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Throws Lift Winlock to Win
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SCOTT SANDSBERRY
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
His team having blown a nine-point lead in the final three minutes and his
teammates having blown 16 of 29 free throw attempts, Winlock junior Cody
Rouse stepped to the foul line with six seconds left in a tie game and
wanted
to blow chunks.
“I felt,” Rouse said later, “like I was gonna puke.”
Instead, he made the best awful free throw of his life — straight, way long
and off the backboard ... into the net.
“I didn’t call bank,” Rouse admitted, then added with a sheepish grin, “I
guess it shouldn’t have counted.”
But it did, and it proved to be the Cardinals’ winning point in the 54-51
victory over White Swan.
“That’s dumb luck,” sighed Cougars coach Ray Funk, whose team had erased a
13-point second-half deficit and pulled into a 51-51 tie on Kenneth
Fiander’s 3-pointer with 11 seconds remaining.
“I don’t know if he intentionally missed the second one or not, but it was
the good move.”
When Rouse missed the second, 6-foot-4 John Prigmore — one of six Cardinals
6-3 or taller — tapped the ball out to teammate Drew Travis, who was fouled
with three seconds left and coolly swished both free throws for the final
margin.
Prigmore’s play was typical of a problem the Cougars had all night long:
They couldn’t hold their own on the boards against the much taller
Cardinals, who finished with a 30-19 rebounding edge.
“A lot was made of the (Winlock) stall-ball game,” Funk said. “I wasn’t
worried about that, but I was worried about their size.”
That size and some slick interior passing helped the Cardinals overcome an
early 8-0 Cougar run to take a 34-23 halftime lead. But that advantage
withered in the second half against White Swan’s relentless pressure.
“I was mad at these guys,” Winlock coach Gary Viggers said of his players.
“We didn’t play our game. Our style is to slow the ball down and work it in
to the big guys. We’re huge. We did that in the first half, and then we got
away from it.”
“We got stupid,” said 6-4 senior Nate Bryant, one of three Cardinals (along
with Prigmore and Travis) to score 12 points.
Zack Aguilar and Narcease Fiander each scored 17 points for White Swan,
which took only 15 free throws to the Cardinals’ 33. The Cougars kept
scrambling even when the game seemed out of reach for most of the second
half. Fiander scored five points during a late 8-0 Cougar run, with Aguilar
getting the rest on a 3-pointer.
“That’s the personality of this team: fight, fight, fight, fight, fight,”
Funk said. “Obviously, we’re disappointed, but the reality is that we want
to be playing on Saturday. And I’ve always thought that the team that ends
up playing for
fifth and eighth is the guttiest team in the tournament.
“It’ll be interesting to see how we come back from this tomorrow.”
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Winlock -- B. Prigmore 0-0 0-0 0, Craft 1-1 0-0 2, Hauschild 2-6
2-5 8, Travis 5-6 2-2 12, J. Prigmore 4-9 4-13 12, Bryant 4-5 4-7 12,
Rouse 2-2 4-6 8. Totals 18-29 16-33 54. |
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White Swan -- Colfax 0-1 0-0 0, K. Fiander 1-3 2-2 5, Brice 0-0
0-0 0, Aguilar 6-16 2-5 17, N. Fiander 6-14 5-6 17, McConville 1-5 0-0
3, Jones 4-7 0-0 8, Selam 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 18-47 10-15 51. |
| Winlock |
14 |
20 |
5 |
15 |
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54 |
| White Swan |
15 |
8 |
12 |
16 |
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51 |
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3-point goals--W 2-5 (Hauschild 2-4, Travis 0-1), WS 5-19 (Aguilar
3-11, K. Fiander 1-2, McConville 1-3, N. Fiander 0-1, Jones 0-2). Rebounds--W
30 (Prigmore 12), WS 19 (N. Fiander 10). Assists--W 16 (Prigmore 7),
WS 11 (Aguilar 4). Steals--W 8 (Travis 3), WS 8 (Aguilar 4). Blocked shots--W
3 (Prigmore 2), WS 1. Fouled out--Jones. Total fouls--W 18, WS 25. Technical fouls--
Winlock bench. Turnovers--W 20, WS 13. |
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Christian 61, Kettle Falls 48
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69, Seattle Christian 44
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Bellevue
Christian 47, Charles Wright 36
:: Kettle
Falls 67, Orcas Island 39
:: King's 69,
Zillah 50
:: Freeman 57,
Winlock 52
:: Brewster
74, Napavine 39
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Christian 66, Goldendale 54
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Christian 73, North Beach 40
:: Charles
Wright 33, River View 27
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Island 57, White Swan 54
:: Kettle
Falls 53, La Conner 50
:: Brewster
53, Zillah 26
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58, Winlock 48
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Christian 56, Freeman 41
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:: Zillah 42,
Bellevue Christian 41
:: King's 51,
River View 35
:: Napavine 48,
Charles Wright 33
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62, Orcas Island 31
:: Winlock 54,
White Swan 51
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Christian 63, Kettle Falls 48
:: Freeman 51,
La Conner 43
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