Moscow earns top seed to 4A regionals

MOSCOW — Hunter Pickard scored 16 points as the Moscow Bears beat the Sandpoint Bulldogs 56-46 on Saturday night in Bear Den to capture the No. 1 seed to next week’s 4A Region 1 boys basketball tournament.

Moscow (7-11, 3-1 4A Inland Empire League) tied Lakeland (8-13, 3-1) for the league title, but won the tiebreaker with the Hawks based on point differential in their head-to-head meetings.

Lakeland will play Sandpoint (3-17, 0-4) on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at North Idaho College in a loser-out game. The winner plays Moscow on Thursday at 8 at NIC in the championship game for the region’s lone berth to state.

Alex Stockton scored 12 points for Sandpoint.

Sandpoint 8 13 8 17 — 46

Moscow 14 15 12 15 — 56

SANDPOINT — Johnson 8, Jones 8, McLaughlin 2, Rockwell 8, Stockton 14, Thompson 0, Davis 8.

MOSCOW — Miller 7, Stephens 5, Gosse 10, Broenneke 6, Pickard 16, Quinnett 2, Johnson 2, Davis 6, Knott 2, Ewart 0.

Cd’A Charter 58

Kootenai 55

COEUR d’ALENE — Jacob Rutherford scored 15 points and Matthew Phillips added 14 as the host Panthers beat the Warriors in nonleague play at Canfield Middle School.

Coeur d’Alene Charter (4-13) will play at Bonners Ferry on Monday night in a play-in game to the 3A District 1 tournament.

Triston Usdrowski scored 21 points for Kootenai (6-10), which plays host to Mullan on Monday at 6 in a play-in game to the 1A Division II District 1 tournament.

Kootenai 13 12 10 20 — 55

Cd’A Charter 13 16 17 12 — 58

KOOTENAI — H. Whipple 11, Wright 6, Andersen 2, Usdrowski 21, Ausman 7, Donohoe 8.

COEUR d’ALENE CHARTER — Phillips 14, Putren 6, Stellflug 7, Rutherford 15, Croom 4, Judd 7, Benzinger 4, Hall 2.