St. Maries cruises past Warriors

| December 13, 2011 8:00 PM

• GIRLS

ST. MARIES - Senior Dusti Huddleston finished with 14 points, 12 rebounds and five steals to help the St. Maries Lumberjacks past the Kootenai Warriors 55-26 on Monday night.

Kerstin Auer added 17 points and eight rebounds, Kaytrin Thaut 16 points and 10 rebounds for St. Maries.

"Auer stepped up tonight and had a great game," Lumberjacks coach Jay Sines said. "We cut down our turnovers tonight and played good, hard defense - we were really aggressive."

St. Maries, who has battle injuries, had 16 turnovers.

Miranda Griggs scored six points for Kootenai (0-5), which faces the Post Falls freshman team on Friday at The Arena in Post Falls.

St. Maries (1-5) is off until the Freeman tournament, which begins Dec. 27.

Kootenai 4 12 4 6 - 26

St. Maries 18 13 10 14 - 55

KOOTENAI - Walton 2, Griggs 7, McInturff 2, Scheffelmaier 5, Benson 6, Andersen 0, Martin 2, Goodson 0, Donohoe 2, Carman 0.

ST. MARIES - McQueen 4, Aguirre 0, Sines 2, Waddell 0, Scott 2, Huddleston 14, Auer 17, Thaut 16.

N.I. Christian 34

Mt. St. Michael's 19

SPOKANE - Kana Shanley scored 10 point to go with four assists and nine steals in North Idaho Christian's nonleague win over Mt. St. Michael's.

Brenna Murison added nine rebounds for the Royals (5-1) who are back in action today vs. Christian Center School today at The HUB at Spokane Valley.

NI Christian 17 3 9 5 - 34

St. Micheal's 2 0 8 9 - 14

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN - Hobson 8, Shanley 10, Kaschmitter 2, Gjevre 2, Gwin 4, McCauley 3, Shaw 2, Ward 3, Haag 0, Murison 0.

MT. ST. MICHAEL'S - House 0, Netzel 0, Raynor 3, Durazo 1, Raynos 0, D. Vrann 9, R. Vrann 0. Rahamn 2.

• BOYS

Mt. St. Michael's 68

N.I. Christian 40

SPOKANE - Cory Lafollett scored 10 points and Jake Smeltzer and Nick Pearl each added eight in the Royals' nonleague loss to Mt. St. Michael's.

Pearl brought down nine rebounds, Lafollett added three steals and Aaron Kuchenski had three blocks for North Idaho Christian (1-4), which is back in action today vs. Christian Center School at The HUB in Spokane Valley.

NI Christian 7 15 6 12 - 40

St. Michael's 16 14 24 14 - 68

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN - Lafollett 10, Smeltzer 8, Pearl 8, Kuchenski 5, Sheets 4, Bootrh 1, Jesensky 4, Williams 0, Laws 0.

MT. ST. MICHAEL'S - Durazo 30, K. Graham 4, South 8, Gilchrist 2, Shelley 16, Netzel 6, A. Graham 0.