Wildcat girls win 10th state basketball title

Cameras snapped and Colton girls basketball players and coaches held up all 10 fingers. In the first week of March, at Spokane Arena, the Wildcats won their 10th state 1B championship in 11 years.

Coach Clark Vining's team, led by three seniors and three-year starters, Dakota Patchen, Jordyn Moehrle and Emily Schultheis, beat league rival Pomeroy 51-43, after trailing by 18 points at halftime.

Colton finished the year 24-2. Pomeroy went 22-4, all of their losses to Colton.