Beavers win two road games to clinch JPC division hoop title

  • Beaverton’s Landon Love goes up and over a Shepherd defender during a victory Thursday night that clinched the Jack Pine Conference Division 2 title for the Beavers.
    Beaverton’s Landon Love goes up and over a Shepherd defender during a victory Thursday night that clinched the Jack Pine Conference Division 2 title for the Beavers.
  • Beaverton’s Jace Mishler gets ready to feed the post during Thursday night’s victory at Shepherd.
    Beaverton’s Jace Mishler gets ready to feed the post during Thursday night’s victory at Shepherd.

    SHEPHERD

    Winning the championship in Division 2 of the Jack Pine Conference wasn’t complicated for the Beaverton boys’ basketball team heading into last week.

    That doesn’t mean it was easy.

    All the Beavers had to do was win on the road at Meridian, a team that had thrown a defensive blanket over them in a win on their home court just last month, and then hit the road two days later and beat Shepherd,…