East Valley Wrestlers Dump Nc

Close wins to start the night helped East Valley topple host North Cen- tral 44-14 during Thursday’s Greater Spokane League wrestling.

EV’s Nate Knodel edged David Weddle 7-6 at 135 pounds to begin the meet. NC responded with Jason Neumiller’s pin at 140, but EV won the match at 145 on Dave Musser’s 6-5 decision over Mario Montague.

EV’s Brian Lopes (171) tagged the first league loss on Ezra Bocook, 5-4.

The win improved East Valley’s league record to 4-1. NC is 3-3.

GSL leaders had an easy go for the second consecutive night. University (6-0), Rogers (5-0) and Gonzaga Prep (5-1) all won easily.

James Pearson (140) rebounded from a 4-0 deficit to pin Jared Lee in the second round during G-Prep’s 49-15 victory over visiting Shadle Park (1-5).

Prep won the first six matches to build a 28-0 lead. Shadle’s Jeremy McVay (189) ended the shutout with a takedown at the buzzer to edge Will Tombari 4-3.

Rogers unleashed four consecutive pins during the middle of its match to top visiting Lewis and Clark 57-6.

Zak Depue (160) started the pin streak, building a 15-1 lead over Shawn Dehaven before a secondround fall. Mike Zinkgraf (112) of Rogers had a third-round reversal to hold off Tyler Menzel 5-2. Aaron Tweete of LC (0-5) edged freshman Mike Miner 2-0 at 275 with a late reversal.

U-Hi had four pins during a 44-16 win at Ferris (0-6). Tom Tran’s pin of Ferris’ Tyler Byers at 103 came while Byers was negotiating for the pin, but rolled back and pinned himself. U-Hi’s Gordon Moore (215) defeated Dan Gonzales 5-4 after Gonzales missed points because of an inadvertent first-round whistle.

Central Valley (3-2) won five of the final six matches to rally past host Mt. Spokane 34-22.

Mt. Spokane (0-5) led 18-13, but the Bears zoomed back with Nick Klassen’s 6-1 win at 275, a forfeit at 103 and David Reese’s pin of Justin Karlick at 112. John Daschbach (130) capped CV’s night by defeating Paul Evenson 8-7 on a takedown with 10 seconds left. CV also had a big early win, with Ryan Bishop (145) escaping late to edge Adam Gumke 5-4.

Great Northern League: Deer Park had nine pins while defeating visiting Pullman 61-18 in a league opener.

Five of the Stags’ final six pins - by Bryan Balfour (140), Patrick Marshall (152), Orin Davis (171), Blake Noll (189) and Seth McLean (275) - came in the first round.

In the night’s other opener, Jonny Varona’s pin at 215 gave Medical Lake a 24-0 lead and the Cardinals rolled to a 54-19 win at Chewelah.

The Cardinals won four matches by forfeit. ML’s Hieu Do had a 7-6 win at 119.

Girls basketball

Post Falls 27, Moscow 20

Megan Kane and Carmi Eberle both hit two free throws in the final 1 minutes, lifting Post Falls to a Border League win over visiting Moscow on Thursday.

The Trojans protected a 22-20 lead for 2 minutes before their late free throws.

Moscow 6 7 5 2 - 20

Post Falls 4 10 7 6 - 27

Moscow (8-4, 7-3) - Brown 0 1-3 1, LeFors 0 0-0 0, Thol 0 0-0 0, Robinson 1 0-0 2, Vasquez 0 0-0 0, Nygaard 0 0-0 0, Sorbel 2 1-2 5, Bisbee 0 1-2 1, Hawley 1 1-2 3, Goetz 4 0-0 8. Totals 8 4-9 20.

Post Falls (9-4, 10-4) - Eberle 2 3-4 8, Kane 0 2-2 2, Stockwell 1 0-0 2, Ridenour 1 0-0 3, Roberge 0 0-0 0, Holland 1 0-0 2, Olson 1 0-0 2, A. Johnson 0 2-4 2, D. Johnson 2 2-3 6, Young 0 0-0 0. Totals 8 9-13 27.

3-point goals - Eberle, Ridenour. Total fouls - Moscow 16, Post Falls 15. Fouled out - Robinson, Ridenour. Technicals - None.