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SPOKANE VALLEY - Northwest Christian (Colbert) made 11 three-point shots to run away with a 61-41 win over Lind-Ritzville/Sprague in a loser-out game at the girls District 7 Basketball Tournament at West Valley High School on Saturday, Feb. 10. The Crusaders displayed their shooting supremacy early in the first quarter by hitting four baskets from behind the arc, two by Leah Platt. Despite the Crusaders' hot-shooting, Zoe Galbreath scored 7 points to help give the Broncos a...
As the youngest of five I grew up with basketball, football and baseball. My older brothers taught me how to play and to take a few lumps along the way. I loved to play and work on my deficiencies to be a better player. I watched a lot of games as a youth and of course when my heroes lost I took it pretty hard. When it was my turn to play in high school I paid attention to the rule changes and it was interesting how many changes there were in the game of basketball. The idea...
SPANGLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys finished fifth as a team Saturday, Feb. 10, at the 1B/2B Region 3 wrestling tournament at Liberty High School. Jenkins (Chewelah) won the tournament with 146.5 team points, followed by Reardan with 124, Northwest Christian (Colbert) with 105 and Liberty with 102.5. The Broncos scored 101 team points. Nearby St. John-Endicott finished 18th with 11 team points. The Broncos had three individual champions – Carson Kubik at 144, Gabe S...
SPOKANE VALLEY-The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys basketball team saw their season come to an end last week. The Broncos fell to Davenport 62-56 in a thrilling overtime loser-out game at the District 7 2B Tournament at West Valley High School Wednesday, Feb. 7. LRS led most of the game, albeit by margins no higher than seven points. The Broncos took a 17-11 lead in the first quarter behind seven points and five boards from Shawn Steinberger and a pair of threes from Brock Kinch....
COLFAX - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys basketball wrapped up its regular season play with a win and a loss last week. On Monday, Jan. 29, the Broncos tamed the winless Upper Columbia Academy Lions, 54-49, on senior night in Gilson Gymnasium. Then on Tuesday, Jan. 30, they traveled to Colfax, where the undefeated Bulldogs dominated the Broncos, 71-48. Against Upper Columbia (0-13), the Broncos matched the Lions basket for basket, with the first quarter ending tied at 14. In...
SPOKANE VALLEY-The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys basketball team hung around in the first half, but ultimately couldn't match the firepower and depth of Northwest Christian (Colbert) this past weekend. The Crusaders topped the Broncos, 67-46, in the District 7 Northeast 2B quarterfinals at West Valley High School on Saturday, Feb. 3. Northwest Christian showed its offensive firepower from the tip, pouring in 18 first quarter points. The Broncos hung around, scoring 11 points...
SPOKANE - Eight Bronco boys placed in the Top 4 at districts Saturday, Feb. 3, and will advance to regional wrestling. Broncos bringing home district gold medals include Alexander Bonner at 132 pounds, Carson Kubik at 144, Gabriel Smith at 215 and Brock Tracy at 285. Local silver medalists include Octavio Paredes Martinez at 115 and Pete Spain at 150. No Broncos struck bronze, but Wyatt Rossman finished fourth at 138 to qualify for regionals, as did Turner Slack at 144....
SPOKANE – One St. John-Endicott wrestler is headed to the regional tournament Saturday, Feb. 10. Cameron Mathia finished third at the district tournament last Saturday at 113 pounds in the Spokane Convention Center. The Top 4 in each weight class qualified for regionals in Spangle. Mathia had a tough road to regionals, after losing his opening bout by pin in 3:30 to David Phillips of Northwest Christian (Colbert). In the westlebacks, he received a bye and then pinned his n...
SPOKANE - A shoulder injury may mean the end of the wrestling season for Lind-Ritzville's Emmy Klewin. Wrestling at 170 pounds in the girls 1B-2A subregionals, Klewin finished fourth and qualified for regionals. But she exacerbated a shoulder injury in the process and injury defaulted from her final match in the tournament Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Spokane Convention Center. Klewin, the No. 2 seed, received byes to the semifinals, where she would face Danika Bretz of Reardan....
RITZVILLE - Before a packed Gilson Gymnasium on Senior Night, the Bronco girls put on a scoring exhibition with multiple team members putting points on the board in a 61-23 rout of the Upper Columbia Academy Lions on Monday, Jan. 29. The Broncos led the girls from Spangle start to finish, scoring 17 points in the first quarter and 23 in the second to take a 40-16 lead into the break. They added 14 to the margin in the third and players came off the bench to hold the line in...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys and basketball teams celebrated senior night Monday, Jan. 29, before a packed house in Gilson Gymnasium. Above, seniors on the boys basketball team, from left, are Brock Kinch, Bridger Moore, Lance Williamson, Shawn Steinberger and Blake Earle. Below, seniors on the girls team, from left, are Harlee Hennings, Arienna Bernal and Meghan Rivers. For photos of the seniors and their families, see Page 9....
RITZVILLE – A day after the Bronco girls fell a point short to Liberty, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague bounced back to top St. George’s. The Broncos (10-7, 7-5 in league) used a second and third quarter rally to top the Dragons, 61-54, on Jan. 24. Trailing 15-9 after one quarter, the Broncos outscored the Dragons by 6 points in the second quarter and 8 in the third to take a commanding 44-36 lead going into the final stanza. They then held on as the Dragons (3-11, 3-6 in league) closed the margin by only a single point. Bronco Zoe...
It's kind of interesting when you watch championship games especially at the professional level and think that the players will be so focused and there won't be many mistakes. But mistakes were made and with dropped passes and penalties that allowed the offense to get a fresh set of downs and continue their march towards the goal line. In the AFC game Kansas City would make enough plays to get a lead and hold off the Baltimore Ravens. On one drive in the second half the...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos boys basketball team split last week, edging Liberty but losing a heartbreaker to St. George’s. St. George’s (13-5, 10-2 in league), edged the Broncos (8-10, 5-7 in league) 50-47 on Jan. 24. The loss came a day after the Broncos edged the Lancers (8-9, 5-6 in league) 39-36 on Jan. 23. Both games were back-and-forth battles. Against St. George’s, the Broncos took an 11-10 lead after the first quarter, but trailed 24-22 at the half. After three, they retook the lead 35-34. But St. George’s rallied i...
RITZVILLE - The Broncos boys wrestling team finished third in the Bronco Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 20, in Gilson Gymnasium. The local boys scored 106.5 team points; Okanogan won the team award with 286.0 points and Jenkins (Chewelah) was second with 138. Four local wrestlers finished in the Top 3 on the podium, including Octavio Paredes Martinez at 113 pounds, Carson Kubik at 144, Gabe Smith at 215 and Brock Tracy at 285. The Broncos also had several fourth-place...
I know the NFL playoffs are happening right now and we are down to four teams. There were some good games over the weekend and the AFC and NFC championship games should be really good. But today I want to get caught up with college basketball as the upsets are adding up with top 10 teams taking one on the chin. There are several polls that rate college basketball teams, both men and women and the competitiveness is intriguing. We have seen a bunch of upsets in the last few...
DAVENPORT- The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna/Harrington basketball teams struggled Jan. 16 against the Gorillas. In the girls game, Davenport pulled away in the second half for a 48-39 triumph. The local boys couldn't get past the Gorillas, falling 54-44. In the girls game, the first half was a defensive slugfest, with neither team finding much offense. Glenna Soliday was the exception, as she poured in 13 first-half points as Davenport took a slim 21-19 lead into...
RITZVILLE — The Ritzville Gun Club reported the following results for the Jan. 21 shoot, which had 48 shooters: 25 — Jake Dewald, Garrett Frederick and Ryan Frederick 24 — Tyler Frederick, Cameron Benitz, John Stromberger and Hayes Hennings 23 — Kyle Bauer, Travis Dewald, Travis Simonson, Mike Geschke, Ben Geschke, Colby Schell, Bruce Benzel and Scott Hennings 22 — Morgan Brausen, Scott Yaeger, Justin Simonson, Chris Steinmetz, Dennis Faechner, William Green and Chris Green 21 — Kim Yaeger, Matt Leffel and Scott Steinmetz 2...
COLBERT – The Lind-Ritzville Broncos brought home five medals and a third-place team finish from the Crusader Classic at Northwest Christian on Saturday, Jan. 13. Gabe Smith and Brock Tracy both won gold medals, while Octavio Parades Martinez won silver. Waylon Rosman and Carson Kubik each captured bronze. The tournament didn't report girls results, but Emmy Klewin won her weight class, as well. The medalists lifted the Broncos to a third-place team finish with 114.5 p...
CHEWELAH – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys split in games last week, edging Jenkins on Jan. 13, but falling to Northwest Christian on Jan. 12. The Broncos (8-8, 5-5 in league) edged the Jenkins Cougars, 43-40 in a Northeast 2B matchup. Individual statistics weren’t reported for the game, but Broncos putting points on the board included Jerod Harder, Zach Klein, Damon Schilling, Joey Duff, Blake Earle, Bridger Moore, Brock Kinch, Lance Williamson and Shawn Steinberger. Against the Crusaders, the Bronco boys rallied in the four...
It is hard to fathom what all happened last week. We know that the UW Huskies were humbled by the Michigan Wolverines. I was looking forward to a good game. I started listening to the game when it was in the second quarter and the score was 17-3. I had other things going on at the time and when I got the game on the radio in my car it was a shock. The game was played on Wolverine terms and the Huskies could never get over the hump and get close enough to make it a good game. A...
CHEWELAH – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls routed Jenkins, 72-49, on Saturday, Jan. 13. The local girls (8-5 overall, 5-3 in league), opened the game by dominating the first half, outscoring Jenkins (6-9, 2-8 in league) by 7 points in the first quarter and 6 in the second. The Broncos held an 18-11 lead after one quarter and a 41-28 lead at the half. The Broncos put the game away in the third, outscoring the Cougars, 18-8, to expand the margin to 59-36. With Lind-Ritzville rotating players in off the bench, the Broncos a...
COLBERT – A St. John-Endicott finished fourth Saturday, Jan. 13, at the Crusader Classic at Northwest Christian. Steven Campbell finished fourth at 175 pounds. Campbell is one of only two grapplers for the Eagles – the other is Cameron Mathia at 113. Campbell opened with a bye and then a loss by pin to Reed Widman of Liberty in 3:47. In the wrestlebacks, he received a bye, then pinned Talen Kent of Kettle Falls in 1:59 and Mason Watt Shilwin of East Valley (Spokane Valley in...
RITZVILLE – Shooters turned out Jan. 7 and 14 for the first two shoot of the year at the Ritzville Gun Club. Here are the results: Jan. 14 (33 shooters) 24 – John Stromberger, Cameron Benitz, Kyle Bauer, Justin Simonson, Colby Schell and Matt Leffel 23 – Garrett Frederick, Travis Simonson and Travis Dewald 22 – Ryan Frederick, Scott Steinmetz, Jason Heider and Dennis Faechner 21 – Jake Dewald, Mike Stromberger, Scott Yaeger, Mike Geschke, Ben Geschke, William Green, Conrad Bauer and Kari Frederick 20 and under – Tyler Frederi...