All Hands Pitch In As Eagles Take Title

(From Replay, February 8, 2000): Garfield-Palouse clinched the Whitman County League boys basketball championship by defeating St. John-Endicott 52-45. The headline in Monday’s edition was wrong.

Boys basketball

Garfield-Palouse clinched the Whitman County League title on Saturday night with plenty of people to thank.

Jeremy Kimble scored 22 points and the fourth-ranked Vikings made 9 of 13 free throws in the fourth quarter during a 52-45 win over St. John-Endicott at St. John.

Kellen Smick and Adam Elder had six rebounds apiece for the Vikings. Smick hit 4 of 7 from the floor, and Elder joined Vikings reserve JoJo Wride with two 3-pointers apiece.

Josh Hames had 11 rebounds and Karl Scheuerman seven assists for St. John-Endicott. The Eagles shot no free throws in the second half, when Gar-Pal was 11 of 15.

Garfield-Palouse 52, St. John-Endicott 45

Garfield-Palouse 5 13 14 20 - 52

SJE 12 9 9 15 - 45

Garfield-Palouse (16-2, 10-1) - Evenson 0, Aa. Elder 5, Kimble 22, Fox 1, Wride 6, Smick 8, Ad. Elder 8, Rosebrook 2.

St. John-Endicott (15-4, 8-3) - Riehle 2, Siler 0, Bafus 1, Bezdicek 4, Duncan 2, Hames 16, Scheuerman 17, Johnstone 6.

LaCrosse-Washtucna 75, Colton 68 (2OTs)

At LaCrosse, Shane Hammond scored eight points in the second overtime, helped by a pair of three-point plays, and the Tigercats kept the Wildcats from having their first winning league record in 17 years.

L-W’s Jake Schneider hit a 3-pointer with less than 10 seconds left in regulation. Schneider also scored all eight Tigercats points in the first OT. Colton’s Blake Wolf scored 27, hitting 11 of 26 from the field.

Colton 9 13 18 12 8 8 - 68

L-W 16 12 13 11 8 15 - 75

Colton (12-8, 6-6) - Wolf 27, R. Weber 4, Moehrle 4, Schlee 0, Busch 18, Stout 7, Mcintosh 8.

LaCrosse-Washtucna (10-9, 6-5) - B. Colter 1, D. Colter 5, Goll 7, Schneider 13, Meyers 12, Stueckle 22, Hammond 15.

Asotin 58, Rosalia 44

The visiting Panthers had five players score between nine and 12 points to defeat the Spartans.

Asotin shot 43 percent from the floor, Rosalia 35 percent.

Asotin 16 14 13 15 - 58

Rosalia 12 14 8 10 - 44

Asotin (8-11, 2-9) - Welch 0, Rozell 7, Peer 9, Appleford 0, Witty 0, Vantrease 9, Weiss 10, Uptmor 12, Smith 10, Wilters 1, Caldwell 0.

Rosalia (2-16, 0-11) - S. Nelson 7, Slemp 1, Van Dyke 0, Shindler 12, Porter 9, Workman 13, A. Nelson 2.

Bi-County League

Wilbur-Creston 63, Sprague-Harrington 51

A.J. Nelson totaled 22 points and 14 rebounds, and the Wildcats defeated the Falcons at Harrington to stay in a second-place tie with Ritzville.

The Wildcats’ Gregg Arden and Bryce Morrison combined for 13 assists. Travis McPeak of the Falcons scored 22, but Colin Floyd (20.7 ppg) was held to four.

Wilbur-Creston 9 12 22 20 - 63

Sprague-Harr. 15 10 16 10 - 51

Wilbur-Creston (14-3, 13-3) - Arden 16, Johnson 9, Morrison 0, Erickson 12, Krause 4, Nelson 22, Dunlap 0.

Sprague-Harrington (12-6, 11-5) - Engles 12, Timm 0, McPeak 22, Floyd 4, Green 4, Scholten 2, Henry 5, Whipple 2.

Ritzville 61, Odessa 56 (3OTs)

Josh Whitman hit a 3-pointer in the second overtime and the visiting Broncos finished 21 of 30 from the line to edge the Tigers in three overtime periods and stayed tied with Wilbur-Creston.

Odessa’s Cam Smith had two 3-pointers in the third OT, but the Broncos took advantage of turnovers to pull ahead. Odessa’s Michael Jeske had 15 rebounds.

R 15 8 12 7 4 4 11 -61

O 7 7 13 15 4 4 6 -56

Ritzville (12-5, 12-3) - Reilly 1, Heider 9, Plager 8, Borth 10, Kuster 6, Whitman 17, Pflugrath 10.

Odessa (7-10, 6-9) - Dart 1, Ku. Starkel 7, Strohmaier 11, Voise 2, C. Smith 6, Jeske 11, Kagele 18, Ky. Starkel 0, S. Smith 0.

Reardan 47, Davenport 43

The visiting Indians roared back with a 22-5 fourth quarter to defeat the Gorillas.

Davenport’s Alan Curtis had 16 rebounds and a 3-pointer with 8 seconds left to cut Reardan’s lead to two. Reardan’s Keith Anderson (12 ppg) returned after missing seven games for an unspecified reason.

Reardan 7 10 8 22 - 47

Davenport 12 7 19 5 - 43

Reardan (8-10, 7-9) - Soliday 12, Bocook 7, Hicks 0, Krupke 6, Anderson 7, A. Landreth 2, Falk 8, Addington 5.

Davenport (8-10, 6-10) - Paul 0, Buchmann 2, Warwick 9, Hein 2, Schreck 12, Curtis 18, Pauls 0.

Valley Christian 54, Almira/Coulee-Hartline 26

Eric Smith scored 23 points, hitting 10 of 18 shots from the floor, and the top-ranked Panthers topped the visiting Warriors for their 21st consecutive win.

VC’s Jared Evans had eight assists and surpassed 900 points for his career.

ACH 10 4 2 10 - 26

Valley Christian 15 9 15 15 - 54

Almira/Coulee-Hartline (4-14, 4-12) - Aldrich 3, Ladwig 0, Jess 3, Roberts 0, Fuller 4, Carstensen 1, Malone 1, Malloy 0, Jordan 12, Johanson 2.

Valley Christian (18-0, 16-0) - Miller 0, Smith 23, Knigge 4, Stanaway 2, Barriero 7, Evans 12, Bolster 1, Lacy 5.

Lind 70, Christian Heritage 49

Allen Schrenk scored 20, all on lay-ins, and added 14 rebounds to lift the Bulldogs over the visiting Patriots.

Lind finished 27 of 59 from the field, 9 of 21 on 3-pointers.

Chr.Heritage 9 12 22 6 - 49

Lind 23 18 18 11 - 70

Christian Heritage (2-16, 1-15) - Klein 14, Bell 7, Stromberger 3, Bishop 5, N. Colvin 3, Flowers 0, Stuhlmiller 0, Busby 9, Brennan 0, Schumacher 8.

Lind (4-14, 3-13) - Kulm 3, Labes 0, Wilson 16, Al. Ritz 14, Starring 4, Horpedahl 4, Fode 5, Coyle 0, An. Ritz 0, Schrenk 20, Alcocer 4.