Odessa, Ach Win In Bi-County Openers

B boys basketball

The West was best in the Bi-County on Friday as double-elimination play began in the league tournament in Reardan.

Odessa defeated Liberty 61-35 and Almira/Coulee-Hartline topped Davenport 56-48 as West teams sent East teams into the losers bracket.

The tourney continues tonight at 7:30 with ACH (13-8) playing sixth-ranked and top-seeded Valley Christian (17-2) and Odessa (14-6) renewing its year-long rivalry with second-seeded Wilbur-Creston (13-6), the West champion.

Davenport and Liberty play winner-to-district, loser-out games on Tuesday.

Odessa 61, Liberty 35

Michael Jeske hit 8 of 13 field goals to help the Tigers over the Lancers (7-15).

Liberty missed 10 of 17 free throws.

Liberty 9 9 7 10 - 35

Odessa 14 13 11 23 - 61

LIBERTY - Wiman 0, K.Engle 4, J.Engle 6, Cousins 4, J.Holling 9, Johnson 0, Pottratz 4, Phipps 0, C.Holling 4, Schmitz 0, Mortimer 0, Horlacher 4.

ODESSA - Kramer 13, G.Schafer 10, Dart 0, Floch 8, Hardung 0, Jeske 17, Pitts 0, Z.Schafer 2, Walter 0, Praetorius 11, Luiten 0.

ACH 56, Davenport 48

The balanced Warriors pulled steadily away from the Gorillas (8-15).

Davenport’s Cody Rodenbough and Dale Buchanan combined for five 3-pointers on 14 attempts.

Davenport 7 12 18 11 - 48

ACH 10 14 20 12 - 56

DAVENPORT - Rodenbough 13, Holderby 4, Buchanan 20, Swain 2, Telecky 3, Morrison 4, Payne 0, Honey 2, Morton 0.

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE - Dormaier 12, Thomas 6, Elder 3, Pate 10, Higginbotham 3, Leander 0, Emerson 0, Gwinn 8, Neilsen 4, Durrant 10.

Panorama League tourney

NWC 62, Inchelium 48

Gabe Goldman scored 21, hitting 8 of 13 from the field and 5 of 5 from the line, and the Crusaders (13-9) shot 50 percent from the floor to eliminate the visiting Hornets (6-15).

The Crusaders play a winner-to-district, loser-out game at 6 p.m. Tuesday against tonight’s loser between St. George’s (16-5) and Curlew (18-3).

Inchelium 16 10 14 8 - 48

NW Christian 14 11 20 17 - 62

INCHELIUM - Bradshaw 2, Jolley 1, Simpson 12, Johnson 3, R.Swan 7, Michel 8, Mason 2, Tonasket 9, Simmons 4, J.Swan 0.

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN - Orr 0, Greenup 0, Proffitt 10, Wolf 0, Smith 0, Warren 0, Thomas 10, Strandy 0, Malott 13, VanGerpen 0, Goldman 21, Crouch 8.

Whitman Co. League tourney

Colton 63, Rosalia 48

Nick Bates closed within 39 points of 1,000 for his career, and Brian and Greg Busch combined for 23 rebounds as the fifth-seeded Wildcats (7-12) eliminated the Spartans (1-19) at Endicott.

Colton plays No. 4 Tekoa-Oakesdale (11-9) at 4 p.m. today in a loser-out.

Colton 16 21 17 9 - 63

Rosalia 14 14 8 12 - 48

COLTON - Moehrle 2, Wolf 13, B.Busch 10, G.Busch 9, Weber 0, Keller 0, Bates 18, Hopwood 9, Meyer 2.

ROSALIA - Heinemann 3, Watkins 6, S. DeGon 0, D. DeGon 0, Slemp 3, Peterson 6, Shindler 9, Bothman 6, Schmidt 4, Workman 0, Conrad 0, Bernard 11.

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