PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Litalien leads Post Falls to easy victory at Moscow

MOSCOW - Brooke Litalien scored 16 points to lead the Post Falls Trojans past the Moscow Bears 62-23 on Tuesday night at Bear Den.

Hallie Gennett scored 11 points, Katie King had eight steals, Priscilla Perrin seven rebounds for Post Falls (2-0), which hosts Lewiston in the 5A Inland Empire League opener for both next Tuesday at The Arena.

"I thought our defense played really well," Post Falls coach Marc Allert said. "Everyone played and did a good job. We forced 28 turnovers tonight, so a lot of our offense came from our defense."

Danielle Failor had six points and seven rebounds for Post Falls.

Chloe Quinnett had seven points for Moscow (1-4).

Post Falls 15 20 17 10 - 62

Moscow 4 6 0 13 - 23

POST FALLS - Allert 2, Gonzales 9, King 4, Meehan 2, Smith 4, Litalien 16, Gennett 11, Runkle 4, Failor 6, Perrin 4.

MOSCOW - Davis 0, Kucklick 0, Gorton 3, Engberg 1, Smith 2, Landeck 3, Stephens 5, Sprenger 2, Quinnett 7.

Coeur d'Alene 76

Sandpoint 22

SANDPOINT - Madison Sumner scored 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting and nabbed four steals to lead the Vikings (3-0), who held the Bulldogs (1-3) to just five second-half points after building a commanding 48-17 halftime lead at Les Rogers Court.

"They are exceedingly quick and extremely good ball handlers," first-year Sandpoint coach Bill Bender said of the Vikings.

Caelyn Orlandi added five points and eight assists, and Sydney Williams had 11 points and five rebounds for the Vikings.

Hailey Olin led the Bulldogs with eight points.

Coeur d'Alene returns to action Nov. 29-Dec. 1 at the Nike Northwest Invitational in Beaverton, Ore.

Coeur d'Alene 22 26 12 16 - 76

Sandpoint 8 9 1 4 - 22

COEUR d'ALENE - Parker 4, Sumner 16, Chalich 9, Orlandi 5, Callahan 3, Tackett 10, Matheson 0, Brainard 9, Wellsandt 0, Sasselli 0, Williams 11.

SANDPOINT - Shoening 4, Corless 3, Liband 0, Young 1, Alamillo 0, Speelmon 4, Williams 2, Martin 0, Olin 8, Delgado 0.

Lewiston 55

Lakeland 16

RATHDRUM - Karlee Wilson, who signed a letter of intent to play at Idaho last week, scored 16 points to lead the Bengals past the Hawks in a nonleague game at Hawk Court.

"We just ran into the two-time defending state champions," Lakeland coach Steve Seymour said. "They graduated two Division I athletes, but they're still plenty good."

Josie Coder had six points for Lakeland (1-4), which had 28 turnovers - 19 in the first half.

"Lewiston's defense did a good job of disrupting us and keeping us from running some offensive sets," Seymour said.

Lakeland travels to Cheney next Tuesday.

Lewiston (3-0) travels to Post Falls next Tuesday to open 5A Inland Empire League play.

Lewiston 15 13 19 8 - 55

Lakeland 6 5 3 2 - 16

LEWISTON - K. Wilson 16, Weeks 3, L. Wilson 13, K. Schlader 2, Teichmer 3, E. Schlader 7, Hobart 0, Wells 2, White 0, Hastings 11.

LAKELAND - Vanderhoof 0, St. Mark 0, Pote 3, Ward 3, Coder 6, Derby 2, Rotchford 2, Seymour 0, Kelsey 0, Pruitt 0, Ramus.

Bonners Ferry 46

St. Maries 39

ST. MARIES - Lakin Anxo had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Lumberjacks in a nonleague loss to the Badgers.

Chelsea Thaut scored seven points for St. Maries (1-3), which travels to the Coeur d'Alene JV next Tuesday.

Bonners Ferry 10 12 11 13 - 46

St. Maries 7 15 9 8 - 39

BONNERS FERRY - Kelly 4, McDonald 8, Davis 6, Foster 7, Oxford 13, Everhart 8.

ST. MARIES - McQueen 2, Schaum 0, Waddell 2, Brusseau 2, Thaut 7, Anxo 18, Auer 4, Flach 2, Posselt 2.