The Thursday Morning Blast

This Day – Scores from around The Blast Zone; plus Ilwaco vs Ritzville basketball (1959)

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High School Girls Basketball

Players on the Toutle Lake bench point the direction to the next round during a 58-48 win over Lake Roosevelt in the Round of 12 at the 2B State Tournament, Wednesday, March 4, at Spokane Arena. / Photo by Catrina Webber

• Toutle Lake 58, Lake Roosevelt 48

• Deer Park 67, Mark Morris 32

High school Boys Basketball

The Toledo boys basketball team comes together for a huddle following a season-ending 63-55 loss to Burbank (Columbia) in the Round of 12 at the 2B State Tournament, Wednesday, March 4, at Spokane Arena. / Photo by Ridley Hudson | The Chronicle

• Burbank (Columbia) 63, Toledo 55

• Columbia Adventist 57, Wahkiakum 52

College Mens’ Basketball

The LCC Red Devils celebrate in the moments following a 57-54 win over Clark College in the Sweet 16 of the NWAC Championship Tournament, Wednesday, March 4, in Pasco. / Photo courtesy of NWAC Sports

• Lower Columbia 57, Clark 54

This Day In History

• Mar. 5, 1959: The Ilwaco boys basketball team overcomes an eight-point deficit with 90 seconds left against Ritzville in the quarterfinals of the Class B state tournament in Spokane, with Jim Peterson capping a 9-1 run with a bucket to tie the game and send it to overtime. Bob Bales, who led all scorers with 18 points, hit a pair of early buckets in OT for the Fishermen, who rode out the clock to a 58-52 win. Ilwaco went on to down St. John’s in the semifinals before beating Harrington in the title game for the first State crown in program history.

The Thursday Docket

High School Girls Basketball

2B State / Quarterfinals

9 a.m. No. 6 Toutle Lake vs. No. 5 Cle Elum/Roslyn / at Spokane Arena

• Listen here / 93.5/94.5 KLYK FM

High School Boys Basketball

2A State / Quarterfinals

9 p.m. No. 2 R.A. Long vs No. 8 Renton / at Yakima SunDome

• Listen here / KEDO 1270 AM / 99.9 FM

College Men’s Basketball

NWAC / Elite 8

2 p.m. Lower Columbia vs Treasure Valley / at Columbia Basin College (Pasco)

• Watch here / NWAC Livestream

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