05/20/2025
Winners of each Bracket!
3rd & 4th grade bracket were on the Silver Creek Systems backboard – winner: Court Crushers! Team included: Trent Carstensen, Lane Edwards, Boston Jess & Colton Malone
5th & 6th grade bracket were on the Sandy’s backboard – winner: Rattlers! Team included: Timious Lathan, Jacob Gehlen, Russ Allen & Weylin Jackson
7th & 8th grade bracket were on the Greg’s Crop Care backboard – winner: Goon Squad! Team included: Derek Atkins, Tyler Mills, Chantelle Pakootas & Taloulah Tonasket
Only one High School team so moved it to College/Adult bracket.
College/Adult bracket were on the Phelp’s Contracting backboard – winner: Scuba Squad! Team included: Alvin Pachosa, Aaron Mcquaid, Tyloer Jordan & Ed Wolffe
Country Hoops Basketball Tournament was a success! We had 22 teams that participated and brought approximately 86 players.
The weather held out and we had no rain until the end of the tournament. Thank you to all the participating teams and spectators for coming and enjoying our tournament! It was a fun, exciting day! We had great support and a lot of help!
I have so many individuals and businesses to Thank. Without all of them this tournament would not happen!
First to Spokane Hoopfest Association, it is so great that such a large successful group takes the time to help our little community in storing, delivering, and providing access to the hoops used for this tournament.
Thank you to the backboard sponsors: Lagniappe Construction, Phelps Contracting, Greg’s Crop Care, Highline Grain Growers Inc, Sandy’s, Silver Creek Systems your sponsorship helps us pay for these hoops each year!
T-Shirt Sponsorships enable us to give t-shirts to all of the players with their logo printed on the backs. (please see the photo with back of T-Shir: Rock Land Builders, Billy Bean’s, 1310 HoLo Club, Wilbur Auto Body, Columbia Basin Foundation, Ba*****ed Flower Company, Cut-N-Curl, Plateau Prints, Wheatland Bank, Division of Glacier Bank, Fortitude Financial, Wilbur Family Dental, North Ridge, Little Joy Craft Co, Billy Burger, Newman Roofing LLC, J&A Café, LOW, Rockland Excavation, Alibi, Schmidt Insurance Services, Robertson Repair, Libke Insurance Associates, Inc, Northwest Lawn Legends )
T-Shirt printed by Austin Hinderer of Plateau Prints & Signs!
Logo created by Steff Arnett with Hummingbird Digital Design & Apparel. This year’s logo is my favorite so far!
Prizes for brackets 3rd/6th, 5th/6th & 7th/8th were cinch bags. Thank you to Alex Crider of J&A Café & Coffee for doing the printing on those!
Prizes for College/Adult were hats done by Jessica Olsen of Flying O Embroidery!
Thank you to Sandy’s for the donation of the volunteer’s lunches!
Thank you to Wilbur Chamber of Commerce for allowing our event to take place at Wild Goose Bill Days and for facilitating the extra port a potty’s for this event.
Last but not least to all the volunteers the day of the event. It is absolutely not possible to do an event like this without our amazing court monitors/refs and scorekeepers. So HUGE shout out to them, you are GREATLY appreciated!!!!! Court monitors: Cindy Feuerborn, Michael Dreger, Megan Nelson, Gary Feuerborn. Scorekeepers: Gavin Feuerborn and his friend, Ryan, Lisa Locke, Baxton Jessup & Michelle Blair.
Braxton Jessup was also a huge help to me in EVERYTHING this year!
Remember to mark your calendars for next year May 16th, 2026! See you then!
