CHURCHILL, Mont. \u2014 It was a thrilling Saturday night at Manhattan Christian High School, with the West Yellowstone girls and Manhattan Christian boys claiming 12C titles in rematches of championship games from a season ago.<\/p>\n
In the girls\u2019 game, the Wolverines of West Yellowstone flipped the script from the 2025 title contest, taking down the Shields Valley Rebels, 58-45.<\/p>\n
The Spence sisters dominated for West Yellowstone. Junior Ari Spence scored 29, and freshman Talia Spence added 16. Sophomore Dafne Lujan added 11.<\/p>\n
Junior Nicki Swandal paced the Rebels with 19, while fellow junior Gaige Taylor scored 10.<\/p>\n
The Wolverines have now defeated the Rebels four straight times, dating back to the Western C a year ago.<\/p>\n
In the boys\u2019 game, the Manhattan Christian Eagles trailed most of the way before a late comeback propelled them to a 49-42 triumph over the Wolverines.<\/p>\n
The Wolverines, who split the regular season series with the Eagles, led by four after the first quarter and by five at halftime, but were outscored 13-11 in the third and 19-9 in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Senior Andrew Kimm and junior Zach Venema attacked the basket down the stretch combining for 30 points. Kimm also had 13 rebounds and 4 blocks. Junior Tate Hamilton had 11 points, including a four-point play late in the first half, to go along with 6 assists, a block and a steal.<\/p>\n
Junior Noah Flores made five three-pointers for the Wolverines for 15 total points, while junior Rodrigo Salinas scored 10, sophomore Abrams Clark had 9 points and 8 rebounds, and freshman Austin Hales scored 8.<\/p>\n
The win for the Eagles marks the fifth straight 12C title for Manhattan Christian and the ninth in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n
All four teams that played in Saturday\u2019s 12C championship games, as well as the Gardiner boys and Manhattan Christian girls, advance to the Western C Divisional next week at the Maroon Athletic Center in Butte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHURCHILL, Mont. \u2014 It was a thrilling Saturday night at Manhattan Christian High School, with the West Yellowstone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-141536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}