No. 4 Chinook faces No. 5 Turner in District 9C opener, Hays/Lodge Pole gets Ft. Benton, Harlem meets Glasgow in 2B
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Turner senior Ella Billmayer has been a staple of the Tornado attack for five years now.
The Turner Tornadoes closed out the regular season with a 56-38
win over the Big Sandy Pioneers Friday night. Thursdays contest with
the Box Elder Bears was forfeited after school officials determined
the inclement weather in the area made travel unsafe for the teams.
The Chinook Sugarbeeters dropped a hard fought contest Friday to
the North Star Knight 55-48. The Sugarbeeters and Knight combined
for 85 free throw attempts with North Star taking 45 and Chinook 40,
both made 22 in the contest. Friday the 'Beeters fell to Fort Benton
63-30
The Thunderbirds and Wildcats each dropped a pair of contest over
the weekend as the regular season concluded.
The District 9C tournament gets underway this week at Havre
High School beginning with the girls action starting at 1 p.m. this
afternoon.
The Box Elder Bears enter the tournament as the number one
seed after going undefeated in the regular season and never really
being challenged. The Fort Benton Longhorns finished the season
11-3 in conference play and earn the number two spot by virtue of a
tiebreaker over the number three seed North Star Knights.
The Chinook Sugarbeeters claim the number four spot and the
Turner Tornadoes the number 5 seed and will face this afternoon at
2:30 p.m.
The Sugarbeeters finished the regular season with a 9-9 overall
record and a 6-8 mark in conference play while the Tornadoes
finished 10-8 overall and we're also 6-8 in conference play.
The Sugarbeeters earned the higher seed by virtue of a larger
margin of victory in their head-to-head win over Turner just two
weeks ago. The two teams split the regular-season match-ups.
Chinook topped Turner the last weekend of January by 11 while
Turner earned a eight-point victory in early January.
The Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds have grown tremendously
over the course of the season and wound up as the number seven seed
entering the tournament and will take on the Fort Benton Longhorns
in first round action tonight at 8:30.
The Box Elder Bears are clearly the favorites to advance to the
Northern C Divisional but the number two and number three spots
Randy Perez/Keri Hanson photos
Harlem freshman Kailee Henry will look to help her team advance at the District 2B Thursday when they open play against Glasgow at 8:00 p.m.
are not as clear-cut.
The Knights and the Longhorns both 11-3 in regular season games
but we're challenged in contests during the regular season by the
Sugarbeeters, Tornadoes and Thunderbirds during the season.
The Tornadoes look to advance to the Northern C Divisional for
the first time since returning to action five years ago. The Chinook
Sugarbeeters are looking to make the trip to the Four Seasons arena
in Great Falls for the seventh consecutive season. Both teams are
capable of doing what needs to be done to advance their season one
more week but as we all know anything goes come tournament time.
