Ach Stays On Track For Another State Trip

Boys basketball

Almira/Coulee-Hartline owns the longest current streak of appearances in the boys State B tournament.

The Warriors gave themselves a shot at a fourth consecutive state trip by edging Liberty 40-36 Tuesday in a winner-to-district, loser-out game in the Bi-County tournament at Reardan.

Ken Durrant and Brandon Leander scored four points apiece in the fourth quarter to help the Warriors (14-9) keep the Lancers (7-16) from rallying. Liberty defeated ACH during the league season.

ACH will play Odessa at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to determine the third and fourth seeds to the District 7-B tourney.

ACH 40, Liberty 36

ACH 10 8 10 12 - 40

Liberty 13 3 8 12 - 36

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE - Evans 0, Dormaier 0, Thomas 5, Elder 0, St. John 0, Pate 6, Higginbotham 3, Leander 13, Emerson 0, Gwinn 2, Neilsen 11, Durrant 0.

LIBERTY - Wiman 2, K.Engle 3, J.Engle 6, Cousins 0, J.Holling 14, Johnson 0, Pottratz 9, Phipps 0, C.Holling 2, Horlacher 0.

Odessa 74, Davenport 63

Ryan Floch scored 22 points and George Schafer hit four 3-pointers on the way to 20 points as the Tigers (15-7) eliminated the Gorillas (8-16).

Odessa’s Scott Kramer made 7 of 8 free throws. Travis Telecky and Dale Buchanan hit four 3-pointers apiece and combined for 44 points.

Odessa 16 20 16 22 - 74

Davenport 9 11 27 16 - 63

ODESSA - Kramer 12, G.Schafer 20, Floch 22, Hardung 0, Jeske 8, Pitts 10, Walter 0, Praetorius 2.

DAVENPORT - Rodenbough 13, Holderby 0, Johnson 0, Buchanan 20, Swain 4, Telecky 24, Morrison 2, Payne 0, Honey 0, Morton 0.

Panorama League boys

Selkirk 72, Wellpinit 48

Russell Lopes scored 29, hitting six 3-pointers, as the Rangers (19-4) eliminated the visiting Redskins (11-10).

Lopes made 12 of 17 field goals and added seven rebounds. Sheridan Pyeatt added 8-of-9 field-goal shooting for Selkirk, which shot 55 percent from the floor.

Selkirk plays St. George’s at 8 p.m. Thursday in Colville to determine the third and fourth seeds to the District 7-B tournament.

Wellpinit 9 13 13 13 - 48

Selkirk 21 10 15 26 - 72

WELLPINIT - Tonasket 12, Carter 0, Abrahamson 4, D.J.Flett 8, T.McCrea 0, T.Flett 4, M.McCrea 11, Covington 6, Stearns 3.

SELKIRK - Farris 4, Huffine 5, Gere 4, Lopes 29, Pyeatt 16, White 0, Yellowjohn 5, Hodges 0, Reed 0, Edwards 5, Carlson 4, Damron 0.

St. George’s 48, NWC 37

Ryan Thomsen and Tom DePonty combined for 25 points and 18 rebounds as the Dragons (17-6) eliminated the visiting Crusaders (13-10).

Dan Dhillon added six assists and five steals for St. George’s, which went 3-0 against NWC this year.

NW Christian 4 13 10 10 - 37

St. George’s 6 13 19 10 - 48

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN - Orr 0, Greenup 0, Proffitt 0, Wolf 3, Smith 6, Warren 0, Thomas 3, Strandy 0, Malott 15, VanGerpen 0, Goldman 6, Crouch 4.

ST. GEORGE’S - Blume 5, Dhillon 8, Taylor 0, Moser 5, Davis 0, Helms 0, DePonty 12, Spencer 3, Yi 0, Witherspoon 2, Thomsen 13.

Bi-County girls

Sprague-Harrington 75, Liberty 59

Mandi Walters scored 24, hitting 8 of 9 from the floor and 5 of 6 from the line, as the Falcons (14-8) eliminated the Lancers (12-10) at Reardan and moved into a district-qualifying game.

Noel Hatten added three 3-pointers for S-H, which swept Liberty 3-0 this year. The Falcons play Davenport at 5:45 p.m. Thursday in Reardan. The winner is No. 3 to district, the loser plays Panorama No. 4 for a district berth.

Liberty’s Jo Cory finished her career just shy of 1,100 points, second-most in school history to Liz Hahner. Jenesi Gardner scored 20 for the Lancers, hitting 6 of 6 free throws.

Sprague-Harr. 22 21 12 20 - 75

Liberty 16 6 21 16 - 59

SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON - Whipple 10, Ernst 4, Walters 24, Hatten 17, Harding 0, Engles 12, Hatcher 0, Morse 0, Scoles 8, Maurer 0.

LIBERTY - Hodgson 0, Cory 16, Leslie 0, Olson 0, Bothman 12, Cain 0, Prince 6, Gardner 20, Nadler 5, Adams 0, Kuster 0, Bariether 0.

Davenport 52, ACH 44

Christine Emory hit 8 of 8 from the floor as the Gorillas (9-13) eliminated the Warriors (4-18).

Lacey Malone of ACH hit six field goals and 5 of 5 from the line before fouling out.

ACH 8 14 6 16 - 44

Davenport 12 10 12 18 - 52

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE - Edwards 3, Evans 0, Pinar 8, Maes 0, Horter 2, Malone 17, Stokoe 2, Giese 8, Andersen 4.

DAVENPORT - Swain 10, Marriott 8, Smith 2, Guhlke 0, Schreck 2, Lust 4, Kunz 3, Emory 17, Pauls 6, Cowdery 0.

Non-league boys

Moscow 65, Pullman 62

Kirby Brown scored 22 points and the host Bears (15-4) hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to nip the 2A fourth-ranked Greyhounds (15-3).

Pullman’s Brent Cummings scored 33. The Greyhounds defeated Moscow 60-53 on Jan. 27.

Pullman 8 18 14 22 - 62

Moscow 18 15 19 13 - 65

PULLMAN - Brown 0, Cummings 33, Linehan 5, Bray 9, Harms 9, Randall 4, Camara 2, Dorvil 0.

MOSCOW - Brown 22, Comstock 2, Cosgrove 14, Shupe 4, Williams 1, Reynolds 11, Nielsen 2, Busch 2, Gillmore 2, Westberg 5.

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