STATE 1A BOYS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Coeur du Christ drops state opener
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JASON DUCHOW PHOTOGRAPHY Coeur du Christ freshman guard Kamden Manuel puts up a shot during an opening round game in the state 1A boys basketball tournament at Caldwell High on Thursday.
CALDWELL — Coeur du Christ, seeded seventh in the state 1A boys basketball tournament, shot 15 of 44, including 6 of 26 in the first half of a 58-37 loss to second-seeded Watersprings in an opening round game at Caldwell High on Thursday.
Coeur du Christ (14-8) will face sixth-seeded Greenleaf Friends in a loser-out game tonight at 6.
Freshman Kamden Manuel had nine points and senior Jerome Cools added six points, seven rebounds and four steals for the Saints, who went 0-2 last year in their first full year as a member of the Idaho HIgh School Activities Association.
Senior Korban Nelson had 22 points and seven rebounds for Watersprings (23-3), which faces Garden Valley in a semifinal game today at 1 p.m. PST.
Coeur du Christ 8 6 12 11 — 37
Watersprings 20 10 11 17 — 58
COEUR du CHRIST — Gama 0, Manuel 9, Clemens 7, Beyer 0, Hayes 3, Cools 6, Mudrick 5, Sundholm 5, O’Neill 2. Totals 15-44 6-16 37.
WATERSPRINGS — Nelson 22, T. Lee 0, Demkowicz 19, Gardner 0, Perry 5, Whitworth 0, C. Lee 0, Iraola 6, Klosterman 4, Hansen 2, Kincaid 0. Totals 25-54 5-8 58.