Coles Helps Vikes Keep Season Alive

District 9-B basketball

Garfield-Palouse found the proper medicine Wednesday: a win in a loser-out game.

Senior Logan Coles returned to the lineup and teamed with classmate Brad Bischoff for 38 points and 18 rebounds as Gar-Pal topped LaCrosse-Washtucna 62-48 in a boys District 9-B tournament loser-out at Washington State University.

Coles, a 1,000-point career scorer, missed the second half of Tuesday’s loss to Waitsburg after suffering an irregular heartbeat when he took five pain pills for shin splints one-half hour before tipoff.

Coles was taken to Pullman Memorial Hospital during halftime. The Vikings, trailing by six at the time, lost by 19.

A doctor had advised Coles to take three pills 2 hours before a game.

Coles said he had a similar incident a month ago when he was using two inhalers he didn’t need for his athleticinduced asthma.

Bischoff scored 15 in the first quarter and finished with 25, pulling him within 19 points of also reaching 1,000 points.

Gar-Pal (19-6) meets seventh-ranked DeSales (16-5) at 2:30 p.m. Friday in a loser-out game.

Cole Schweiger of the Tigercats (9-16) scored 14 of his 25 in the first quarter. L-W’s Greg Whitman added nine rebounds.

Garfield-Palouse 62, L-W 48

LaCrosse-Wash. 17 7 10 14 - 48

Garf.-Palouse 17 13 15 17 - 62

LaCROSSE-WASHTUCNA - McIntosh 0, Colter 4, Schweiger 25, Henley 7, Meyers 0, Stueckle 2, Whitman 7, Blankenship 3, Goll 0, Startin 0, Schneider 0.

GARFIELD-PALOUSE - Bischoff 25, Coles 13, Power 7, Flansburg 6, Cronk 2, Fox 5, Kimble 0, Johnson 0, Tharp 4, Demand 0, Kriebel 0, Elder 0.

DeSales 49, Pomeroy 27

Scott Zea totaled 18 rebounds, four steals and 12 second-half points as the Irish eliminated the Pirates (16-9).

Joe Levens added four assists, and he and Brian Lindgren combined for five 3-pointers for DeSales. Pomeroy’s Nick Cox had six rebounds, three assists and a pair of 3-pointers.

Friday night’s championship, at 8, pits Waitsburg (17-6) against St. John-Endicott (19-5). The winner advances to state, the loser plays again Saturday against the Gar-Pal/DeSales winner for the other berth to state.

Pomeroy 7 7 8 5 - 27

DeSales 14 8 15 12 - 49

POMEROY - Cox 0, Mulrony 0, McCabe 2, Kelly 0, Cox 13, Neal 0, Claassen 4, Waldher 0, Feider 0, McKeirnan 0, Ledgerwood 8, Matheny 0.

DESALES - Lindgren 14, Stanley 5, Wolfram 0, Barry 0, Heinzman 0, Richard 2, Zea 16, Levens 10, Baffney 2.

Girls

T-O 35, Pomeroy 24

Heather Cox had 11 rebounds and Andrea Hay added five assists as the third-ranked Nighthawks (22-3) eliminated the Pirates (12-13).

Tekoa-Oakesdale held Pomeroy to 24-percent shooting from the floor, but the Nighthawks missed 13 of 20 free-throw attempts. Jessica Henry had nine rebounds and Grethchen Heytvelt scored eight in the fourth quarter for Pomeroy.

T-O plays fifth-ranked DeSales (19-4) at 1 p.m. Friday in a loser-out.

Pomeroy 8 3 0 13 - 24

Tekoa-Oakes. 12 6 8 9 - 35

POMEROY - Appel 0, Van Ausdle 0, Dixon 0, Cox 5, Gittins 0, Wolf 0, E.Heytvelt 0, McGreevey 1, Henry 4, Brandon 4, G.Heytvelt 10.

TEKOA-OAKESDALE - K.Driscoll 2, S.Brown 0, S.Driscoll 2, Smart 0, M.Brown 10, Hay 8, Graffis 0, Smith 1, Je.Bruce 2, Ja.Bruce 4, Cox 6, Crow 0.

DeSales 50, Gar.-Palouse 43

Twins Amber and Erin Hellberg combined for 33 points and 15 rebounds as the Irish eliminated the Vikings (15-11).

Amber Hellberg hit 7 of 9 free throws to lead a 16-for-22 effort. Jenny Dutton of DeSales added eight steals and five assists.

Kenon Kildew had eight rebounds and Jenny Iverson and Tasha Swinney five steals apiece for Gar-Pal. Swinney also had two 3-pointers in the second half.

Friday night’s championship, at 6:30, will match 10th-ranked Waitsburg (17-6) and LaCrosse-Washtucna (16-8). The winner qualifies for state. The loser plays the DeSales/T-O survivor on Saturday for the final state berth.

Garf.-Palouse 11 12 9 11 - 43

DeSales 13 6 16 15 - 50

GARFIELD-PALOUSE - Nelson 0, Iverson 6, Shelden 5, Smick 0, Tronsen 7, Coles 11, Swinney 10, Kildew 2, Hayden 2.

DESALES - Dutton 11, Lindgren 2, Calderon 0, E.Hellberg 12, A.Hellberg 21, Balakier 4, Postlewait 0, Watko 0, Lilwall 0.

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