Bears varsity basketball teams remain undefeated in CW2B

BREWSTER – The Bears varsity basketball teams continue their new year juggernaut through the Central Washington 2B League roster of opponents with wins over Tonasket and Bridgeport during the first week of 2018, but were derailed at non-league Okanogan last Saturday.
The boys’ varsity doubly outdistanced Tonasket, 72-35, at home Tuesday, Jan. 2, but the Lady Bears had a tougher battle as the Tonasket girls came within six points, 56-50, of ending Brewster’s undefeated league run.
On the road at Bridgeport, Thursday, both Bears teams won easily though the Mustangs, losing by 19 points, 72-53, put up more of a fight than the Fillies who fell to the Lady Bears, 62-25.
It was a different story on the court in Okanogan where the Bulldogs boys, leaders in the 1A Caribou Trail League, stopped the Bears 76-59, in a non-league encounter that gave Brewster its first still competition since Toutle Lake at the SunDome in Yakima over the Christmas holidays. The Okanogan boys are 4-1 in the five-team CTL, one game ahead of Omak.
The Lady Bears gave the Okanogan girls all they could handle with a toe-to-toe, 55-53 loss to the Lady Bulldogs who aren’t dominating the CTL like the boys are. The Lady Bulldogs have a 2-3 league record and are in fourth place behind 3-3 Chelan.
Brewster was scheduled to host Waterville-Mansfield last Tuesday, Jan. 9, and play Lake Roosevelt on the road Thursday, Jan. 11. Brewster will host Chelan in non-league action on Saturday, Jan. 13, and take on the Hornets at Oroville next Tuesday, Jan. 16.