Josh Bray turned in a monster night with 27 points, nine rebounds, four assists and four steals as the Stillwater Christian Cougars avenged an earlier loss to the Eureka Lions with a 61-55 victory on Tuesday night.

Eureka's Ryan Holder also put out a huge effort with 21 points.

Eureka defeated Stillwater 61-46 on Dec. 10 in Eureka.

"That was pretty fun. Good team win. The kids played as a team, passed the ball as a team, they hustled from buzzer to buzzer and they did a much better job of rebounding and boxing out than we did in Eureka," said Stillwater coach Ted Clark.

Josh Topp added 13 points and seven rebounds to the Stillwater effort.

Eureka took an early lead in this one. It was up 16-10 after the first quarter. Ryan Holder had 10 of his points, including two 3-pointers, in that period.

But Bray came to life with 13 second quarter points and the Cougars bounced back to take a 32-26 halftime lead. They led 48-37 after three quarters.

Other leaders for Eureka were Bryton Guckenberg with 18 points and Tanner Peterson with 10.

The Cougars (8-1, 3-0) play host at 6:30 p.m. Thursday to Glacier JV.

Stillwater 61, Eureka 55

Eureka 16 10 11 18 - 55

Stillwater 10 22 16 13 - 61

Eureka - Tanner Peterson 5 0-1 10, Ryan Holder 8 2-3 21, Tanner Blankers 1 0-0 2, Mark Good 1 0-0 2, Bryton Guckenberg 8 2-4 18, Alex Shmeler 1 0-0 2. Totals 24 4-8 55.

Stillwater - Zane Kloeckl 2 0-2 4, Josh Bray 11 3-4 27, Ryan Koch 3 0-2 7, Zach Falk 1 0-0 2, Josh Topp 5 1-1 13, Trevor Holladay 4 0-0 8. Totals 26 4-9 61.

Libby 45,

Thompson Falls 44

THOMPSON FALLS - Jared Winslow scored the winning basket with 15 seconds left to guide Libby to its first victory of the season, a 45-44 win over Thompson Falls in a nonconference boys' basketball game Tuesday night.

The host Bluehawks outscored the Loggers 11-8 in the fourth quarter after trailing at the half and at the end of three quarters of play. Micah Germany contributed nine points for Northwestern A Libby (1-6), while Josh Foote and Kraig Nelson added seven points each.

Libby 11 19 7 8 - 45

Th. Fallls 13 9 11 11 - 44

LIBBY - Christian Hubbard 4, Micah Germany 9, Elias Lapka 2, Jared Winslow 10, Nolan Broden 2, Josh Foote 7, Louis Cielak 4, Kraig Nelson 7.

THOMPSON FALLS - Jaron Laws 8, John Lloyd 5, Cody Phillips 8, Garrett Reinschmidt 9, Ross Dalby 4, AJ Pavlik 8, Nick Tronrud 2.