The Dalles senior Jaxon Pullen (0) looks to pass around Hood River Valley senior Geoffrey Shoaf (3) during a game in The Dalles on Feb. 3, 2022.
Mark B. Gibson photo/file
Intermountain Conference runner-up Hood River Valley and third place The Dalles will open the 2022 boys basketball state playoffs with Friday road games.
Hood River Valley (13-8 overall), the No. 10 seed, opens the OSAA Class 5A playoffs at No. 7 seed Eagle Point. Tipoff is 7 p.m. The Eagles (17-7) from Southern Oregon finished fourth in the Midwestern League. Eagle Point has lost five of its past seven games.
The Dalles (11-10 overall), the No. 15 seed, opens the playoffs at No. 2 seed Churchill of Eugene/ Gametime is 6 p.m. The Lancers (20-5) finished first in the Midwestern Conference.
Winners of the eight first-round games advance to the 5A state tournament March 9-12 at Gill Coliseum on the campus of Oregon State University. The winner of the HRV-Eagle Point contest advances to the final eight and will play the winner of the The Dalles-Churchill game at 8:15 p.m. March 9.
HRV’s and The Dalles’ first-round opponents weren’t known until 10 p.m. Tuesday night – after all 5A teams were finished with their regular season games.
Redmond, the IMC regular-season champion, is the 5A’s No. 1 seed in the boys playoff.
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