Liberty Braces, Tips Colfax

A/B boys tournaments

Liberty withstood a Colfax rally during Friday night’s District 7 1A tournament opener at Mead High.

Henry Smith hit three 3-pointers and Ben Holling scored eight points in the third quarter, helping the Lancers edge the Bulldogs 45-42.

Colfax rallied behind John White, who scored seven in the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs missed a final 3-point attempt.

Liberty is 3-0 vs. Colfax this year, with each win by nine points or less.

Liberty plays Freeman at 7 tonight for a berth in the championship round. Colfax meets Kettle Falls at 3:30 in a loser-out game.

Liberty 45, Colfax 42

Liberty 12 13 11 9 - 45

Colfax 6 11 10 15 - 42

Liberty (15-6) - I. Smith 0, B. Holling 15, J. Holling 5, H. Smith 13, Repp 2, Frampton 0, Wiman 4, Greenwalt 6.

Colfax (7-13) - Gylling 0, Maj 0, Hall 6, Danaher 12, Watts 10, White 7, Vuletich 0, Pittman 7, Davis 0, Carter 0.

Freeman 61, Kettle Falls 34

Preston Carrell and Tanner Townsend combined for 19 second-half points, and the Scotties defeated the Bulldogs for their 19th consecutive win.

Freeman shot 15 of 28 from the floor in the second half after a 3-for-14 first quarter.

Freeman 9 14 19 19 - 61

Kettle Falls 7 9 9 9 - 34

Freeman (19-2) - Carrell 16, Reed 2, Townsend 13, B. DePell 9, J. DePell 2, Brown 1, Hendrickson 4, Johnson 0, Hyndman 12, Schrimpp 2.

Kettle Falls (5-16) - Bohren 0, Mace 0, Rogalette 11, Azzarito 0, Combs 4, Holguin 0, Fredrickson 1, Lebret 3, Jo. Payne 1, Slater 4, Boone 4, Je. Payne 6.

Whitman County

Colton 63, Asotin 44

Blake Wolf scored 10 of his 21 in the third quarter and added 10 rebounds, and the Wildcats eliminated the Panthers at Endicott despite shooting 2 of 22 from the floor in the first quarter.

Colton will play LaCrosse-Washtucna at 4 p.m. today in a winner-to-district, loser-out game. Ryan Uptmor had 22 rebounds for Asotin, which missed 25 of 28 field-goal attempts in the second half.

Asotin 16 19 2 7 - 44

Colton 6 20 15 22 - 63

Asotin (8-13) - Dickinson 0, Welch 1, Rozell 2, Peer 9, Appleford 2, Witty 0, Vantrease 3, Weiss 4, Uptmor 19, Smith 4, Caldwell 0, Witters 0.

Colton (13-8) - M. Weber 0, B. Wolf 21, R. Weber 2, Shaffer 0, T. Weber 10, Moehrle 0, Schlee 2, Busch 17, Stout 2, Olson 0, Mcintosh 9, Z. Wolf 0.

LaCrosse-Wash. 52, Rosalia 36

Cody Goll hit 8 of 10 field goals and Dustin Colter had a game-high four steals as the Tigercats eliminated the Spartans.

Rosalia’s Craig Shindler had a gamehigh 11 rebounds and completed his career with 822 points.

Rosalia 2 8 5 21 - 36

LaCrosse-Wash. 10 11 10 21 - 52

Rosalia (2-18) - S. Nelson 13, Slemp 2, Van Dyke 0, Shindler 4, Porter 7, Workman 4, Taylor 0, A. Nelson 6.

LaCrosse-Washtucna (12-9) - B. Colter 2, D. Colter 5, Goll 19, Schneider 9, Webley 2, Meyers 4, Hammond 4, Henley 1, Koller 5, B. Hille 1, K. Hille 0.

Blue Mountain

Liberty Christian 66, Touchet 62

Reece Loeffler and Josh Jarrett scored 20 apiece as the fifth-seeded Patriots eliminated the No. 6 Indians at Columbia Basin College in Pasco.

Liberty Christian plays fourth-seeded Kahlotus (11-9) at 2 p.m. today at DeSales High in Walla Walla. The winner will qualify for district, the loser will be eliminated.

Touchet 13 16 17 16 - 62

Liberty Christian 16 13 21 16 - 66

Touchet (6-14) - Dickey 12, Alexenko 8, Sumpter 20, Jaggar 0, Carlisle 14, Wagoner 8.

Liberty Christian (10-11) - Lewis 4, Loeffler 20, Patterson 15, Kahoun 0, Jo. Jarrett 20, Kitzke 1, Eslinger 4, Sapp 2.