St. John-Endicott Deadlocks Race

Area girls

LaCrosse-Washtucna’s sole possession of first place in the Whitman County League disappeared Saturday at the hands of St. John-Endicott, 52-51 at St. John.

Breanna Schmick put the Eagles (8-5, 3-1) up for good when she scored with 3 seconds remaining. Schmick also had nine rebounds to go with 6-for-16 shooting.

The Tigercats (7-7, 3-1) dropped into a three-way tie for first place, with SJE and Tekoa-Oakesdale.

Kelly Larson had 10 rebounds for the Tigercats.

SJE 52, L-W 51

LaCrosse-Wash. 18 14 7 12 - 51

SJE 13 12 11 16 - 52

LaCROSSE-WASHTUCNA - Bay 7, J.Wigen 4, Cronrath 14, Kinch 4, N.Schneider 2, R.Schneider 11, Larsen 4, Bauman 5, S.Wigen 0, Mays 0.

ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT - Ki.Colyar 6, Ko.Colyar 0, Kjack 2, Loomis 2, Schmick 16, Gossard 4, Hedlund 6, White 16.

Tekoa-Oakes. 42, Gar.-Pal. 39

Miranda Brown had 11 rebounds as the second-ranked Nighthawks (12-1, 3-1) held off the Vikings (9-4, 3-2) in Oakesdale.

Sandra Tronsen had five steals for Garfield-Palouse. Tekoa-Oakesdale’s Heather Cox was rushed to the hospital after the game after colliding with Brown.

Garf.-Palouse. 5 14 14 6 - 39

Tekoa-Oakes. 6 14 14 8 - 42

GARFIELD-PALOUSE - Nelson 0, Shelden 7, Smick 0, Tronsen 7, Coles 10, T.Swinney 0, N.Swinney 0, Kildew 13, Hayden 2.

TEKOA-OAKESDALE - S.Driscoll 1, Smart 0, Brown 14, Hay 4, Graffis 0, Jea.Bruce 6, Jan.Bruce 0, Cox 17.

Rosalia 46, Colton 34

The Wildcats (0-11, 0-4) had 40 turnovers to help the Spartans (2-12, 1-4) snap their six-game losing streak. Rosalia hit 17 of 62 shots from the field, Colton was 13-38.

Jenny Dale had 12 rebounds for the Spartans.

Colton 2 9 12 11 - 34

Rosalia 11 8 11 16 - 46

COLTON - Crim 0, Truong 6, Maston 14, Buck 5, Brotherton 7, Hall 0, Stout 4.

ROSALIA - Quintana 0, Henning 2, Heinemann 0, Dale 3, Peringer 18, Blank 17, Willey 4, Bruce 2.

Bi-County League

Ritzville 57, Spr.-Har. 38

The No. 1 Broncos (13-0, 7-0) defeated the host Falcons (8-5, 4-1) with 47-percent shooting from the floor.

Megan Yerxa scored nine in the third quarter and had seven rebounds. Kristy Engles had 10 rebounds and Mandi Walters had four steals for the Falcons.

Ritzville 8 12 21 16 - 57

Sprague-Harr. 1 10 15 12 - 38

RITZVILLE - Wellsandt 7, Warriner 0, Weber 5, Fitch 8, Gibler 0, Russel 10, Yerxa 17, Alspach 8, Janzen 8, Zicha 0.

SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON - Whipple 4, Ernst 3, Walters 11, Hatten 7, Harding 0, Engles 5, Morse 2, Scoles 6.

Liberty 40, ACH 39

Jo Cory scored 12 in the second half as the Lancers (10-4, 4-2) held off the Warriors (4-10, 2-4) in Hartline.

ACH had 26 turnovers. Shawna Stokoe hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer for ACH.

Liberty 4 11 16 9 - 40

ACH 10 4 10 15 - 39

LIBERTY - Cory 19, Leslie 2, Bothman 6, Cain 2, Prince 0, Gardner 5, Nadler 6, Adams 0.

ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE - Evans 6, Pinar 2, Maes 2, Nielsen 0, Horter 6, Malone 4, Stokoe 7, Elder 2, Giese 10, Andersen 0.

Panorama League

St. George’s 65, Republic 41

Miranda Routh-Corker scored a game-high 24 points on 7-for-20 shooting from the field and 10-for-12 from the line to lead the fourth-ranked Dragons (12-2, 9-0) past the visiting Tigers (5-7, 4-5).

Routh-Corker also pulled down seven rebounds to go with four assists and four steals. Wenchi Liu chipped in six assists for St. George’s.

The Dragons finished with 24 steals. Republic had 20 first-half turnovers.

Republic 11 3 9 18 - 41

St. George’s 12 18 23 12 - 65

REPUBLIC - Campobasso 4, Ciais 5, Hover 8, An.Merrit 0, C.Merrit 2, Am.Merrit 2, Sattler 0, Whitney 2, Wilson 15, Young 3.

ST. GEORGE’S - Liu 8, Clarke 8, Philopant 0, Stothart 1, Henley 14, Blume 2, Grant 0, Nielsen 0, DePonty 2, Routh-Corker 24, Luber 0, Kutteruf 0, Moore 6.

Wellpinit 57, Selkirk 55

Miranda Payne’s 8-foot jumper with 10 seconds remaining gave the No. 8 Redskins (12-1, 9-0) the win over the visiting Rangers (12-3, 8-1), and ending Selkirk’s five-game winning streak.

Celeste Allen scored 14 in the first half, hitting 3 of 4 3-point attempts.

Selkirk 13 12 16 14 - 55

Wellpinit 22 10 16 9 - 57

SELKIRK - Fairbairn 9, Scherf 16, Barnes 6, Pettis 0, Smith 4, Jones 0, Allert 10, Carlson 10.

WELLPINIT - Covington 7, Pakootas 1, Stearns 3, Allen 19, Ramos 0, Tonasket 10, 2, Flett 0, Payne 15.

Columbia 43, Cusick 38

Cassidy Haas kept the game close for Cusick, scoring nine points in the final five minutes, but the Lions (2-12, 2-7) went on to score four unanswered points in the final 42 seconds to hold off the Panthers (1-13, 1-8) in Hunters. Columbia was missing starter Josie Hudspeth because of illness. The Lions had 12 steals. Becky MacMillan had four assists and Christina Sampson had six rebounds for the Lions.

Cusick 7 11 10 10 - 38

Columbia 14 13 4 12 - 43

CUSICK - Norton 10, Pickerel 4, Cutshall 0, Car.Haas 9, Cas.Haas 13, Chitwood 2, Ziesmer 0.

COLUMBIA - Dale 10, Sampson 4, Lee 2, Etue 7, Nicodemus 12, MacMillan 2, Horne 4, Anderson 2.

NWC 58, Curlew 32

Allyson Clouse had 15 rebounds, and Natasha Nicolai added seven assists and six steals as the Crusaders (5-9, 4-5) cruised past the Cougars (4-10, 3-7) at Mount Spokane High.

Johanna Paul hit four 3-pointers in the second half for Curlew.

Curlew 9 3 8 12 - 32

NW Christian 11 20 14 13 - 58

CURLEW - Brown 9, Peterson 3, Paul 14, Zerck 0, Phillips 0, Edwards 0, Craw 5, Bi.Branam 0, Bo.Branam 1.

NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN - Nicolai 4, Silver 9, Cofer 4, Klees 3, Pilling 1, Ogle 4, Nelson 0, Montague 12, Casimir 8, Strandy 8, Clouse 5.

Northport 73, Springdale 38

Karen Sauvola and Candace Young scored 21 apiece to lead the Mustangs (10-4, 7-2) past the host Chargers (0-15, 0-9).

Young went 9 for 16 from the floor while Sauvola hit 9 of 16 from the line.

Springdale had four players foul out. Jacindra Franks hit four 3-pointers for Springdale.

Northport 24 13 21 15 - 73

Springdale 3 5 15 15 - 38

NORTHPORT - Burke 0, Day 6, Goodwin 1, Lenhard 13, Sauvola 21, Jimenez 5, Godes 4, Young 21, Brunette 2.

SPRINGDALE - Olson-Axtell 0, Ramseyer 4, C.Rij 0, Tomsha 0, J.Rij 5, Franks 12, LeBret 0, Rae.Adolph 12, Brigman 5.

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