1A Boys Basketball Post Season Shapes Up

First off the Caribou Trail League is looking pretty strong this year. Chelan finished the season a stunning 12 and 0 with Lake Roosevelt coming in a strong second place at 9 and 3. Two of those losses were to power house Chelan and one of them was a very flukey loss to Cascade. LR should have never lost that game but they were attacked by a three headed monster "bad attitude, injury and poor officiating."

A good team can overcome one or two of those adversaries but not all three. As such Lake Roosevelt crushed Cascade when they paid a visit on the last game of the season. Lake Roosevelt crushed Cascade 70 to 56. And the game was not even that close.

LR and Chelan should be able to cruise through the district play-offs with Chelan becoming the number 1 seed and LR becoming the number 2 seed.

Let's not forget that LR beat district 7's best team "Freeman" already this year in Spokane by a score of 46 to 41.

Looking at the regionals bracket both Chelan and Freeman will likely be the two teams moving on to state from their respective districts with Lake Roosevelt hooking up with a very weak "Lakeside" 8/12, "Chewelah" 13/8, or "Newport" 8/14. Thus making LR the #3 seed team to state from this region. It is a really screwy formula because it is very likely that the CTL has at least the top TWO teams in Chelan and LR.

Meanwhile Cashmere or Cascade will face off to be the #3 team from the CTL sent to the eastern regional tournament. I think that either of those two teams could very easily defeat the #2 and #3 teams from the 7th district (Chewelah, Lakeside, Newport.), thus giving the CTL 3 teams to state.

I will end on this. That is that all the pundits have been overlooking LR all year. Even in the CTL most folks seem to be enamoured with Cascade and Okanogan for some reason. In all the state rankings that I have seen those two teams (and Freeman) have been continually ranked higher than LR dispite the fact that LR has already beat Freeman once.

If Chelan did not have one of the best teams in state high school history, this could very well be LR's year to go deep into state.

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Girls 1A
Just a note, I am not as familiar with the girls 1A ball right now. I do know that LR made it to their district play-offs by the skin of their teeth and with the coaching being new and in somewhat disarray will have a hard time getting past the first night.

However the Okanogan girls are very strong this year and some folks think that the CTL could be bringing home a trophy this year via Okanogan or Chelan.