Pedersen, Hill fuel C-Falls comeback against Browning

Feb. 14—COLUMBIA FALLS — Bjorn Pedersen scored 16 points, Jory Hill added 15 and Columbia Falls over Browning 50-38 in Northwest A boys basketball Thursday. Ethan Brooks added eight points for the Wildcats, who trailed 33-27 with a minute left in the third quarter but went ahead for good, 34-33, on Pedersen's bucket in the lane with 6:45 remaining in the game. A fast-break basket from Hill made it 36-33 and Columbia Falls (12-4 overall, 8-2 in the Northwest A) hit 10 straight free throws from there, eight of them by Hill. Royce Mad Plume had 10 points to lead Browning (9-7, 6-4). Browning 10 12 11 5 — 38 C-Falls 10 12 10 18 — 50 BROWNING — Jett Cobell 3, Layton Wing 4, Noah Butterfly 2, Roy Mad Plume 2, Shayde St. Goddard 8, Reis Reevis 5, Royce Mad Plume 10, Eli Edwards 4. COLUMBIA FALLS — Ethan Brooks 8, Jett Pitts 2, Jory Hill 15, Bjorn Pedersen 16, Nico Young 4, Caleb Mee 3, Rhett Lindskoog 2. Whitefish 68, Libby 51 WHITEFISH — Whitefish's Will Sisson hit four 3-pointers and scored 23 points Thursday to lead the Bulldogs over Libby in Northwest A boys basketball. Sisson hit all of his threes during a 22-10 first-quarter blitz by the Bulldogs (6-9 overall, 2-7 in the Northwest A).Leo Bungener added 12 points off the bench and Aiden Rickets hit a pair of threes for Whitefish. Tristan Andersen and Bransen Holzer combined for 51 points for the Loggers (2-14, 0-10)./ Libby 10 16 11 14 — 51 Whitefish 22 13 15 18 — 68 LIBBY — Tristan Andersen 16, Kale Hall 4, Jonathon Cano 6, James Woody 2, Bransen Holzer 15, Blaise Erickson 8. WHITEFISH — Will Sisson 23, Aiden Rickels 8, Jayce Thew 9, Creed Scott 2, Finn Ryan 7, Leo Bungener 12, Drew Queen 2, Jake Shors 2, Reyd Hobart 3.