The Wednesday Morning Blast
These Days – Scores and links from around The Blast Zone; plus Kelso vs Olympic basketball (1993), and Hilanders track & field ('08)
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High School Girls Basketball
Lower Columbia Senior All-Star Game
White 74, Red 73
High School Boys Basketball
Lower Columbia Senior All-Star Game
White 120, Red 92
This Day in History
Mar. 11, 2008: Jordan Wishard’s first attempt at the pole vault of the 2008 track season was a record-breaking one, as the Kelso senior cleared 14 feet, 9 inches to break Terry Anshutz’s Kelso school mark, which had stood for 16 years. Wishard also won the triple jump in the three-school meetup with R.A. Long and W.F. West with a hop, a skip and a jump of 42 feet, 1 inch, and ran the opening leg on the Hilanders’ winning 4x100 meter relay team.
That Day in History
Mar. 10, 1993: Mike Nazelrod, coming into the day a 35% free-throw shooter, drills both ends of a key one-and-one after grabbing a key rebounds with eight seconds left to put Kelso ahead for good in a 48-47 win over Olympic in a loser-out game at the 3A state tournament in Seattle.
“I just had to hit them,” Nazelrod said. “That first one helped my confidence, but I knew I had to hit the second one, too. I’ve been up and down all year, but I can hit ‘em when I have confidence.”It was the first win for the Hilander boys at State since 1960.
Seven-footer Ryan Chilton led Kelso with 25 points, 11 rebounds, and three blocks. Tommy Lloyd, who like most of the Hilander roster was fighting the flu, drilled four 3-pointers en route to 14 points.
Local Bowling
Recent high scores from league action at Triangle Bowl in Longview from the week of March 1, 2026, including a perfect 300 game by Travis Malakowsky.
League ; Series ; Game
Sunday Swingers
Scott Johnson 649 ; 255
Megan Schulz 578 ; 199
4 O’clock Scholars (2 games)
Justin Fugleberg 490 ; 254
Roi-Lynn Wing 338 ; 178
Queens & Knights
Michael Buettcher 690 ; 252
Tina Payne 490 ; 198
Brunswick Classic
Zack Stone 792 ; 269
Crista Vicars 696 ; 247
Bowlerettes
Carey Coalman 461 ; 171
Hilander Seniors
Bob Nugent 666 ; 238
Gloria Schoenwald 525 ; 204
Funtimes
Caeleb Lovgren 666 ; 236
Sandi Lovgren 590 ; 215
NightHawks
Dave Tennant 679 ; 247
Alex Burd 579 ; 213
Wed Mourners
Sallie Nichols 577 ; 202
Bowling Bags
Crystal Boothe 502 ; 198
Jackpot Classic
Matt Lewis 703 ; 244
Tia McGreevey 562 ; 210
Swinging Seniors
Bob Nugent 710 ; 246
Paula Mobbs 520 ; 179
Working Girls Trios
Raye Hamm 482 ; 192
Ten Grand
Travis Malakowsky 794 ; 300
Sami Strehle-Cuevas 662 ; 236
Grandmas
Darlene Brown 500 ; 188
Bowlers Anonymous
Joe Bernard 657 ; 233
Rayetta Hamm 627 ; 193
Happy Hour
Travis DeJong 712 ; 259
Kelly Buccola 551 ; 247
Pee-Wees (2 games)
Carson Davies 195 ; 110
Silas Spencer 188 ; 101
Bantams (2 games)
Champ Little 250 ; 126
Landon Ingram 251 ; 133
Preps
Elsa Davis 421 ; 186
Urijah Anderson 432 ; 158
Junior-Majors
Annicka Rutherford 687 ; 247
Hailey Wright 633 ; 248
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