Girls  

Bonners Ferry 49, Reardan 39 

Facing Reardan on Jan. 1, a team that was 8-1 to start the season, the Bonners Ferry girls basketball team delivered.

Junior Taren Bateman scored 24 points, junior Nolie Hiatt added 14 and freshman Bristol Hill scored 10 points as the Badgers held the Reardan Screaming Eagles scoreless in the final quarter.   

Reardan had a two-point lead at the end of a high scoring, back and forth first quarter. However, Bonners Ferry went on a crucial 8-0 run to start the second quarter to lead 23-17 as the half-finished 29-27 in favor of the Badgers.   

With two minutes left in the third quarter, the Screaming Eagles held a narrow lead, before three-pointers from Jaycee and Taren Bateman gave the Badgers a one-point lead with eight minutes left. It ended up being all the points they needed, as defense and grit stopped Reardan in their tracks.  

Freshman Bristol Hill scored the opening points of the fourth quarter with a three, before neither team scored in the last five minutes and thirty seconds of the game.   

Junior Eva Willis continues to pick up offensive rebounds, grabbing six while in total having 13 boards, most on the team, in just 15 minutes.   

Hiatt had a team-high three steals and four assists.   

Bonners Ferry 15 14 11 9 — 49   

Reardan 17 10 12 0 — 39  

PTS: T. Bateman 24, Hiatt 14, Hill 10, J. Bateman 6, Willis 1  

REB: Willis 13, J. Bateman 6, T. Bateman 5, Hill 3, Hiatt 3, Thomson, Petersen 1  

AST: T. Bateman 5, Hiatt 4, Hill 2, Willis 1  

STL: Hiatt 3, Hill 2, T. Bateman 2, Willis 1  

BLK: Hiatt 1, Hill 1, Willis 1  

Boys 

Reardan 75, Bonners Ferry 53 

Senior Sulay Abubakari scored 22 and junior Ty Schrock put up 21 points, but it wasn’t enough as Bonners Ferry lost to Reardan on the second game in two days. 

It was a fast start for Reardan, who came out of the blocks to lead 18-8 after the first quarter. The lead grew to 42-19 at the half, as Reardan continued to outplay the Badgers. 

The third quarter was much more even, as the Badgers finished the period down 22 points, before the game ended with a Bonners Ferry loss, 75-53.  

Schrock and Abubakari had eight and seven rebounds respectively, while junior Peyton Hinthorn scored eight points, having five rebounds to go with team highs in assists, three, as well as blocks, with two.  

Bonners Ferry 8 11 20 14 — 53 

Reardan 18 24 19 14 — 75 

PTS: Abubakari 22, Schock 21, Hinthorn 8, Cartwright-Kissee 2 

REB: Schrock 8, Abubakari 7, Hinthorn 5 

AST: Hinthorn 3, Thomson 1, Cartwright-Kissee 1, Schrock 1 

STL: Abubakari 2, Hinthorn 1, Schrock 1 

BLK: Hinthorn 2, Schrock 1 

Photo By DANIEL WOELFLE: Junior Peyton Hinthorn shoots a three-pointer.