Cheney Dumps Champs Blackhawks Face Colville Next; Cheney Girls Take On Pullman

When the Cheney and West Valley boys meet in the Excell Foods Frontier League district basketball tournament, they never say goodbye, just, “Until we meet again.”

The Blackhawks and Eagles met in a typical hard-nosed thriller Friday night at Eastern Washington University’s Reese Court, but the fourth-seeded Hawks had a 73-65 surprise for WV, winner of five straight Frontier regular-season championships.

Cheney (9-12) will meet Colville (11-10) tonight at 8:45 in a boys winners’ bracket game after a 7 p.m. contest between the top-seeded Cheney girls and Pullman, both first-round winners.

The Colville boys (11-10) defeated Pullman 70-63 Friday night, while thirdranked Cheney (21-0) downed WV’s girls 60-42 and Pullman (13-8) held off Colville 48-42.

The Colville girls (10-11) meet West Valley (8-13) in an 11 a.m. loser-out contest, followed by the WV boys (17-4) and Pullman (14-7) in another loser-out game.

Cheney 73, West Valley 65

The Cheney boys trailed by 11 points shortly before halftime, but the Blackhawks flew back to tie the score at 33 in the first minute of the second half, took a narrow lead and extended it to 44-39 later in the third period.

WV came back to tie it at 50, but Cheney rebounded to lead 63-56 with 3 minutes to play, and the Eagles - struggling from 3-point range - never really mounted a rally. The closest they got in the late going was 64-60.

Junior guard Abdul Odood led the Blackhawks with 19 points, including 11 of 17 free throws. Teammate Richard DeMulling had 12 points and 15 rebounds while Mario Chodorowski had 11 and 12, respectively.

David Schillinger led WV with 19 points, Greg Jones scored 16 and Joe Bonner 11. Sabron Stone, on crutches two days ago with an ankle injury, had 10 rebounds.

Cheney 12 17 21 23 - 73 West Valley 16 17 15 17 - 65

CHENEY Randall 6 2-2 16, Urdahl 2 2-3 7, Chodorowski 5 0-1 11, Adood 4 11-18 19, Ohuche 0 0-0 0, Just 1 0-0 2, Holmes 3 0-0 6, DeMulling 5 2-3 12. Totals 26 17-27 73.

WEST VALLEY Elias 1 0-0 3, Schillinger 7 3-3 19, Lindley 3 0-0 7, Stone 3 0-0 7, Jones 7 1-1 16, Bonner 2 7-8 11, Pecht 0 0-0 0, Gregorak 1 0-1 2, Dilloo 0 0-0 0. Totals 24 11-13 65.

3-point goals - Randall 2, Urdahl, Chodoroski, Schillinger 2, Lindley, Stone, Jones. Total fouls - C 13, WV 23. Fouled out - Lindley. Technicals - none.

Colville 70, Pullman 63

Matt Smith scored 22 of Colville’s 32 secondhalf points, but a critical technical foul damaged Pullman after the Indians had fought back within a point.

With 2:46 to play, Matt Wilde, Pullman’s leading scorer, was at the foul line for a one-andone attempt. The free throw was clean, but Wilde, who scored 25 points, was called for a foul-line violation and then a technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Smith made one of two FTs to tie and sophomore Tim Sprangers followed with a 3-pointer for a 63-60 Colville lead. After a Pullman miss, Smith had a putback and free throw for a 66-60 lead with 1:42 to play.

Pullman’s Tim Wang hit a fadeaway 3 with 1:05 left, but the Hounds didn’t score again while Smith added two more free throws and an assist on Colville’s last basket.

Smith finished with 26 points and nine rebounds. Wilde made 10 of 13 shots and Wang hit five 3’s, scoring 25 points.

Pullman 23 15 16 9 - 63 Colville 20 18 12 20 - 70

PULLMAN Mirkovich 0 1-2 1, Evermann 0 0-0 0, Donati 1 2-2 4, Berry 0 0-0 0, Wang 7 3-5 22, Kallaher 1 2-3 4, Wilde 10 4-10 25, Yrazabal 0 0-0 0, Diestler 3 0-0 7. Totals 22 12-19 63.

COLVILLE Hardison 2 0-0 6, Mostek 5 1-1 13, Sprangers 2 0-0 5, Kane 2 0-0 4, Grittner 4 1-1 9, Wilson 2 1-2 5, M.Smith 10 6-8 26, Anderson 1 0-0 2, Barker 0 0-0 0. Totals 28 9-12 70.

3-point goals - Wang 5, Wilde, Diestler, Hardison 2, Mostek 2, Sprangers. Total fouls - Pullman 16, Colville 18. Fouled out - None. Technicals - None.

Girls

Pullman 48, Colville 42

Pullman’s girls, leading by four points late in the first period, scored 10 straight points to take a 22-8 lead.

They held Colville to only two field goals - and six points - in the second, extending their lead to 16 points late in the quarter.

But the Greyhounds, with four starters 5-foot10 or taller, didn’t take care of the basketball, and their carelessness helped Colville pull back into it. The Indians trailed by only three points several times in the fourth period and could have given the contest a different look.

As it was, though, Pullman made 22 turnovers, but Colville made only 7 of 17 at the foul line, and three was as close as it got.

Pullman 14 12 9 13 - 48 Colville 8 6 16 12 - 42

PULLMAN Linehan 0 2-2 2, Fisher 4 0-0 8, M.Schlettert 7 3-5 17, Scharnhorst 0 0-0 0, Montez 0 0-0 0, Werner 4 0-0 8, Wilde 0 0-0 0, Weeks 6 1-3 13. Totals 21 6-10 48.

COLVILLE Wood 2 0-0 5, Brozik 5 3-9 13, Ewan 2 2-5 6, Hedrick 0 0-0 0, Brown 4 0-1 8, Anderson 0 0-0 0, Kuh 4 2-2 10. Totals 17 7-17 42.

3-Point goals - Wood. Total fouls - Pullman 17, Colville 14. Fouled out - Ewan.

Cheney 60, West Valley 42

The Blackhawks girls led only 18-16 midway in the second period and 29-21 at halftime. But they scored the first 10 points of the third quarter and the rout was on.

The game did have its high points, especially for Cheney. Center Jenny Hoots, a 6-3 senior, blocked 10 shots. Freshman guard Anna Getz led the Hawks with 18 points, 13 in the second half.Anica Nelson led WV with 11 points and Kaci Stansbury had 9 boards.

Cheney 14 15 23 8 - 60 West Valley 11 10 11 10 - 42

CHENEY Ewing 0 0-0 0, Soliday 6 2-5 15, Getz 7 1-3 18, Richer 0 0-0 0, Day 0 0-0 0, Anderson 6 0-0 12, Sooy 0 0-0 0, Krogh 3 0-2 6, Reagan 1 0-1 2, Hoots 2 3-5 7. Totals 25 6-16 60.

WEST VALLEY Shollenberger 0 0-0 0, Lydon 3 0-0 7, Simpson 0 0-2 0, Sowers 2 0-0 4, Inman 0 3-6 3, Bonner 0 0-0 0, Salfer 2 0-0 5, Nelson 2 6-8 10, Roberts 0 0-0 0, Lawler 1 7-8 9, Stansbury 1 2-6 4. Totals 11 18-30 42.

3-point goals - Soliday, Getz 3, Lydon, Salfer. Total fouls - Cheney 24, West Valley 19. Fouled out - None. Technicals - None.