Lake City, Lakeside, Priest River advance to state

• 5A

GRANGEVILLE — With its back to the wall yet again, Lake City found a way yet again to keep fighting.

Narrow win in overtime in a loser-out game, check.

Eliminating the team that had beaten them to open regionals, check.

Return trip to the state 5A tournament, check.

Bridget Rieken had 14 points and 11 rebounds, five assists and two blocks as the Timberwolves beat the Borah Lions of Boise 41-35 in a state 5A tournament play-in game on Saturday to advance to state starting Thursday at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa. Rieken had 11 of her points in the first half.

“We got off the bus really well and played with a lot of energy early on,” Lake City coach Bryan Kelly said. “They went zone and we kind of got a little stagnant on offense. We had to dig deep, but I’m proud of the way we battled through it.”

Lake City (19-5) will open at state against Centennial High of Boise (20-4) on Thursday night at 7 PST.

Earlier this week, Lake City outlasted Coeur d’Alene 45-42 in overtime of a loser-out game, then beat Lewiston 53-46 on Friday in the regional second-place game.

The Timberwolves led 30-23 after the third quarter and were able to hold on late as Nina Carlson finished with 12 points, Lauren Rewers eight points and five blocks and Keara Simpson six points and six rebounds.

“Our energy, we just played hard and left it all on the court,” Kelly said. “They’ve came a long way to get to state for two straight years. Now, it’s time to go down and bring back some hardware.”

Lake City, fourth at state last year, beat Borah 41-36 on the opening day of the TimberLion tournament on Dec. 21 in Boise.

Maddie Geritz scored 10 points for Borah, which finishes 18-9.

Borah 7 8 8 12 — 35

Lake City 16 6 8 11 — 41

BORAH — Bolt 5, Gibbons 0, Corpus 9, McBride 2, Camacho 2, Jones 3, Thaback 4, Gregory 0, Geritz 10.

LAKE CITY — Barber 0, Carlson 12, Rieken 14, Teets 1, Rewers 8, Halliday 0, Simpson 6.

• 3A

Priest River 46

Bonners Ferry 36

BONNERS FERRY — The fourth-seeded Spartans (8-15) upended the second-seeded Badgers (9-10) to earn the district’s second berth to the state 3A tournament.

No other details were available.

Priest River will open the state tournament against District 6 champion Sugar-Salem (20-4) on Thursday at 12:15 p.m. PST at Middleton High.

• 1A Division II

Lakeside 60

Logos 41

MOSCOW — A little pressure went a long way for Lakeside to get back to the state 1A Division II tournament.

Lillian Rhea had 22 points, eight rebounds, four assists and four steals as the Knights of Plummer beat the Knights of Moscow at Bear Den to advance to the state for the third straight year.

“We put a little pressure on them and that kind of helped us get out to an early lead,” Lakeside coach Chris Dohrman said. “We got some easy looks and Tommia (Pakootas) hit a couple of 3-pointers to get us going, and that was big for us.”

Pakootas finished with 11 points and Sarah Daman had nine rebounds for Lakeside (16-2), which opens at state against Butte County (21-0) next Thursday at 12:15 p.m. PST at Nampa High. Lakeside finished fourth in last year’s tournament.

Logos 12 8 11 10 — 41

Lakeside 18 15 18 9 — 60

LOGOS — Wintz 12, Vellsher 8, Re. Meyer 6, Ro. Meyer 3, Whitling 12.

LAKESIDE — Palmer 0, Rhea 22, S. Pakootas 2, SiJohn 6, Adrian 2, Daman 5, T. Pakootas 11, Arthur 6, Lambert 0, Peone 6, Olson 0.

N.I. Christian 51

Pullman Christian 18

PULLMAN — Emma Whiteman totaled 15 points, five steals and four assists as the Royals won the third-place game of the Mountain Christian League tournament.

Mary Schlader added 12 points and 10 rebounds for North Idaho Christian, which finished the season 16-13. Sophie Kruse had 12 points and six boards.

The Royals beat Covington Christian 33-16 to open the tourney, then lost to Christian Center 37-35 in the semifinals.

Pull. Christian 1 7 6 4 — 18

N.I. Christian 17 10 12 12 — 51

PULLMAN CHRISTIAN — Lindstrom 2, Ab. Goetze 1, Shaffer 3, F. Berg 4, G. Berg 2, Combs 4, Wilson 0, Allen 0, Al. Goetze 2.

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Prosch 0, Whiteman 15, Holmes 2, Gwin 4, Fish 0, Ward 0, Brennan 2, Schlader 12, Seeley 2, Dixon 2, Kruse 12.