Prep Boys BB Roundup

For Klickitat, Matt Brewer had a breakout game with 12 points, 10 rebounds and five steals, Michael McConville chipped in 11 points and Levi Sanchey added 10 rebounds.

At the outset of the contest, Lyle/Wishram looked as if it might run away from Klickitat. The Cougars established a 12-3 lead before the Vandals used an 11-3 surge to get within 15-14 at the end of the first quarter.

In the second, Klickitat enjoyed leads of 16-15 and 23-22, but Lyle/Wishram regained the advantage at 24-23 when Murphy scored in the low post off an entry pass from Ty Freemantle with a minute to go in the first half.

The Cougars never trailed in the second half and took their biggest lead of the game at 56-36 with 1:59 to play in the fourth quarter on a basket by Murphy.

Trout Lake/Glenwood 66, at Yakama Tribal 55:

The Eagle Mustangs broke into the GCB win column last Friday with a come-from-behind effort in the fourth quarter.

Kris Wood and Kristian Rubesh led TLG's final charge, combining for 26 of TLG's 31 fourth-quarter points.

Wood in particular got hot at the right time. He hit a 2 and two 3-pointers and made 8-of-9 free throws for 16 points in the last period, helping TLG outscore Tribal by 15.

"Kris came up big for us," TLG Coach Dan Concienne said. "But we really didn't change anything we were doing offensively. We just started making some shots."

The game went to halftime deadlocked at 28-28. The score after three quarters was 39-35, Tribal.

In the fourth, though, the shots that didn't drop in the first three quarters (TLG missed 16 layins in the first half alone) began to fall with regularity.

Rubesh, who had two points through the third quarter, put in 10 in the fourth and teamed with Ty Scoggins to control the backboards for TLG.

Scoggins finished with 15 rebounds and 16 points, and Rubesh ended up with 12 rebounds. Devin Dean and Dannon Kavanagh also played key roles for TLG, totaling eight assists and nine points respectively.

Moreover, the Eagle Mustangs helped themselves by sinking 21 of 36 from the foul line--the first game this season they made more than 50 percent of their free throws.

"This was a big win for us because it came in a league game," Concienne added. "Hopefully we gained some confidence from it to carry over into our next game."

Sunnyside Christian 59, at Trout Lake/Glenwood 29:

The Knights put up 26 points and held the Eagle Mustangs to seven in the first quarter of last Saturday's GCB game in Glenwood.

That big opening quarter, in which Joel Koopman's netted 11 of his game-high 18 points, set the tone for the rest of the game.

The Knights stretched their lead to 36-11 by halftime and 51-16 after three quarters.

Dannon Kavanagh paced TLG with nine points and Devin Dean added seven.

At Sunnyside Christian 76, Lyle/Wishram 35:

Adam Snyder scored 19 points in the Cougars loss to the Knights last Friday.

He was the only Lyle/Wishram player to attain double figures in a game Sunnyside Christian led 31-16 at halftime and put out of reach with a 25-point third quarter.