St. Maries knocks off CIL champ Grangeville

TROY — The third time proved to be the charm for St. Maries when it comes to Grangeville this season.

St. Maries, which lost both Central Idaho League matchups to Grangeville, knocked off the Bulldogs 48-45 in Game 1 of the best-of-3 2A District 1-2 series on Tuesday at Troy High.

Grangeville beat St. Maries 65-60 at St. Maries Jan. 12 and 56-42 at home on Jan. 26 in league play.

“I thought we played really good defense throughout tonight,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “We did a much better job of controlling the tempo and getting back on defense.”

Dan Howard had 14 points and eight rebounds, Eli Gibson eight points, eight rebounds and four steals and Kaden Hammond seven rebounds and five steals for St. Maries (16-6), which can clinch a berth to the state tournament with a win Thursday against Grangeville at 6 p.m. in Troy. If Grangeville wins Thursday, the teams will play again on Saturday at Troy for the district’s lone berth to state.

“Our kids did a great job of controlling the boards and holding them to one shot most of the time.”

Trey Dreadfulwater scored 23 points for Grangeville (17-4).

St. Maries 9 13 13 13 — 48

Grangeville 6 15 9 15 — 45

ST. MARIES — Hill 3, Pritchard 5, Nelson 4, Lohman 9, Sands 3, Gibson 8, Hammond 2, Howard 14.

GRANGEVILLE — Dreadfulwater 23, Darr 4, Kennedy 8, Anderson 2, Vanderwall 4, Frei 0, Kaschmitter 4.

Moscow 79

Lakeland 59

COEUR d’ALENE — Ben Zubaly scored 18 points for the second-seeded Hawks, but foul trouble caught up to Lakeland in a loss to the top-seeded Bears at North Idaho College’s Rolly Williams Court in Game 1 of the best-of-3 4A Region 1 championship series.

Lakeland trailed 51-45 after three quarters before Moscow pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Hawks for the third time in three tries this season.

“It was a good game,” Lakeland coach Dave Stockwell said. “It was really close until we fouled a few guys out in the fourth quarter. Moscow’s a really good team and you can’t lose two starters (Noah Haaland and Ammon Munyer). We had to foul late, and you just can’t make mistakes against those guys.”

Noah Haaland scored 13 points for Lakeland (9-11).

Benny Kitchel scored 26 points, Gabe Quinnett 24 for Moscow (18-3).

Game 2 is Friday at Bear Den in Moscow at 6 p.m.

Lakeland 17 18 10 14 — 59

Moscow 19 18 14 28 — 79

LAKELAND — Derrick 0, J. Haaland 12, Am. Munyer 0, N. Haaland 13, Seay 7, Strietzel 0, Taylor 9, Zubaly 18, Ab. Munyer 0.

MOSCOW — Decker 5, Makamson 3, Haeder 3, Quinnett 24, Rauch-Edwards 5, Clary 0, Skinner 0, Postell 13, Kitchel 26.

Mullan 51

Clark Fork 41

MULLAN — Luke Trogden scored 19 points and Chandler Holling added 17 points to lead the Tigers past the Wampus Cats in a 1A Division II District 1 loser-out game at the Mullan Pavilion.

“Luke was solid the entire game,” Mullan coach Paul Elston said. “Wyatt (King) came in and shot the ball well and hit some shots for us when he was open. We had a bunch of guys that stepped up and did a tremendous job for us.”

Mullan (7-11) faces Genesis Prep (13-8) in a semifinal game at The Courts at Real Life Ministries tonight at 5.

Cameron Garcia scored 20 points for Clark Fork, which finishes 1-14.

“Garcia, he’s a good athlete,” Elston said. “He had a great game for them.”

Clark Fork 10 14 9 8 — 41

Mullan 16 12 12 11 — 51

CLARK FORK — Garcia 20, Sutton 7, Constantin 10, Abbott 4, Heisel 0, Holbron 0.

MULLAN — L. Trogden 19, Holling 17, Hess 4, R. Trogden 4, King 7.

Lake City at

Lewiston, ppd.

LEWISTON — Tuesday’s loser-out game in the 5A Region 1 tournament featuring Lake City at Lewiston was postponed due to inclement weather.

The game was rescheduled for tonight at 6:30 at Booth Hall in Lewiston, with the winner playing Coeur d’Alene on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.