B basketball

For weeks, the Republic boys have been ranked in the Associated Press poll while St. George’s - despite beating Republic - hasn’t.

That may change after Friday, as Jason Ala scored 10 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter to lead St. George’s (21-2) over the seventh-ranked Tigers 52-44 for the Panorama League Tournament championship at Colville.

Meng Tseng added six fourth-quarter points for the Dragons, who trailed 34-29 after three quarters.

The Dragons have won 17 straight since a Dec. 27 loss to Reardan, which won the Bi-County Tournament title on Thursday. Republic (20-3) had won 17 straight since a league loss to St. George’s.

St. George’s opens the District 7-B Tournament at Spokane Falls Community College at 7:45 p.m. Monday against Bi-County No. 4 Liberty (16-7), which is ranked ninth. Republic begins at 6 Tuesday against Bi-County No. 3 Valley Christian (12-12).

St. George’s 52, Republic 44

St. George’s 11 9 9 23 - 52 Republic 2 20 12 10 - 44

ST. GEORGE’S Tseng 10, Kennedy 0, Kuney 2, Ala 25, Laugen 7, Averett 8, Spencer 0.

REPUBLIC Michaels 4, Finlay 2, Rickard 10, Baldwin 12, Hanks 6, Grimm 0, Kuchenmeister 8, Wilson 2.

Panorama Girls Tourney

St. George’s 46, NWC 33

Also at Colville, Dawn Trowbridge scored eight fourth-quarter points and the Dragons (17-6) forced 28 turnovers to beat the Crusaders (15-8) for their seventh consecutive league tourney championship.

St. George’s has won 14 consecutive games, including three over NWC.

The Dragons open district at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday against Bi-County No. 4 Liberty (11-12). NWC draws Bi-County No. 3 Almira/Coulee-Hartline (14-7) in the tourney’s first game, at 1:30 p.m. Monday at SFCC.

NW Christian 2 8 16 7 - 33 St. George’s 11 7 14 14 - 46

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN Storro 0, Simmons 11, K.Smith 0, Moen 0, Greenup 5, E.Smith 0, Ogle 0, Montague 4, Casimir 0, Wright 8, Clouse 0, Huston 5.

ST. GEORGE’S Alsaker 0, Davis 4, Chill 0, Boutz 0, Webster 0, DeNiro 0, Swift 0, Trowbridge 16, Routh-Corker 16, Appling 7, Harvill 3, McKelvey 0.

District 9-B girls

Colton 54, Waitsburg 52 (2OT)

Jessica Harrell and Dawn Wallace combined for five three throws in the second overtime as the Wildcats (14-9) outlasted the Cardinals (11-8) to open the tournament at Walla Walla.

Wallace made 9 of 10 free throws and hit two baskets in the first OT. Waitsburg’s Kynde Kiefel hit 8 of 9 at the line and scored 22.

The thriller completed a day of openers - all won by higher seeds - that began with top-ranked St. JohnEndicott’s 52-40 decision over Asotin.

In other games, DeSales beat Tekoa-Oakesdale 52-37 and Pomeroy nipped Garfield-Palouse 40-38.

Today’s schedule is: Asotin vs. T-O, noon, loser-out; SJE vs. DeSales, semifinal, 1:30 p.m.; Pomeroy vs. Colton, semifinal, 6; and Gar-Pal vs. Waitsburg, loser-out, 7:30.

Waitsburg 6 12 11 14 6 3 - 52 Colton 11 14 7 11 6 5 - 54

WAITSBURG Hulce 5, Ryckman 7, Thomas 2, Stokes 4, Bickelhaupt 11, Scott 1, Leid 0, Kiefel 22, Trent 0.

COLTON Wallace 17, Harrell 9, Dudley 4, Reisenauer 1, Merk 9, Giden 14.

SJE 52, Asotin 40

Tricia Lamb scored eight in the first quarter and Andee Schmick added eight in the second quarter as the Eagles (22-0) topped the Panthers (14-7) for their 24th consecutive win over two years.

Asotin’s Lacey Jones scored 10 of her 12 in the second half.

Asotin 7 9 13 11 - 40 SJE 12 15 12 13 - 52

ASOTIN Jones 12, Deyo 1, Schnider 0, Wilcox 5, Reeves 2, Grieve 0, Holland 9, Roberts 0, McNair 5, Uptmor 6.

ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT Simpson 0, Colyar 0, Bafus 9, Kleweno 0, Lamb 17, Loomis 0, Garrett 8, Schmick 15, Kile 3.

Pomeroy 40, Gar.-Palouse 38

Nettie Heytvelt scored 19 second-half points to rally the Blue Mountain League-champion Pirates (16-4) over the Vikings (11-13).

Garfield-Palouse 9 10 11 8 - 38 Pomeroy 7 6 19 8 - 40

GARFIELD-PALOUSE Nelson 0, Main 11, Shelden 6, Pfaff 10, J.Cottrill 1, Hodson 2, Broughton 2, McCabe 6.

POMEROY Sharp 4, Mulrony 0, Bergschneider 2, Cox 0, Geiger 0, John 9, N.Heytvelt 21, Henry 0, Warren 4, G.Heytvelt 0.

DeSales 52, Tekoa-Oakes. 37

Erin and Amber Hellberg combined for 31 points to guide the Irish (14-6) over the 1995 state runner-up Nighthawks (14-9).

Heather Cox of T-O scored all eight of her points in the second half. T-O missed 9 of 15 free throws.

Tekoa-Oakes. 7 7 10 13 - 37 DeSales 7 20 13 12 - 52

TEKOA-OAKESDALE Crider 0, Driscoll 3, Wagner 7, Palmer 2, Brown 2, Peringer 3, Hansen 0, Bruce 7, French 0, Cox 8, A.Hay 5.

DeSALES - Dutton 0, Heath 0, Gordon 9, Graham 4, E.Hellberg 12, Long 0, Postlewait 0, A.Hellberg 19, Balakier 0, Peterson 17.

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