Cole Olson scored a team-high 23 points, but the Cascade boys basketball team was outrun and outgunned during a 81-70 loss to Garden Valley on Monday. Tyler Thurston chipped in 18 points in his first game back from injury, but the Wolverines pushed the pace during the Long Pin Conference tilt and pulled out the victory on their home floor.
Carter Tucker, Avery Riggs and Ethan Sprague all brought home silver as the McCall-Donnelly wrestling team competed at the Maniac Wrestling Invitational Saturday in Orofino. Tucker went 6-1 to place second wrestling at 170 pounds in the tournament’s round-robin format, losing only to the group winner.
Green gathered 22 points, six rebounds and four steals but a slow start sank the Vandals during a league matchup with the Grizzlies last week in Fruitland. Wallace added seven points and seven rebounds while Izzy Tinney chipped in seven points.
The McCall-Donnelly girls basketball team got defensive to deliver its first Snake River Valley Conference victory last week at the M-D gym, rolling past Payette, 59-24. Ashtyn Jones collected 15 points and six steals while Delaney Ott gathered 14 points, five rebounds and four steals.
It took eighth-grader Seagrin Lawless only a few minutes to turn a lump of clay into a small bowl as it spun at about 100 revolutions per minute on a 10-inch-wide metal disc. Lawless is one of 20 students in Jared Hopkins’ visual art class at Payette Lakes Middle School, which has been working on a new ceramics project thanks to five electric pottery wheels purchased with a grant for about $9,000 from the nonprofit McCall-Donnelly Education Foundation.
Chamber gives up sponsorship after decade-plus The City of McCall will be responsible for putting on a July 4 fireworks display in McCall this summer, the McCall City Council decided last week. Council members directed city staff to begin organizing the show after the McCall Area Chamber of Commerce told the city in November that it would no longer sponsor the show.
A plan to rezone land on Stibnite Street in McCall for use as employee housing by the Mc-Call-Donnelly School District was approved last week by the McCall City Council. Specific plans to build the housing will require a review before the McCall Area Planning and Zoning Commission.
McCall Senior Center Here are next week’s menus for the McCall Senior Center. Meals begin at 5:30 p.m.
The Meadows Valley boys basketball team lost a Long Pin Conference game to Horseshoe Bend, 72-24, on Monday in a game played on the road. The Mountaineers fell to 2-7 with the loss and 0-3 in league.