Kendrick collects another title with victory over Kubs
Tigers continue to dominate in their now Class 2A ranks, adding a basketball state championship to the football crown they won in the fall
NAMPA -- For a second sport within the span of one school year, the Kendrick Tigers have claimed a state title in their first season after moving up a size classification.
After a tightly contested three-plus quarters of play in an all-area, all-Whitepine League Idaho Class 2A state boys basketball final, the third-seeded Tigers roared to a run of 17 unanswered points to record a convincing 66-49 upset victory over the No. 1 Kamiah Kubs on Saturday at Nampa’s Ford Idaho Center.
The Tigers had accomplished the same feat in football last fall with a team consisting of many of the same players.
For the Kubs (23-3), it was a second state runner-up finish in four years. Kamiah had defeated Kendrick 60-53 and 65-58 in two regular-season meetings, but the Tigers struck back to upend the Kubs in a 52-46 district final and have now done the same at State.
Kendrick (20-7), which had started the season off struggling to a 7-7 record in its first 14 games, went undefeated in its last 13, winning all of them by margins of at least two possessions and 10 by double-digit margins.
For more on this game, see Sunday's Tribune.
