Coeur d'Alene handles 4A IEL-leading Moscow

MOSCOW — Kale Edwards scored 23 points and Mayson Blakeley-Whittaker scored 10 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Coeur d’Alene Vikings, in second place in the 5A Inland Empire League, past the 4A IEL-leading Moscow Bears 73-60 on Saturday at Bear Den.

Carter Friesz scored 17 points for Coeur d’Alene, which held Moscow’s Gabe Quinnett to 14 points in the win.

“I thought we did a good job defensively tonight,” said Coeur d’Alene coach Tony Hanna, whose team held Moscow to 26 second-half points. “We mixed it up a little bit between zone and man, and our gameplan was to keep Quinnett from scoring, and Carter did a great job on him tonight. We played really well as a team tonight. Kale played really well tonight and Mayson hit some big shots for us in the fourth quarter. We’d talked getting the ball to our posts (Edwards and Friesz) early, and it opened up some things late in the game.”

Coeur d’Alene (12-4) hosts Post Falls on Thursday.

Moscow is 12-3.

Coeur d’Alene 18 18 13 24 — 73

Moscow 17 17 7 19 — 60

COEUR d’ALENE — McGloughlin 0, Blakeley-Whittaker 17, Karns 0, Friesz 17, Linehan 0, King 3, Hostetter 4, Margo 9, Meade 0, Edwards 23.

MOSCOW — Decker 11, Haeder 0, Quinnett 14, Rauch-Edwards 13, Clary 0, Skinner 1, Postell 13, Kitchel 8.

Sandpoint 70

Priest River 39

SANDPOINT — The Bulldogs shot 27 of 49 (55 percent) from the field and saw 10 different players score points in a nonleague win over the Spartans at Les Rogers Court.

“We shot it very well tonight,” Sandpoint coach Wade Engelson said. “Our guys executed well, didn’t force up shots and were always looking for the open players.”

Junior guard Kobe Banks found Ryan Roos for a pair of transition 3s in the first two minutes, which set the tone for the rest of the game.

“One of the things we’ve noticed is that we’re a very good catch-and-shoot team,” Engelson said. “If we run our stuff and dish the ball, then we shoot it pretty well — the statistics back that up.”

Case in point: The Bulldogs (7-8) shot 8 of 11 from 3 in the first half. And five different players made a 3.

Yet Priest River junior Caden Brennan made a game out of things in the third quarter by hitting three triples of his own and by making key stops on the other end. The Spartans outscored the hot-shooting Bulldogs 17-16 in the third, but coming back from a 27-point halftime deficit was too tall a task.

Sandpoint made 27 field goals on 14 assists, and had six players score at least six points. Roos led the Bulldogs with his 12-point, four-rebound, three-assist outing, and teammates Brandon Casey (11 points, six rebounds) and Bruin Jones (11 points, five assists) weren’t far behind.

Brennan added six rebounds and three blocks alongside his game-high 18 points.

Priest River (0-12) plays at Timberlake on Thursday. Sandpoint travels to Moscow next Saturday.

Priest River 4 9 17 9 — 39

Sandpoint 20 21 16 13 — 70

PRIEST RIVER — Anselmo 2, Hegel 0, Brennan 18, Mathews 0, McCracken 5, Kreager 11, Lucas 0, Bell 3, Zapfe 0, Parkes 0.

SANDPOINT — Jones 11, Banks 8, Roos 12, Niemela 8, Casey 11, Stockton 4, Bailey 6, Vandenberg 0, Treadaway 5, Butler 3, Thielbahr 2.

Timberlake 46

Kellogg 43

KELLOGG — Chase Gardom scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half, and the visiting Tigers overcame a slow start to beat the Wildcats at Andrews Gymnasium and remain atop the Intermountain League.

Jacob James scored 15 points for Timberlake (5-10, 3-0 IML), which trailed 18-7 after one quarter.

“We got a lot of turnovers early out of our press,” Kellogg coach Jeff Nearing said. “And they settled down and handled it better. “We shot terribly tonight, and we turned it over 21 times.”

Brennen Atkins scored 16 points for Kellogg (3-12, 1-2), which had a potential game-tying shot rim out at the buzzer.

Kellogg plays host to Wallace on Monday in a makeup game.

Timberlake travels to Priest River on Thursday.

Timberlake 7 12 15 12 — 46

Kellogg 18 5 9 11 — 43

TIMBERLAKE — Wilfong 0, Cramer 6, Kluss 4, James 15, Kistler 7, Gardom 12, Dickinson 2.

KELLOGG — Waller 2, Rickets 2, Atkins 16, Oertli 2, Nearing 8, Miller 4, Davis 0, Jerome 6, Luna 3.

Grangeville 56

St. Maries 42

GRANGEVILLE — The visiting Lumberjacks hung tough for three quarters with the Bulldogs, ranked No. 3 in 2A by the state’s media, before the hosts pulled away to wrap up the Central Idaho League title and the No. 1 seed to the 2A District 1-2 tournament.

“They held us to four first-half field goals,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “Their length bothered us tonight; we had a tough time finishing around the basket. Colby Kennedy (6-foot-8) changed a lot of shots.”

Jackson Pritchard scored 12 points to lead St. Maries (11-5, 1-2 CIL), which lost to Grangeville 65-60 at home two weeks ago.

Trey Dreadfulwater scored 19 points for Grangeville (13-3, 3-0), and Kennedy added 13.

St. Maries travels to Genesee on Tuesday.

St. Maries 8 8 14 12 — 42

Grangeville 11 12 12 21 — 56

ST. MARIES — Hill 2, Ross 0, Pritchard 12, Nelson 2, Lohman 1, Sands 3, Gibson 9, Hammond 6, Howard 7.

GRANGEVILLE — Dreadfulwater 19, Garr 5, Kennedy 13, Vanderwall 7, Frei 5, Woods 3, Kaschmitter 4.

Hellgate 65

Genesis Prep 35

MISSOULA, Mont. — Kon Ajang hit 3 of 4 3-pointers and scored 13 points for the visiting Jaguars in a loss to the Knights.

Jonny Hillman added 10 points and four steals for Genesis Prep (10-8), which returns to action Friday at home vs. Kootenai at Post Falls Middle School.

Genesis Prep 5 6 13 11 — 35

Hellgate 20 21 9 15 — 65

GENESIS PREP — Ajang 13, Hillman 10, Neely 6, Bohannan 2, Schultz 2, Gonzales 2, Mwinuka 0, Peterson 0, Elonen 0.

HELLGATE — Individual scoring unavailable.