St. Maries falls

| March 3, 2018 12:00 AM

BOISE — Things looked good for St. Maries after taking the lead following the first quarter.

Then, things changed.

St. Maries, which finished the game 12 of 54 from the field, lost to the Ririe Bulldogs 54-28 in a state 2A semifinal game on Friday at Capital High.

St. Maries (18-5) will face Declo (20-5) in the third-place game today at 10 a.m. PST at Capital High.

Ririe (22-3) faces Bear Lake (23-3) today in the championship game at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa.

St. Maries 12 5 4 7 — 28

Ririe 9 19 20 6 — 54

ST. MARIES — Olson 0, Gibson 2, Basset 0, Duffield 5, Ledbetter 0, Green 3, Lohman 4, Sands 0, Pritchard 5, Ethan 2, Buell 2, Hammond 2, Truscott 0, Howard 3. Totals 12-54 1-4 28.

RIRIE — Sperny 0, Sutton 4, Zeller 1, Wheeler 6, Johnson 2, Rosen 2, J. Johnson 14, Parkinson 11, Bybee 0, Scott 0, Allen 0, Kearsley 0, Smith 0, Ure 14, Park 0. Totals 20-58 9-14 54.

Kellogg 45

Parma 35

MERIDIAN — The Wildcats fought off elimination, beating the Panthers in a loser-out game in the state 3A tournament at Meridian High.

Tyler Gibbons scored 12 points and Chase Jerome had 10 points and five assists for Kellogg (18-4), which faces defending champion Sugar-Salem (21-8) in the consolation championship game today.

Parma finished 15-11.

Parma 14 10 6 5 — 35

Kellogg 16 16 7 6 — 45

PARMA — Compas 0, J. Nielsen 15, P. Rohrbacher 3, B. Rohrbacher 2, R. Nielsen 0, Binyon 0, Jensen 15, Powers 0, Johnson 0. Totals 12-36 8-11 35.

KELLOGG — Gibbons 12, Samuelson 3, Jerome 10, Atkins 0, Mueller 0, Bumgardner 7, Nearing 0, Jennings 0, Finlay 0, Morgan 4, Luna 3. Totals 15-45 10-14 45.