Republic Stifles Another Opponent

Boys basketball

Selkirk shut down Republic’s offense Saturday, but Republic’s defense again proved superior.

Republic’s Class B fifth-ranked Tigers (13-0, 11-0) held their 12th opponent to less than 50 points by stopping the host Rangers 47-37 at Ione in a Panorama League game between division leaders.

Republic led by six with 15 seconds left, but Selkirk (11-3, 9-2) was whistled for an intentional foul and a technical. Selkirk, which had won five straight, held Republic scoring leaders Mark Rickard and Jason Baldwin to combined 6-for-26 shooting from the floor.

Republic 47, Selkirk 37

Republic 12 10 12 13 - 47

Selkirk 6 15 8 8 - 37

REPUBLIC Dinkins 0, Dav.Hanks 6, Baldwin 10, Dan Hanks 0, Gliddon 0, Hadden 0, Rickard 14, Hargrave 0, Grimm 8, Kuchenmeister 9.

SELKIRK Davis 0, Larson 11, Kinney 6, Farris 8, Gere 0, Huffine 4, Lopes 0, Pyeatt 8, White 0.

Wellpinit 76, St. George’s 61

Dominic Tonasket had 26 points and 10 rebounds, and the Redskins (8-6, 6-5) shot 70 percent from the field to beat the visiting Dragons (10-5, 8-3) after trailing 45-43.

Wellpinit’s Perry Pakootas added 22 points. Dan Kuney scored 23 for SG, which had won five straight.

St. George’s 11 16 19 15 - 61

Wellpinit 18 22 8 28 - 76

ST. GEORGE’S D.Dhillon 8, J.Dhillon 0, DePonty 6, Blume 0, Sadler 7, Spencer 17, Kuney 23, Witherspoon 0, Helms 0, Thompson 0.

WELLPINIT Lebret 10, Gould 0, M.Tonasket 6, T.Flett 0, Carter 0, Garrett 8, D.Tonasket 26, Andrew 4, Pakootas 22, Stearns 0.

NWC 55, Northport 31

Jeremy Affeldt scored 21, and he and Andy Crouch combined for 22 rebounds as the Crusaders (7-8, 6-5) beat the visiting Mustangs (5-10, 4-7).

Northport 6 5 10 10 - 31

NW Christian 12 11 16 16 - 55

NORTHPORT Dufresne 2, Morrow 0, Carlson 7, Aaro.Day 10, Timmering 0, Godes 0, Aari.Day 0, Fredrickson 4, Reed 0, Bennetch 0, Ad.Day 8, Phaff 0.

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN Mortlock 8, Verduin 1, Smith 4, Affeldt 21, Wilson 0, Mason 0, A.Crouch 11, M.Crouch 1, Malott 2, Wolff 7.

Springdale 74, Inchelium 33

The smaller Hornets (0-14, 0-11) got into early foul trouble and couldn’t match a strong second quarter by the visiting Chargers (10-5, 8-3). Inchelium’s Jim Tonasket had seven rebounds and seven steals.

Springdale 10 22 19 23 - 74

Inchelium 13 3 4 13 - 33

SPRINGDALE Gardner 5, Brisbois 6, Ralph 2, McCurdy 12, B.Peterson 16, Canfield 10, Lozano 7, Montgomery 2, Klemish 0, Farnsworth 2, Carlson 6, D.Peterson 6.

INCHELIUM Jolley 3, Johnson 7, Boyd 6, Michel 12, Mason 3, Tonasket 2, Simmons 0.

Curlew 82, Cusick 59

Erich Prazak scored 20 and Jason Miller, who had 10 rebounds, led a 20-7 charge in the final 7 minutes to secure the visiting Cougars’ (11-4, 8-3) win over the Panthers (1-13, 1-10).

For Cusick, Tell Hamilton made five 3-pointers and Charles Martin, who scored 22, added three long-range shots.

Curlew 23 21 16 22 - 82

Cusick 12 18 19 10 - 59

CURLEW C.Edwards 0, Cribby 4, Olsen 19, Groth 3, Nelson 7, Prazak 20, Bruckleir 10, J.Miller 17, B.Miller 2, E.Edwards 0.

CUSICK Coppock 0, McCart 0, Reijonen 3, Waldman 9, Bridges 4, Chantry 0, Finley 4, Hamilton 17, Martin 22, Kramer 0.

St. Michael’s 83, Columbia 55

Bryan Argentino scored 27, and Dan Baarstad and Joe Lajoie had 14 rebounds apiece to guide the Warriors (4-11, 3-8) over the visiting Lions (2-12, 2-9).

Columbia 1 15 15 24 - 55

St. Michael’s 24 15 22 22 - 83

COLUMBIA McLean 7, Wass 14, Etue 6, Denison 2, Neidhart 18, Philpot 3, Carlson 0, Smith 5.

ST. MICHAEL’S Bittner 3, Lakin 11, Edwards 0, B.Argentino 27, Sandquist 2, N.Argentino 1, Baarstad 18, Zver 0, Lajoie 16, South 0, Bedker 6.

Northeast A

Lakeside 81, Freeman 64

George Petticrew scored 30 on 10-of-18 shooting from the field and the 10th-ranked Eagles (9-3, 6-1) beat the visiting Scotties (8-5, 5-2) in a game to see who would tie idle Medical Lake for first place.

Lakeside made 28 of 37 free throws to Freeman’s 8 of 12. Petticrew had nine rebounds and Freeman’s D.J. Goldsmith six.

Freeman 12 19 20 13 - 64

Lakeside 23 20 16 22 -81

FREEMAN Odle 4, Hill 20, Miller 7, S.Simmons 9, Schmidt 0, Jones 2, Sheffield 3, Goldsmith 11, White 6, T.Simmons 2.

LAKESIDE Nelson 6, Wilson 0, Petticrew 30, Spiger 3, Bender 10, Feider 11, Day 9, Dasenbrock 14, Coe 2.

Kettle Falls 61, Newport 43

Joe Kulusza scored 12 of his 21 in the third quarter, including a 3-pointer and three-point play, as the visiting Bulldogs (6-7, 3-4) sent the Grizzlies (2-9, 1-6) to their eighth straight loss.

Kyle Kiehn scored nine fourth-quarter points and hit 4 of 4 free throws for Newport, which sank just 11 field goals.

Kettle Falls 14 12 18 17 - 61

Newport 7 11 8 17 - 43

KETTLE FALLS Weathers 4, Miller 0, Delony 16, Kulusza 21, Newton 4, Berryman 10, George 0, Williams 6.

NEWPORT Kiehn 13, Melendez 8, Frandrup 6, Meade 3, Ellersick 4, LeBlanc 4, Marsh 0, Brawdy 3, Mumford 2, Campbell 0.

Bi-County

Wilbur-Creston 85, VC 70

At Creston, Kane Nelson scored all 12 of his points in the fourth quarter, when the Wildcats (9-6, 6-4) rallied to beat the visiting Panthers (11-4, 5-4) after trailing 63-62.

Mike Samuels added 10 rebounds and Bryan Marchand six assists for W-C. The Panthers’ Brian Sears scored 24.

Valley Christian 12 12 31 15 - 70

Wilbur-Creston 19 22 19 25 - 85

VALLEY CHRISTIAN Dahl 0, Schlafmann 0, Decker 7, Evans 10, Teterud 1, Spuler 17, Sears 24, Gass 0, Sandin 7, King 4.

WILBUR-CRESTON Marchand 8, Leonard 9, Villars 0, Tonasket 14, Bahr 4, Samuels 11, Kuchenbuch 14, Nelson 12, Katich 8, Desautel 5.

ACH 69, Sprague-Harrngtn 40

At Hartline, Kevin Evers scored 13 of his 24 in the third quarter and totaled 12 rebounds as the sixth-ranked Warriors (10-2, 7-2) beat the visiting Falcons (3-10, 2-7).

ACH’s Jason Pierce had six assists. David Countryman of S-H had 10 rebounds.

Spr.-Harrington 12 8 12 8 - 40

ACHartline 15 21 18 15 - 69

SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON Pelissier 0, Timm 11, Morton 0, Wagner 2, Carroll 8, Henry 5, Countryman 14, Smith 0, Thompson 0.

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE R.Higginbotham 2, Pierce 4, Elder 3, Leander 9, Pate 11, A.Higginbotham 0, Emerson 0, Goodwin 14, Evers 24, Durrant 0, Thomas 2.

Liberty 65, Lind 21

Travis Greenwalt had nine rebounds and the visiting Lancers (9-6, 6-3) forced 20 turnovers to beat the Bulldogs (2-12, 1-8).

Liberty 18 25 13 9 - 65

Lind 2 6 8 5 - 21

LIBERTY Wiman 12, B.Cory 6, Engle 5, Horlacher 4, J.Holling 1, Cooper 7, C.Holling 10, Tee 2, Greenwalt 12.

LIND Jo.Parkins 2, Olson 0, Ja.Parkins 8, Dutton 0, Sheckells 0, Sikorski 0, Thompson 4, Fichtenberg 0, Widger 5, Alcocer 2, Clark 0.

Reardan 76, C. Her. 26

Travis Titchenal scored 21, and Peter Eastman and Ryan Martin combined for 21 rebounds as the top-ranked Indians (14-0, 9-0) beat the Patriots (2-10, 0-9) at Edwall.

Rhett Soliday had eight steals for Reardan and Ben Newbill had five steals for CH.

Reardan 16 22 22 16 - 76

Chr.Heritage 8 6 5 7 - 26

REARDAN Jenkin 0, Brown 8, Soliday 11, Titchenal 21, Martin 8, Eastman 8, Graham 5, Flaa 4, Kiger 11.

CHRISTIAN HERITAGE Hill 0, Newbill 3, Bell 8, B.Bishop 8, J.Bishop 2, Bogle 5.

Odessa 69, Davenport 61

Troy Grall had 12 rebounds and the Tigers (5-7, 4-5) hit 17 of 25 free throws to beat the visiting Gorillas (4-9, 2-7).

Davenport 10 18 15 18 - 61

Odessa 13 25 15 16 - 69

DAVENPORT Holderby 13, Buchanan 15, Orvis 9, Gunning 3, Telecky 14, Bailey 2, FitzPatrick 3, McClure 0, Doucette 2.

ODESSA Goetz 0, Kramer 16, Starkel 2, Hardung 0, Floch 4, Carlson Jr. 8, G.Schafer 0, Z.Schafer 0, Pitts 13, Grall 12, Walter 0, Praetorius 14.

Whitman County

SJE 59, Tekoa-Oakesdale 51

Nick Strader had 26 points and 11 rebounds, and the visiting Eagles (4-8, 3-0) stayed tied for first by hitting seven free throws in the final minute to stop the Nighthawks (3-10, 0-4) at Oakesdale.

SJE outscored T-O 18-8 at the line. The Nighthawks’ Bill Graffis had 12 rebounds but fouled out late in the third quarter.

SJEndicott 18 9 14 18 - 59

Tekoa-Oakes. 14 11 10 16 - 51

ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT Kolb 0, Colyar 1, Bafus 14, Strader 26, Stoner 4, Scheuerman 6, Smith 2, Siler 1, Stolmeier 5.

TEKOA-OAKESDALE Fox 11, Brown 3, Teal 10, Brogan 3, Taylor 10, Zornes 0, Graffis 14.

L-W 92, Colton 57

Clint Ledbetter scored 27 and the ninth-ranked Tigercats (11-2, 3-0) stayed on top of the standings by beating the host Wildcats (4-9, 1-3).

LaCr.-Wash 23 18 25 26 - 92

Colton 11 19 7 20 - 57

LACROSSE-WASHTUCNA Nealey 11, Schweiger 7, Ledbetter 27, Rouleau 10, Henley 11, Daniel 13, Whitman 6, Anderson 3, Blankenship 4.

COLTON T.Truong 3, B.Truong 3, Weber 7, Busch 4, Druffle 8, Bri.Keller 0, Bates 14, Hopwood 7, Meyer 7, Stout 4.

Gar-Pal 71, Rosalia 38

Logan Coles scored 21 and made 12 of 14 free throws, and Jody Stillman and Marc Gearhart added eight rebounds apiece to guide the fourth-ranked Vikings (12-1, 3-1) over the host Spartans (4-7, 1-3).

Gar-Pal 14 19 22 16 - 71

Rosalia 7 13 2 16 - 38

GARFIELD-PALOUSE Tiegs 4, Tharp 1, Flansburg 6, Bischoff 11, Coles 21, Fox 5, Gearhart 3, Million 2, Sheffler 4, Stillman 6, Hall 6, Cronk 2.

ROSALIA Workman 1, Vangrim 4, Peterson 2, Slemp 8, Scheele 7, Goyke 0, Shindler 5, Bothman 3, Blank 5, Barton 3.

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