The Thursday Morning Blast

This Day – Scores from around The Blast Zone; plus Naselle vs Ilwaco basketball (1985)

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High School Boys Basketball

R.A. Long senior Josh Crane sizes up Woodland defender Zane Logan before going to work with the basketball in the second half of a 77-52 win over the Beavers, Wednesday, Jan. 7, at The Lumberdome. / Photo by Ben Hendrickson for Blast Zone Media

• R.A. Long 77, Woodland 52

• Mark Morris 86, Hockinson 64

• Prairie 81, Kelso 65

• Ilwaco 82, North Beach 41

• Naselle 75, Mary M. Knight 27

• Banks 61, Rainier 37

High School Girls Basketball

• Kelso 49, Prairie 28

• Toledo 67, Willapa Valley 9

• King’s Way 56, Kalama 33

• Fort Vancouver 45, Castle Rock 43

• Naselle 63, Mary M. Knight 31

• Banks 51, Rainier 21

Men’s College Basketball

• Lower Columbia 112, Centralia 107 (2OT)

Women’s College Basketball

• Lower Columbia 88, Centralia 58

High School Bowling

• R.A. Long 1947, Prairie 1528

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This Day In History

• Jan. 8, 1985: Lyle Patterson earns his 400th win on the hardwood as Naselle’s boys basketball coach with a 70-67 nailbiter over Ilwaco.
  “It’s a milestone, but no big deal really,” said Patterson, who finished his career with 623 wins in 32 seasons with the Comets.
  The win was Naselle’s revenge for an earlier loss to Ilwaco, the Fishermens’ first over the Comets in eight years. Both sides were led by Wirkkala’s; Chris Wirkkala scored a game-high 29 points for Naselle, while his distant cousin Gary Wirkkala dropped 21 for Ilwaco.

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