PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Lewiston proves a tall order for Lake City

COEUR d’ALENE — Trystan Bradley scored nine first-quarter points, and tallied 13 of his 15 in the first half, as the Lewiston Bengals started strong and held off the Lake City Timberwolves 67-54 in 5A Inland Empire League play Saturday.

Lewiston (11-8, 3-2 5A IEL) led 24-13 after one quarter.

“The first quarter they executed exceptionally well, and we had trouble with their (6-7) kid,” Lake City assistant coach Kelly Reed said.

Kenny Louie-McGee scored 12 points for Lake City (6-12, 0-6), which came within two points midway through the third quarter. Duncan Butler added 11 points, and James Carlson blocked four shots.

“We played hard, moved the ball well ... ” Reed said of Lake City’s comeback. “It came down to they made more shots than we did.”

Lake City travels to Sandpoint on Tuesday.

Lewiston 24 11 14 18 — 67

Lake City 13 18 11 12 — 54

LEWISTON — Stamper 4, Driskill 5, Ahlers 0, Wilson 20, Way 8, Clarke 7, Baerlocher 0, Bradley 15, Richardson 7, Hewett 1.

LAKE CITY — Louie-McGee 12, Kolden 6, Womelduff 6, Butler 11, Hartz 7, Schaffer 0, Carlson 4, Manzardo 8.

Moscow 50

Sandpoint 40

SANDPOINT — After scoring 35 points in the previous matchup against the Bears, Davan Norris was held to 11 for the Bulldogs in a 4A Inland Empire League loss to the Bears at Les Rogers Court.

“Our biggest problem was that we finished 2 for 18 from the 3-point line,” Sandpoint coach Kent Leiss said. “We led 27-18 in the third quarter, but we just ran out of gas.”

Sandpoint’s JV team is down to five players, with some varsity reserves playing extra minutes in that game on Saturday so that the Bulldogs didn’t forfeit that game, at the same time cutting into varsity minutes.

“We just got tired in the fourth quarter,” Leiss said. “They came out with a strong defensive gameplan against Davan and we just didn’t do enough to pick up the slack.”

With Sandpoint’s (5-12, 1-2 4A IEL) loss, Lakeland (7-11, 3-0) wraps up the league title and will be the top seed to the 4A Region 1 tournament starting on Feb. 22 at North Idaho College.

Moscow is 1-14, 1-3.

Sandpoint hosts Lake City on Tuesday.

Moscow 4 7 10 29 — 50

Sandpoint 3 12 12 13 — 40

MOSCOW — Robertson 6, Bobier 0, Akey 0, Gosse 10, Dowdell 0, Klocke 0, Pickard 6, Myler 11, Stephens 11, Carscallen 4, Bronnecke 0, Davis 2.

SANDPOINT — Thompson 0, Curtiss 10, Reeves 0, Hunter 0, Norris 11, Sundquist 3, Rockwell 0, Johnson 0, Davis 9, Stockton 0, Perry 0, Collado 7, McClaughlin 0.

Kootenai 71

Clark Fork 62

CLARK FORK — Dylan Wright had 19 points and seven rebounds for the visiting Warriors, who overcame a slow start to down the Wampus Cats in North Star League play.

“We couldn’t throw a rock in the ocean, and everything they threw up went in,” said Kootenai coach TJ Hammond, whose team fell behind 13-0.

Gage Maitland hit two 3-pointers and scored nine points in the second quarter for Kootenai (10-9, 5-4 NSL), which took the lead midway through the third quarter, and led by as much as 13.

James Cope scored 23 points for Clark Fork (3-16, 2-6). Hunter Boudousquie had 13 points and eight rebounds. Spencer Jeffres snared 10 rebounds.

“We jumped on them pretty good at the end of the first quarter,” Clark Fork coach George Thornton said. “But in the third quarter, we had to sit Spencer out because of fouls. That was the big quarter.”

Kaden Hammond had four assists and three steals for Kootenai, which hosts Lakeside on Feb. 16. Clark Fork plays at Priest River on Thursday.

Kootenai 8 21 23 19 — 71

Clark Fork 18 17 10 17 — 62

KOOTENAI — Whipple 8, Keogh 11, Wright 19, Maitland 15, Hammond 3, David 0, Usdrowski 12, Ausman 3.

CLARK FORK — Heisel 0, Roper 9, Stevens 4, Cope 23, Jeffres 5, Icardo 0, Dick 0, Boudousquie 13, Moore 8.

Wallace 44

N.I. Christian 42

COEUR d’ALENE — Zack Welch hit the game-tying 3-pointer with 2 minutes left, and the Miners went on to beat the Royals in nonleague play at Holy Family Catholic School.

Welch had 13 points, Justin Bayer for Wallace (11-7), which plays host to Lakeside on Tuesday.

North Idaho Christian (19-2), which has lost twice to Wallace by a total of three points this season, plays host to Classical Christian on Monday.

Wallace 4 9 16 15 — 44

N.I. Christian 8 12 13 9 — 42

WALLACE — Farkas 8, Brackebusch 3, Welch 13, Gust 8, Dechand 1, Bayer 11.

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Scoring not provided.