Falcons Hold Off Ach For Top Seed

Bi-County

The league champions survived, though just barely, as the seedings were set for next week’s Northeast B district basketball tournament.

The Sprague Harrington boys survived a third-quarter charge from Almira/Coulee-Hartline to take the top seed and Davenport earned the third seed by beating Wilbur-Creston.

It was a double Davenport win over W-C but in the girls case it was for the top two seeds. ACH took the third seed by edging Reardan.

The district tournament starts Monday at SFCC.

Boys

Sprague-Harr. 55, ACH 54

The third-ranked Falcons (23-0) survived a 23-point third quarter by the ninth-ranked Warriors (19-4) and used Ryan Floyd’s 21 points to hold on.

Floyd scored 12 of his points in the second quarter.

ACH 6 15 23 10 - 54

Sprague-Harr. 12 16 13 14 - 55

ALMIRA COULEE-HARTLINE Pierce 6, Murray 16, Elder 1, Janzen 4, Slahtasky 15, Carstensen 5, Andersen 7.

SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON Newcomb 0, Floyd 21, Bly 2, Korby 9, Putney 0, Countryman 7, Schmitt 6, Hattrup 0, Carper 0, Colbert 10.

Davenport 65, W-C 56

Tom Turnbough scored 18 points as the Gorillas (13-12) beat the Wildcats (13-11).

The score was tied at 39 at the end of the third, but Davenport scored 26 points in the fourth.

Wilbur-Creston 8 17 14 17 - 56

Davenport 11 13 15 26 - 65

WILBUR-CRESTON Gochenour 6, Leonard 0, L.Katich 9, Hanson 0, Turner 16, Harris 0, Kuchenbuch 2, Bahr 0, S.Katich 4, McMurray 16, Krause 0, Nelson 3.

DAVENPORT Hogan 9, Swain 6, Parsons 7, Goodman 3, Telecky 6, McClure 0, Turnbough 18, Deal 10, Buchanan 0, Cannon 0, Orvis 0, Hammond 6.

Girls

Davenport 61, W-C 53

Jennifer Stinson scored nine of her 31 points in the fourth quarter as the No. 2 Gorillas (22-1) outscored the No. 7 Wildcats 19-13.

The Gorillas fell behind by five after one quarter, but rallied to tie the game by halftime. It was a twopoint game entering the fourth quarter.

Jessica Martin’s 30 points kept the Wildcats (19-3) close.

Wilbur-Creston 13 11 16 13 - 53

Davenport 8 16 18 19 - 61

WILBUR-CRESTON Allen 2, Llewellyn 0, Grant 3, Martin 30, Krause 6, Haden 4, H.Arden 8, Bandy 8.

DAVENPORT Becker 6, K.Marriott 0, J.Emery 0, A.Marriott 11, Schreck 0, Pauls 0, Warwick 2, C.Emery 9, Jacobsen 0, Stinson 31, Mikelson 0, Cowdrey 0.

ACH 64, Reardan 60

Cory Thiry tossed in 17 points as the Warriors (18-6) beat the Indians (15-8).

Lisa Bocook had 15 points for Reardan.

ACH 18 19 11 16 - 64

Reardan 14 16 13 17 - 60

ALMIRA COULEE-HARTLINE Hennigh 6, Rock 10, Thiry 17, Peterson 12, Hunsaker 6, Durrant 4, Malone 9.

REARDAN Bocook 15, Humphrey 5, Lovelady 5, Titchenal 17, Rohner 10, Supinger 0.