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Colville’s Emily Pond looks for room against West Valley defensive pressure.
 West Valley’s Shaniqua Nilles looks for room on the baseline.
Chelsee Sager goes up for shot against Riverside.
Tasha Luu looks for room on the baseline at Riverside.
Brons establishes new school record
BY CHRIS COWBROUGH
S-E Sports Editor
Colville High split a pair of Great Northern League girl’s basketball games last weekend.
The Indians (10-4, 5-3), led unbeaten West Valley (14-0, 8-0) a the half, but CHS managed only 11 second half points in a 47-35 setback at home on Friday.
Colville rebounded on Saturday afternoon at Riverside, outscoring Riverside 56-45 in a game that saw Tribe junior point guard Jorden Brons establish a new school benchmark for three-point accuracy.
Brons, who led the Indians with 16 points, was four of five from the trey line (three in a 22-point Colville second quarter).
THIS WEEK
It doesn’t get any easier for CHS this week. Colville was at Cheney (7-7, 3-5) on Tuesday. The Indians will host second place Pullman (10-4, 7-1) on Saturday. Game time is 6 p.m.
The Indians downed Cheney in Colville and were routed late last month at Pullman.
“There certainly aren’t any coffee breaks on our schedule from here on out,” CHS head coach Don Teeguarden said. “We are going to have to bring it every night or we’ll be in trouble.”
The Indians didn’t “bring it” against tall and talented Pullman the first time around.
“We didn’t play well down there,” Teeguarden said of the Pullman loss. “Hopefully, we learned from that.
“Cheney maybe hasn’t done as well to this point as they would have liked, but they are a very dangerous team that has been playing everybody tough.”
RECAP
Against West Valley, it was a tale of two halves. Colville outplayed the Eagles in the first half and led 24-21 at the break.
That was the high point of the evening. WV, behind junior Shaniqua Nilles (24 points, including a 10 of 10 effort at the free throw line in the fourth quarter, rolled in the second half. The 6-0 Nilles scored 12 of her team’s 13 fourth quarter points.
WV scored 15 of its 26 second half points from the free throw line.
Teeguarden said the Indians’ help defense was something less than stellar in the second half.
“Our help defense kind of went south,” Teeguarden said. “We let Nilles get in too deep…she’s a load. She does a good job getting into the lane and getting up shots…she’s a pretty good actress too. She gets a shot up and usually winds up on the floor.”
The junior is easily one of the top two or three players in the league.
Complete player
“She is a very complete player—Shaniqua is a good passer, can hit the three, gets into the lane and posts. She knows exactly what she is looking for. Everything she does has a purpose.
“We didn’t do a very good job in the second half of turning her into a passer. She was a free throw shooter.”
Her teammate, fellow junior Hannah Love, added 14 points.
Ashley Knight led Colville with 12 points.
Teeguarden said that sophomore Knight did a solid job keeping a relentless rebounder like Love off the offensive boards.
Teeguarden figured that 38 points between the best one/two tandem in the league is too many.
“We can live with those two getting from 28 to 30 points between them,” the coach said. “But not 38. That’s too many and tough to overcome.”
There was no lingering hangover on Saturday afternoon against a dangerous Riverside team. Colville scored a season-high 38 first half points en route to a 38-25 halftime lead.
The Indians shot 47 percent from the field for the game and with Brons hitting a record four of five from distance, made six of 12 from the three-point line.
Chelsee Sager was two of five from distance.
“It was nice to see Jordie (Brons) shoot well,” Teeguarden said. “She has struggled some, but there is certainly nothing wrong with her shot. She has great rhythm and a great stroke from three-point distance.”
Brons eclipsed the record of her aunt, Jeni Martin (four of six) in a game against Clarkston.
There is nothing like keeping those shooting records in the family.
One of the league’s best guards turned in as complete a statistical line as any coach would want to see: 16 points, eight assists, five rebounds and four steals.
“That is just a great line,” Teeguarden said of Brons’ afternoon at Riverside.
ELSEWHERE
Nilles stayed on a roll Saturday night, scoring 12 of her game-high 21 points in the second half to propel West Valley to a 52-30 win over Medical Lake (4-10, 3-5).
Hannah Love added 16 points for WV, who dominated the board battle 40-25.
Clarkston (8-6, 5-3) stayed in the GNL’s upper reaches with a tough 59-53 win at Deer Park (4-10, 1-7).
League scoring leader Kellie McCann-Smith scored 22 points to lead the Bantams, who surrendered most of a 22-point lead late.
Amanda Magney led DP with 13 points.
On Friday night, Pullman (7-1, 10-4) outscored Cheney 40-16 in the first and third quarters en route to an easy 60-36 win at Cheney.
Brophy leads Cheney
Jordan Levenseller led a balanced PHS attack with 15 points. Shelby Cheslek added 14 more.
On Tuesday night, the 6-5 Cheslek pretty much did what she wanted inside, scoring 22 points to lead Pullman to an 80-50 win over Clarkston.
Danielle Hodge and Amyi Sterk added 15 points apiece for the Greyhounds.
Laikyn Brophy scored 19 points to power Cheney to a 51-45 win over Medical Lake on Tuesday night. She also pulled down eight rebounds.
West Valley 47, Colville 35
WVH 9 12 13 13—47
CHS 6 18 4 7-- 35
West Valley—Nilles 24, Love 14, Schloesler 5, Peterson 1, Lawless 3.
Colville—Morris 9, Knight 12, Luu 6, Brons 8.
Colville 56, Riverside 45
CHS 16 22 12 6— 56
RHS 10 15 8 12—45
Colville—Sager 8, Morris 4, Knight 9, Pond 6, Forman 3, Brons 16, Luu 8, Rainer 2.
Riverside—Nagy 4, Zanoni 7, Suhr 5, McMahon 4, Wood 7, Spicer 3, Davis 11, Strickland 4.
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