Bi-County Title On Line

Area boys basketball

Wilbur-Creston upended Almira/Coulee-Hartline 74-58 Friday in Creston to set up a Bi-County League showdown with Odessa tonight for the West Division title.

Bryan Marchand dished out 10 assists and Mike Samuels grabbed 10 rebounds to pace the Wildcats (12-6, 11-2). The Warriors (11-8, 9-4) finished third.

ACH 9 14 18 17 - 58

Wilbur-Creston 19 20 16 19 - 74

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE - Evans 0, Dormaier 2, Thomas 0, Elder 0, St. John 0, Pate 9, Higginbotham 15, Leander 10, Emerson 3, Gwinn 9, Neilsen 4, Durrant 6.

WILBUR-CRESTON - B.Marchand 9, Cairns 2, Villars 13, Grant 0, Leonard 3, Samuels 18, Arden 4, Nelson 10, Katich 15, Krause 0, Womer 0.

Odessa 64, Christian Her. 51

Neil Jeske and Ryan Floch each grabbed 11 rebounds and Scott Kramer hit four 3-pointers to power the Tigers (13-5, 11-2) to a win over the visiting Patriots (7-11, 2-11).

Chr. Heritage 12 12 7 20 - 51

Odessa 21 11 17 15 - 64

CHRISTIAN HERITAGE - Winters 0, Klein 0, Newbill 15, A.Bell 0, B.Bishop 2, J.Bell 18, Hattenburg 4, Stuhlmiller 0, G.Bishop 0, Kirstein 0, Bogle 12.

ODESSA - Kramer 14, Weber 0, G.Schafer 7, Shaw 0, Floch 13, Hardung 0, Jeske 18, Luiten 0, Pitts 2, Z.Schafer 0, Walter 0, Praetorius 8, Dart 0.

Valley Chr. 86, Liberty 34

Michael Spuler tossed in a game-high 23 points to pace the fifth-ranked Panthers (17-2, 11-1) to a win over the visiting Lancers (4-14, 3-8). The victory gave Valley Christian the East Division crown and earned it a first-round bye in the league tournament.

Liberty 3 12 14 5 - 34

Valley Chr. 9 30 34 13 - 86

LIBERTY - K.Engle 4, J.Engle 9, Cousins 0, J.Holling 5, Johnson 2, Pottratz 2, Phipps 0, C.Holling 0, Schmitz 0, Mortimer 7, Horlacher 5.

VALLEY CHRISTIAN - Diaz 0, Troyer 6, J.Decker 5, Smith 2, Spuler 23, Meyer 0, Sears 13, B.Decker 10, Evans 11, Sandin 16, Lacy 0.

S-H 65, Davenport 62

Jason Carroll totaled a game-high 27 points and John Young made a pair of free throws with 22 seconds remaining to lift the Sprague-Harrington Falcons (11-9, 6-6) to a victory over the host Gorillas (6-13, 2-9).

The Falcons overcame a 31-25 first-half deficit with a 23-point third period.

Spr.-Harrington 12 13 23 17 - 65

Davenport 16 15 14 17 - 62

SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON - Engles 0, Morton 0, Wagner 9, Floyd 2, Carroll 27, Timm 2, Pelissier 2, M.Henry 9, Young 14, A.Henry 0.

DAVENPORT - Rodenbough 15, Holderby 1, Johnson 3, Buchanan 17, Swain 2, Telecky 14, Morrison 8, Payne 0, Honey 2.

Ritzville 61, Lind 48

Dustan Arlt led all scorers with 25 points and the visiting Broncos (10-9, 7-6) hit 7 of 16 3-point attempts in a win over the Bulldogs (2-17, 0-13).

Ritzville 16 14 12 19 - 61

Lind 10 12 13 13 - 48

RITZVILLE - B.Arlt 2, Duff 19, D.Arlt 25, Marcus 7, Johnstone , Borth 2, Paulson 0, Beckley 0, Heider 0.

LIND - Kulm 4, Wills 5, Labes 3, Parkins 8, Sikorski 0, Sheckells 4, Olson 0, Thompson 6, Widger 16, Williamson 2.

Great Northern

Pullman 74, Deer Park 46

Brent Cummings scored 17 of his game-high 26 points in the second and third quarters as the third-ranked Greyhounds (12-1, 8-1) easily outdistanced the visiting Stags (3-11, 1-7).

Pullman broke open a close game by outscoring Deer Park 18-6 in the third quarter.

Deer Park 18 10 6 12 - 46

Pullman 15 18 18 23 - 74

DEER PARK - Holmes 6, Henry 2, Westerman 5, Santonocito 3, S.Mitchell 4, J.Mitchell 0, Zimmerer 8, Sebright 1, Frickey 10, Thompson 7.

PULLMAN - Brown 13, Cummings 26, Linehan 8, Camp 0, Bray 3, Harms 5, Meyers 0, Randall 6, Weeks 0, Camara 9, Poole 2, Dorvil 2.

Medical Lake 79, Lakeside 37

Andre Jackson scored 23 points and the Cardinals (10-5, 7-2) had a 32-17 rebound advantage in a win over the host Eagles (4-10, 3-5).

Medical Lake outshot Lakeside 57 percent to 33 percent from the floor.

Medical Lake 23 11 18 27 - 79

Lakeside 11 5 8 13 - 37

MEDICAL LAKE - Jackson 23, Brown 2, Headlee 8, Shirley 8, Meeks 4, Mitchell 2, Miller 8, Nichols 10, B.Moore 14.

LAKESIDE - Day 8, Purkheiser 8, Rowse 9, Spiger 4, K.Skinner 4, Noland 9, Clockerty 2, Bjork 2.

Chewelah 66, Newport 44

Travis Meserve hit 9 of 14 shots from the floor and finished with a game-high 21 points to lead the host Cougars (9-5, 5-3) over the Grizzlies (6-8, 1-7).

Newport 11 3 11 19 - 44

Chewelah 16 9 15 26 - 66

NEWPORT - Kiehn 0, Frandrup 6, Meade 0, Ellersick 12, Drum 6, Marsh 10, Balcolm 2, Martindale 0, Vlasman 4, Mumford 4.

CHEWELAH - Landram 9, Forsberg 7, Meserve 21, Miller 0, Nitschke 10, Churape 0, Kinley 6, Sunday 0, Parrish 13.

Colville 71, Riverside 53

Shane Meinhold hit 8 of his 15 shots from the floor and all seven of his free throws to finish with a game-high 26 points as the visiting Indians (9-5, 6-2) rolled past the Rams (4-10, 2-6).

Colville 21 18 13 19 - 71

Riverside 15 16 10 12 - 53

COLVILLE - Goble 0, Weaver 2, Anderson 4, Ortner 17, Bateman 9, Vaagen 0, Meinhold 26, Spies 0, Mostek 9, Bradeen 0, I.Gordon 0, Shaw 4, E.Gordon 0.

RIVERSIDE - Kapelke 7, Lieske 0, Remington 1, Murphy 14, Boone 0, Rizzuto 0, Vannatter 0, Frowick 12, Johnson 1, Crance 10, Dinning 0, Miller 8.

Northeast A

Reardan 54, Colfax 39

Rhett Soliday connected on four 3-pointers to lead the Indians (12-7, 3-2) over the host Bulldogs (10-8, 1-3).

Reardan 10 8 11 25 - 54

Colfax 7 10 12 10 - 39

REARDAN - Alexie 1, Krupke 0, Landreth 0, Soliday 16, Jenkin 17, Nollmeyer 8, Brown 4, Hopper 0, Flaa 7, Hicks 1.

COLFAX - Kirkpatrick 0, Damery 4, Hall 0, Wigen 2, Curtis 4, Brownell 2, Keck 6, Robinson 6, Hand 5, VanDyke 10.

Panorama

Curlew 95, Inchelium 60

Gunner Olson scored a game-high 29 points and Erich Prazak added 24 to lead the second-ranked Cougars (16-3, 12-3) over the host Hornets (6-12, 5-10).

Curlew plays Republic tonight for the North Divison title.

Inchelium eighth-grader Jacolby Simpson finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds and six assists.

Curlew 22 26 27 20 - 95

Inchelium 8 16 13 23 - 60

CURLEW - Conger 0, G.Olson 29, Groth 15, Edwards 12, J.B. Olson 6, Prazak 24, Cribby 7, March 0, Strandberg 2, Stotts 0.

INCHELIUM - Bradshaw 1, Jolley 5, Simpson 19, Johnson 5, R.Swan 7, Michel 3, Mason 0, JonSimmons 8, J.Swan 2, Signor 10, JoeSimmons 0.

Republic 63, Wellpinit 37

The Tigers (15-4, 13-2) cruised past the visiting Redskins (9-8, 8-7) by forcing 31 turnovers and taking 25 more shots from the field.

Danny Hanks had 14 rebounds, seven assists and five steals for Republic.

Wellpinit 8 9 11 9 - 37

Republic 15 18 15 15 - 63

WELLPINIT - Tonasket 7, Carter 5, Abrahamson 0, D.J.Flett 6, T.Flett 3, M.McCrea 8, Covington 3, Stearns 5.

REPUBLIC - Dansel 0, Davenport 2, Dinkins 17, Gliddon 4, Hadden 0, Hanks 13, Hutton 2, Krohn 4, Kuchenmeister 17, R.Rickard 0, T.Rickard 0, Russell 4.

Selkirk 88, SM 50

Tim Farris scored a game-high 21 points to lead the Rangers (16-3, 13-2) past the visiting Warriors (0-19, 0-15) for their seventh straight win. It clinched the South Divison title for Selkirk.

St. Michael’s 10 14 15 11 - 50

Selkirk 24 26 16 22 - 88

ST. MICHAEL’S - Mendoza 0, Vigil 2, Edwards 14, Sandquist 2, Sarquillia 2, Vopalensky 8, Muglia 7, Durazo 3, South 10, Spruill 0, Nardecchia 2.

SELKIRK - Farris 21, Huffine 5, Gere 4, Lopes 17, Pyeatt 9, White 2, Yellowjohn 10, Hodges 0, Reed 0, Edwards 10, Carlson 7, Damron 3.

NWC 69, Cusick 46

Doug Malott hit four 3-pointers and finished with 20 points to pace the Northwest Christian Crusaders (12-7, 10-5) to a win over the visiting Panthers (8-10, 7-8).

Cusick 7 5 8 26 - 46

NW Christian 14 9 22 24 - 69

CUSICK - Cratty 6, Reijonen 2, Bridges 0, Martin 15, Chantry 2, Jones 0, Sattleen 1, Hamilton 16, Tinker 4, Dimick 0, Kramer 0.

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN - Orr 0, Greenup 3, Proffitt 2, Wolf 14, Smith 7, Warren 0, Thomas 0, Strandy 0, Malott 20, VanGerpen 0, Bell 0, Goldman 17, Crouch 6.

Columbia 56, Northport 48

Mark Strickler grabbed 14 rebounds, including nine off the offensive glass in the second half, to propel the Lions (4-15, 4-11) past the visiting Mustangs (5-14, 3-12).

Northport 10 14 9 15 - 48

Columbia 23 9 13 11 - 56

NORTHPORT - Aa.Day 4, Ad.Day 13, Fredrickson 20, Timmering 3, Lenhard 2, Wilson 0, Weliep 6.

COLUMBIA - Wass 5, Benson 5, Etue 13, Denison 5, J.Young 9, Neidhart 4, Strickler 15, K.Donohue 0, S.

St. Geo’s 73, Springdale 42

Tom DePonty scored a game-high 28 points and the Dragons (14-5, 12-3) crushed the host Chargers (3-16, 3-12) thanks to a 27-1 scoring advantage at the freethrow line.

St. George’s jumped out to a 23-9 first-quarter lead and never looked back.

St. George’s 23 24 14 12 - 73

Springdale 9 12 14 7 - 42

SPRINGDALE - Gilstrap 0, Farnsworth 2, Meyers 0, Ralph 6, Nortz 2, Thompson 4, Peterson 6, Crawford 0, Hammack 16, Ely 6, Carlson 0.

ST. GEORGE’S - Blume 7, Dhillon 1, Taylor 0, Moser 10, Davis 0, Helms 5, DePonty 28, Spencer 7, Yi 0, Witherspoon 4, Thomsen 10.

Whitman County

Gar-Pal 63, T-O 51

Garfield-Palouse hit 25 of its 38 free throws, including 8-of-8 shooting at the line by Logan Coles, and the Vikings (15-4, 8-1) topped the Tekoa-Oakesdale Nighthawks (11-8, 4-5) in Palouse.

Gar-Pal remained in a first-place tie with St. John-Endicott.

Tekoa-Oakes. 6 14 15 16 - 51

Gar-Pal 17 19 14 13 - 63

TEKOA-OAKESDALE - Brown 3, Buergel 0, Heaton 7, G.Smith 2, Teal 0, E.Smith 4, Brogan 4, Crossett 8, Wall 20, Taylor 3.

GARFIELD-PALOUSE - Bischoff 17, Coles 13, Power 3, Flansburg 16, Cronk 2, Kimble 0, Johnson 3, Tharp 9, Demand 0, Kriebel 0.

SJE 59, L-W 40

The St. John-Endicott Eagles (14-4, 8-1) outrebounded the host LaCrosse-Washtucna Tigercats (6-13, 4-5) 32-20 en route to the win.

The Tigercats scored more points in the fourth quarter (21) than they did the first three quarters combined.

St. John Endicott 10 12 15 22 - 59

LaCrosse-Wash. 6 7 6 21 - 40

ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT - Shawgo 0, Miller 2, Bafus 11, Strader 1, Stoner 5, Hames 6, Scheuerman 7, Thompson 3, Siler 14, Stolmeier 10.

LaCROSSE-WASHTUCNA - McIntosh 5, Colter 0, Schweiger 7, Henley 5, Wigen 4, Meyers 0, Stueckle 1, Whitman 13, Blankenship 5, Goll 0.

Colton 66, Rosalia 52

Nick Bates scored 22 points and the Wildcats (6-11, 2-7) rallied from a first-half deficit to defeat the visiting Spartans (1-17, 1-8).

After scoring just three points in the first quarter, Rosalia exploded for 28 second-quarter points to take a 31-27 halftime lead.

Rosalia 3 28 11 10 - 52

Colton 8 19 18 21 - 66

ROSALIA - Bernard 6, Watkins 7, DeGon 1, Slemp 6, Peterson 2, Shindler 12, Bothman 7, Schmidt 11. COLTON - Moehrle 4, Wolf 11, B.Busch 7, G.Busch 2, Bri.Keller 1, Bates 22, Hopwood 4, Meyer 15.

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