PREP BASKETBALL: Lakeside girls to state for first time since '04

* GIRLS BASKETBALL

HARRISON FLATS - Senior Jasmine Zahir scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds and the top-seeded Lakeside Knights advanced to state for the first time since 2004, beating the Mullan Tigers 35-22 in the championship game of the 1A Division II District 1 tournament Thursday night at Kootenai High.

"It feels really good; we finally found a way around that state play-in game (when Lakeside was in 1A Division I), because that's what really got us," Lakeside coach Chris Dohrman said. "It's very nice to finally go to state. (The players) are aware of how long it's been; we talked about how many teams had this opportunity. They were playing for more than just themselves."

Cailyn Dohrman had five points and eight rebounds for Lakeside (10-10), which advances to state Feb. 19-21 at Nampa High. The Knights open state Thursday at 12:15 p.m. PST vs. the second-place team from District 4.

Lillian Rhea had six boards, and Talia Hendrickx had six assists and five steals.

Zahir hit 4 of 4 3-pointers - two 3s in the second quarter, one each in the third and fourth. She was fouled on the one she missed, and made all three free throws.

"She had her best game of the year tonight," Dohrman said. "Mullan definitely tried to close off the inside on us, and her shooting opened things up."

Charli Sadler scored 17 points and five steals for Mullan, which finished 8-13.

"We game-planned to stay in front of her; honestly we played really good defense on her and she still scored 17," Dohrman said.

"It was a great defensive game," Mullan coach Sherry Leitz said. "My girls played hard until the last buzzer. Lakeside played great defense against us. It is hard to end the season like this, but my girls played some great ball this week. I'm proud of what they accomplished this season."

Mullan 1 8 5 8 - 22

Lakeside 3 10 13 9 - 35

MULLAN - Sadler 17, Gallaway 0, Nele 0, Ploharz 0, Hirsch 2, Trogden 3, Gribble 0, Stepro 0.

LAKESIDE - Nomee 4, Zahir 15, Daman 0, Hendrickx 2, Rhea 5, Arthur 2, Dohrman 5, Lambert 2.

Priest River 54

Bonners Ferry 46

PRIEST RIVER - Katlyn Summers scored 17 points to lead the second-seeded Spartans past the third-seeded Badgers in the 3A District 1 tournament second-place game at Spartan Arena.

Priest River (15-7) made 28 of 33 from the free-throw line to advance to a state 3A tournament play-in game on Saturday in Grangeville against Weiser.

Savannah Woods scored 15 points for Bonners Ferry (12-11).

Bonners Ferry 11 16 11 8 - 46

Priest River 14 8 13 19 - 54

BONNERS FERRY - Oxford 9, Byers 2, Woods 15, Bateman 2, Hill 8, Davis 0, Everhart 2, Wenk 8.

PRIEST RIVER - Luckey 0, Clark 12, A. Summers 6, Krampert 3, Carey 2, Williams 14, K. Summers 17.

* BOYS BASKETBALL

Lakeland 66

Timberlake 23

RATHDRUM - Senior guard Tyrel Derrick scored 16 points and had six assists for the Hawks in a nonleague win over the Tigers at Hawk Court.

Senior post players Jay Plunkett and Slader Ray each scored 11 points, and Jake Ram hauled in 11 rebounds for Lakeland (14-5).

"We had good production from our posts and a good defensive effort by everybody," Lakeland assistant coach Bill Ryan said.

Sophomore guard Brayden Menti scored 10 points for Timberlake (5-14).

Lakeland plays a key 4A Inland Empire League game tonight at Sandpoint.

Timberlake plays an Intermountain League game Tuesday at Kellogg.

Timberlake 12 0 11 0 - 23

Lakeland 23 22 13 8 - 66

TIMBERLAKE - Somershoe 4, Smith 2, Hofer 0, George 0, Hausladen 2, Kirby 0, Baier 0, Hauck 3, Jones 2, Menti 10, Zhang 0, Kistler 0, Hardy 0, Nowlan 0.

LAKELAND - Ram 2, Davis 2, Cooper 2, Derrick 16, Ross 5, Henry 10, McDevitt 0, Zubaly 4, Plunkett 11, O'Neal 3, Ray 11.

* WRESTLING

Lakeland 49

Sandpoint 24

SANDPOINT - Austin Garitone (145 pounds) opened the dual with a pin and Tukota Tate-Vandever (152) followed with a decision, sparking the Hawks to a win over the Bulldogs.

Lakeland coach Rob Edelblute also praised the effort of Chris Washburn (182), who held his own in a 12-8 loss to Sandpoint standout Casey Randles.

"Chris gave Casey a run for his money," Edelblute said. "That's a big grudge match."

At 195, two of the top wrestlers in the state met, with Jake Williams of Sandpoint avenging two earlier losses to Killian Estes of Lakeland with a 6-4 victory.

Next up for Lakeland is the 4A Region 1 tournament Feb. 21 at Rathdrum.

145 - Austin Garitone, LL, p. Tanner McNelley, 1:02. 152 - Tuekota Tate-Vandever, LL, d. Mahonri Hunsaker, 4-1. 160 - Alex O'Shea, Spt, p. Britt Dickens, 2:51. 170 - Tyler Presser, Spt, d. Jared Walker, 7-1. 182 - Casey Randles, Spt, d. Chris Washburn, 12-8. 195 - Jake Williams, Spt, d. Killian Estes, 6-4. 220 - Tyler Brown, Spt, p. Chris Hunt, :13. 285 - Conor Shepherd, LL, p. Justin Hobson, 3:19. 98 - Will Edelbute, LL, by forfeit. 106 - Joe Shoemacher, LL, by forfeit. 113 - Brian Edelbute, LL, by forfeit. 120 - Larry Johnson, LL, p. August Johnson, 1:31. 126 - Tyler Siegford, LL, by forfeit. 132 - Preston Bunty, Spt, d. Justin Wright, 3-0. 138 - Jordan Pennoch, LL, d. Hyrum Hunsaker, 10-6.