Wildcats Test Broncos Again

Girls basketball

The last team to defeat Ritzville also gets the next shot.

Wilbur-Creston advanced to the championship game of the BiCounty League tournament by defeating Sprague-Harrington 73-55 Saturday at Reardan.

The ninth-ranked Wildcats (15-5) play top-ranked Ritzville (21-0) Thursday at Reardan to determine the top two seeds to the District 7-B tournament.

Ritzville, a 61-34 winner over Davenport, notched its 31st consecutive win. The Broncos’ last loss came at the end of the 1996-97 Bi-County League regular season, against W-C.

The tourney resumes Tuesday night at Reardan with a pair of 5:45 loser-out games. Fourth-seeded Liberty (12-9) plays S-H while sixth-seeded Almira/Coulee-Hartline (4-17) plays Davenport.

Ritzville 61, Davenport 34

Megan Yerxa hit five field goals in the second half and the Broncos hit 13 of 18 free throws to defeat the fifth-seeded Gorillas (8-13).

Davenport shot 27 percent from the floor and was limited to three freethrow attempts.

Davenport 5 8 8 13 - 34

Ritzville 11 14 21 15 - 61

DAVENPORT - Swain 0, Marriott 7, Reed 0, Smith 2, Guhlke 2, Schreck 2, Lust 9, Kunz 0, Emory 4, Pauls 6, Cowdrey 2.

RITZVILLE - Wellsandt 9, Warriner 0, Sackmann 2, Weber 2, Horpedahl 0, Fitch 8, Gibler 2, Russel 11, Yerxa 15, Alspach 8, Janzen 0, Zicha 0.

Wilbur-Cres. 73, Spr.-Harr. 55

Alyssa Erickson scored eight points in the first quarter as the third-seeded Wildcats pulled away from the second-seeded Falcons (13-8).

Noel Hatten hit four 3-pointers and Mandi Walters finished 9 of 10 from the line for S-H.

Wil.-Creston 20 17 20 16 - 73

Sprague-Harr. 12 7 16 20 - 55

WILBUR-CRESTON - Desautel 4, Sherwood 4, Harris 0, Mann 0, Deahl 4, Dreger 12, Erickson 17, Arden 11, Aubertin 11, Nelson 10.

SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON - Whipple 11, Mauerer 2, Grast 0, Walters 9, Hatten 12, Engles 13, Morse 0, Scoles 8.

Whitman County tourney

LaCrosse-Wash. 47, SJE 42

Rochelle Schneider hit two free throws with 10 seconds left as the top-seeded Tigercats (14-7) defeated the No. 4 Eagles (11-10) at Endicott to seal their seventh consecutive win and a berth in today’s tourney championship.

L-W will meet second-seeded Tekoa-Oakesdale (19-2) at 4 p.m. to determine the top two seeds to the District 9-B tourney. The Tigercats swept third-ranked T-O in league play.

Desi Zuger had 11 rebounds and Casey Gossard scored eight fourth-quarter points for SJE, which meets No. 3 seed Garfield-Palouse (13-9) at 1 p.m. today to decide third and fourth seeds to district.

SJE 7 13 9 13 - 42

LaCrosse-Wash. 9 16 17 5 - 47

ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT - Ki.Colyar 2, Kjack 5, Stolmeier 0, Loomis 0, Schmick 5, Zuger 6, Gossard 8, Hedlund 6, White 6, Curtis 4.

LaCROSSE-WASHTUCNA - Bay 6, J.Wigen 2, Cronrath 4, Kinch 4, N.Schneider 5, R.Schneider 16, Larsen 8, Baumann 2, S.Wigen 0.

Tekoa-Oakes. 52, Gar.-Pal. 37

Sara Driscoll and Heather Cox combined for 17 rebounds and the Nighthawks hit 23 of 39 free throws to pull away from the Vikings.

Betsy Smart added four steals for T-O, which outscored Gar-Pal by 12 points at the line. Katie Coles had nine rebounds and Sandra Tronsen five steals for G-P.

Gar.-Palouse 7 12 13 5 - 37

Tekoa-Oakes. 10 12 14 16 - 52

GARFIELD-PALOUSE - Nelson 0, Shelden 18, Smick 0, Tronsen 5, Coles 6, Swinney 4, Kildew 2, Hayden 2, Iverson 0, Hershaw 0.

TEKOA-OAKESDALE - K.Driscoll 0, S.Driscoll 13, Smart 2, M.Brown 2, Hay 10, Graffis 8, Je.Bruce 6, Cox 11, Ja.Bruce 0, Crow 0, S.Brown 0.

Blue Mountain tourney

Waitsburg 59, Pomeroy 47

Wendy Jones and Beth Abbey combined to hit 10 of 10 from the floor and 4 of 4 from the line as the second-seeded Cardinals (15-5) defeated the third-seeded Pirates (10-11) at Asotin.

Waitsburg, which shot 58 percent from the floor, plays top-seeded and fifth-ranked DeSales (16-3) at 4 p.m. today for the top two seeds to the District 9-B tourney. Pomeroy meets Asotin at noon for third and fourth.

Pomeroy 9 13 14 11 - 47

Waitsburg 14 15 13 17 - 59

POMEROY - Appel 2, Cox 3, Gittins 4, McGreevy 4, Henry 15, Brandon 5, Heytvelt 12, VanAusdle 2.

WAITSBURG - Jones 14, Hulce 8, Abbey 10, McCaw 6, Bickelhaupt 11, Kiefel 8, Conover 2.

Asotin 33, Liberty Christian 20

Mandy McCann had nine rebounds and five steals as the fourth-seeded Panthers (6-15) eliminated the No. 5 Patriots (13-7) of Richland.

Asotin shot 19 percent from the floor, LC 14 percent.

Liberty Christian 0 6 10 4 - 20

Asotin 7 7 10 9 - 33

LIBERTY CHRISTIAN- E.McNair 4, Krause 0, Dunahn 4, Troutman 4, Bobrowski 0, B.McNair 8.

ASOTIN - Giardinelli 2, Mendoza 1, Johnsen 2, King 4, Deffer 0, Vantrease 1, Fred 5, McCann 16, Eller 1, Schnider 0, Andrews 1, Witters 0.

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