Medical Lake boys go in reverse with winless week

The road to a revival for the Medical Lake boys basketball team got buried by an avalanche, or something like it last week.

After winning four games in a row to vault them back into a challenging role in the upcoming Northeast A League and district playoffs, the Cardinals went in reverse, losing a pair of NEA games, plus two nonleague contests.

On Jan. 23 at home, Medical Lake fell to Newport 76-56. That was followed the next night with a 60-50 nonleague loss to Kellogg, last Friday’s league loss at Freeman 83-46 and concluded with another road loss to 2B Liberty 70-54 in a second non-league o...