Olson and Grose Combine for 50 as Tigers Bounce Back

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Following its first league loss of the season, and it’s first at full strength, the Napavine boys basketball team rebounded with a narrow 66-62 win over 1B Willapa Valley Saturday afternoon.

The Tigers (8-2, 3-1 C2BL) got 27 points from Keith Olson and 23 from James Grose in a dominant scoring effort from the pair, as they feasted off a late press to put the Vikings away. 

“It was one or two possessions and we threw it over their press to get ahead late,” Tigers coach Rex Stanley said. “The boys executed well tonight.” 

The Vikings gave the Tigers everything they could handle, though, knocking down 11 shots from 3-point land and battling wire-to-wire with the 2B squad. 

“We couldn’t get consecutive stops and they hurt us on the glass,” Stanley said. “They hit us with threes all night, they’ve got some shooters.” 

The Tigers will look to pick up another non-league win on Monday, this time against a higher-classification squad in Black Hills on the road at 2 p.m.