PREP BASKETBALL: Coeur d'Alene boys win easily in Adams' debut as coach at alma mater

• BOYS

COEUR d’ALENE — New Coeur d’Alene High boys basketball coach Jon Adams wants his team to play with some tempo this season.

His squad didn’t wait long into the season opener to get that started.

Junior Chandler King scored 11 of his game-high 14 points in the first quarter as the Vikings beat the Bonners Ferry Badgers 62-29 at Viking Court on Tuesday.

“We’re going to try to play a different style this year and dictate the tempo,” said Adams, a 1991 Coeur d’Alene High graduate who took over the program this year. “I told them to buy into this, and putting up 62 points is a good thing for us. It was good to have a home game under our belts and have the kids buy in.”

Cameren Cope had 13 points and nine rebounds, Owen Smith nine rebounds and Brayden Bengtson seven points, five assists and four steals for Coeur d’Alene, which plays at Lakeland on Thursday.

Braden Blackmore scored 11 points for Bonners Ferry (1-2).

Bonners Ferry 3 6 13 7 — 29

Coeur d’Alene 18 19 23 2 — 62

BONNERS FERRY — Williams 3, Peterson 5, Hensley 0, Stockton 3, Hubbard 5, Beazer 2, Blackmore 11.

COEUR d’ALENE — Bengtson 7, King 14, Prka 3, Larson 5, Ivankovich 8, Entzi 5, Cope 13, Gatten 0, Smith 4, Reyes 4, McLaughlin 2.

Timberlake 58

Genesis Prep 47

SPIRIT LAKE — Junior Zach Yetter scored 15 of his game-high 19 points in the first half and the host Tigers beat the Jaguars in nonleague play for their first victory of the season.

“He really set the tempo and the pace of the game,” Timberlake coach Mike Menti said. “Pushing the ball, and his defense … he got us going.”

Eli Gonzales scored 17 points to lead Genesis Prep (1-2), which plays host to North Idaho Christian on Friday.

Timberlake (1-3) is home vs. Lakeside on Saturday.

Genesis Prep 7 11 8 21 — 47

Timberlake 16 18 14 10 — 58

GENESIS PREP — Schroeder 7, Daniels 12, Rubert 4, McLuskie 2, Gonzales 17, Specht 3, Shin 2, Snowder 0.

TIMBERLAKE — Riley 9, Tay. Menti 4, Paslay 2, Z. Yetter 19, Millsap 8, Antone 2, J. Yetter 0, Higgins 8, Vallieres 0, Tan. Menti 2, Simpson 4, Swenson 0.

N.I. Christian 80

Cov. Christian 15

HAYDEN — Bryce Koontz totaled 11 points, seven rebounds and three assists as the Royals defeated the Warriors from Spokane in Mountain Christian League play.

Myles McKee and Morgan O’Brien added 10 points each, and Cruz Alliano had five rebounds and five steals for North Idaho Christian (8-1, 2-0 MCL), which plays Genesis Prep on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at The Courts at Real Life in Post Falls.

Cov. Christian 4 2 3 6 — 15

N.I. Christian 24 22 20 14 — 80

COVENANT CHRISTIAN — Limewood 0, Olson 1, Breese 0, MacPherson 1, Ja. McArdle 5, Gump 3, Jo. McArdle 0, Martin 0, E. Row 2, Green 3, Blomgren 0, L. Row 0.

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Desrochers 6, Pilgrim 2, McKee 10, O’Brien 10, Alliano 6, Koontz 11, Mitchell 9, Bryan 5, Johnson 9, Grassi 4, Sakae 8.

Priest River 57

Post Falls JV 52

PRIEST RIVER — Trentyn Kreager scored 22 points and the host Spartans closed the game on a 14-0 run to overtake the Trojan junior varsity.

Langan Naylor scored 17 points, Neil McCarthy 14 for the Post Falls JV.

Post Falls JV 15 14 18 5 — 52

Priest River 12 7 17 21 — 57

POST FALLS JV — Smith 7, Naylor 17, Shields 3, McCarthy 14, Tebbe 0, Jacobsen 2, Bowie 2, Cooper 2, Summers 5.

PRIEST RIVER — Mathews 8, Butler 3, J. Nortz 16, Kreager 22, Marinello 0, Bernes 0, D. Nortz 5, Yount 3.

• GIRLS

Post Falls 68

Lewiston 42

POST FALLS — Junior Skilar McLean scored 12 points and all 11 players scored for the Trojans, who eased past the Bengals in Inland Empire League play at The Arena.

Dylan Lovett added eight points for Post Falls (3-1, 3-1 IEL).

“She got some steals and some buckets in transition; that got us going early,” Post Falls coach Marc Allert said.

Maya Blake had nine points, Capri Sims eight in a balanced attack for the Trojans.

“With everybody scoring, that’s how I thought we’d be,” Allert said. “Everybody came in and did their role; we were balanced.”

Taryn Barney scored a game-high 13 points for Lewiston (1-3, 1-3), who played without standout post Katy Wessels, out for an undetermined amount of time with a leg injury.

Allert had praise for the way the shorthanded Bengals played under first-year coach Karlee Wilson, a former Lewiston High star.

“Karlee’s doing a great job; they’re going to continue to get better,” Allert said.

Post Falls is scheduled to travel to Timberlake on Thursday.

Lewiston 9 12 7 14 — 42

Post Falls 14 20 15 19 — 68

LEWISTON — Collins 8, Uran 8, Foss 3, Hill 2, Bousch 2, Barney 13, Ortiz 3, McRoberts 0, Taylor 3.

POST FALLS — McLean 12, Nichols 7, Lovett 8, Grant 2, Sims 8, Buckley 4, Crane 5, Magnuson 6, Walton 5, Blake 9, Christensen 2.

Lakeland 60

Bonners Ferry 49

RATHDRUM — Micki DesMarais helped the Lakeland Hawks win back-to-back state titles in 2001 and ’02.

Nearly two decades later, as a volunteer assistant at her alma mater, she contributed a key assist.

At halftime, the now-Micki Darnell suggested putting junior Addie Kiefer on Bonners Ferry senior star Holly Ansley, who had scored 15 first-half points.

Kiefer held Ansley to five points in the second half, and the Hawks pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Badgers in nonleague play at Hawk Court.

Kiefer finished with 21 points, 17 rebounds and four assists for Lakeland (3-2).

“Twenty-one points and 17 rebounds is a terrific storyline, but the biggest difference she made was defensively,” Lakeland coach Steve Seymour said. “Holly’s a good player, has been for four years. She facilitates, and is tough to stop off the dribble, shoots the 3 well. She shot us out of our zone (in the first half), basically.”

Katy Ryan added 14 points, 10 rebounds, five blocked shots and four steals for Lakeland. Abbey Neff “had her best game of the year,” Seymour said, finishing with 13 points and four assists.

Lakeland plays at Coeur d’Alene on Friday.

Bonners Ferry 13 16 10 10 — 49

Lakeland 17 16 11 16 — 60

BONNERS FERRY — Villaluz 0, Sa. Hill 3, Bayer 6, Bliss 0, Blackmore 0, Abubakari 8, Ansley 20, Si. Hill 7, Sumpter 0, Pinkerton 5.

LAKELAND — Sterling 8, Thomson 0, Neff 13, Hostetler 0, Ryan 14, Simon 0, Woempner 4, A. Kiefer 21, L. Kiefer 0.

Mullan 41

Genesis Prep 8

MULLAN — Jazzmyn Nelson scored 19 points for the Tigers in a win over the Jaguars at the Mullan Pavilion.

Genesis Prep (0-2) faces North Idaho Christian on Friday at The Courts at Real Life in Post Falls.

Mullan (2-3) hosts Clark Fork on Thursday.

Genesis Prep 2 4 2 0 — 8

Mullan 14 12 14 1 — 41

GENESIS PREP — Martin 2, Yount 2, Meerdink 0, Kelly 0, Wilson 0, Robertson 0, Anderson 4.

MULLAN — Waters 2, Haig 0, Nelson 19, Blankenship 1, Stahle 0, Charvez 0, Fallingwater 10, Frazier 2, Dykes 7.

Sandpoint 56

Kellogg 28

SANDPOINT — Seniors Hattie Larson and Kaylee Banks scored 18 and 15 points, respectively, as the Bulldogs (2-3) rolled past the Wildcats in nonleague play at Les Rogers Court.

Hailey Cheney scored 10 points to lead Kellogg (2-3), which committed 26 turnovers.

Kellogg travels to Lakeside on Thursday.

Kellogg 11 5 5 7 — 28

Sandpoint 14 11 18 13 — 56

KELLOGG — A. Van Hoose 0, Jerome 6, Karst 0, E. Van Hoose 0, Coe 2, Hill 2, Potts 0, Nearing 6, H. Chaney 10, Reed 2, M. Chaney 0.

SANDPOINT — Driggs 8, Reinink 0, Lyons 0, Tomco 0, Cessna 5, Phillips 2, Kar. Banks 6, Larson 18, Platte 2, Kay. Banks 15.