Tuesday games over Wednesday Round-Up

CTL Boys Bracket
With the CTL boys "play-in" game over and the Tuesday boys and girls games finished the CTL play-off picture begins to take shape. The Brewster boys faced off against Cascade and Okanogan faced off against a surging Cashmere.

Brewster just could not hang with a deeper Cascade team and lost 66 to 47. And Okanogan, who was obviously highly over-rated throughout the regular season lost 59 to 55. Both Okanogan and Brewster are now out of the district tournament altogether. Brewster has become a highly depleted team and it showed. Okanogan seems to have suffered from a very weak non-league schedule. All season long they were given credit in the state-wide rankings for running up the score on 1 and 2B schools.

Meanwhile Cashmere has been surging late in the season and are obviously a better coached team than Okanogan. Cashmere will now face LR in the next round this Friday and if LR has their game face on and play a clean game they should win that game. However if the LR players do not take this Cashmere team serious and give the Bulldogs the feeling that they can win it, then there is the possibility of an upset.

Cascade will face off against the Goats of Chelan in the other quarter final and the Goats, who may be the best team in the state, should easily win that game.

Girls Bracket
Meanwhile on the ladies side of the tourney the Brewster Lady Bears upset the Cascade Kodiaks of Leavenworth. Really pretty stunning actually. That sets the Lady Bears up against a strong Okanogan team.

On the other side Cashmere completely handled the Lady Raiders by a score of 59-39. And it wasn't even really that close.

That is not good news for the Lady Raiders going forward into next year.

District 7 Boys Bracket
Over on the district 7 side of the NEA region Chewelah will face off against Newport on Friday while Freeman will face off against Lakeside on Saturday. The winner between Chewelah and Newport will face the loser of the Freeman/Lakeside game.

The odds are on Freeman getting past Lakeside.

Cashmere upsets Cascade (Boys basketball)

The Cashmere Bulldogs worked out an upset win over neighboring Cascade with a 78 to 57 victory last night. From the Wenatchee World website.

Pedro Farias and Wes Worthen combined for 53 points as the Bulldogs first went through, then over, the Kodiaks defense.

“They got to the basket pretty easily in the first half, and they shot the lights out in the second half,” Kodiaks coach Paul Fraker said. “You’ve got to give them credit. They shot the ball really well.”

Farias knocked down four 3-pointers on the way to a game-high 29 points, while Worthen had 24 points and seven rebounds for Cashmere.

“They were giving us open shots, so we might as well take them,” Farias said.

Cascade never led in the game, and pulled even just once, on a pair of free throws by Evan Parton that made it 29-all with 3:02 left in the first half.

1A BBall Rankings Caribou Trail has 3 in top ten!

MaxPreps 1A boys basketball rankings are out and the Caribou Trail has 3 teams in the top 10.

1. Chelan
2. Vashon
3. Granger
4. Onalaska
5. Freeman (Rockford)
   
6. Lake Roosevelt (Coulee Dam)
   
7. Castle Rock
8. Cascade (Leavenworth)
9. Goldendale
10. Bellevue Christian
    

I saw Chelan play the other day against LR and I just cannot imagine how good a team would have to be to beat them. They are good. Very good.

And Freeman a notch ahead of LR? How, when LR beat Freeman earlier this year?

Lake Roosevelt vs Chelan Tonight

Big game in the CTL tonight. The LR Raiders will be taking on the Chelan Goats. I'm sure that all the punditry will have the Goats winning this game in a walk. However, the Raiders of today are not the Raiders the Goats played at the beginning of the season.

And LR beat Chelan at home last year.

This could probably be the game that decides who is number one in the Caribou Trail. Okanogan will probably drop to fourth place and Cascade will have a hard time getting past LR when the play them at LR's barn later on in the season.

Lake Roosevelt Raiders move to third in the league

This story was published in the Grand Coulee Star newspaper before the LR Raiders handily defeated the Okanogan Bulldogs on Tuesday the 19th.

The Lake Roosevelt boys swept both games last week, pummeling both the Tigers of Tonasket and the Bulldogs of Cashmere.

Read the rest here...