Chewelah Trips Ml In Overtime

GNL/NEA boys basketball

The Great Northern League continued its season-long trend toward wildness Friday when Chewelah went overtime for a 64-61 road victory at Medical Lake.

Travis Meserve scored 26, including a 3-pointer with 11 seconds left to force overtime, as the Cougars overcame a seven-point deficit in the final 3 minutes.

Chewelah (12-5, 8-3) swept the season series from ML and tied the Cardinals and Colville for second place, one game behind Pullman. Chad Headlee hit 5 of 6 3-pointers and totaled 10 rebounds for ML (11-6, 8-3), which had won five straight.

Chewelah 64, Med.Lake 61 (OT)

Chewelah 15 10 16 17 6 - 64

Medical Lake 16 15 16 11 3 - 61

CHEWELAH - Landram 9, Forsberg 9, Meserve 26, Miller 0, Nitschke 7, Churape 1, Kinley 2, Sunday 0, Parrish 10.

MEDICAL LAKE - Brown 3, Headlee 17, Shirley 0, Meeks 7, Mitchell 9, Miller 4, V.Nichols 6, B.Moore 15.

Pullman 65, Riverside 45

Brent Cummings scored 24, hitting 7 of 8 from the floor in the first quarter to lead a 12-for-16 effort, as the sixth-ranked Greyhounds (14-2, 9-2) defeated the visiting Rams (5-12, 3-8).

Riverside 11 8 18 8 - 45

Pullman 27 17 18 3 - 65

RIVERSIDE - Kapelke 5, Remington 0, Murphy 5, Boone 5, Rizzuto 0, Vannatter 1, Frowick 11, Johnson 0, Crance 14, Dinning 0, Miller 4.

PULLMAN - Brown 8, Cummings 24, Linehan 8, Camp 0, Bray 6, Harms 15, Meyers 0, Randall 0, Camara 4, Poole 0, Dorvil 0, Petz 0.

Colville 64, Deer Park 43

Jed Ortner hit 3 of 5 3-pointers and added six assists as the host Indians (11-6, 8-3) defeated the Stags (4-13, 2-9).

Deer Park 7 9 14 13 - 43

Colville 18 20 7 19 - 64

DEER PARK - Holmes 5, Henry 0, Westerman 0, Santonocito 2, S.Mitchell 0, J.Mitchell 4, Zimmerer 9, Sebright 2, Frickey 5, Thompson 2, Swinyard 14.

COLVILLE - Weaver 11, Anderson 4, Ortner 13, Bateman 7, Meinhold 7, Spies 3, Mostek 5, Bradeen 5, Shaw 5, E.Gordon 4.

Newport 67, Lakeside 60

Danny Ellersick scored 13 of his 20 in the first quarter and hit 4 of 4 free throws down the stretch to help an 8-for-8 effort as the Grizzlies (8-9, 3-8) topped the visiting Eagles (4-13, 3-8).

Lakeside’s Jim Spiger scored 20 points.

Lakeside 17 8 20 15 - 60

Newport 21 13 15 18 - 67

LAKESIDE - Day 9, Purkheiser 10, Rowse 5, Spiger 20, Skinner 4, Noland 2, Mortlock 2, Clockerty 0, Bjork 8.

NEWPORT - Kiehn 5, Frandrup 10, Meade 11, Ellersick 20, Drum 0, Marsh 8, Balcolm 9, Martindale 4, Persyn 0, Vlasman 0, Mumford 0.

Northeast A League

Freeman 48, Colfax 47

The league-champion Scotties (15-5, 6-0) edged the host Bulldogs (10-9, 1-4), who missed two late chances.

Colfax’s Carey Kirkpatrick hit one free throw and missed a second with 3 seconds left. The Bulldogs’ Brent Damery secured the rebound but couldn’t score.

Freeman has the top seed into the district tournament, which begins Friday at Mead High.

Freeman 8 11 17 12 - 48

Colfax 17 10 6 14 - 47

FREEMAN - Love 0, R.Snyder 8, M.Miller 8, Simmons 9, Freeman 0, Shkuratoff 5, Goldsmith 12, White 6, S.Snyder 0.

COLFAX - Kirkpatrick 8, Damery 8, Wigen 0, Curtis 0, Brownell 2, Keck 10, Robinson 3, Hand 2, VanDyke 12.

Reardan 64, Kettle Falls 51

Brandon Nollmeyer hit three 3-pointers in the third quarter to spark a 16-4 run and Reece Jenkin scored 23 to help the visiting Indians (13-7, 4-2) over the Bulldogs (5-14, 0-5).

The Indians are the second seed to district. Kettle Falls and Colfax play tonight to determine Nos. 3 and 4.

Reardan 16 9 22 17 - 64

Kettle Falls 12 15 13 11 - 51

REARDAN - Alexie 0, Krupke 1, Landreth 0, Soliday 16, Jenkin 23, Nollmeyer 15, Brown 4, Hopper 4, Flaa 1.

KETTLE FALLS - George 5, Weathers 8, Miller 13, Madlin 0, Musson 0, Lickfold 14, Geesey 3, Payne 8, Azzarito 0.

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