Basketball season ends for Red Lake, C-G

The basketball seasons ended for Red Lake and Clearbrook-Gonvick Tuesday night, both bowing in their sub-section finals.

Red Lake dropped the 8AA North final to East Grand Forks 56-55 at UMC.

Clearbrook-Gonvick was ousted by Grygla 88-77 at Thief River Falls.

EGF will meet Pelican Rapids tomorrow at 7 at UMC for the state berth. Pelican ended the Breckenridge season 74-64 at Concordia.

Stephen/Argyle will be the Grygla opponent Friday at 7 at the Ralph Engelstad Arena at TRF.

The Storm defeated KCC 72-53 for the 8A west title.

Stephen/Argyle is the only team to defeat Cass Lake-Bena this winter.

The Panthers will shoot for the 6A championship at Concordia tomorrow at 7, taking on New York Mills which won the south half title 73-68 over NCE.

Guard Alex Berg, who hadn't scored in the previous 16 minutes, hit a trey with 13 seconds remaining to overcome a 55-53 deficit and beat Red Lake.

The Warriors had battled back from an 11 point deficit earlier to take the lead and seemed headed toward tomorrow's championship game.

They scored 15 unanswered points in the late run to take the lead 55-51 on Corey Whitefeather's three point play.

With 38 seconds to go, Jared Woinarowicz drove the lane for a bucket to bring the Wave back within one.

Red Lake failed to score on its next possession setting up Berg's game winner.

Ironically, before the shot he was 1-7 from behind the arc and the team was 1-14.

Before the final shot, 6-5 center Andy Barrett carried the Wave, scoring 24 points and grabbing 11 boards, both game highs. That established the 55-40 lead which the Warriors wiped out on their late run.

He also stole the ball with 1.8 seconds to go to end any final Red Lake shot.

Red Lake also had problems with long range gunning, hitting only 5-18 from behind the 19 foot mark.

Buster Graves and Dallas Crowe led the Warriors with 12 points each. Whitefeather had 11.

Woinarowicz was the only other Wave player in double figures, hitting 12. Berg ended with 8.

East Side entered the tournament as the No. 5 seed but knocked off fourth seeded Warroad, top seeded Bagley and second seeded Red Lake in order. It lifted the Wave to 15-14. Red Lake ended 18-9.

East Side will be seeking its fourth state tournament trip but the first since 1971. Pelican last reached the state in 2003.

Breckenridge led by three late in the first half and was even with 14:24 to go at 43-43.

But Pelican unleashed a seven-point run at this point to go ahead and the lead never got smaller than five from then on.

The Vikings had beaten Breck by 26 points in their season opener.

Nathan Shulstad led the Vikings with 21. Taylor Huseby added 19 while center Zach Lundquist had 10 and the winners went 13-13 from the free throw line.

Mike Herrick hit 32 for Breckenridge

Bears bow out

Grygla center, 6-7 Tomas Loberg, stifled a Clearbrook-Gonvick late rally with a dunk for two of his 26 points that established a new school career scoring mark.

The Bears had fought back to within four points on a bucket by Scott Stebe.

But Loberg's slam ended that run and held the Bears at bay the rest of the game.

The Eagles seemed to be running away with the game late in the first half when they staged a 13-2 run to take a 43-31 lead.

But the Bears came back in the second half slicing the margin to 63-58.

But Grygla was able to keep going inside to score against the shorter Bears.

Tim Polansky added 22 to Loberg's total with Brady Olson adding 11 and Geoff Satre 10.

Clayton Johnson had 26 for C-G with Casey Crane adding 21. Stebe was held to 10.

Stephen/Argyle used its size and strength to beat KCC .

While the husky Storm front line did its damage inside, guards Nevin Lubarski and Jesse Sundby led the scoring with 19 and 18

KCC stayed in the running, trailing 30-27 at the half. But the Storm took control after the break and widened the lead down the stretch.

The winners went 10-12 from the line in the final two minutes to pull away.

Joe Schwenzfeier led the Wolfpack with 23.

It marked the final game for KCC, the Kennedy-Hallock combo. It will combine with KCN (Lancaster-Lake Bronson) next year for a single Kittson County school.