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Serving Whitman County since 1877
Craig Muelller (23) goes up to block Cameron Hiatt in the first half of Tuesday's game at Colfax. Keegan French is at right.
Cole Baerlocher of Colfax attempts to stop Thomas Martin of Asotin in Friday's league battle.
Colfax boys stacked three league wins over five days in the second round of the NE-South league with the hoop season winding down. The Bulldogs finished the run Tuesday on the home court with an 89-42 runaway win over Tekoa/Rosalia, the only team to beat them in the south side campaign to date.
Colfax rolled out a 56-37 win over the LRS Broncos Saturday night at Ritzville and topped Asotin 58-42 in the Friday round on the home court.
The three wins left Colfax at 7-1 in the campaign with a another league game at Reardan Friday and a final league test against Liberty Feb. 1.
Tuesday, Colfax exploded for 32 points in the second quarter against Timberwolves. They rolled out a 48-16 lead at the half with the last two buckets in the final seconds.
Scoring returned to the moderate zone for the last two quarters.
Carson Cloaninger hit 20 points against TR, and Cameron Hiatt hit 16.
Craig Mueller led all scorers in Tuesday's test with 22 points.
Colfax shooting for the game was 60 percent from the two-point range and 40 percent from the 3p-point range.
Brian Rubin and Cloaninger each hit two 3-pointers for Colfax.
Saturday at Ritzville, Colfax pegged another fast start with 20 points in the first frame. They had an 11-point lead at the break, and added 12 more points to the gap in the third quarter.
One feature of the Ritzville stop was the shooting of guard Hunter Claassen who finished with 12 points, all score with 3-point shots.
Cloaninger cooked 25 points against the Broncos who stood at 2-4 in the league run before hosting Colfax.
Asotin proved to be the toughest test for the Colfax run. The Panthers locked up Colfax at 20-20 in a first half, but the Bulldogs came out after the break and rolled out 16 quick points. Cloaninger hit two 3-pointers at the top of the quarter added a third later in the frame. Claassen added a trey and Bennett Gray dropped a bucket on a base line drive.
Colfax finished with 22 in the quarter and the Panthers added just six.
Tuesday's game with TR marked the last home appearance for Cloaninger, Hart, Gray, Bryan Rubin, and Kelan Becker,
Colfax 56-Ritzville 37: 20/19 19/9 18/9 8/12: Hunter Claassen 4 (all 3 pt) 0-0 12, Bennett Gray 2 0-0 4, Cole Baerlocher 2 0-0 4, Bryan Rubin 1 (3 pt) 0-0 3, Carson Cloaninger 9 (2 3pt) 5-6 25, John Lustig 2 (3pt ) 0-0 5, Kelan Becker 1 1-2 3. Total 21 6-8 15 56. LRS Eric Hayes 2 0-0 4, Conrad Zeiner 0 3-4 3, Austin Thompson 1 3-3 5, Drew Kelly 4 0-0 8, Bryce Kelly 0 4-4 4, Cole Cameron 5 0-0 10, Garrett Frederick 1 1-1 3. Total; 13 12-12 f-8 37.
Colfax 58-Asotin 42: 8/7 12/13 22/6 16/16: Claassen 1 (3pt)(0-0 3, Cameron Hiatt 2 ( both 3pt) 0-0 6, Gray 2 0-0 4, Baerlocher 0 2-2 2, Rubin 3 (3pt.) 1-3 8, Cloaninger 8 (4 3pt) 1-1 21, Lustig 1 (3pt) 0-0 3, Becker 4 1-2 9. Total 23 5-8 f-15 58. Asotin: Mason Nicholas 1 (3pt ) 0-0 3, Eli Engledow 1 3-4 5, Noah Renzelman 3 0-2 6, Jacob Elskamp 3 0-0 6, Thomas Martin 5 1-4 11, Devin Fry 1 w(3 pt) 0-0 3, Jace Aldous 1 (3pt ) 2-3 5, Keaton Caldwell 1 (3pt 0 0-0 3; Total 16 6-11 f-17 42.
Colfax 89-Tekoa/Rosalia 42: 16.6 32/10 25/14 16/12; Claassen 2 (3pt) 2-2 7. Hiatt 7 (2 3pt) 0-1 16, t Gray 3 1-2 7, Baerlocher 4 (3pt) 0-0 9, Rubin 5 2-2 12, Cloaninger 7 (2 3pt) 4-4 20, Lusting 2 0-0 4, Gavin Hammer 1 0-0 2, Becker 3 0-0 6, Cotton Booker 2 0-0 4. Mason Miller 0 2-2- 2. Total 35 11-13 f- 15 89. Tekoa/Rosalia Garrett Naught 5 1-6 11, Noah Beach 0 1-2 1, Riley McLain 1 (3pt) 0-0 3, Craig Mueller 76 8-12 22, Keegan French 2 (3pt ) 0-1 5. Total 15 10-21 f-11 42.
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