Basketball roundup: Whitefish boys rally by Polson in fourth quarter
POLSON — It was another tough night for the Polson boys basketball team Saturday.
Art Doorn hit two big 3s and Whitefish outpointed Polson 19-11 in the final eight minutes to pull out a 56-53 Northwestern A victory.
Polson (3-7 overall, 0-3 league) has lost five games this season by a total of eight points.
Doorn finished with nine points.
Logan Harwood netted 12 points for Whitefish (6-4, 2-1). Cooper Olson had 11 for the Bulldogs and Keaton Nicholson 10.
Riley Sampson tallied 15 for Polson. Derek Peel had 12 and Will Davey and Dylan Kelley 11 each.
Whitefish 16 12 7 19 — 56
Polson 8 13 21 11 — 53
WHITEFISH — Keaton Nicholson 10, EJ Havens 2, Logan Harwood 12, Jace Kalbfleisch 6, Art Doorn 9, Cooper Olson 11, AJ Westsch 4, Luke May 2.
POLSON — Will Davey 11, Cedric Earthboy 4, Derek Peel 12, Dylan Kelley 11, Riley Sampson 15.
Columbia Falls 58, Frenchtown 47
FRENCHTOWN — Luke Kazlauskas scored 21 points, Jared Trinastich added 15 and Alex Presnell 11 as Columbia Falls (7-3, 3-1) beat Frenchtown (6-6, 3-2) in a Northwestern A battle.
The difference was the third period when Columbia Falls outscored Frenchtown by 10 points.
The remainder of the game was played on even terms.
Columbia Falls 11 13 16 18 — 58
Frenchtown 11 12 6 18 — 47
COLUMBIA FALLS – Alex Presnell 11, Grant Stenger 2, Austin Martin 4, Luke Kazlauskas 21, Ty Morgan 5, Jared Trinastich 15.
FRENCHTOWN – John Chapman 24, Levi Shephard 10, Daniel Lebsock 1, Andrew Honken 2, Bridger Truett 8, Kyle Cyr 2.
Ronan 64, Eureka 47
EUREKA — Eureka closed with a strong fourth quarter, scoring 20 points, but Ronan did all the damage much earlier to claim the nonconference victory.
Eureka (0-10) was led by Tanner Blankers, who scored a season-high 27 points. He had four 3s.
Ronan 13 21 15 15 — 64
Eureka 5 13 9 20 — 47
RONAN — Carston Baertsch 2, Dallas Jore 9, Jarred Dupuis 2, Cody Mock 4, Tim Woll 7, Lex Queesah 2, Colton McCrea 2, Zeke Webster 13, Zach Wagner 9, Kollin Wroblewski 6, Daniel Aylesworth 2.
EUREKA — Trey Bohne 6, Nick Rackley 4, Austin Perez 4, Myles Griffin 4, Tanners Blankers 27, Cameron Griffin 1, Richard Roo 1.
FV Homeschool 72, Foothills Christian 50
GREAT FALLS — Flathead Valley Homeschool outscored Foothills Christian 23-8 in the final eight minutes to push its season record to 18-1.
FVHS led by seven, 49-42, heading into the fourth quarter.
Jake Van Buren topped FVHS with 20 points. Josiah Sheeran had 16 points and pulled down eight rebounds.
Josh Jarvis totaled 13 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and five steals.
FV Homeschool 16 17 16 23 — 72
Foothills Christian 17 12 13 8 — 50
FLATHEAD VALLEY HOMESCHOOL — Nick Peterson 8, Josh Jarvis 13, Stephen Wilkins 7, Ryland Carlson 8, Jake Van Buren 20, Josiah Sheeran 16.
FOOTHILLS CHRISTIAN — Andrew Johnson 2, Kolter Lund 1, Owen Madsen 4, Jake Zuidema 7, Elijah Collins 27, Claus Henning 9.
Girls
Polson 65, Whitefish 13
POLSON — Malia Hamel led a balanced Polson attack with 16 points as the Pirates waltzed by Whitefish in Northwestern A play.
Polson (3-7, 2-1) led 42-9 at the half.
Mackenzie Banner added 14 points for the Pirates, Anna DiGiallonardo had 12 and Heidi Rausch 10.
Maura Kalbfleisch had 6 points for Whitefish (0-9, 0-3)
Whitefish 4 5 2 2 — 13
Polson 22 20 16 7 — 65
WHITEFISH — Simone Craft 5, Maura Kalbfleisch 6, Lauren Cain 2.
POLSON — Mackenzie Banner 14, Malia Hamel 16, Tegan Bauer 2, Anna DiGiallonardo 12, Breanna Harrison 2, Jessica Bagnell 6, Hallie Hovenkotter 3, Heidi Rausch 10.
Eureka 46, Ronan 37
EUREKA — Carli Allen scored 10 of Eureka’s 11 fourth-quarter points and finished with a game-high 18 as the Lions (7-5) beat Ronan to pick up their fourth-straight victory in a nonconference outing.
Cassidy Morgan finished with nine points for the Lions.
Allen totaled six rebounds, five coming on the offensive end. Eureka had 15 offensive rebounds total.
“We started out strong and didn’t give their shooters a lot of good looks and finished the game,” Eureka coach R J McDole said.
Raymi Clairmont led Ronan offensively with 13 points.
Ronan 11 8 11 7 — 37
Eureka 17 11 7 11 — 46
RONAN — Angela North Tiegan 2, Kendra Starkel 2, Raymi Clairmont 13, Ashleigh Lynch 3, Courtney Clairmont 2, Courtney Taylor 2, Brylee Crossguns 2, Asten Jore 11.
EUREKA — Alex Holland 5, Mikayla Grove 1, Alyssa White 7, Caitlin Larson 6, Cassidy Morgan 9, Carli Allen 18.
Columbia Falls 53, Frenchtown 49
FRENCHTOWN — Hope Burlage scored the final four points to lift No. 3 Columbia Falls (8-3, 4-0)to a Northwestern A win over No. 4 Frenchtown (8-4, 3-2).
Burlage finished with 14 points. Teammate Haley Belgarde led all scorers with 19 points.
Haley Cyr hit a trey with 1:30 remaining to tie it at 49-all.
Vanessa Stavish had 18 points and eight rebounds for Frenchtown.
Columbia Falls 10 15 15 13 — 53
Frenchtown 10 10 10 19 — 49
COLUMBIA FALLS – Hope Burlage 14, Andrea Getts 8, Winter Kemppainnen 7, Haley Belgarde 19, Shannon Hay 5.
FRENCHTOWN – Haley Cyr 13, Vanessa Stavish 18, Holly Jacobs 12, Larissa Berg 6.
FV Homeschool 50, Foothills Christian 49
GREAT FALLS — Maggie Rajkowski went coast-to-coast in the final 5.8 seconds to score the game-winning basket for Flathead Valley Homeschool (13-8) in a MCAA contest with Foothills Christian.
Rajkowski finished with 33 points for the Crusaders. She was 15 of 15 free-throw shooting and had a pair of 3s.
Foothills took a 49-48 lead with seven seconds remaining.
On Friday, FVHS beat Great Falls Homeschool 43-37.
FV Homeschool 10 13 11 16 — 50
Foothills Christian 6 17 12 14 — 49
FLATHEAD VALLEY HOMESCHOOL — Hannah Seely 9, Erin Donahue 2, Mariah Kiehn 6, Maggie Rajkowski 33.
FOOTHILLS CHRISTIAN — Bri McMillen 14, Isabelle Johnson 2, Bailey Freda 8, Emma Madsen 10, Kelsey Young 11, Adair Henning 4.
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FV Homeschool 18 12 10 3 — 43
GF Homeschool 2 13 2 10 — 37
FLATHEAD VALLEY HOMESCHOOL — Hannah Seely 18, Lexi Ehlers 4, Erin Donahue 3, Mariah Kiehn 6, Sarah Ronan 3, Maggie Rajkowski 9.
GREAT FALLS HOMESCHOOL — Jessica Sollid 9, Heidi Sollid 6, Jasey Perhart 2, Christa Miller 13, Emma Simpson 1, Sadie Holmquist 4, Megan Brown 2.