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By SCOTT SANDSBERRY
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

Cashmere’s Jared Brandeberry is a 6-foot-3 do-it-all kind of player who can score, pass, board and handle the ball — as indicated by his 18 points, five assists, six rebounds and zero turnovers in the Bulldogs’ 52-39 first-round victory Wednesday over Meridian, despite the fact that he was fighting a fever playing with a 101-degree temperature. But the season didn’t start that way.

Brandeberry played defensive end for Cashmere’s football team, earning CWAC Northwest Defensive MVP honors. He also carried 230 pounds in football, a season that lasted all the way to the state semifinals at the end of November.

“We got off a little slow in December and even a little in January,” said Cashmere coach Miles Caples. “Coming off football bothered us. Jared was up to 230 pounds, and that really affected him when he started off in basketball. He was packing an extra 20 pounds, he couldn’t do some of the things he was used to doing, he lacked that little half-step of quickness.

“As a result, that affected our whole team. Everybody got down on themselves a little. But as he got down to his playing weight (203 pounds these days) and everything got back into sync, we’ve been playing pretty good basketball.”

Especially so since the playoffs started. He scored 23 points in a double-overtime district-opening victory over Othello, and has averaged 17.3 points in the three games since.

PLAY OF THE GAME: Connell’s 57-45 victory over Lynden Christian wasn’t quite the easy ride the score might indicate. The Eagles got a nice bump on a four-point swing that swung on a block call against the Lyncs’ A.J. Hoekema, who seemed to have established defensive position on a drive to the by the Eagles’ Kase Wells.

Wells got the basket and a free throw, which he missed, but Connell got the rebound and a putback by Devin Davidson. That two-second stretch proved to be critical: Instead of being down 36-31 with the ball, the Lyncs trailed 40-31 ... a four-point swing that loomed large when LC trimmed the lead to five points with nearly two minutes remaining.

FAST BREAKING: With the first of her three 3-pointers in Ephrata’s Wednesday opener against La Center, the Tigers’ Jana Flannery set a 2A career tournament record for treys, moving her ahead of former teammate Alain Bowman, who made 19 from 1999 through 2001. She now has 22, but then the 2A record books only began in 1998 with the classification realignment. By comparison, the 1A girls career record is 32, by Toledo’s Beth Layton.

Steilacoom set a dubious record Wednesday, becoming the first boys team in the 2A tournament’s six-year history to go scoreless in a quarter. The previous one-quarter low of two points was held by three different teams, most recently Steilacoom in 2002. ... Granite Falls, the only team in the Class 2A tournament (boys OR girls) with no previous state-tournament history prior to this week, in qualifying for the tournament knocked out the team that would have been the 2003 tourney’s most storied program: Lynden Christian, which has been to state 23 times and hadn’t missed qualifying since the mid-1980s.

Chimacum’s star guard, Robbie Andrus, has had a sensational season, averaging 26.3 points coming into the tournament. Of course, he does have quite the pedigree — his uncle is Jake Maberry, a one-time University of Puget Sound standout who coached four Lynden Lions teams to Class A state titles.

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Tourney Bracket
:: Boys tournament
 
Other Games
Saturday
:: Lynden Christian 60, Kiona-Benton 54
:: Hoquiam 64, Ilwaco 39
:: Chewelah 63, Cashmere 52
:: Nooksack Valley 56, Pullman 54
Friday
:: Lynden Christian 70, Steilacoom 63
:: Kiona-Benton 52, Othello 45
:: Ilwaco 45, Connell 39
:: Hoquiam 48, Lakeside 46
:: Pullman 57, Cashmere 40
:: Nooksack Valley 68, Chewelah 36
Thursday
:: Lynden Christian 58, Meridian 55
:: Steilacoom 70, Ridgefield 39
:: Othello 71, Chimacum 57
:: Kiona-Benton 66, La Center 47
:: Cashmere 48, Connell 44
:: Pullman 67, Ilwaco 37
:: Nooksack Valley 59, Hoquiam 40
:: Chewelah 66. Lakeside 51
Wednesday
:: Connell 57, Lynden Christian 45
:: Cashmere 52, Meridian 39
:: Pullman 70, Ridgefield 57
:: Ilwaco 50, Steilacoom 35
:: Nooksack Valley 70, Chimacum 42
:: Hoquiam 54, Othello 53
:: Chewelah 50, Kiona-Benton 28
:: Lakeside 66, La Center 51
 
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