1B boys basketball Oakesdale-Gar/Pal II set for Friday

All roads lead to the Palouse gym Saturday night in Whitman County.

The last time the Oakesdale and Garfield/Palouse boys basketball teams played may have sent Dawson Dugger to Mr. Landle's room at Gar/Pal High School, to study why a spherical object on a descending trajectory would fall outside of a circular hole, after it first appeared to fall inside that hole.

That was how it ended last time; at the buzzer in Oakesdale, Dugger's 20-foot shot to win, the ball ricocheting off the rim, dropping in and out.

Both teams have won their league games since, including Oakesdale righting an earlier l...