PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Timberlake steals away from Sandpoint

SANDPOINT — Taryn Soumas, the 2019-20 state 3A Girls Player of the Year, converted on a couple of steals late in the first quarter, then the Tigers did rest on Thursday at Les Rogers Court in Sandpoint.

With the game tied 8-8 after the first quarter, Timberlake opened the second quarter on a 16-2 run on the way to a 42-28 win over Sandpoint.

“With state championship teams like that, you’ve got to play 32 minutes,” Sandpoint coach Will Love said. “And you can’t have any letdowns because they’re the kind of kids that feast off of that. As soon as they see a little opportunity, they’re going to take it.”

Brooke Jessen had 13 points and Blayre Jeffs had eight points and five rebounds for Timberlake (4-1), which beat Sandpoint 40-25 on Nov. 19 in Spirit Lake. Soumas finished with 12 points for Timberlake, which plays at Lake City tonight at 7.

Hattie Larson scored eight points for Sandpoint (0-3), which travels to Lewiston on Saturday.

“They’ve got a lot of experience, so we needed to have a game where we didn’t turn the basketball over as much as we did,” said Love, whose team had 20 turnovers on the night. “I thought that was something that really hurt us in the first half.”

Timberlake 8 18 6 10 — 42

Sandpoint 8 8 4 8 — 28

TIMBERLAKE — Soumas 12, Hammond 0, Kronenberg 0, Wall 0, Carhart 0, Jessen 15, Bain 0, Jeffs 15.

SANDPOINT — K. Cessna 4, Gammon 0, Driggs 4, Lyons 2, Tomco 0, R. Cessna 0, Phillips 4, Kar. Banks 2, Larson 8, Platte 2, Kay. Banks 2.

Lakeside 64

Mullan 33

MULLAN — Ashlee Holt scored a game-high 18 points, hitting 6 of 9 from the 3-point line for the Knights in a nonleague win over the Tigers at the Mullan Pavilion.

“Ashlee had a really good night tonight,” Lakeside coach Chris Dohrman said. “It was a good game for us overall. We were able to play a lot of kids, so it was a good experience for us overall. It was a good game for us.”

Talowa Fallingwater scored 16 points for Mullan (1-2), which is scheduled to play at Nezperce on Saturday.

Lakeside 20 14 19 11 — 64

Mullan 13 6 7 7 — 33

LAKESIDE — A. Holt 18, Havier-Gorr 2, J. Holt 11, Twoteeth 7, Lawrence 0, Wienclaw 6, Rivera 2, Matt 4, D. Lowley 0, Peters 6, S. Lowley 3, Marchand 3, Allen 2.

MULLAN — Waters 1, Haig 0, Nelson 4, Blankenship 0, Stahle 0, Fallingwater 16, Frazier 2, Dykes 10.

Clark Fork 38

Genesis Prep 7

POST FALLS — The host Jaguars fell to the Wampus Cats in the season opener for both teams at The Courts at Real Life.

Katelyn Matteson scored a game-high 10 points for Clark Fork.

Sophie Martin scored three points for Genesis Prep, which travels to Mullan on Tuesday.

Clark Fork 6 19 11 2 — 38

Genesis Prep 0 3 1 3 — 7

CLARK FORK — Matteson 10, Valliere 4, Myers 5, Shelton 8, Reuter 9, Yancy 0, Hoffman 0, Mace 2, Fournier 0.

GENESIS PREP — Wilson 2, Martin 3, Yount 2, Anderson 0, Roberson 0, Meerdink 0, Kelley 0.

Kellogg 45

Post Falls JV 39

POST FALLS — Hailey Cheney scored 34 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the visiting Wildcats avenged an earlier loss by beating the Trojan junior varsity at The Arena.

“She ran the floor really well, rebounded well. We got into our offense and found her a lot,” Kellogg coach Jana Nearing said. “Our guards handled their full-court pressure well.”

Kellogg (2-2) lost to the Post Falls JV by 18 points two weeks ago at the Silver Valley Tournament in Wallace, but was without point guard Grace Nearing.

Kinlee McLean and Laetitia Asper scored nine points each for the Post Falls JV.

Kellogg travels to Sandpoint on Tuesday.

Kellogg 11 10 12 12 — 45

Post Falls JV 7 11 9 12 — 39

KELLOGG — Jerome 6, Karst 0, VanHoose 3, Coe 0, Hill 2, Grace Nearing 0, Cheney 34, Reed 0.

POST FALLS JV — Furr 0, Flerchinger 0, Brennan 0, Berg 7, Ladke 6, McLean 9, Asper 9, SiJohn 2, Maurer 4, Frazey 2.

N.I. Christian 56

Classical Christian 19

HAYDEN — Danica Kelly scored 17 points on 7-of-8 shooting with six steals and six assists to lead the Royals past Spokane Classical Christian in the Mountain Christian League opener for both at North Idaho Christian.

Grace Gwin had seven points, seven steals and seven assists for North Idaho Christian (4-2), which faces Genesis Prep next Friday at The Courts at Real Life in Post Falls.

Spokane C.C. 4 5 0 10 — 19

N.I. Christian 11 13 23 9 — 56

SPOKANE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN — Chaffee 0, Sudlow 0, Signer 0, Nichols 2, Sevevn 8, Vemely 9, Anyan 0.

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Monaghan 0, Kelly 17, Pilgrim 5, Gwin 7, H. Malinauskas 2, Daigle 2, Nelson 4, K. Malinauskas 5, Connelly 4, Overturf 10.