Freeman Wins 53-50

Area boys

Freeman and Reardan took turns giving away Saturday’s game for early bragging rights in the Northeast A League.

Reardan offered the final present, missing two layups in the final 2 minutes of a 53-50 loss to the visiting Scotties (10-3, 1-0).

Jared Pope made 7 of 10 field-goal attempts and Steve Simmons added eight rebounds for Freeman, which has won six of its last seven.

Freeman’s eight-point lead after three quarters dissolved 6 minutes later into a two-point edge for Reardan (8-5, 1-1). Rhett Soliday scored 20, hitting three 3-pointers and 5 of 7 from the line for Reardan, which had a seven-game winning streak snapped.

Freeman 53, Reardan 50

Freeman 8 18 18 9 - 53

Reardan 15 12 9 14 - 50 FREEMAN - R.Snyder 2, M.Miller 14, Simmons 0, Freeman 0, Shkuratoff 11, Goldsmith 8, White 2, S.Snyder 0, Pope 16.

REARDAN - Eastman 17, Soliday 20, Jenkin 4, Nollmeyer 2, Brown 4, Hopper 0, Flaa 3.

BORDER LEAGUE

Cheney 77, East Valley 52

Paul Malisani scored 31, hitting 13 of 17 field goals and 4 of 4 free throws, to guide the eighth-ranked Blackhawks (11-2, 8-1) over the host Knights (1-11, 0-8).

Malisani, James Kiger and Chris Bond combined for 35 rebounds to guide a 38-24 edge, including 21-7 in the first half. Andrew Burgess of the Knights had eight rebounds and hit 7 of 17 from the floor, including four 3-pointers.

Cheney 19 16 21 21 - 77

East Valley 9 12 17 14 - 52

CHENEY - Stiffler 15, Eggart 2, Oyolokor 0, Goetz 2, Donnelly 6, Ervin 4, Caskey 4, Malisani 31, Kiger 8, Bond 5.

EAST VALLEY - Henderson 0, Smith 0, Sitton 6, Quirk 8, Burgess 18, Shogren 0, Sterling 2, Storey 4, Horgan 14.

West Valley 70, Clarkston 51

Brad Groh hit 8 of 10 free throws in the fourth quarter, when the host Eagles (7-6, 5-4) made 20 of 26 to pull away from the Bantams (1-8, 1-7).

Chris Gregg added 10 rebounds, while Eric Deno added five steals and 5-of-11 shooting on 3-pointers for WV. Nick Olson had six rebounds for Clarkston, which totaled 19 turnovers.

Clarkston 2 16 17 16 - 51

West Valley 18 8 12 32 - 70

CLARKSTON - Nielson 18, Olson 2, Norland 7, Tucker 0, Smith 0, Blankinship 11, Harrington 0, Cummings 10, Cridlebaugh 1, Hayes 2.

WEST VALLEY - Kopp 0, Sly 5, Allen 0, Deno 19, Browning 2, Groh 21, Brosvik 0, Focht 5, Gregg 11, Spivey 1, Lybarger 0, Hilsabeck 6.

CdA 53, Sandpoint 35

The Vikings (10-3, 8-2) forced seven turnovers in the second quarter to pull away from the visiting Bulldogs (4-9, 2-8) and tie idle Lewiston for second place.

Sandpoint trailed 20-18 with 6 minutes left in the second quarter after Adrian Menard’s short jumper. CdA’s defense clamped down and the Vikings’ lead grew to 21 in the fourth quarter.

Coeur d’Alene 16 13 18 6 - 53

Sandpoint 15 5 8 7 - 35

COEUR D’ALENE - Fetzer 0, Je.Rupp 0, Chambers 5, Witten 0, Ji.Rupp 15, Wood 9, Mellick 0, DeArmond 10, Hoorelbeke 4, Sigler 5, O’Dowd 5.

SANDPOINT - Shelton 2, Nieman 6, Bronk 0, Bowman 2, Watson 0, Menard 3, Gehring 2, Kleinert 13, Singleton 4, Rust 3.

GREAT NORTHERN LEAGUE

Pullman 69, Newport 43

Josh Bray scored 22, hitting 4 of 5 3-pointers, to guide the third-ranked Greyhounds (8-0, 5-0) over the host Grizzlies (5-6, 0-5).

Pullman 13 14 18 24 - 69

Newport 5 11 10 17 - 43

PULLMAN - Brown 0, Cummings 14, Linehan 3, Camp 1, Bray 22, Harms 11, Meyers 2, Randall 4, Weeks 3, Camara 6, Poole 0, Dorvil 3.

NEWPORT - Kiehn 3, Frandrup 4, Meade 2, Ellersick 12, Drum 0, Marsh 5, Balcolm 4, Martindale 0, Vlasman 11, Mumford 2.

Med.Lake 85, Riverside 51

Andre Jackson had 10 assists and Brandon Moore added 10 rebounds, and the two combined for 41 points as the Cardinals (6-4, 3-1) defeated the visiting Rams (3-7, 1-4).

ML’s Richard Brown added five steals.

Riverside 7 13 12 19 - 51

Medical Lake 22 20 25 18 - 85

RIVERSIDE - Kapelke 3, Lieske 0, Remington 13, Murphy 8, Boone 5, Rizzuto 2, Vannatter 1, Johnson 0, Crance 7, Dinning 0, Miller 11.

MEDICAL LAKE - Jackson 21, Brown 14, Headlee 0, Shirley 3, Meeks 7, Mitchell 2, Alexander 6, Nichols 12, B.Moore 20.

NON-LEAGUE

Kettle Falls 49, Deer Park 48

Jon Musson banked in a last-second shot from the top of the key to give the visiting Bulldogs (4-7) a win over the Stags (3-7).

KF inbounded the ball with 4 seconds left, after calling timeout. The Stags led 48-47 when Shane Mitchell hit two free throws with 11 seconds left. The Bulldogs’ Mike Miller hit 4 of 7 3-pointers; DP’s Josh Mitchell was 3 of 4.

Kettle Falls 10 15 13 11 - 49

Deer Park 11 10 13 14 - 48

KETTLE FALLS - George 5, Weathers 9, Miller 16, Brodehl 2, Madlin 0, Musson 4, Lickfold 2, Payne 11.

DEER PARK - Holmes 4, Westerman 5, Santonocito 3, S.Mitchell 11, J.Mitchell 13, Zimmerer 4, Sebright 1, Frickey 7, Thompson 0.

Colfax 61, Lakeside 53

The seventh-ranked Bulldogs (9-2) finished with a 41-31 rebounding edge to defeat the visiting Eagles (3-7).

Lakeside hit four 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, two by Will Noland.

Lakeside 11 16 2 24 - 53

Colfax 13 14 19 15 - 61

LAKESIDE - Day 8, Purkheiser 4, Rowse 0, Spiger 13, K.Skinner 7, Noland 17, Mortlock 2, Clockerty 0, Bjork 2.

COLFAX - Kirkpatrick 14, Damery 11, Hall 0, Wigen 2, Curtis 6, Brownell 10, Keck 9, Hand 0, VanDyke 4, VanTine 5.

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