Bulldog misfires mark early end to hoop year

Basketball season for the Colfax boys came to a frustrating end Friday afternoon at Whitman College when they were derailed by the Walla Walla Valley Academy Knights in the last elimination round on the NE-SE playoffs.

The Knights, who entered the tournament as the top team from the SE, roared to a 35-24 lead in the first half, weathered a Colfax charge when the Bulldogs began to hit buckets and finished with a 53-47 win to take the number four ticket to this week’s one-game regional elimination.

“We just got ourselves into too deep of a hole, and we couldn’t get out of it,” Coach Reece Jenkin...