Herring wins girls race, leads Timberlake to team title

* CROSS COUNTRY

THOMPSON FALLS, Mont. - Natalie Herring won the girls 3.1-mile race at the Thompson Falls Invitational on Thursday, finishing in 19 minutes, 27 seconds to lead the Tigers to a team title.

Taylor Hammond finished fourth in 20:09, Kassidy Hammond sixth in 20:28, Kamy Waldram 11th in 21:17 and Keelie Lawler 20th in 22:13 for Timberlake.

Ryan Richardson was the top boys finisher for Timberlake, finishing ninth in 17:15, followed by Brayden Menti in 17:22 for 10th. Cherokee Avriett was 12th in 17:24, Logan Erny 13th in 17:25, Josh Waldram 14th in 17:27 for the Tigers, which finished second as a team.

Whitefish won the boys title with 41 points.

* BOYS SOCCER

Sandpoint 3

Lakeland 0

SANDPOINT - Jeremiah Gagnon broke a scoreless tie by bending a free kick into the upper right hand corner past a diving Cade Coffey in the 35th minute for the game's first goal, sparking the Bulldogs to victory over the Hawks in 4A Inland Empire League play at War Memorial Field.

Sandpoint (9-2-1, 3-0 4A IEL) posted its seventh shutout of the season. The Bulldogs are unbeaten in their past nine games, allowing just two goals during the streak.

Lakeland (3-11-1, 0-3) plays host to Lewiston on Tuesday.

First half - 1, Spt, Jeremiah Gagnon, free kick, 35:00. 2, Spt, Amos Crossingham (Joab Logan), 39:00. Second half - 3, Spt, Nick Rappaport (Amos Crossingham), 71:00.

Shots on goal - LL 4, Spt 14.

Saves - LL, Cade Coffey, 8; Spt, Jake Rookey, 1.

Coeur d'Alene 6

Moscow 4

COEUR d'ALENE - After racing to a 5-0 lead in a nonleague game against Moscow, the Vikings allowed four second-half goals, three off turnovers, in a win over the 4A Bears.

"We're definitely disappointed to give up goals in the second half," Coeur d'Alene coach Jeff Lake said. "The message (afterward) was you need to play a full 80 minutes. You've got to give it up to Moscow. Most teams would shut down and they fought hard. You come back and basically cut that down by over half."

Moscow's comeback attempt began five minutes into the second half. Forward Dru Bogden scored off a turnover deep in Cd'A territory, near the 18-yard line at the top of the penalty box. Alec Martin scored off another turnover by the Vikings (7-1-3), and put the ball in the back of the net near the 25-yard mark, which made it a 5-2 game. An own goal was scored by Moscow in the 53rd minute, as a Coeur d'Alene defender attempted to clear the ball on a header.

"We gave up some bad goals, finished flat and that happens," Lake said. "The second half was a comedy of errors for us. The guys came out thinking the game was over. It was a good learning experience."

Three starters who were out with injuries for nearly two weeks returned to play. Midfielder Braden Ridgewell, who had a sprained right foot, scored the game's first two goals within the first nine minutes.

Goalkeeper Garrett Boyce made two saves, in his first match since a concussion he suffered when he hit his head on the post making a save Sept. 19 in a 2-2 tie with Lake City.

Center fullback Chase Sanchez came back off a hip contusion.

"It was nice to get them back in the fold," Lake said.

Coeur d'Alene plays Saturday at Lake City.

First half - 1, Cd'A Braden Ridgewell (unassisted), 6:00. 2, Cd'A, Ridgewell (unassisted), 9:00. 3, Cd'A, Matt Hulquist (Kenny Brown), 20:00. 4, Cd'A, Brett Haney (Brown), 28:00. 5, Cd'A, Hulquist (Tristan Gisclair), 38:00. Second half - 6, Mos, Dru Bogden (unassisted), 45:00. 7, Mos, Alec Martin (unassisted), 46:00. 8, Cd'A, Brown (Hulquist), 51:00. 9, Mos, own goal, 53:00. 10, Mos, Joe Ewers (unassisted), 69:00.

Shots on goal - Mos 6, Cd'A, 12.

Saves - Mos, Nick Anderton 6, Cd'A, Garrett Boyce 2.

Lewiston 2

Post Falls 1

LEWISTON - No other information was available.

St. Maries 6

Priest River 1

ST. MARIES - Freshman goalkeeper Jared McGregor made one save and helped the host Lumberjacks to a win in his first varsity game as a starter, against the Spartans.

"Jared wants to be a goalkeeper," Lumberjacks coach Chris Renaldo said. "He got his first tryout today and he did a good job."

Goalkeeper Cody Posselt was out with a sore back for St. Maries (6-4, 4-1 CIL). Renaldo said he could return Saturday when the Lumberjacks host Bonners Ferry.

St. Maries seniors Ryan McNulty and Jake McGregor each scored two goals for the Lumberjacks, who led 5-1 at halftime.

First half - 1, SM, Ryan McNulty (unassisted), 9:00. 2, SM, Jacob McGregor (unassisted), 10:00. 3, PR, Cody McMillain (unassisted), 13:00. 4, SM, McGregor (unassisted), 25:00. 5, SM, Thomas Cook (Dillon Cox), 32:00. 6, McNulty (Cox), 39:00. Second half - 7, SM, Jesse Suchoski (McNulty), 46:00.

Shots on goal - PR 3, SM 17.

Saves - PR, Alex Irujo 9, SM, Jared McGregor 1.

* GIRLS SOCCER

Sandpoint 5

Lakeland 2

RATHDRUM - The Hawks scored two goals in the first eight minutes, but Corinne Ariss led the Bulldogs' comeback with two goals in 4A Inland Empire League play at Rotary Field.

Sandpoint (7-3, 3-0 4A IEL) outshot Lakeland (2-11, 0-3) 21-3.

Goal scorers for Lakeland were unavailable.

Lakeland travels to Timberlake on Saturday.

First half - 1, Lakeland, 2:00. 2, Spt, Corinne Ariss (free kick), 4:00. 3, Lakeland, 8:00. 4, Spt, Nan Kiebert (Emma Weme), 12:00. 5, Spt, Heidi Skinner (Sierra Scott), 33:00. Second half - 6, Spt, Ariss (Weme), 50:00. 7, Spt, Scott (Caroline Suppiger), 72:00.

Shots on goal - LL 3, Spt 21.

Saves - LL 14; Spt, Kayla Farrell 1, Paige DuMars 1.

Lewiston at

Post Falls

No report was received from the Trojans.

Coeur d'Alene

at Moscow

No report was received.

"I think everyone was kind of nervous with the first home-game jitters and playing in front of the crowd," Grap said. "We said that we needed to play with each other and not do anything special and play our game. I think after coach told us that, we really wanted to prove him wrong. We came out with the attitude that we're not going to let this tip hit the ground and not let anybody else win here."

NIC only had one serving error in the final two games.

"I told them if we really keep playing and let the things come out of us, whoever plays the best in the serve/receive attack was going to win," Kydd said. "Everyone looked comfortable in that in the first two games, but it seemed nobody wanted to play offense."

Freshman Maddi Seidl had 44 assists off the bench for NIC, and frosh reserve Brittany Aldridge added 10 kills and two digs.

"I told Maddi when she went to set Leeta the first five balls," Kydd said. "We didn't really have a hot hitter and don't really have one, but we knew we weren't going to beat them tipping the ball, but just playing powerful. Maddi plays with a lot of energy - not that (starting setter) Allison (Meehan) doesn't, it's just Maddi brings something different and Brittany coming in was instant offense tonight."

Britney Chilcott had 11 kills, Russia Robinson 22 digs, Larissa Claassen 13 digs for NIC, which hosts seventh-ranked Salt Lake on Saturday at 1 p.m. Salt Lake defeated No. 4 Southern Idaho 25-22, 26-24, 23-25, 25-23 on Thursday night in Twin Falls.

LeeNell Hernandez, Robinson and Claassen had three aces each for NIC.

"I hope we don't think it's something special again," Kydd said. "We don't need to do anything special. They already are a special group, but we just need to relax and go out and play and all the training you've done will show up."

Snow, which lost in four games to visiting Salt Lake last Friday to open conference play, travels to Southern Idaho on Saturday.

"This conference is the best in the nation for volleyball," Snow coach Keven John said. "Easy matches just don't exist. We served a little better in the first two games, but didn't stay in an offensive system the entire night and kind of stopped playing."

Madison Packard had 12 kills, Magen Hunter 33 assists for Snow.

"We've been having some focus issues closing out matches that I thought we fixed," John said. "But NIC did a fine job of closing out the match. They're a good team."