Lake City holds off Auburn in opener

COEUR d'ALENE - Riley Moreen had 13 points and eight rebounds to lead the Lake City Timberwolves boys basketball team past the Auburn Tigers 53-51 in the final game of the opening day at the Lake City Invitational on Thursday.

"It was a very lackluster effort on our part," Lake City assistant coach Kelly Reed said. "There wasn't much energy or enthusiasm. It didn't appear we wanted to be there and we didn't play hard for most of the game. We had spurts were we showed some energy, but for the most part, it didn't appear from the bench that we played very hard."

Lake City (6-2) will face Wilson (5-2) in the second semifinal tonight at 7 at Lake City High.

"Until we learn on a nightly basis to come ready to play hard, we're going to struggle a little bit," Reed said.

Justin Pratt had 12 points and five assists and Kyle Guice nine rebounds for Lake City.

Rio Paul scored 20 points for Auburn (5-2), which faces Lakeland today at 3:30 p.m.

Auburn 6 13 24 8 - 51

Lake City 13 13 17 10 - 53

AUBURN - Prater 4, Lee 13, Simmons 0, Ruffin 4, Paul 20, Momi 0, McNealy 1, Fisher 9.

LAKE CITY - Adams 7, Pratt 12, Hocking 2, Guice 6, Louis-McGee 0, Moreen 13, Dahl 2, Winger 9, Mitchell 2.

Wilson 47, Lakeland 44: The Hawks rallied from a 31-18 deficit at halftime, but were unable to close out the Rams in their first round matchup.

"We made some adjustments at halftime and the second half was ours," Lakeland coach Dave Stockwell said. "We took a two-point lead, but they retook the lead with 8 seconds left. We tried to run a play, but just came up short, but we played a pretty good second half."

Matt Horne scored 12 points and Alex Opland 11 points for Lakeland (4-4).

Wilson 14 17 5 11 - 47

Lakeland 8 10 15 11 - 44

WILSON - Matz 1, J. Brown 2, Jenkins 4, Thompson 4, Anderson 11, Smith 7, McCane 5, M. Brown 0, McMahon 0, Knox 7, Grey 6.

LAKELAND - Opland 11, Horne 12, Carr 0, Derrick 8, Millsap 3, Hanford 5, Simpson 5.

Puyallup 68, Sandpoint 44: Jeremiah Gagnon scored a team-high 16 points for the Bulldogs in a loss to the Vikings (3-5) in the opening game.

Garfield 67, South Kitsap 57: Tucker Haymond scored 18 points to lead Garfield past South Kitsap. Alvin Bakalarski scored 24 points for South Kitsap.

Sandpoint (1-7) faces South Kitsap (5-3) today in a consolation game at 2 p.m.

Puyallup will face Garfield in the semifinals today at 5:15 p.m.

LAKE CITY INVITATIONAL

At Lake City High

Thursday

Pullayup 68, Sandpoint 44

Garfield 67, South Kitsap 57

Wilson 47, Lakeland 44

Lake City 53, Auburn 51

Friday

Game 5 - Sandpoint vs. South Kitsap, 2 p.m.

Game 6 - Lakeland vs. Auburn, 3:30.

Game 7 - Puyallup vs. Garfield, 5:15.

Game 8 - Wilson vs. Lake City, 7.

Saturday

Game 9 - Loser Game 5 vs. Loser Game 6, noon. (7th-8th place game)

Game 10 - Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, 1:30 p.m. (consolation championship)

Game 11 - Loser Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8, 3:15 (3rd place game)

Game 12 - Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, 5. (championship game)