Patriots lose 3 at tournament
The St. John Bosco Academy Patriots competed in the Lapwai/Logos Holiday tournament and lost 3 times. On Thursday, Jan. 2, they lost to Logos 17-101. On Friday, Jan. 3, they lost to Lapwai 38-84. Both of those games were played at Lapwai. Finally on Saturday, they lost to Salmon 36-69 at Logos High School in Moscow.
We don’t have much information from this game other than the final score of 17-101. It is probably just as well as the Knights thoroughly dominated the game.
The game against Lapwai wasn’t quite as lopsided as the Logos game but it was close.
Lapwai raced out to a 4-24 in the first quarter and then subbed in their bench players. Nathan Wassmuth put the Patriots on the board at the 5:15 mark to end a 0-8 start by Lapwai. Cody Weckman added a basket to make it 4-13.
After Lapwai subbed in the bench, Conner Nuxoll got on the scoreboard with a pair of baskets in the final minute. Lapwai led 8-26 at the end of the first quarter.
Lapwai opened the second quarter with a basket then Weckman made Bosco’s only 3-pointer of the game. Wyatt Crea followed with a free throw.
Lapwai then sank back-to-back 3’s before Henry Baldwin and Weckman each scored to make it 16-34.
After a Lapwai free throw, Pierce Frei scored from the baseline to make it 18-35.
For the rest of the half, Weckman converted a 3-point play, Wassmuth scored a putback and Weckman added a free throw as Lapwai led 24-47 at the half.
Lapwai dominated the third quarter as they scored 12 straight before Weckman scored at the 5:25 mark. Baldwin added a putback, Simon Hagen a free throw and Crea a reverse lay-up but Lapwai took a 31-73 lead into the fourth quarter.
In the running clock 4^th, Bosco was outscored 7-11. Nuxoll scored a pair of baskets and Weckman scored a basket and a free throw.
Weckman wound up with 16 points to lead the Patriots in scoring. Nuxoll scored 8. Baldwin and Wassmuth scored 4 each. Crea scored 3, Frei scored 2 and Hagen scored 1. Zachary Murdock and Glen Parmentier each played but didn’t score.
Rebounding was very close as Lapwai had a 33-34 edge. Wassmuth had 11 rebounds to lead the Patriots.
Wassmuth had 4 steals and Weckman and Crea each had 2 assists.
The Patriots were 16 for 51 from the field, 31%, and 5 for 9 at the line, 56%. Lapwai was 31 for 61 from the field, 51%, and 13 for 16 at the line, 81%
SJB        8 16   7   7 -38
Lapwai 26 21 16 11 -84
SJB-Crea 1-7, 1-2, 3; Weckman 6-13, 3-5, 16; Baldwin 2-6, 0-0, 4; Wassmuth 2-10, 0-0, 4; Nuxoll 4-9, 0-0, 8; Hagen 0-1, 1-2, 1; Frei 1-4, 0-0, 2; Murdock 0-0, 0-0, 0; G. Parmentier 0-1, 0-0, 0. 3-pointers-Weckman.
Lapwai-Noriega 6-7, 2-2, 15; McCormack 1-4, 0-0, 2; Pappan 7-15, 0-0, 16; Kipp 6-10, 7-8, 20; George-Smith 2-4, 0-0, 4; Barros 2-3, 0-0, 5; Wheeler 1-3, 0-0, 2; Konen 1-3, 1-2, 3; Guzman 4-6, 3-4, 10; Marek 1-7, 0-0, 3; Arthur 1-1, 0-0, 2. 3-pointers-Pappan 3, Noriega, Kipp, Barros, Guzman, Marek.
In their final game of the tournament against Salmon, we also don’t have any information other than the final score of 36-69.
The losses drop the Patriots to 1-8 on the season. They are 1-5 in league play.