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Page 6 Spflyay Tymoo February 2 By D ave M cM echan Spilyay Tymoo At the halfway point of the Tri-Valley League boys basket ball season, the Madras White Buffaloes find themselves in position to return to the state playoffs for the first time since 2004. The White Buffaloes (12-6) improved to 4-2 in the league with a 95-78 win at Estacada Friday, the fourth time this sea son they’ve scored more than 90 points. The win was Madras’ second in a row after sustaining a dis appointing 90-72 home loss to No. 8 Wilsonville Jan. 17. The White Buffaloes led at the half, but managed only six third-pe riod points while the visiting Wildcats, the defending Class 3A cham pions, score 23 unan swered points to take control of the game after a competitive first half. Madras rebounded with an 81-58 home victory over LaSalle Jan. 20. Derrick Metcalf scored 20 points against Wilsonville and 19 against LaSalle, both times lead ing Madras, and then added 18 against Estacada. The 6-2 jun ior hit 15 three-pointers in that three-game stretch Jansen Harrington scored 21 points in the win at Estacada and contributed 18 against LaSalle. A lbert Adams, a Warm Springs tribal member, scored 15 points, one off his season high, against Estacada, hitting three treys. Metcalf continues to lead the White Buffaloes with a 15.9 scoring average, followed by Harrington’s 13.3, their highest averages since December. Senior guard Marcus Zacarias averages 11.2, while Tyler Ellsbury averages 7.44 and Adams 7.11. Adams has hit a three-pointer in 11 straight games, while Harrington has hit at least once in 12 straight games. Carson Ahern averages 6.6 per contest, while A.J. Adams scores 4.2, Orlando Tewee 2.4, and Bobby Thurby 2.0 off the Madras bench. Under coach Evan Brown’s aggressive and exhausting style of play this year, Madras has the highest scoring average in the state, at 76.9 a game, its high est average of the season. LaGrande is next in the state at 67.8, followed by Pleasant Hill’s 66.1. Madras also, though, al lows the most points per con test at 66.8. Burns, at 1-19, al lows a close 66.4 per game. After an off-day Tuesday, Madras hosts No. 11 Sherwood (12-6), which, along with Wilsonville, finished the first half of the Tri-Valley campaign at 5-1. Sherwood beat the White Buffaloes, 85-66, Jan. 6. Madras heads to 3-3 Valley Catholic next Tuesday and hosts 2-4 Gladstone Feb. 10. Madras scored a season-high 107 points against the Gladia tors Jan. 13. The Madras girls scored their first two wins in Tri-Valley play, beating LaSalle, 41-36, Jan. 20, and Estacada, 44-39, Jan. 27. Senior Susan Ahern scored a season-high 16 points in the win against LaSalle, surprisingly her first double-figure game in al most a month. She followed that up with a 12-point effort against Estacada. Tribal member Shirelle Adams, a junior, continues see her average climb, as she has a season-high 7.7 average with her fourth double-figure game in six Tri-Valley contests. Briana Stacona continues to lead the White Buffaloes with a 12.9 average. The White Buffaloes were able to beat LaSalle Jan. 20 with only six points from Stacona, as Ahern and Adams combined for 29, and without hitting a single free throw. Ahern averages 8.4, while Kristen Haugen contributes 5.5 a game. Guard Alyssa Selam averages 3.8 and post Yolanda Yallup averages 1.8 off the bench. The White Buffaloes sit at 2- 4 behind four teams that are each ranked in the top 15 in the state, including Gladstone and W ilsonville, both at 5-1, Sherwood at 4-2, and 3-3 Valley Catholic. The White Buffaloes play each of those teams to start off the second half, which begins Friday at Sherwood. They then host Valley Catholic next Tues day and travel to Gladstone Feb. 9. Youth hoops tourney April 14-16 The Second Annual Squiemphen-Yazzie Co-Ed Youth Basketball Tournament will be held April 14-16 at Warm Springs. Divisions of the all-Indian tournament are sixth and sev enth grades; eighth and ninth grades; and tenth through twelfth grades. Awards for all age divisions are: first place, windbreaker jackets; second place, hooded sweatshirts; and third place, crew sweatshirts. Other awards are MVP, Mr. and Ms. Hustle, and sportsmanship for all age divisions. There will also be a 3- point contest, time and date to be announced. As part of the weekend event, on Saturday, April 15 there will be a youth dance in the Social Hall at the Community Center. Entry fee for all divisions is $125. Limit of eight players per team, all divisions. Players must show proof of enrollment in school. For more information con tact Priscilla Yazzie at (541) 553- 5817, or (451) 980-9060. E- mail: tyyazzie@bendnet .com. Mail address is Priscilla Yazzie, P.O. Box 734, Warm Springs OR 97761. / Young Achiever liante’ Smith Sponsored by Les Schwab lllante ’ Smith, a fourth-grader in Ms. Reese's class at Warm Springs Elementary, is chosen as this edition’s Young Achiever after she registered an ex traordinary score in her school’s Read N a tu rally program. Students are asked to read a piece of literature they’ve never ye t seen before and are timed. They then receive a score fo r the number of words read in that time. Illante’s rate was 300 words a minute. lllante’s favorite subjects are math and reading. A t 10 years ' Blayjn Blazers Your bargain Comuïm i ■ aM H M R 4» The Time 7 1 7 S.W. 5 th St. M a d ra s Or. 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