Tigers Dominate First Half in Blowout of Riverhawks

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Eleven Napavine players in total scored and the Tigers had no trouble dumping visiting Toledo in a 65-28 victory over the Riverhawks in Central 2B League play Thursday.

The Tigers leaped out to a 20-3 run to start the game and outscored the Riverhawks 24-5 in the second quarter to take a dominant, 44-8 lead at the half.

“Napavine plays really good defense and they brought it tonight,” Toledo Grady Fallon said.

Toledo outscored the Tigers in the third quarter, 11-10, but was unable to muster a comeback as the Tigers knocked down five 3-pointers to just one for the Riverhawks.

Sophomore James Grose led Napavine’s attack with a game-high 17 points to go with five boards, while Keith Olson added 12 points and seven rebounds. Jarin Prather tallied nine points and Gavin Parker finished with four points and a team-high eight boards.

”We had a great senior night,” Napavine coach Rex Stanley said. “We had six seniors that played really well.”

The Riverhawks were led offensively by Jake Cournyer’s team-high eight points and three steals, while Rayder Stemkoski added six and Kaven Winters pulled down a team-high six rebounds.

It was the regular-season finale for both squads. Toledo is locked into the No. 8 seed and will play at Ilwaco at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Napavine will await playoff seeding and will get either the No. 2, 3 or 5 seed, as decided by the seeding committee on Friday.