PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Timberlake, Lakeside advance to state play-in games
<p>Wallace High's Morgan Hill (12) and Lakeside's Jory Chittenden dive to the floor for a loose ball Thursday in the 1A Division 1 District 1 girls basketball tournament at Lake City High School in Coeur dÕAlene.</p>
<p>Lakeside High SchoolÕs Deeanna Crowe drives to the hoop against Wallace defender Jordan Browning in the fourth quarter.</p>
SPIRIT LAKE - Timberlake held Kellogg to three field goals over the final three quarters en route to a 50-23 victory in the second-place game of the 3A District 1 tournament Thursday night at Timberlake High.
Timberlake (15-8) will play Kimberly (9-15), the District 4 runner-up, on Saturday at 2 p.m. PST in McCall in a state play-in game.
Kellogg finished 13-8.
Kellogg hit five field goals in jumping out to a 12-7 lead after one quarter.
"They started out in a triangle-and-two on us, and we had a rough shooting quarter (2 for 13)," Timberlake coach Matt Miller said. "After that we picked up the defense, and they only had three field goals the rest of the game."
Keelie Lawler scored 18 points and Jessica Norlander had 10 of her 14 points in the second half for Timberlake, which the night before led Priest River by seven points entering the fourth quarter of the district title game, only to see the Spartans rally for a six-point victory.
"That was a tough loss; I was real interested to see how the kids handled it," Miller said.
Andee Wendt led Kellogg with six points.
Kellogg 12 0 4 7 - 23
Timberlake 7 11 22 10 - 50
KELLOGG - Garner 3, Wendt 6, Roberts 0, Toews 0, Stewart 2, Gibbons 3, Sheppard 2, Carter 1, Arthur 2, Lo 0, Sims 0, Gibbs 0, Chambers 0, Visk 0, McDonald 4.
TIMBERLAKE - R. Powell 0, Gardom 4, Rhodes 4, Rocheleau 0, E. Powell 0, Kirby 5, Seubert 3, Fitzmorris 2, Norlander 14, Simpson 0, Lawler 18, Mallet 0.
St. Maries 46
Cd'A Charter 42 (OT)
HARRISON FLATS - Senior Kari Ghramm scored six of her 13 points in overtime, including a couple of key baskets late as the second-seeded Lumberjacks beat the third-seeded Panthers in a loser-out game of the 2A District 1-2 tournament at Kootenai High.
St. Maries (11-9) plays No. 1 seed Grangeville (17-4) tonight at 6 at Troy High in the championship game, needing to beat the Bulldogs twice for the district title.
Coeur d'Alene Charter, which finished 9-13, hit a free throw in the waning seconds to force overtime. St. Maries went on to beat Charter for the fourth time in four tries this season, though this was the closest of the four games.
"We just didn't come ready to play," said Lakeside coach Jay Sines, whose team shot 16 of 69 from the floor. "Charter, I thought they played their best game of the season (of the four) against us, hustling, getting loose balls."
Kelsey Auer had 13 points, 14 rebounds and three steals for St. Maries. Kerstin Auer had 11 points, Chelsea Thaut six rebounds, Haylee Waddell five steals and five assists.
Mae Alexander led Charter with 12 points.
Cd'A Charter 4 13 8 9 8 - 42
St. Maries 10 11 2 11 12 - 46
COEUR d'ALENE CHARTER - Alexander 12, Bartlett 4, Benefield 2, Haman 8, Zasadny 2, Overoye 0, Verhaeghe 4, Steinberg 0, Jensen 10.
ST. MARIES - Holder 0, Ghramm 13, Waddell 4, Brusseau 0, Kel. Auer 13, Thaut 3, Flach 2, Cordell 0, Ker. Auer 11.
Lakeside 54
Wallace 38
COEUR d'ALENE - The Knights pulled away in the fourth quarter by going on a 19-4 burst to beat the Miners in Game 3 of a best-of-three series to win the 1A Division I District 1 championship at Lake City High.
Lakeside plays Saturday at St. Maries in a state play-in game against Genesee, the third-place team from the District 2 tournament.
"I thought the girls played really well," Lakeside coach Stacey Sonder said. "We lost the first game by a couple of little mistakes and we played really well. All of them contributed tremendously."
It was Lakeside's fifth district title in the last six seasons.
Junior Shailee Zachary led the Knights (11-12) with 11 points. Cailyn Dohrman and Deeanna Crowe each had nine rebounds, and Avery Brown-Sonder grabbed eight rebounds.
Emily Nelson, Jordan Browning and Sam Woody each scored six points for Wallace, which finished 15-6.
Lakeside 7 18 10 19 - 54
Wallace 14 4 16 4 - 38
LAKESIDE - Rhea 6, Duncan 6, Zahir 6, Chittenden 1, Hendrickx 5, Crowe 2, Dohrman 8, Shamburg 2, Zachary 11, Brown-Sonder 7.
WALLACE - Brackebusch 3, Bennett 1, Hill 6, Farkas 1, Denson 2, Woody 6, Nelson 6, Hogamier 5, Majszak 2, Browning 6.