Nighthawks take-out Gar/Pal: Colton-Oakesdale meet Friday, season on line

-- Don Marshall photo

Oakesdale’s Kieran Anderson and Mason Bates of Gar/Pal fight for a rebound Monday in Colfax.

The Colton boys continued the Kinzer, Chadwick, Schultheis era into the weekend with a 70-64 win over Prescott in a loser's bracket round of the District Nine 1B tournament.

The win puts the Wildcats (14-9) past the stage which they lost the last two years, thus ending their seasons in 2015 and 2016.

At this stage three years ago, Colton was in the midst of a run of seven elimination game wins on the way to the state championship.

Grant Kinzer played key minutes on that team as a...