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Chase Clark misses the layup but makes the two free throws after it in the game against Columbia. - Scott Hunter photos
Ivan Alejandre battles for a rebound against Morton's 6-7 forward. Alejandre got the ball.
After a scramble, Chase Marchand heads for the basket against Northwest Christian.
Chase Clark fires for three points on a pass from Chase Marchand, whose advance was blocked by a triple team.
Brandon Pino scores after a full-court drive against Morton.
Tanner Kiser shoots a three-pointer against Morton White-Pass.
Chase Marchand heads up for two against Northwest Christian. He settled for one with a foul shot.
Raider fans react to an increase in the Raider lead against Columbia.
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders took sixth place out of 54 teams at the state 2B basketball tournament in Spokane Saturday, battling through a gauntlet of teams from Wednesday on.
At the Spokane Veterans Arena March 1, the Raiders met Wahkiakum at 9 a.m. at the start of four days of tough basketball every morning.
Ahead at the half by one point, 29-28, LR won it in the third quarter when they gained four points more than the Mules, 16-12. The teams scored 13 apiece in the fourth for the 58-53 final.
Junior Chase Marchand led all scorers with 22.
The Raiders committed 10 turnovers in the game to the Mules' 16, succeeded with 12 of their 25 two-pointers and eight of 22 three-point attempts, and 10 of 16 free throws.
The next morning, LR took on Columbia's Coyote's from Burbank, leading 30-25 in the first half.
But LR fell in the third quarter as the Coyotes turned up the trey heat, hitting on 75% of their three-pointers, compared to only a quarter of them in the first half.
With head coach Jeremy Crollard absent due to illness, LR answered with only 23 points to Columbia's 57 in the second half for an 82-53 Raider loss despite five ties in the game.
Chase Clark led Raider scoring with 18. Columbia's Quincy Scott led the Coyotes with 22.
The hard loss put LR against Northwest Christian on Friday morning, when they bested the Crusaders in every quarter but the third for a 65-57 win.
Marchand put in 29 of those for the Raiders, followed by Ivan Alejandre's 12, with four of six from the free-throw line, and Clark's 11.
The Raiders took on the Morton-White Pass Timberwolves in the finals on Saturday, vying for either fourth or sixth place.
Down by seven at the half and at the end of three quarters, the Raiders gained only 10 points to Morton's 19 in the fourth quarter as the Timberwolves pulled away and both teams substituted en masse off the bench at the end of the game as Morton won it 63-45.
Height was a factor in the contest. Morton's big, 6-7 senior, Josh Salguero was hard to defend against and posted effectively under the basket. The Timberwolves had three other players over 6-0. The Raiders had three total, with Chase Clark the tallest at 6-3.
Through the entire season, the Lake Roosevelt team won 22 of their 26 games, captured the Central Washington 2B League championship and the District 6 title.
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