Timberlake, Kellogg advance to district title game
- 3A DISTRICT 1 TOURNAMENT
COEUR d’ALENE — Jordan Hardy scored 12 points and Dawson Cramer added 10 as the shorthanded and No. 2 seed Timberlake Tigers beat the No. 3 Bonners Ferry Badgers 51-39 in the first round of the 3A District 1 tournament Monday at North Idaho College’s Rolly Williams Court.
Timberlake (9-12) played without Colton Counts, its 6-foot-5 senior post. Counts, who averages around 11 points per game, suffered a neck injury in a game last week, and has yet to be cleared by doctors to play this week.
Timberlake coach Michael Scott said he wash’t sure if Counts would be back this week.
“Offensively, a lot of guys stepped up (in Counts’ absence),” Scott said. “Dawson Cramer just has a way to get to the hole. Defensively we put a lot of pressure on them, and rebounded the ball well.”
Chris Sabin of Bonners Ferry led all scorers with 15 points.
Timberlake will play No. 1 seed Kellogg (16-3) in the championship game Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. at NIC. Kellogg defeated No. 4 Priest River 67-14.
Bonners Ferry (9-12) will face Priest River (2-19) in a loser-out game Wednesday at 4:30.
Kellogg beat Timberlake by 41 and 28 points during Intermountain League play.
“We just need to settle down,” Scott said. “We played them twice, and both times we got in too big of a hurry. They pressured us, and we rushed our shots.”
Bonners Ferry 9 7 7 16 — 39
Timberlake 10 11 13 17 — 51
BONNERS FERRY — Ryan 3, Sabin 15, S. Bateman 9, T. Bateman 0, Hittle 7, Stone 0, Pluid 1, Jelinek 0, Bell 0, Hill 0, B. Bateman 4, Morgan 0.
TIMBERLAKE — Hardy 12, Wilfong 0, Cramer 10, Meijerink 3, McDonald 0, Kluss 6, James 4, Gardom 8, Kistler 8.
Kellogg 67
Priest River 14
COEUR d’ALENE — The top-seeded Wildcats (16-3) scored the game’s first 23 points, and kept the Spartans (2-19) scoreless until 12 minutes had elapsed in the game.
Chase Jerome scored 12 points for Kellogg, which saw all 11 players score.
“Our kids came out and flew around on defense, shared the ball pretty well,” Wildcats coach Jeff Nearing said.
Kellogg will play Timberlake in the championship game Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. at NIC. Priest River will face Bonners Ferry in a loser-out game Wednesday at 4:30.
“Timberlake is playing pretty good ball right now,” Nearing said of the Tigers. “The first time we faced them was early in the year, and they’ve improved quite a bit since then.
“It should be a good game and a good atmosphere at NIC.”
Priest River 0 3 7 4 — 14
Kellogg 14 28 16 9 — 67
PRIEST RIVER — Hegel 4, O’Brien 1, Johnson 5, Anselmo 0, Downs 0, McCracken 4, Brennan 0, Salesky 0, Thompson 0, Lucas 0, Bell 0.
KELLOGG — Gibbons 9, Samuelson 8, Jerome 12, Atkins 2, Mueller 6, Bumgardner 7, Nearing 8, Jennings 3, Finlay 2, Morgan 4, Luna 6.
- 2A DISTRICT 1-2 TOURNAMENT
Grangeville topped Orofino 72-35, eliminating the Maniacs.
Grangeville will face No. 1 seed St. Maries in a best-of-3 championship series beginning Wednesday.