Stories from The Spokesman-Review

Free daily coverage from the newspaper.

Get stories via RSS     Return to headline list

St. George's, NWC regional bound

Published February 8, 2008

St. George's and Northwest Christian advanced to the regional tournament with District 7 2B victories Thursday at Spokane Falls Community College.

Chessey Thomas scored 16 of her 18 points in the second half to lead St. George's to a 41-32 victory over Lind-Ritzville. Danielle Sackman scored nine points to lead the Broncos (17-4).

Hayley Hendrickson poured in 31 points and Taryn Russel chipped in 16 to lead NWC to a 68-48 win over Springdale.

Shelbea Rainbolt scored 19 and Holly Howard 10 for the Chargers ((16-6).

The girls games scheduled at Spokane Community College – Selkirk vs. Reardan and Wilbur-Creston vs. Liberty – have been postponed until tonight at SFCC (4:30 and 7:30, respectively).

The Selkirk-Reardan winner will face Springdale on Saturday at 12:45 p.m. at SFCC, while the Wilbur-Creston/Liberty winner plays Lind-Ritzville at 4. Both games will be winner to regional, loser out. St. George's (20-2) and NWC (18-3) will cap Saturday's schedule at 7:15 to decide the first and second seeds into regionals.

•Amanda Seeling scored 19 points and the Kellogg Wildcats (17-2) earned their second consecutive Idaho 3A District I championship and state berth with a 49-40 win over the Bonners Ferry Badgers (10-12) at Lakeland High School in Rathdrum. Bonners Ferry will play the winner of the unreported St. Maries-Priest River game Saturday for the other state berth.

•Karla Koller had 10 points, 11 rebounds, five steals and four assists to lead the LaCrosse-Washtucna Tigercats (12-9) to a 42-38 win over the Rosalia Spartans (11-10) in the Whitman County League playoffs at Endicott. The day's other game, Sprague-Harrington vs. St. John-Endicott, was postponed to today at 8 p.m. The winner will play L-W at 2 p.m. Saturday for the fourth and fifth berths to district. Rosalia was eliminated.

•The Cheney-Medical Lake Great Northern League game at Medical Lake was postponed until Feb. 19.