Vikes and Vals enter District 7B Tournament play

Bigfork's No. 1 seeded Vikes and Vals

basketball teams will tip-off their first games in the District 7B

Tournament in Libby on Friday after first round byes.

VIKINGS

The Vikings (10-0) will be the first

Bigfork team to hit the court in the tournament with a 1 p.m. game

against No. 5 seeded Troy, which upset No. 4 Mission (St. Ignatius)

45-32 in the first round.

The winner of the game advances to the

championship game held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The other team moves

in to loser-out play, which starts with a 9 a.m. Saturday game in

Troy against No. 3 Eureka (Lincoln County), which lost in an

overtime first-round match against No. 6 seeded Plains 63-59.

The teams that place in the top four in

the tournament advance to the Western B Divisional Tournament at

Salish Kootenai College in Pablo next weekend.

VALKYRIES

The Bigfork girls basketball team

(10-0) will play at 3 p.m. against No. 4 seeded Thompson Falls,

which won its first-round game against No. 5 Eureka (Lincoln

County) 34-31 on Thursday.

A win in the Friday afternoon matchup

will send Bigfork straight into the championship game at 8:15 p.m.

Saturday.

A loss will send the Vals into the

consolation bracket where they will have to take the long way to

earn one of the four spots given to District 7B at next week’s

Western B Divisional Tournament held at Salish Kootenai College in

Pablo.

The loser-out bracket would start for

Bigfork with a 10:45 a.m. Saturday game at Troy High School against

No. 6 Troy, which lost its first round game against No. 3 Plains

48-42.