Cardinals halt skid, hope for rebound in playoffs

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The Medical Lake boy’s basketball team rustled up the right time to end a late-season slide.

The Cardinals scored a tense 72-69 win in overtime over Colville Feb. 2 at home on senior night that put a halt to a three-game losing streak and solidified a No. 3 seed in the district playoffs. Earlier last week Medical Lake fell 67-57 at Lakeside.

Now Medical Lake (13-7), who just 20 days ago was challenging Freeman for the Northeast A League regular season championship, open play versus No. 6 seeded Chewelah (8-11) this past Wednesday at home in a loser-out...