthawks (14-8).
The Eagles’ Kale Colyar had a key steal leading to a layup to stretch the lead to 52-49 and put the game out of reach.
Tekoa-Oakes. 10 15 12 12 - 49 St. John-End. 9 17 10 16 - 52
TEKOA-OAKESDALE Graffis 5, Brown 9, Fox 3, Anderson, Freeburg 12, Zehm 13, Mason 0, Crooks 4, Marsh 0, Brogan 0, Wall 6, Lisenbee 0.
ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT Johnstone 0, Colyar 3, Kelweno 2, Barnes-Bailey 0, Gering 3, Storment 13, Roths 25, Hergert 6.
Idaho
Post falls 56, Lewiston 52
The Trojans hit 11 of 12 from the foul line in the fourth quarter to beat the Bengals and capture the Inland Empire championship at Lewiston.
Darick Pope made 1 of 2 free throws with 18 seconds left to ice the game.
Ryan Baerlocher missed a chance to tie the game with 22 seconds left. He he was fouled while shooting a 3-pointer, but missed all 3 free throws.
Post Falls’ opponent in Thursday’s first round of the A-1 Region I playoffs will be determined Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., when Sandpoint visits Coeur d’Alene in a loserout game.
In the other opening-round game, Lewiston will play at Lake City, also at 7:30. The winners of the first-round games advance to the regional championship on Saturday at Post Falls.
Post Falls 15 7 13 21 - 56 Lewiston 15 7 19 11 - 52
POST FALLS Curtis 0, Alexander 11, Edmonds 6, Roberts 6, Hollenbeck 0, Pichotta 2, Pope 9, McLean 16, Cudmore 4, Lee 2, Froelich 0.
LEWISTON Perez 0, Frei 0, Baerlocher 21, Farris 0, Ulrich 4, Gilchrist 8, Smithwick 10, Feider 9.
Intermountain League
Kellogg 57, Moscow 54
The Wildcats (7-1, 15-3) took the lead, 53-52, for first time with 2 minutes left on a free throw by Chris Nielsen and held on to steal a win over the Bears.
Nielsen hit a field goal and Travis Fulton followed with a couple of free throws to seal the win.
Jason Keep had 18 points and 18 rebounds to keep the Bears (3-5, 8-10) close despite committing 31 turnovers.
Fulton scored 10 of his 17 points in the second half to lead the comeback.
Kellogg 4 19 20 14 - 57 Moscow 11 19 15 9 - 54
KELLOGG Van Hoose 0, Fulton 17, Behm 7, Jennings 8, Kohal 0, Fisher 9, Nielsen 16, Bircher 0.
MOSCOW Barnes 2, Miller 8, Walker 0, Johnson 0, Dudley 0, Lathan 0, Colbert 5, Keep 18, Pierce 3, Hudson 18.