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Eagles upset the T-Wolves

ROSALIA — 1B Southeast Grape division’s third-seeded boys basketball team, the Yakama Nation Tribal Eagles, upset the Wheat Division’s second-seeded Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves 73-62 on Feb. 9, spurred on by a 21-point third quarter.

Yakama Nation Tribal ended the first quarter with a narrow lead, 20-17. The Eagles followed with another 20-point quarter to end the first half while Tekoa-Rosalia put up 19 in the same frame, resulting in a 40-36 Eagles’ lead going into halftime.

“We knew we had to shut down (Morgun Martin) and (Isaac Bone),” Yakama Nation Tribal head coach Kristoffer Strom said....

 

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