PREP BOYS SOCCER: Timberwolves rally past Lewiston

COEUR d’ALENE — Beau Chandler scored on an assist from Cole Fawcett in the 67th minute, rallying the Lake City Timberwolves past the Lewiston Bengals in a 5A Inland Empire League match on Tuesday at the Irma Anderl Soccer Complex at Lake City High.

“It was a great team win,” first-year Lake City coach Alan Rich said. “All eight seniors stepped up, played the entire way and played awesome. It was a good team effort. We defended well, transitioned through the midfield well and had a fair share of shots on goal.”

Travis Swallow tied the match on an assist from Riley Glover in the 50th minute for Lake City (5-6-1, 3-2 5A IEL), which concludes the regular season at Coeur d’Alene on Thursday.

Lewiston finishes 1-5 in league and will be the fourth seed to the 5A Region 1 tournament, playing at the winner of Thursday’s game on Saturday.

First half — 1, Lew, unknown, 15:00. Second half — 2, LC, Travis Swallow (Riley Glover), 50:00. 3, LC, Beau Chandler (Cole Fawcett), 67:00.

Shots on goal — Lew 7, LC 15.

Saves — Lew, Brandon Mooers 14; LC, Chase Norris 6.

Sandpoint 4

Post Falls 0

SANDPOINT — After a scoreless first half, the Bulldogs had four different players find the back of the net in a 15 minute span to start the second halfto beat the Trojans in a nonleague match at Pine St. Field.

Jack Rinck got the scoring started with a blast from about 30 yards out that bent just inside the upper-left part of the goal, with Dawson Mulder beating a defender and the keeper to net his 21st goal of the season just four minutes later for the Bulldogs (9-2-4), who owned the second half.

Sandpoint coach Adam Tajan said his team didn’t have much energy in the first half and struggled to execute the offense.

“The simple things weren’t happening,” said Tajan, who had a basic message to his team at half. “Let’s do the simple things right. They looked solid.”

Amos Crossingham scored the third goal, cutting across the top of the box before firing a shot the other direction for another pretty goal. Luke Koch would cap the scoring with his first goal of the season, and keeper Mitch Rust would make the shutout stand up with a few diving saves in the second half.

Post Falls (5-3-5) opens the 5A Region 1 tournament on Saturday.

The Bulldogs host Moscow on Saturday in a 4A IEL game.

First half — None. Second half — 1, Spt, Jack Rinck (Amos Crossingham), 41:00. 2, Spt, Dawson Mulder (Noah Hastings), 46:00. 3, Spt, Crossingham (unassisted), 52:00. 4, Spt, Luke Koch (Charlie Crane), 55:00.

Shots on goal — PF 8, Spt 9.

Saves — PF, Zachary Nall 6; Spt, Mitch Rust, 7.

Saint George’s 8

St. Maries 0

SPOKANE — A team from Washington that is used to competing for state championships defeated the Lumberjacks in a nonleague rout.

Mitch Ward scored three goals and three assists for the Dragons.

“Saint George’s is a good team,” St. Maries coach Chris Renaldo said. “Their kid (Mitch Ward) was everywhere. They usually compete very deep into the state tournament. They’re a class act. We had a lot of injuries and sickness, we had six players out.”

St. Maries (4-7-4) plays in the 3A District 1-2 tournament on Saturday against Grangeville at Sunrise Rotary Field in Rathdrum.

First half — 1, SG, Oscar Angell (Mitch Ward), 7:00. 2, SG, Ward (Caelan Angell), 14:00. 3, SG, Alex Poppel (Ward), 18:00. 4, SG, Caelan Angell (Sammy Niven), 27:00. Second half — 5, SG, Ward (Ryan Hayes), 42:00. 6, SG, Dan Rigsby (Ward), 48:00. 7, SG, Ward (unassisted), 56:00. 8, SG, Hayes (unassisted), 74:00.

Shots on goal — SM 3, SG 23.

Saves — SM, Ben Bailey 9, Zach Hills 1, SG, Noah Galow 3.

Timberlake 4

Orofino 2

SPIRIT LAKE — Sophomore Denton Meijerink stole the show on senior night with a hat trick and an assist as the Tigers beat the visiting Maniacs in their Intermountain League finale.

Cody Bentley added a goal and an assist for Timberlake (10-2-1, 6-1-1).

“Denton’s been solid all year,” Timberlake coach Bert Bentley said of his center midfielder. “He and Cody play off each other well.”

Timberlake tied Bonners Ferry for the league title, but will be the No. 2 seed to the 3A District 1-2 tournament by virtue of a tiebreaker with the Badgers, who tied and beat the Tigers in their two league meetings.

Timberlake and Bonners have first-round byes on Saturday. Timberlake will play Saturday’s winner between No. 3 seed St. Maries and No. 6 Grangeville on Tuesday in the semifinals at Lakeland. Bonners will play Saturday’s Priest River-Orofino winner on Tuesday in the semis.

Orofino finished 1-6-1 in league.

Timberlake wraps up the regular season Thursday at Moscow.

First half — 1, TL, Denton Meijerink (Cody Bentley), 18:00. 2, TL, Bentley (Meijerink), 26:00. Second half — 3, TL, Meijerink (unassisted), 63:00. 4, Oro, Ben Fowler, 71:00. 5, TL, Meijerink, 76:00. 6, Oro, unknown, 79:00.

Shots on goal — Oro 9, TL 20.

Saves — Oro, Robertson 5; TL, Sheldon Kistler 7.

Moscow 3

Lakeland 1

MOSCOW — No other information was available.