Fleming's dash wins it for Post Falls

POST FALLS — For 31 minutes and 59 seconds, Post Falls hadn’t led all night.

Which makes that last second all that more important.

Junior Katie Fleming drove the length of the court and scored on a layup at the buzzer, lifting the Post Falls Trojans past the Lewiston Bengals 64-63 in the 5A Inland Empire League finale for both schools on Tuesday at The Arena.

Fleming — who finished with a team-high 14 points — returned in mid-January after being sidelined due to an ACL injury.

“Tonight was the first real minutes she’s played this year,” Post Falls coach Marc Allert said. “Tonight, she came in and did a great job for us. She was kind of her old Katie self, and we’ve kind of been missing that this year.”

Post Falls trailed 49-40 after three quarters.

“Our bench kids (Laney Smith, Kennedy LaFountaine and Maya Blake) kind of got us going,” Allert said. “It was just an awesome job tonight and total team win.”

With the win, Post Falls (5-16, 2-4 5A IEL) will be the third seed to the 5A Region 1 tournament, visiting second seed Coeur d’Alene (6-10, 3-3) on Friday. Lewiston (9-11, 1-5) will be the fourth seed, playing at top-seeded Lake City (18-3, 6-0) in the other opening round game Friday.

Kendyll Kinzer scored 22 points for Lewiston.

Lewiston 20 11 18 14 — 63

Post Falls 11 17 12 24 — 64

LEWISTON — Wells 11, Bausch 6, Kinzer 22, Johnson 3, Ortiz 1, Taylor 4, Richardson 14.

POST FALLS — Johnson 5, Blake 2, Gardiner 0, Gleaves 10, Smith 5, LaFountaine 3, Fleming 14, Faulkner 13, Lovett 10, Carpenter 2.

Sandpoint 38

Lakeland 34

SANDPOINT — The Bulldogs only managed two points in the first quarter and trailed by as many as 11 in the third, yet held the Hawks without a field goal over the final 9:32 en route to a 4A Inland Empire League victory at Les Rogers Court.

Lakeland (8-11, 3-1) could have won its first outright league since the Intermountain League in 2003 — and still could, if Sandpoint loses at Moscow on Thursday.

However, Lakeland still finished with the No. 1 seed to next week’s 4A Region 1 tournament. The Hawks would hold the tiebreaker over Sandpoint based on point differential in their head-to-head meetings — Lakeland beat Sandpoint by 14 points at home on Jan. 18.

Lakeland sophomore Katy Ryan finished with a game-high 15 points and 10 rebounds. Alaina Pruitt contributed four points and eight rebounds off the bench.

Dawson Driggs led Sandpoint (5-13, 2-1) with 14 points.

Sandpoint and Moscow will play in the first round of regionals Monday at North Idaho College. Lakeland will play the winner on Tuesday at NIC in the first game of a best-of-three series, with the winner advancing to state.

Lakeland 9 15 7 3 — 34

Sandpoint 2 13 11 12 — 38

LAKELAND — Cooper 5, Elpers 3, Loutzenhiser 7, Kirk 0, Ryan 15, Boyer 0, Kime 0, Pruitt 4, Neff 0, McDevitt 0.

SANDPOINT — Driggs 14, Morgan 11, Banks 4, Larson 6, Petit 0, Edwards 3, Phillips 0, Steiger 0, Lish 0.

Timberlake 58

Priest River 15

PRIEST RIVER — Sophomore Bernie Carhart, one of 12 Tigers to see action, chipped in 11 points as Timberlake overcame a slow start to beat the Spartans in Intermountain League play.

“That’s two games in a row where she’s played really, really well,” Timberlake coach Matt Miller said.

Brooke Jessen led Timberlake (18-2, 6-0 IML) with 18 points. Peyton Kronenberg, playing on a torn ACL, added eight points.

Priest River is 2-17, 0-6.

Timberlake plays host to Priest River in the first round of the 3A District 1 tournament next Wednesday in Spirit Lake.

Timberlake 11 23 20 4 — 58

Priest River 6 2 3 4 — 15

TIMBERLAKE — Tonkin 10, Soumas 2, Suko 3, P. Kronenberg 8, M. Kronenberg 0, Gustin 0, Carhart 11, Sande 0, Jessen 18, Jeffs 4, Willis 2, Bain 0.

PRIEST RIVER — Kren 6, Rusho 0, Pound 0, Fink 4, Fitzmorris 0, Palfrey 0, Meck 0, Barnis 0, Minish 2, Radan 0, Martin 3.

Clark Fork 55

Kootenai 22

HARRISON FLATS — Brooke Stevens scored 25 points to lead the Wampus Cats past the Warriors in a North Star League game.

Jacey Grange had 11 points and five rebounds for Kootenai (1-12, 0-7 NSL), which plays Genesis Prep on Friday at Post Falls Middle School.

Clark Fork (8-5, 4-3) hosts Wallace on Thursday.

Clark Fork 12 14 20 9 — 55

Kootenai 7 8 5 2 — 22

CLARK FORK — Anderson 0, Stevens 25, Hathaway 3, Kiebert 16, A. Sutton 2, Simko 2, T. Sutton 7.

KOOTENAI — Ducommun 0, Maitland 3, Addington 4, Thaut 2, Tiller 2, Grange 11.

Pull. Christian 51

N.I. Christian 42

COEUR d’ALENE — Faith Berg scored 17 points and the visiting Eagles beat the Royals in a game pitting two teams who came in tied for first in the Mountain Christian League with 11-0 records.

Imelda Bresee had 16 points and 25 rebounds for North Idaho Christian (18-4, 11-1 MCL). Savannah Seeley added 10 points for the Royals, who travel to Pullman Christian on Thursday.

Pull. Christian 10 18 17 6 — 51

N.I. Christian 12 7 7 16 — 42

PULLMAN CHRISTIAN — F. Berg 17, An. Goetze 3, Shaffer 2, Ab. Goetze 5, G. Berg 5, Cummings 0, Combs 2, Al. Goetze 3, Yocum 14.

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Monaghan 1, Choi 0, Overturf 5, Anderson 4, Ward 2, Malinauskas 4, Bresee 16, Seeley 10.

Chr. Center 42

Cov. Christian 33

LIBERTY LAKE — Rebekah Cashen scored 13 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Lions beat the Warriors in Mountain Christian League play at the HUB Sports Center.

Cece Kramer added eight points, five rebounds and six steals, and Meg Epkey had four steals for Christian Center (9-5, 9-4 MCL), which travels to Pullman Christian on Thursday.

Chr. Center 8 15 10 9 — 42

Cov. Christian 11 4 4 14 — 33

CHRISTIAN CENTER — R. Cashen 13, M. Cashen 2, Williams 8, M. Epkey 0, Kramer 8, James 4, Taylor 2, May 0, N. Epkey 0, Bauer 0, Sisco 5.

COVENANT CHRISTIAN — Integrity 16, Elliana 5, Mari 0, Paisley 4, Racheal 0, Kaitlyn 0, Ilia 8, Olivia 0, Lizzy 0.