LAKE CITY INVITATIONAL: Hot shooting sparks Trojans in romp over South Kitsap
<p>JAKE PARRISH/Press Lake City's Garrett Flolo soars past Kentwood's Rayvaughn Bolton for a lay-up during the first half of a match-up on Tuesday at the Lake City Invitational tournament at Lake City High School.</p>
<p>JAKE PARRISH/Press Lake City's Kenneth Louie-McGee gets a low pass off around Kentwood's Eli'Sha Sheppard during the second half of a face-off on Tuesday at the Lake City Invitational at Lake City High School.</p>
COEUR d’ALENE — For a time, it seemed as if Post Falls senior Max McCullough couldn’t miss on Tuesday night.
Then his teammates got rolling and they couldn’t miss.
By the time the buzzer had sounded, the Trojans had outscored the South Kitsap Wolves 59-26 in the final three quarters of an 82-44 win in the Lake City Invitational.
“We’ve been playing some really good teams in the last five to six games,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said. “In practice today, we said that we needed to keep believing in our shooters. (On Monday), we had some great looks, but they just didn’t go in. We had confidence and all of a sudden we get some confidence and it starts rolling.”
Post Falls went 1-2 in the Curtis Holiday Classic, then fell to Kentwood on Monday.
“We’ve been tested, and it’s done what we wanted it to do,” McLean said. “It’s exposed some of our weaknesses and we’ve worked on them. We’re pretty good at some things, but if we can keep improving, we should be pretty good by the end of the season. Once we get to league, hopefully we’ll have some things in order.”
McCullough scored a game-high 31 points as the Trojans shot 11 of 21 from beyond the 3-point line.
“Thought Max, when they went to the box and 1 — which we were prepared for — a lot of high school kids will force the issue,” McLean said. “Max is the epitome of what we preach in our program and went out and drew their defense and it allowed other guys to get loose. He accepted it and let the guys come to him and it allowed his teammates to get going. I’m very proud of a kid that does his job and if they’re going to allow them to do this, he didn’t force the issue. I was proud of his effort and this won’t be the only time we see this.”
Eric Wattree scored 22 points for South Kitsap, which beat Sandpoint on Monday.
Post Falls 23 25 15 19 — 82
South Kitsap 18 9 12 5 — 44
POST FALLS — McLean 3, Millsap 13, McKeown 2, McCullough 31, Haines 4, McCliment-Call 6, Haines 3, Pfennigs 6, Gering 2, Hillman 12, Trom 0.
SOUTH KITSAP — Strutz 2, McMorris 5, Mayne 6, Byrd 2, Williams 1, Wattree 22, Tomkiewicz 5, Al-Raihawi 1.
Kentwood 65, Lake City 39: Kenny Louie-McGee scored 13 points for the Timberwolves, who trailed 45-36 after the third quarter.
“Executed what we wanted to do,” Lake City coach Jim Winger said. “We’re just trying to get the kids get things done right for four quarters. The inexperience thing is beyond us now and we’ve played seven games. You’ve got to finish and they wound up wearing us down. We got a lot out of it, but moral victories are only going to get you so far.”
James Carlson scored 12 points for Lake City (2-5), which concludes the tournament today at noon against Mountain Home.
“We just broke down on a couple things and it went from a four point hole to 18 quickly,” Winger said. “And you’re fighting and trying to gamble, and it’s like trying to run uphill against a team like that, especially with some sophomores about that. We’re proud of the effort and with what they did for three quarters, but we’ve got to get through four quarters.
RayVaughn Bolton scored 13 points for Kentwood (7-2), which faces Sandpoint tonight at 5.
Lake City 15 9 12 3 — 39
Kentwood 9 18 18 20 — 65
LAKE CITY — Louie-McGee 13, Kolden 3, Womelduff 0, Butler 2, Hartz 0, Hunter 5, Carlson 12, Flolo 2, Manzardo 2, Polow 0, Sears 0.
KENTWOOD — Lee 0, Millon 12, Bolton 13, Benson 5, Kramer 3, Roggenbagh 9, Gill 2, Sheppard 6, Sanchez 4, Lubonn 9.
Timberline 59, Lakeland 36: Lakeland was on the wrong end of some hot shooting by Timberline, as the Hawks lost a game in the Lake City Invitational.
“They came out shooting the ball pretty well,” Lakeland assistant coach Bill Ryan said. “They had six threes in the first half.”
Andrew Knight scored 15 points and had nine rebounds for Lakeland (3-6).
Guard Brock Rice, the son of Boise State head basketball coach Leon Rice, scored a game-high 26 points for Timberline, drilling three 3-pointers in the first half.
Lakeland plays South Kitsap at 3:15 p.m. in consolation play.
Lakeland 5 8 14 9 — 36
Timberline 13 23 15 8 — 59
LAKELAND — Horne 0, Brueher 3, D. Knight 0, Vahey 7, Davis 6, McDevitt 2, Zubaly 4, A. Knight 15, Ray 0.
TIMBERLINE — Webber 0, Denner 5, Hamrick 0, Rice 26, Wagner 3, Ford 7, Thornsberry 0, Mueller 0, Livingston 2, Grejo 0, Larson 11, Clayton 5.
Mountain Home 48, Sandpoint 36: Jymon Garretson had 22 points and four rebounds to lead the Tigers past the Bulldogs.
Davan Norris had 12 points and four rebounds for Sandpoint (2-7), which concludes the tournament tonight against Kentwood of Covington, Wash., at 5.
Mountain Home 9 11 11 17 — 48
Sandpoint 7 6 7 16 — 36
MOUNTAIN HOME — Bethel 6, Wright 0, Smith 3, Egusquiza 3, Woodruff 13, McKenzie 0, Garretson 22, Morris 0, Klein-Walden 0, Garrett 0.
SANDPOINT — Thompson 0, Curtiss 0, Reeves 3, Hunter 0, Norris 12, Sundquist 0, Rockwell 0, Johnson 2, Davis 5, Stockton 0, Perry 0, Collado 10, McClaughlin 4.