Coeur d'Alene falls in opener; St. Maries, Genesis Prep, Lakeside among winners

- BOYS

COEUR d’ALENE — Drew Hostetter scored 11 of his team-high 13 points in the first quarter for Coeur d’Alene, but Cole Omlin scored 19 points to lead the Ferris Saxons to a 61-50 win over the Vikings in the season opener for both schools on Tuesday at Elmer Jordan Court.

“We kind of got behind toward the end of the first quarter, and just had some guys trying to make things happen themselves instead of using their teammates,” Coeur d’Alene coach Tony Hanna said. “We really just didn’t run our stuff and tried to make it all happen at once.”

Ferris held Coeur d’Alene to three points in the second quarter to take a 32-20 halftime lead.

“It was a good learning experience for us,” Hanna said. “In the second half, we beat them by one. But they’re a good program and you can’t give them that big of a lead. I thought our effort was good tonight, but we need to stay mentally focused throughout the entire game.”

Kale Edwards scored nine points for Coeur d’Alene, which travels to Rogers on Thursday.

Kellen Erickson scored 15 points for Ferris.

Ferris 22 10 12 17 — 61

Coeur d’Alene 17 3 13 17 — 50

FERRIS — Fleming 5, Van Lierop 9, Erickson 15, McCullough 6, Omlin 19, Owen 0, Smith 3, Bozett 0, Spink 4, Condon 0, Hocking 0.

COEUR d’ALENE — McLaughlin 0, Whittaker 3, Johnson 2, Karns 6, Friesz 4, Linehan 2, King 5, Hostetter 13, Margo 6, Meade 0, Edwards 9.

Lewiston 61

Timberlake 28

SPIRIT LAKE — The visiting Bengals made 9 of their 10 3-pointers in the first half en route to a 38-12 halftime lead over the Tigers in the season opener for both teams.

Donaven Santana hit four of his five 3s in the first half and finished with a game-high 21 points for Lewiston. Dylan Johnson made all four of his treys in the first half and finished with 14 points.

Sheldon Kistler led Timberlake with 10 points.

“We had fairly easy open shots in the key, and we just couldn’t convert,” said former assistant Mike Menti, making his debut as Timberlake head coach. “Sheldon played great against their big kid (Kyle Van Boeyen, who finished with four points).”

Timberlake plays Kellogg on Friday at 5:30 p.m. in the first round of the Silver Valley Tournament at Wallace.

Lewiston 20 18 19 4 — 61

Timberlake 4 8 7 9 — 28

LEWISTON — McKarcher 0, Kokernak 4, Lang 3, Johnson 14, Mullikin 5, Spencer 6, Santana 21, Jacobs 2, Forsmann 2, Van Boeyen 4.

TIMBERLAKE — Wilfong 5, Meijerink 0, Cramer 3, Kluss 2, McDonald 2, James 2, Kistler 10, Gardom 4, Dickinson 0.

St. Maries 61

Sandpoint 45

ST. MARIES — Jackson Pritchard hit three of his first seven 3-point attempts, finishing with 13 points to lead the Lumberjacks past the Bulldogs in the season opener for both schools.

“We ran the floor really well in the first half,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “In the second half, we kind of got a little bogged down, but we did a good job in the first half of pushing the tempo.”

Tyler Lohman had eight points and eight rebounds, Eli Gibson nine points and seven rebounds and Kaden Hammond six steals and four assists for St. Maries, which hosts Prairie on Saturday.

Ryan Roos scored 12 points for Sandpoint.

Sandpoint 10 8 10 17 — 45

St. Maries 19 17 13 12 — 61

SANDPOINT — Roos 12, Larson 9, Niemela 5, Banks 5, Bailey 7, Jones 5, Casey 2, VanDenBerg 0.

ST. MARIES — Hill 6, Pritchard 13, Becktel 2, Nelson 2, Lohman 8, Sands 9, Gibson 9, Renner 2, Hammond 2, Howard 8.

Genesis Prep 73

Mullan 25

MULLAN — The visiting Jaguars imposed their pace on the Tigers to open a 20-point first quarter lead, and the two-time defending 1A Division II champions cruised to victory in the North Star League opener for both teams at the Mullan Pavilion.

“Genesis Prep’s obviously a really good team, and they carried the pace early,” said Mullan coach Paul Elston, whose team has only five players. “But I really liked our guys’ response; they came out and played hard after halftime.”

Jacob Schultz scored 17 points and Jonny Hillman added 17 points, four rebounds and four assists for Genesis Prep. Center Kon Ajang scored 12 points and had five rebounds for the Jaguars, who host Northwest Christian on Dec. 8 at Post Falls Middle School.

Junior Seth Neely, in his varsity debut, had 14 points, six rebounds and three assists for Genesis Prep.

“I thought he shot the ball well,” Jaguars coach Marsell Colbert said of Neely. “He played hard, and just gave us some good, positive energy.”

Riley Trogden scored 10 points for Mullan, which plays Wallace on Friday in the Silver Valley Tournament at Kirby Krulitz Court.

Genesis Prep 22 32 12 7 — 73

Mullan 2 5 11 5 — 25

GENESIS PREP — Ajang 12, Peterson 4, Elonen 0, Mwinuka 4, Schultz 17, Neely 14, Hillman 17, Gonzales 6, Bohannan 6.

MULLAN — L. Trogden 7, Holling 8, R. Trogden 10, Hess 0, Hanning 0.

Lakeside 84

Logos 64

MOSCOW — Kenyon SpottedHorse scored 34 points to lead the Knights of Plummer past the Knights of Moscow in the season opener.

“We pressed them pretty much for three quarters,” Lakeside coach James Twoteeth said. “He had a lot of layins from those steals. We had a lot of first-game jitters, but once we settled down ... ”

Day Day Higgins and Talon Twoteeth each added 15 points for Lakeside, which plays North Idaho Christian on Thursday at Holy Family Catholic School.

Lakeside 28 20 20 16 — 84

Logos 8 23 15 18 — 64

LAKESIDE — White 8, Ambro 3, J. Abuan 0, Higgins 15, Hall 6, Twoteeth 15, SpottedHorse 34, S. Abaun 3, Sanchez 0

LOGOS — Vis 5, Blum 7, Schlect 10, Grieser 2, Miller 8, Cuhns 25, Minudri 7.

N.I. Christian 54

Priest River 52

COEUR d’ALENE — Tyler Thorsness had eight points and nine rebounds for the Royals in a nonleague win over the Spartans in the season opener for both at Holy Family Catholic School.

Phil Connelly and James Kelly scored 11 points each for North Idaho Christian, which faces Lakeside on Thursday at Holy Family Catholic School.

Brandon McCracken scored 14 points for Priest River, which missed a tying shot at the buzzer.

Priest River 7 17 11 17 — 52

N.I. Christian 15 15 13 9 — 54

PRIEST RIVER — K. Hagel 13, Kreager 8, Matthews 0, Bell 0, Lucas 0, McCracken 14, Rennan 0, Gordon 13, Zapse 2, Thompson 2.

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Fontain 0, Pilgrim 7, Connelly 11, Tomes 0, C. Pilgrim 9, Holmes 7, Thorsness 8, Kelly 11, Middlemore 1.

- GIRLS

Gonzaga Prep 63

Coeur d’Alene 38

SPOKANE — Further details were not available.

St. Maries 54

Priest River 35

PRIEST RIVER — Madison Cordell scored 16 points and Alena Davenport added 14 points and five steals as the visiting Lumberjacks (1-3) notched their first win for first-year head coach John Cordell.

“Much better game,” John Cordell said. “Eight girls scoring, no foul trouble and (only) 14 turnovers for the game.”

Mackenzie Hammond had four steals for St. Maries, which plays host to Sandpoint on Saturday.

St. Maries 14 10 27 9 — 54

Priest River 5 9 10 11 — 35

ST. MARIES — Suchoski 0, Wilks 4, Crawford 2, Haeg 7, Cordell 16, Baird 0, Davenport 14, Holder 6, Rimel 3, Hammond 2, Koser 0.

PRIEST RIVER — Minish 4, Fitzmorris 8, Kren 9, Martin 0, Fink 13, Rusho 1, Barnes 0.

Kellogg 53

Sandpoint 36

KELLOGG — Hailey Cheney had 18 points and eight rebounds to lead the Wildcats past the Bulldogs in a nonleague game at Andrews Gymnasium.

“We pressured the ball really well and forced a lot of turnovers, giving us a lot of opportunities on the fast break,” Kellogg coach Jana Nearing-Kothe said. “We only had 15 turnovers, which was huge for us. We ran the floor really well were able to get the ball into Hailey a lot.”

Maddie Morgan scored nine points for Sandpoint (0-3), which hosts Timberlake on Thursday.

Jaron Figueroa added 15 points for Kellogg (3-0), which hosts Shadle Park tonight.

Sandpoint 11 8 9 8 — 36

Kellogg 13 13 13 14 — 53

SANDPOINT — Lish 7, Stiger 4, Edwards 6, Morgan 9, Larson 3, Anderson 2, Banks 2, Petit 3.

KELLOGG — Hill 0, Bristow 0, Rauenhorst 4, VanHoose 0, Senteney 4, Sheppard 6, Figueroa 15, Cheney 18, Seymour 2, Nearing 4.