PREP ROUNDUP: Hot shooting in first half paces Trojans to win
* BOYS BASKETBALL
SANDPOINT - Post Falls made five 3-pointers in the first half - two by Dalton Thompson, and one each from Matt Hillman, Keaton Corr and Max McCullough - to open up an early lead en route to a 54-46 victory over Sandpoint on Thursday night at Les Rogers Court.
Joe Pfennigs led a balanced attack for Post Falls (8-10) with nine points.
Jeremiah Gagnon poured in 25 points for Sandpoint (2-14).
Sandpoint travels to Moscow on Saturday.
Post Falls 20 11 9 14 - 54
Sandpoint 12 14 10 10 - 46
POST FALLS - Hall 4, McKeown 0, Davenport 7, Pfennigs 9, Jackson 3, Hilliman 8, McCullough 3, Thompson 6, Corr 3, Gibson 2.
SANDPOINT - Schwartz 1, Rodriguez 9, Burgstahler 0, Alsager 7, Nelson 4, Gagnon 25.
Lakeside 69
Mullan 31
PLUMMER - Brandon Gauthier came off the bench to score a game-high 15 points for the host Knights in the North Star League victory over the Tigers.
Another reserve, Jordan Meshell, added 10 points and three assists for the Knights (7-10, 4-1), who moved into a tie for first with Wallace in the league. Doug Schatz had eight points and seven rebounds, Jordan Nilson seven assists, Matt Stensgar six rebounds.
Tyler Henderson had 12 points and seven rebounds for Mullan (1-15, 0-8).
Lakeside returns to action Feb. 9 at Clark Fork.
Mullan 4 7 8 12 - 31
Lakeside 10 20 20 19 - 69
MULLAN - Barnes 0, Henderson 12, Dykes 0, Placencio 9, C. Johnson 5, P. Johnson 5.
LAKESIDE - Schatz 8, Kolar 7, Gauthier 15, Boyd 8, Mitchell 3, Nomee 4, Gallegos 2, Nilson 0, Stensgar 2, Daman 0, Meshell 10, Brown 8, Davis 2.
Cd'A Charter 68
Clark Fork 41
CLARK FORK - Bryan Smith scored 33 points - tying the school record of Greg Roman set two years ago - to lead the Panthers, who made 10 3-pointers in a nonleague win against the Wampus Cats.
Christian Pedersen scored 25 points for Coeur d'Alene Charter (12-5), which travels to Valley Christian on Saturday.
Axel Anderson had 13 points and 10 rebounds, Joey Hazinsky 10 rebounds and Zack Klein 10 points and five assists for Clark Fork (4-13), which travels to Wallace on Saturday.
Cd'A Charter 22 14 19 13 - 68
Clark Fork 13 11 8 9 - 41
COEUR d'ALENE CHARTER - Pedersen 25, May 0, Hallett 4, Johnson 3, Stellflug 0, Adams 0, Moreno 3, Whealon 0, Smith 33.
CLARK FORK - Klein 10, Hazinsky 6, Bowen 0, Edstrom 0, Taylor 0, A. Anderson 13, Nesbitt 6, E. Anderson 1, G. Boudesquie 0, Bahr 5, Regalia 4.
N.I. Christian 58
Christian Heritage 53
EDWALL, Wash. - Paul Connelly had 23 points, three steals and three assists to lead the Royals past the Patriots in a Mountain Christian League game.
Nathan Osterberg had seven rebounds for North Idaho Christian (6-12, 5-10 MCL), which hosts Christian Heritage in a makeup game on Saturday at Canfield Middle School.
Jacob Rossey scored 22 points for Christian Heritage.
N.I. Christian 10 13 13 22 - 58
Christian Heritage 12 14 12 15 - 53
NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN - Osterberg 8, Sheetz 4, Jesensky 7, Booth 2, P. Connelly 23, J. Connelly 2, Kuckenski 2, Chersin 10, Schreibeis 0.
CHRISTIAN HERITAGE - Herron 15, Rossey 22, Cousins 10, Rediejo 4, Xu 2, Ricketts 0.
Kootenai Thunder 59
Christian Center 51 (OT)
LIBERTY LAKE - Derek Hansen had 16 points, 11 rebounds and five assists for the Lions, who lost to the Kootenai Thunder in a Mountain Christian League game at the HUB Sports Center.
Jens Kuetemeyer had 22 points, six assists and four steals for Christian Center (7-10, 7-7 MCL), which faces Logos on Saturday at the HUB.
Andrew Spayth scored 24 points for Kootenai Thunder.
Kootenai Thunder 8 15 10 16 9 - 59
Christian Center 8 13 10 18 2 - 51
KOOTENAI THUNDER - T. Jensen 19, S. Jansen 2, Spayth 24, C. Roop 4, J. Roop 0, Crosby 7, Perry 0, Soderberg 2.
CHRISTIAN CENTER - D. Hansen 16, Turner 0, Johnson 8, Kuetemeyer 22, Dr. Hansen 5, Howard 0, Ryssel 0.
* GIRLS BASKETBALL
Timberlake 43
St. Maries 37
ST. MARIES - Jessica Norlander scored 17 points to lead the Tigers (4-15) past the Lumberjacks in nonleague play.
Lakin Anxo had 13 points and 10 rebounds for St. Maries (6-13). Haylee Waddell had six rebounds, Chelsea Thaut six assists for the Lumberjacks, who play at Kellogg on Saturday in the "Brawl for the Ball" spirit game.
No. 4 seed Timberlake plays top-seeded Priest River on Monday at 5:45 p.m. at Lakeland High in the first round of the 3A District 1 tournament. No. 3 Kellogg plays No. 2 Bonners Ferry at 7:30.
Timberlake 11 13 7 12 - 43
St. Maries 7 15 7 8 - 37
TIMBERLAKE - George 3, S. Malloy 10, Rhodes 2, Owen 3, Gardom 6, Fitzmorris 2, Hardy 0, Norlander 17, K. Malloy 0.
ST. MARIES - McQueen 0, Basham 2, Waddell 6, Brusseau 0, Thaut 6, Anxo 13, Cordell 5, Scott 0, Auer 0, Flock 3, Posselt 2.
Cd'A Charter 56
Clark Fork 25
CLARK FORK - Lexi Turkenburg poured in 42 points and the visiting Panthers (16-3) got strong play from their bench in the second half of the nonleague game.
Lyndsie Kiebert scored eight points to lead Clark Fork (7-12), which was missing three starters (not counting one lost for the season early in the year).
No. 2 seed Coeur d'Alene Charter plays No. 3 St. Maries on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Coeur d'Alene High in the first round of the 2A District 1-2 tournament.
Cd'A Charter 8 10 17 21 - 56
Clark Fork 9 8 7 1 - 25
COEUR d'ALENE CHARTER - Ramb 2, Ployhar 0, Bartlett 0, Baxter 0, Haman 0, Zasadny 4, Turkenburg 42, Babich 0, Jensen 8.
CLARK FORK - Westphal 0, Frazer 4, Ly. Kiebert 8, Le. Kiebert 6, Heigis 7, Wold 0, Kala 0.
Moscow 41
Sandpoint 38
MOSCOW - No. 2 seed Sandpoint led for much of the game, but top-seeded Moscow rallied late for a victory over the Bulldogs in the semifinal game of the 4A Region 1 girls basketball tournament at Bear Den.
Sandpoint (13-9) will play host to No. 3 Lakeland (3-17) in a loser-out game next Tuesday. The winner travels to Moscow next Thursday, needing to beat the Bears twice for the regional title.
Christian Heritage 49
N.I. Christian 37
EDWALL, Wash. - Nina Klein scored 25 points to lead the Patriots past the Royals in a Mountain Christian League game.
Kana Shanley had 11 points, five assists and three steals and Madison Canale scored 10 points for North Idaho Christian (14-8, 10-4 MCL), which hosts Christian Heritage on Saturday in a makeup game at Canfield Middle School.
N.I. Christian 10 11 7 9 - 37
Christian Heritage 16 9 9 15 - 49
NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN - Canale 10, Prosch 5, Ward 6, Shanley 11, Murison 3, Settle 2, Haag 0, Andrews 0, Gjevre 0, Shaw 0.
CHRISTIAN HERITAGE - Klein 25, Larkin 5, Knotts 1, Yoder 13, Stone 2, Catanes 2, Rossey 1.
* WRESTLING
Post Falls 66
Lake City 14
COEUR d'ALENE - Elijah Bennett (220 pounds), Justin Farnsworth (285), Alius De La Rosa (106), Peter Berger (120), Tyler Mahal (138), Seth McLeod (170) and Ryan Failor (195) had pins for the visiting Trojans, ranked second in this week's IdahoWrestlingNews.com poll, who finished its dual season 16-2.
A bright spot for Lake City, coach Corey Owen said, was Derek Wilkinson's 6-2 win over Alexander Stroh at 152.
Due to illness among its wrestlers and coaches, Bonners Ferry did not send its team.
Lake City visits Lewiston, ranked third in 5A, tonight.
Post Falls returns to action Feb. 16 at the 5A Region 1 tournament in Rathdrum.
220 - Elijah Bennett, PF, p. Austin Porter, 6:10. 285 - Justin Farnsworth, PF, p. Zion Dixon, :51. 98 - Richard Warner, LC, by forfeit. 106 - Alius De La Rosa, PF, p. Garrett Harrison, 1:16. 113 - Lucas Bolster, PF, tf. Nathan Lambert, 16-1. 120 - Peter Berger, PF, p. Corey Wells, time unavailable. 126 - Drake Foster, PF, d. Nick Wells, 6-2. 132 - Tannar Riekena, PF, tf. Michael Carr, 17-0. 138 - Tyler Mahal, PF, p. Jeremy Garcia, :41. 145 - Stephen Ost, PF, tf. Jacob Farnsworth, 14-0. 152 - Derek Wilkinson, LC, d. Alexander Stroh, 6-2. 160 - Jared Lambert, LC, tf. Austin Brown, 24-7. 170 - Seth McLeod, PF, p. Cory Cook, LC, 1:38. 182 - Cody Johnson, PF, by forfeit. 195 - Ryan Failor, PF, p. Justus Grammer, :51.
Lakeland beats
Sandpoint, Moscow
SANDPOINT - Sophomore Killian Estes (170) won twice for Lakeland, avenging an earlier loss to Cade Armstrong of Moscow along the way as the three 4A Inland Empire League squads gathered for a tri-match.
"Against Moscow we came out really sluggish, but we wrestled against Sandpoint really well," Lakeland assistant coach Zach Horsley said.
Lakeland competes in the Bonners Ferry tournament today and Saturday.
LAKELAND 48, MOSCOW 21
170 - Killian Estes, LL, p. Cade Armstrong, 5:58. 182 - Tanner Read, LL, p. Will Barber, 1:03. 195 - Joey Rintjes, Mos, d. Conor Shepherd, 6-3. 220 - Jared Paul, Mos, p. Josh Kaplan, 5:50. 285 - Zac Carscallen, Mos, p. Brandon Kurtz, :43. 98 - Tyler Siegford, LL, by forfeit. 106 - Justin Wright, LL, by forfeit. 113 - Tyson Hendricks, LL, by forfeit. 120 - Austin Hoobler, LL, by forfeit. 126 - Dustin Hannawalt, LL, p. A.J. Bruce, :20. 132 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mos, by forfeit. 138 - Chad Miller, LL, p. Conal Thie, :59. 145 - Will Putman, LL, p. Patrick Owsley, 5:58. 152 - Jesse Putman, LL, p. Riley Hanks, :38. 160 - Sam Bruce, Mos, d. Karsen Walker, 6-4.
LAKELAND 64, SANDPOINT 21
195 - Conor Shepherd, LL, p. Mita Stormo, 5:09. 220 - Josh Traverse, Spt, p. Josh Kaplan, 5:24. 285 - Tallon Egbers, Spt, p. Brandon Kurtz, :54. 98 - Tyler Siegford, LL, by forfeit. 106 - Justin Wright, LL, by forfeit. 113 - Tyson Hendricks, LL, md. Tanner McNelly, 9-0. 120 - Austin Hoobler, LL, by forfeit. 126 - Dustin Hannawalt, LL, p. Brent Buchmiller, :51. 132 - Lewis Dunton, Spt, by forfeit. 138 - Chad Miller, LL, p. Tyler Presser, 1:28. 145 - Brandon Yount, LL, p. Alex O'Shea, 3:24. 152 - Jesse Putman, LL, p. Colton Redding, 1:20. 160 - Karsen Walker, LL, p. Chris Bunty, 4:39. 170 - Killian Estes, LL, p. John McCormick, 3:32. 182 - Tyler Brown, Spt, d. Tanner Read, 7-2.