PREP BASKETBALL: Lakeland boys, girls bounce back with big wins

• BOYS

COLVILLE — The visiting Lakeland Hawks responded to a hot start by the Colville Indians, who scored 15 points in the first five minutes of a nonleague game, to win big, 69-41 on Saturday.

“They had some shots there in the first quarter where it could be a long night,” Lakeland assistant coach Bill Ryan said. “We turned up the defense, that helped. Coach (Dave) Stockwell called a timeout halfway through the first quarter, he chewed them out a little bit. The kids responded to that really well.”

Lakeland (2-2) embarked on a 13-0 second quarter run which helped the Hawks take a 28-27 halftime lead.

Andrew Knight finished with 14 points, eight rebounds and six steals. Forest Zubaly added another 14 points.

Alberto Cisneros of Colville scored seven points in the first quarter, but Lakeland held him scoreless until the fourth quarter. He finished with 13.

Lakeland plays at East Valley on Tuesday in nonleague action.

Lakeland 11 17 18 23 — 69

Colville 18 9 5 9 — 41

LAKELAND — Horne 5, Brueher 3, McDaniel 7, D. Knight 2, Cysewski 1, Vahey 0, Davis 11, McDevitt 7, Zubaly 14, A. Knight 14, Rey 8.

COLVILLE — Cisneros 13, Hinds 10, Martin 7, Smith 3, Benson 0, Romane 4, Sandayne 0, Lindquist 2.

Chiawana 67

Post Falls 50

PASCO, Wash. — Max McCullough led the way for Post Falls with 24 points and Jacob Pfennigs added nine points and 12 rebounds in a loss to Chiawana.

Andrey Boloshin scored 22 points to lead the Riverhawks.

The Trojans were behind 41-36 after three quarters, but were outscored 28-14 in the final frame.

“They just made some shots in the fourth, and they pulled away,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said. “We had to scramble and force the issue, and more open shots came up.

“We battled hard, just didn’t get it done in the fourth,” he added. “This will be a tool to learn from, but I’m proud of my guys for battling and not quitting.”

Post Falls (4-1) travels to Tacoma on Thursday for the three-day Curtis Winter Classic tournament.

Post Falls 12 13 11 14 — 50

Chiawana 12 12 15 28 — 67

POST FALLS — McLean 1, Millsap 3, McKeown 0, McCullough 24, McCliment-Call 4, Bourgard 3, Pfennigs 9, G. Gering 0, Hillman 6.

CHIAWANA — Boloshin 22, King 15, Taylor 2, Joseph 7, Penney 2, Hansen 5, Garcia 0, Cazier 14.

East Valley 39

Sandpoint 30

SANDPOINT — The defense is there, but the offense is still finding its rhythm, as the Bulldogs lost a defensive slugfest to the Knights in nonleague action at Les Rogers Court.

Sophomore Robbie Johnson scored a game-high 13 points to go with five boards and two assists for the Bulldogs (1-4), who are still trying to recover from missing nearly 10 practices to start the season. Sandpoint was held to single digits for the first three quarters, but still managed to keep the game close until a pivotal third quarter, when they were outscored 14-5 by the Knights (2-4).

“Defensively, I’m really proud of our guys. We just had three mental lapses to start the second half,” said Bulldogs head coach Kent Leiss, who said the biggest problem is a lack of conditioning. “We’re behind; waiting for the football team to get here has slowed us down. We’ll get there, we just need to improve our conditioning and offensive execution.”

Carlos Collado added six points and six boards, and Davan Norris five and five in defeat.

Sandpoint hosts Bonners Ferry on Saturday for the annual Moose Madness game.

East Valley 9 10 14 6 — 39

Sandpoint 7 5 5 13 — 30

EAST VALLEY — Clayton 4, Deboodt 0, Jensen 8, Jacobs 5, Rogers 2, Hillard 10, Jacobs 0, Holecek 10.

SANDPOINT — Norris 5, Sundquist 5, Johnson 13, Davis 2, Perry 0, Collado 6, McLaughlin 1, Curtiss 0, Reeves 0, Thompson 0.

Christian Heritage 68

Christian Center 46

EDWALL, Wash. — Jacob Rossey scored 32 points to lead the Patriots past the Lions in a Mountain Christian League game.

Luke Ryssel scored 15 points and Christian Cheyne added 10 points for Christian Center (1-3, 1-2 MCL), which faces Pullman Christian on Monday at The HUB in Liberty Lake.

Christian Center 18 12 5 11 — 46

Christian Heritage 15 19 19 15 — 58

CHRISTIAN CENTER — Howard 8, Ryssel 15, Hansen 8, Jerome 4, Cheyne 10, Bowland 1, Macumber 0.

CHRISTIAN HERITAGE — Rossey 32 (Jacob), Payne 0, Herron 17, Simons 0, Hoots 0, Hagreen 2, Kent 15, G. Hemingway 2, L. Hemingway 0.

• GIRLS

Lakeland 50

Colville 19

COLVILLE — The Hawks bounced back from Friday night’s loss to Post Falls in the Prairie Pig with a vengeance, routing the Indians in nonleague play behind Kassadi Bilski’s 11 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks.

“This was a great game by our players to deal with the disappointment of last night and get a few hours a sleep, hop on the bus and to play really well. They put a lot of effort in our spirit game. It was a real impressive effort on our part.”

Tauna Kirk added 13 points and five rebounds, and Faith Bodak had 14 points for Lakeland (3-3).

Lakeland plays at East Valley on Tuesday.

Lakeland 10 10 12 18 — 50

Colville 6 2 3 8 — 19

LAKELAND — St. Mark 0, Bunch 0, Prockish 2, Edinger 0, Bodak 14, Kirk 13, Charles 2, Pruitt 6, Dowd 2, Bilski 11.

COLVILLE — Morris 1, Zena 3, Leu 0, Hartman 1, Larsen 2, Merritt 0, Main 7, Petrey 2, Wolfrien 0, Pierce 0, Rainer 0, Cox 3.

East Valley 42

Sandpoint 39

SANDPOINT — Senior Madi Schoening scored a game-high 16 points to go with seven boards and six steals, and the Bulldogs had a chance to win late, but could not close the deal in a loss to the Knights in nonleague play at Les Rogers Court.

Sophomore Grace Kirscher added 15 points for the Bulldogs (3-5), as she and Schoening scored all but eight points in defeat.

Kirscher nailed a 3-pointer to make it a one-point game with just over a minute left, but the Knights (4-1) made their free throws and put the game away.

“We played good defense and ran the press well. It was much improved over the other night,” said Bulldogs head coach Duane Ward, referring to the one-sided loss against Lake City. “East Valley is a good ball club. They took fifth last year in the state of Washington.”

BreLynn Converse made both of her attempts from beyond the arc to add six points for the Bulldogs, who host Timberlake on Tuesday.

East Valley 10 12 12 8 — 42

Sandpoint 6 16 6 11 — 39

EAST VALLEY — Wilkinson 6, Burland 8, Phelan 2, Bastin 8, Burland 14, Bastin 2, Fletcher 2.

SANDPOINT — Schoening 16, Converse 6, Couch 0, Hicks 0, Kirscher 15, Darrah 0, Ward 0, DuMars 0, Kaul 0.

Bonners Ferry 46

Newport 41

BONNERS FERRY — Sophomore Trinity Golder scored 14 points and soph Kadi Bateman added 13 as the Badgers beat the Grizzlies in nonleague play.

Hadley Stratton scored 13 of her 19 points in the first half for Newport.

“Miranda Wenk did an awesome job on Stratton in the fourth quarter,” Bonners Ferry coach Chris Chatburn said of his sophomore center. “She did a great job on her with four fouls.”

Bonners Ferry (3-1) plays at the Lake City junior varsity on Monday.

Newport 8 12 7 14 — 41

Bonners Ferry 11 13 11 11 — 46

NEWPORT — Rosen 6, Huang 6, Schoener 8, Earl 2, Stratton 19, Walker 0.

BONNERS FERRY — Bauer 2, Skeen 6, Oxford 3, Spangler 2, Wenk 5, Coughlin 0, Bateman 13, Donn 0, Webster 0, Golder 14, Davis 1.

St. Maries JV 53

Genesis Prep 41

POST FALLS — Kacie Haeg scored 18 points to lead the St. Maries junior varsity past the Jaguars.

Bella Murkatete finished with 17 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks for Genesis Prep.

Shaye Schreibeis added 12 points for the Jaguars (4-4) which hosts Clark Fork on Friday.

St. Maries plays at Kellogg on Monday.

St. Maries 10 19 13 11 — 53

Genesis Prep 10 8 6 16 ­— 41

ST. MARIES JV — Crawford 4, Davenport 5, Haeg 18, Cordell 4, Wilks 8, Borgman 7, Krew 2, Roff 5.

GENESIS PREP — Morrow 2, Schroeder 7, Schreibeis 12, Martin 2, Scribner 0, Jones 1, Murekatete 17.