Hawk girls win 4A IEL opener

SANDPOINT - Neena Buchman scored 14 points and Cieana Close added 11 to lead Lakeland to a 41-26 win over Sandpoint in 4A Inland Empire League play Tuesday night at Les Rogers Court.

The Hawks (2-4, 1-0 4A IEL) employed a full-court press that gave the Bulldogs fits, causing 33 turnovers and leading to a lot of easy baskets.

"Our first half was really good," Lakeland coach Steve Seymour said. "The first three or four minutes of the game weren't, but I thought we played real solid man-to-man defense and did a real good job with ball pressure."

Darby Murray had seven steals for Lakeland.

"Darby did a great job defensively," Seymour said. "She was one of the big keys for the game and forced a lot of turnovers. When she wasn't stealing the ball, she was forcing other turnovers to get us the ball. She played great."

Maggie Kirscher had 14 points, 14 rebounds and four steals for Sandpoint (1-5, 0-2 4A IEL).

Lakeland travels to Moscow on Saturday.

Lakeland 17 11 2 11 - 41

Sandpoint 8 7 7 4 - 26

LAKELAND - Babor 2, Murray 0, Coder 0, Reed 7, Davis 5, Salzman 0, Buchmann 14, Close 11, Tapplin 2, Wendle 0.

SANDPOINT - Van Ooyen 0, Chatburn 3, Kirscher 14, N. Roop 1, Tucker 0, Speelmon 0, S. Roop 0, Bruce 0, Olin 8.

Clarkston 66

Lake City 65

CLARKSTON, Wash. - K.C. McConnell scored 26 points to lead the Clarkston Bantams past the Lake City Timberwolves in a nonleague game on Tuesday night.

Lake City shot 1 for 9 from the free-throw line in the fourth quarter after battling back to tie the game at 51 after the third.

Jenna Lewis scored 14 points and Jasmyn Smith 12 points for Lake City (4-1), which hosts Moscow on Friday.

Lake City 12 17 22 14 - 65

Clarkston 19 17 15 15 - 66

LAKE CITY - S. Butler 9, Kacalek 6, Lewis 14, Smith 12, Rowe 10, Ball 0, Kerr 3, Mitchell 11.

CLARKSTON - McConnell 26, Weisner 18, Gleason 3, Sandaine 2, Meyers 9, Beutter 4, Hines 4.

Coeur d'Alene JV 49

St. Maries 36

COEUR d'ALENE - Madison Sumner scored 13 points to lead the Viking junior varsity past the Lumberjack varsity at Elmer Jordan Court.

Kaytrin Thaut scored 11 points for St. Maries (2-3), which travels to Timberlake on Saturday.

Haile Watson scored 12 points for the Coeur d'Alene JV, which hosts Lewiston on Thursday.

St. Maries 7 10 9 10 - 36

Cd'A JV 15 14 14 6 - 49

ST. MARIES - Asbury 10, Buell 5, Waddell 0, Hudson 0, Anxo 0, Huddleston 10, K. Thaut 11, C. Thaut 0.

COEUR d'ALENE JV - McGee 2, Sumner 13, Chalich 11, Montee 2, Mehringer 0, Link 0, Kluss 0, Watson 12, Tackett 7, Matheson 2.

Cd'A Charter 50

Wallace 41

WALLACE - Paige Kelly scored 19 points, Lexi Turkenburg added 13 and Coeur d'Alene Charter defeated Wallace in nonleague play.

Charter (5-2) plays at Kootenai on Thursday.

Taylor Pasley scored 10 points for Wallace (3-3), which plays host to Timberlake on Thursday.

Cd'A Charter 11 14 12 13 - 50

Wallace 10 9 12 10 - 41

COEUR d'ALENE CHARTER - Turkenburg 13, Uribe 4, Goodson 8, Urbanink 6, Kelly 19, Arts 0, Rinaldi 0.

WALLACE - Vester 6, Pasley 10, Snyder 2, Dire 5, Jennings 9, Bayer 0, Pehan 4, Dodge 3, Denson 0, Browning 2.

Lakeside 53

Mullan 28

MULLAN - Freshman Avery Brown-Sonder scored 13 points to lead the visiting Knights past the Tigers in the North Star League opener for both teams at the Pavilion.

Tah-Wy-Ah Davis added 12 points for Lakeside (4-1), which plays host to North Idaho Christian on Thursday.

Kami McKinnon scored 12 points and Sydney Koenig grabbed 10 rebounds for Mullan (1-5), which plays host to Kootenai next Tuesday.

Mullan trailed by only eight points when McKinnon fouled out with 4 minutes left, then Lakeside pulled away.

Mullan was missing leading scorer Morgan Koenig due to illness.

Lakeside 14 8 9 22 - 53

Mullan 2 12 10 6 - 28

LAKESIDE - Chittenden 6, Louie 2, Duncan 2, Davis 12, Whaley 0, Brown-Sonder 13, J. Miller 9, S. Miller 7, Hendrickx 3.

MULLAN - Richey 3, Gribble 0, McKinnon 12, Kotschevar 5, S. Koenig 5, Axtman 3.

Christian Center 28

Pullman Christian 23

POST FALLS - Brynn Kuetemeyer scored nine points to lead the Lions past the Eagles at Post Falls Middle School in their season opener.

Christian Center travels to The Oaks on Friday.

Pullman Christ. 3 7 6 7 - 23

Christian Center 6 4 8 10 - 28

PULLMAN CHRISTIAN - Hancock 5, Shirrey 2, J. Satp 0, Simanson 3, Bennjamin 4, C. Satp 9.

CHRISTIAN CENTER - Howard 4, Lund 0, Harryman 6, VanOstrand 2, Kramer 7, Kuetemeyer 9.

Lake City 53

Clarkston 46

CLARKSTON - Chris Wheelock scored 17 points to lead the Timberwolves past the Bantams in a nonleague game.

"This was just an awesome high school basketball game," Lake City assistant coach Kelly Reed said. "It was a loud crowd all night long. It was great for us to get a win in a situation like this."

Mark Smyly scored 15 points and Scott Turner had 12 points and nine rebounds for Lake City (3-1), which is idle until Dec. 17, when Clarkston visits.

Lake City 18 9 14 12 - 53

Clarkston 11 12 12 11 - 46

LAKE CITY - Bevacqua 0, B. Smith 1, A. Mitchell 0, Wheelock 17, Carlson 3, Turner 12, Smyly 15, K. Mitchell 0, Guice 1.

CLARKSTON - Jones 3, Brownell 6, Sobotta 20, Whitticker 0, Sperry 8, Carey 0, Adams 8, Arnone 1, James 0, Olson 0.

Cd'A Charter 45

Timberlake 41

COEUR d'ALENE - Greg Roman totaled 11 points and nine rebounds as the Panthers edged the Tigers in nonleague play at Holy Family Catholic School.

Bryan Smith had 10 points and Christian Pedersen had eight points and five steals for Timberlake (3-1), which plays at Clark Fork on Friday night.

"I thought we worked really hard, especially on the defensive end," Charter coach Brian Childs said. "(Jacob) Shapiro and (Jackson) Redline did a good job on the defensive end tonight."

J.D. Page scored a game-high 17 points for Timberlake (0-4), which plays host to St. Maries on Saturday in the Intermountain League opener.

Timberlake 10 8 10 13 - 41

Cd'A Charter 13 7 13 12 - 45

TIMBERLAKE - Cronnelly 9, Paulson 0, Chamberlin 7, Hayden 0, Masterson 2, Page 17, Simpson 6, Scott 0.

Cd'A CHARTER - Pedersen 8, Crandall 0, Peters 4, Roman 11, Redline 5, Shapiro 7, Smith 10, Simon 0.

St. Maries 55

Coeur d'Alene JV 37

COEUR d'ALENE - Zach Lehman scored 13 points as the Lumberjacks defeated the Viking junior varsity in a nonleague game at Elmer Jordan Court.

Satchel Schetzle added 12 points for St. Maries (3-0), which travels to Timberlake on Saturday.

Kolby DeHaas scored 11 points for Coeur d'Alene (1-2), which hosts Priest River on Friday.

St. Maries 16 9 12 18 - 55

Cd'A JV 12 7 7 11 - 37

ST. MARIES - Joiner 8, Schetzle 12, Sampson 1, Lehman 13, Guidry 0, Mercer 10, Sempel 0, Anderson 3, Kennelly 0, Heath 4, Linnemeyer 2, Cordell 2.

COEUR d'ALENE JV - Johnson 8, Breece 2, Carpenter 0, Moore 2, Sharp 7, Drager 0, Amos 1, Hunter 4, DeHaas 11, Hazard 2.

Lakeside 57

Mullan 33

MULLAN - Tucker Louis-McGee scored 10 points and Nate Weaselhead added nine points and grabbed 15 rebounds as the Knights downed the Tigers in the North Star League opener for both teams at the Pavilion.

Andrew Boyd added nine points for Lakeside (1-1), which hosts Kootenai on Friday at 6 p.m. in the first game of the North Star League tournament at Wallace.

Justin Scheel had 13 points and 10 rebounds for Mullan (0-4), which plays Wallace on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the second game of the North Star League tournament.

Lakeside 15 12 20 8 - 57

Mullan 7 9 8 9 - 33

LAKESIDE - Higgins 7, McCully 6, Weaselhead 9, Chapman 3, Boyd 9, Gallegos 2, Nomee 5, McGee 10, Smith 4.

MULLAN - Tr. Henderson 4, Kotschevar 7, Trogden 4, Garritone 3, Scheel 13, Ty. Henderson 2, Litz 0, Johnson 0.

Christian Center 61

Pullman Christian 43

POST FALLS - Collin Bergeson scored 16 points to lead the Lions past the Eagles in a Mountain Christian League game at Post Falls Middle School.

Dennis Chekota had 15 rebounds and 10 points for Christian Center (2-0) travels to The Oaks on Friday.

Pullman Christ. 14 14 9 6 - 43

Christian Center 13 17 14 17 - 61

PULLMAN CHRISTIAN - Weaver 3, Siemanson 2, Lofford 17 (Jasper), Schaffer 5, Williams 5, Stone 11.

CHRISTIAN CENTER - Howard 15, Welch 8, Bergeson 16, McCloud 0, Storm 11, Chekota 10, Howard 0, Kuchenski 0, Lass 0, Hansen 0.

Chewelah 57

Kellogg 56

CHEWELAH, Wash. - Tyler Morgan had 14 points and 11 rebounds, but the Wildcats fell to the Cougars in a nonleague game.

Kellogg missed on a pair of shots late in regulation for the win.

Ryan McDonald had 10 points and 12 rebounds and Eric Fields had 11 points for Kellogg (2-2), which travels to Lakeland on Thursday.

Kellogg 19 12 14 11 - 56

Chewelah 14 14 9 20 - 57

KELLOGG - Wendt 4, Orsburn 0, Hulstrom 4, Reed 0, Beggerly 4, Serrano 9, Fields 11, Morgan 14, McDonald 10, Hadley 0.

CHEWELAH - Biancardy 6, B. Smith 0, Wieve 5, Monasmith 0, Naccarato 13, Johnston 17, Pugh 4, D. Smith 8.