AREA ROUNDUP: Bantams blast Knights, advance in GSL boys hoops tourney

AREA ROUNDUP SPOKANE VALLEY — Avenging two regular-season defeats, the visiting Clarkston Bantams unleashed their highest-scoring performance of the season thus far for an 81-59 opening-round 2A Greater Spokane League boys basketball district tournament win over East Valley of Spokane Valley on Tuesday. Dray Torpey amassed 34 points for fifth-seeded Clarkston (10-13), shooting an exceptional 12-for-15 from the field including 6-of-8 from 3-point range. Torpey “put the team on his back in the second half,” in the words of coach Justin Jones, recording 23 of his points after halftime....