Garfield/Palouse boys on to state

No. 11-seed Garfield/Palouse was set to open the state tournament Wednesday at 9 a.m.

The bus would leave at 6 a.m. to get up to Spokane Arena, the players to go through required team and individual pictures and then meet no. 6 seed Muckleshoot Tribal School.

Who would be on the Gar/Pal bus was an open question earlier in the week as the Vikings, plagued by sickness, had two more players go home from school sick Monday – including senior forward Blake Jones. Backup Kyle Bankus also left school.

Last Saturday, freshman Caleb Zehm did not make the trip to regionals and neither did sophomore Bran...