Washington High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Washington boys fall to Waterloo East

The Washington boys basketball team led by a point at halftime, but struggled in the third quarter and suffered a 53-45 loss to Waterloo East in a Mississippi Valley Conference game Tuesday at Washington.

Keion Wills scored 15 points for the Warriors (5-9), who led 26-25 at halftime. The Trojans took control with a 17-9 run in the third quarter.

Hunter Strait added 12 points for Washington.

Isaiah Wade scored 18 points for Waterloo East (7-7).

WATERLOO EAST (53): Clark 4 1-1 9, Gafeney 2 4-5 8, Reed 0 0-0 0, Sanders 1 0-0 3, Phillips 0 0-0 0, Matlock 4 2-3 11, Wade 7 4-8 18. Totals 20 11-17 53.

WASHINGTON (45): Wills 5 3-5 15, Strait 6 0-0 12, Dawson 0 0-0 0, Bennett 0 2-2 2, Hobbs 1 0-2 2, Thomas 2 1-1 5, Williams 4 1-4 9, Potter 0 0-0 0. Totals 18 7-16 45.

Halftime – Washington 26, Waterloo East 25. 3-point goals – Waterloo East 2 (Sanders, Matlock), Washington 2 (Wills 2).

Washington boys fall in 5 overtimes

DES MOINES - The Cedar Rapids Washington and Des Moines Roosevelt boys basketball teams played for a long, long time Saturday night before they could determine a winner.

Roosevelt out-lasted the Warriors, 95-87, in five overtimes in a game that lasted 52 minutes. That's 20 minutes longer than a normal high school game, 12 minutes longer than a college game and four minutes longer than an NBA game.

The marathon affair was tied, 52-52, after four quarters. Both teams scored five points in the first overtime, both teams scored eight points in the second overtime, both clubs scored six points in the third overtime and both teams had six points in the fourth overtime.

The score was still tied, 77-77, entering the fifth overtime when Roosevelt finally took command with an 18-10 advantage.

Hunter Strait finished with 31 points for Washington (5-8). Keion Wills popped in six 3-pointers and added 28 points for the Warriors, but nobody else reached double figures.

Laveechie Williams did not play for Washington. He was called for two technical fouls in a game against Jefferson Friday night and had to serve an automatic one-game suspension.

Wills, Noah Dawson, Dallas Hobbs and Ian Thomas all fouled out for Washington, further depleting the team. Gatdoar Kueth and Jeremiah Chandler fouled out for Roosevelt.

Kueth scored 25 points for Des Moines Roosevelt (7-6). Chandler scored 20 points, Eli Dotson had 14 points and Ethan Shafer added 12 points.

WASHINGTON (87): Christensen 0 0-0 0, Westmoreland 0 0-0 0, Wills 10 2-5 28, Strait 8 11-17 31, Dawson 1 0-0 3, Beard 1 0-0 2, Bennett 2 4-4 8, Hobbs 1 2-4 4, Thomas 2 0-0 6, Potter 2 1-2 5. Totals 27 20-32 87.

ROOSEVELT (95): Chuol 0 7-8 7, Edwards 2 1-4 6, Norman 1 0-0 2, Shafer 5 1-3 11, Kueth 9 7-9 25, Dotson 5 4-4 14, Chandler 4 10-12 20, Parra 0 2-2 2, Thomas 1 3-3 5, A.Musa 0 0-0 0, N.Musa 1 0-2 2, Lin 0 0-0 0. Totals 28 35-47 95.

Halftime - Washington 30, Roosevelt 22. Regulation - Washington 52, Roosevelt 52. 3-point goals - Washington 13 (Wills 6, Strait 4, Thomas 2, Dawson 1), Roosevelt 4 (Chandler 2, Edwards 1, Shafer 1).

Clark shines as Wash girls pull upset

DAVENPORT - Joniqua Clark made a strong bid for a triple-double Saturday as the Cedar Rapids Washington girls basketball team upset 10th-ranked Davenport North, 80-69, in a non-conference game in Davenport.

Clark, a 5-foot-1 senior, finished with 23 points, nine steals and nine rebounds as the Warriors raised their record to 10-6.

Jayla Johnson tossed in 16 points for Washington and Anne Visser had 10 points.

Washington poured in 33 points in the third quarter to take control of the game.

Paige Bradford notched 27 points for Davenport North (13-3).

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Saulnier, Kelley, Hummell win titles

IOWA CITY – With two weeks to taper before they go for their 53rd straight district swim title, the Washington boys tuned up by turning in a surprisingly strong showing at the MVC Super Meet Saturday at the University of Iowa pool.

“I’m just blown away by how well we did as a team,” said Warrior senior Nick Saulnier. “We had guys dropping two seconds, five seconds, even more off their times.

“It was crazy some of the time drops we had.”

Saulnier himself topped his season’s best in easily winning the 200 yard individual medley, and junior teammate Cameron Kelley chopped 11 seconds off in pulling an upset in the 500 freestyle.

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