A roundup up Friday's boys basketball round-of-16 playoff games:
6A
Marley Zeller had 17 points with five 3-pointers and top-seeded Central Catholic steadily pulled away from No. 17 seed Mountainside for a 63-49 home win. Tony Angelo chipped in 13 points and Zamir Paschal 12 for Central Catholic. Brayden Boe scored 15 points and Peyton Reyes 10 for Mountainside. ... Jalen Atkins made five of his six 3-pointers in the first half and fourth-seeded Barlow held off No. 20 seed Sandy in the second in a 61-52 home victory. Atkins finished with 27 points for Barlow, which also got 17 points from Sentori Martino, seven points, 11 rebounds and four steals from Brayden Barron and three points and five assists from Cole Patrick. For Sandy, Marcos Ramirez had 20 points with four 3-pointers and Jacob Brown 14 points. ...
Eighth-seeded Jesuit scored the game's first eight points and never trailed in a 60-47 home win versus No. 9 South Medford. Jesuit led by 18 in the second quarter and South Medford got no closer than nine from there. Pat Kilfoil scored 21 points and Isaac Bongen 19 for Jesuit, which will play in the state quarterfinals for the first time since winning the 6A title in 2019. Jackson Weiland had 23 points and Ty Dahlin 17 for South Medford. ... Seventh-seeded Beaverton led 17-6 after one quarter and cruised to a 71-38 home win against No. 27 seed Westview. Max Campbell led the victors with 20 points. Chance Winter added 14, Aidan Rice 12 and Max Elmgren 11. ...
Second-seeded Southridge rallied from a six-point halftime deficit to get past No. 18 seed West Linn for a 72-67 home win. West Linn, last year's state runner-up, led 42-36 at the break, but Southridge got a Keenan Reckamp 3-pointer from just inside the halfcourt line at the end of the third quarter to tie the game. The contest was still tied midway through the fourth before Southridge pulled ahead. Alonzo Hoff had a team-high 17 points for Southridge. Carter Fortune added 14 points, six rebounds and four assists, Kaden Groenig 13 points and Elijah Thompson 12 points. ...
Eleventh-seeded Grant led 43-22 at halftime on its way to a 69-47 win at sixth-seeded Liberty. Charlie Kapranos had 19 points to lead Grant. The Generals also got 11 points each from Quincy Scott and Vashon Hardges and 10 from Mekhi Muhammad. Tyler Bradford had 13 points and Donovan Crowder nine for Liberty. ... Fifth-seeded Tualatin outscored No. 12 seed West Salem 18-9 in the closing minutes to pull out a 79-70 home win. Tualatin, the two-time reigning state champion, led 41-36 at halftime. ... Third-seeded Roosevelt took a 17-point halftime lead on No. 14 Gresham and held on, 83-66 at home.
5A
Pearson Carmichael finished with 27 points and 14 rebounds as top-seeded Summit led No. 16 seed Canby 52-32 at halftime on its way to an 80-54 home win. Also for Summit, last year's state runner-up, Collin Moore had 19 points and six assists, Charlie Crowell 12 points and Mac Bledsoe 11 points ... Cruz Veliz had 23 points as fourth-seeded Woodburn defeated No. 13 seed Caldera 70-48 at home. Liam Slattum added 19 points and Anthony Figuerdo 10 for Woodburn. ... Elias McKinnis had 16 points in third-seeded North Eugene's 63-46 home win against No. 14 seed Silverton. India Mohiuddin scored 15 points and Joey Banry and Caiden Gould 14 each for North Eugene. ...
A buzzer-beating 3-pointer by eighth-seeded Crater's Cody Dutkiewicz forced overtime. But No. 9 seed Mountain View took the road win, 59-55, to advance. Dutkiewicz had a team-high 18 points and five rebounds to lead Crater. Kyle Bittle added 14 points and nine rebounds and Ben Higginson 10 points and 13 rebounds for the Comets. ... Tyler Adams scored 14 of his 15 points in the second half of sixth-seeded Putnam's 52-42 home win against No. 11 seed South Albany. Brooklynd Latta added 13 points and six rebounds for Putnam. Colin Cordle had 21 points for South Albany. ... Emmitt Fee had 13 points and 15 rebounds and Kyle Counts also scored 13 points in second-seeded and defending champion Wilsonville's 49-36 home win versus Central. Kallen Gutridge added 11 points and eight assists for Wilsonville, while Kai Bennett had 13 points for Central.
4A
Top-seeded and two-time defending state champion Cascade rolled past 16 seed LaGrande in a 77-37 home win. Kaiden Ford had 20 points, five assists, four rebounds, four steals and one block for Cascade. Landon Knox added 18 points, six assists, three rebounds and two steals and Anthony Best 11 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals for the Cougars. ... Nick Hudson scored 13 points in Marist Catholic's 59-30 win over Phoenix. The Spartans outscored the Pirates 17-3 in the second quarter to open a 32-14 lead. Robin Trenbeath had 13 points for Phoenix. ... Keivon Riley had 22 points and Avery Thomas 18 to lead second-seeded Junction City to a 60-31 home win against No. 15 seed Scappoose. Cooper Rothenberger added eight rebounds, four assists and four steals for Junction City. ... Seventh-seeded Henley held off a fourth-quarter rally by No. 10 seed Astoria to win 59-53 at home Saturday. Henley's Owen Harper had 14 points and 13 rebounds. Also for the Hornets, Markus McCreadie added 16 points and eight rebounds and Luke Bennett 19 points including four 3-pointers with five rebounds and four assists. Astoria's Owen Williams finished with 34 points, 16 in the fourth quarter. ...
Paul Hobson scored 22 points to lead Baker past Newport 60-52. The Bulldogs used a 10-0 run to open a 54-42 lead with 5:43 left. Rory Barber made five three-pointers and scored 17 points for Newport. ... Kaden Muir and Jacob Peters each scored 12 points for Philomath, which trailed by as many as 10 points in the first half before battling past Marshfield 49-37. The Warriors went on a 14-3 run to take a five-point lead in the third quarter, and with Marshfield within three points with 5:24 to go, they responded with a 9-0 burst to pull away. Peters also had 14 rebounds. Gannon Frost scored 11 points for the Pirates. ... Overcoming 40 points by North Marion's Cole Hammack, eighth-seeded Madras outscored the ninth-seeded Huskies 23-10 in the fourth quarter to pull away for an 84-70 home win. Seneca Ball had 33 points and 11 rebounds for Madras. Maikel Poland added 20 points, five rebounds and five assists and Jevarre Meither 14 points for the White Buffaloes.
-- Jesse Sowa
