S-H Girls Reach District; St. George’s Boys Fall Shy

Area basketbball

One year after a 5-16 finish, Sprague-Harrington’s girls are bound for the District 7-B Tournament.

Kristy Engles scored 22 points Tuesday to guide the Falcons (14-8) over Odessa 53-36 in a loser-out game at the Bi-County League Tournament in Reardan.

S-H meets Reardan at 5:45 Thursday night to decide the third and fourth seeds to district.

Odessa finished 8-13.

Sprague-Harr. 53, Odessa 36

Odessa 11 6 8 11 - 36

Sprague-Harr. 12 14 13 14 - 53

ODESSA D.Melcher 0, Haptonstall 3, Strohmaier 2, J.Melcher 6, Schorzman 15, Hunt 7, Schmierer 3.

SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON Whipple 14, Morton 6, Putney 4, M.Walters 5, Smith 0, Engles 22, C.Walters 2.

Reardan 59, ACH 39

Katie Supinger scored seven points in both the second and fourth quarters, and finished with 21 as the defending district champion Indians (14-7) eliminated the Warriors (5-17).

ACHartline 6 14 6 13 - 39

Reardan 11 17 13 18 - 59

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE Oliver 0, Malone 2, Pinar 3, Maes 3, Roberts 4, Dormaier 12, Horter 12, Giese 1, Nielson 2, Andersen 0.

REARDAN Cassaro 2, Jayne 2, Schwartz 4, Krupke 6, Evans 0, Rinker 5, Soliday 2, Plummer 2, Turner 13, Ray 0, Supinger 21, Hicks 2.

District 7-A Tourney

Colfax 63, Freeman 39

Lindsay Thiele made 9 of 13 field goals as the Bulldogs (17-4) eliminated the visiting Scotties (5-16).

The tourney becomes double-elimination and shifts to Mead High School on Friday. Colfax meets ninth-ranked Newport (18-2) at 7.

Freeman 9 6 14 10 - 39

Colfax 17 12 22 12 - 63

FREEMAN Watson 0, Pratt 0, McCathern 9, Wilkerson 12, Adams 4, Watkins 8, Moberg 1, Graham 3, Wilkerson 2.

COLFAX Harder 9, T.Pittman 0, Blevins 2, Hall 10, Zimmerman 0, Thiele 19, Tribbett 13, Rohner 0, Widman 1, S.Pittman 5, Hall 2, Trivett 2.

Deer Park 57, Chewelah 49

Jennifer O’Brien and Jaime Stone combined for 14 fourth-quarter points as the visiting Stags (10-11) knocked out the Cougars (11-10).

DP meets second-ranked Lakeside (19-1) at 3:15 Friday.

Deer Park 10 15 16 16 - 57

Chewelah 6 16 13 14 - 49

DEER PARK Hardie 0, Michaels 13, Bendowski 0, Sims 4, Langbehn 0, Stone 16, Scott 10, O’Brien 14.

CHEWELAH Edwards 2, Anderson 5, Rogers 2, Harrison 9, Albertson 10, Kristianson 1, Moore 8, Oneal 10, McCanna 0, Boone 0.

Boys/District 7-B Tourney

Selkirk 71, St. George’s 62

Brodie Larson’s offense and Zack Kinney’s defense barred St. George’s from a shot at defending its title.

Larson scored 25 points and Kinney held Panorama League scoring champion Dan Kuney (21.1 ppg) to 13 as the Rangers (17-5) beat visiting St. George’s in a Panorama League Tournament winner-to-district, loser-out game at Ione.

Selkirk meets Springdale (16-7) at 8 tonight in Colville to determine third and fourth district seeds. The Dragons (14-9) won the league and district titles last year, then placed second at state.

Selkirk 71, St. George’s 62

St. George’s 10 12 18 22 - 62

Selkirk 19 14 12 26 - 71

ST. GEORGE’S D.Dhillon 7, J.Dhillon 0, DePonty 3, Blume 9, Sadler 15, Wang 0, Spencer 13, Kuney 13, Witherspoon 0, Thompson 0, Helms 2.

SELKIRK Escalanti 0, Davis 0, Larson 25, Kinney 4, Farris 10, Gere 6, Huffine 12, Lopes 12, Pyeatt 2, White 0, Reed 0, McArthur 0.

Bi-County Tourney

V.Christian 70, Liberty 56

Michael Spuler scored 22 and the Panthers (15-8) held league scoring champ Travis Greenwalt (21 ppg) to 12 while eliminating the Lancers (13-10) at Reardan.

VC plays Ritzville at 5:45 Thursday to determine the third and fourth seeds to district.

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VALLEY CHRISTIAN Dahl 0, Schlafmann 0, Decker 9, Evans 13, Teterud 10, Spuler 22, Meyer 0, Sears 12, Gass 1, King 3, Sandin 0.

LIBERTY Wiman 0, B.Cory 7, Engle 14, Horlacher 5, J.Holling 2, Johnson 6, Cooper 8, C.Holling 0, Tee 2, Greenwalt 12.

Ritzville 72, Wilbur-Creston 56

John Galbreath scored 17 of his 21 in the second half to guide the No. 9 Broncos (20-3) over the Wildcats (13-10) for the third time this year.

Galbreath hit 7 of 8 from the line to guide Ritzville’s 73 percent effort. Bryan Marchand hit three of W-C’s eight 3-pointers.

Wilbur-Creston 11 11 16 18 - 56

Ritzville 12 16 14 30 - 72

WILBUR-CRESTON Marchand 13, Leonard 8, Villars 2, Grant 0, Bahr 2, Samuels 5, Kuchenbuch 14, Nelson 0, Katich 12, Desautel 0.

RITZVILLE Arlt 7, Benzel 2, Duff 10, Boness 8, Marcus 0, DeVore 0, J.Galbreath 21, S.Galbreath 10, Russel 14, Taylor 0.

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