Post Falls' victory like a shot in the dark

POST FALLS — Once the lights went low, the Post Falls girls pulled away.

Lexi Heath hit four 3-pointers and scored 21 points as the Trojans downed the Lewiston Bengals 71-46 in the 5A Inland Empire League finale for both teams Friday night at The Arena.

Post Falls (11-9, 2-4 5A IEL) clinched the No. 3 seed to the Region 1 tournament, and will travel to No. 2 Coeur d’Alene in a first-round game next Friday at 6:30.

Caitlin Richardson scored 18 points, Emily Collins 15 for Lewiston (2-17, 0-6), which will play at top-seeded Lake City in the other first-round game next Friday at 6:30.

Post Falls led 44-35 late in the third quarter when a power outage took out the main lights in the gym. Thanks to a generator, the backup, flourescent lights came back on, and the teams played the final 9-plus minutes under limited light.

“Actually, it did us some good,” said Post Falls coach Marc Allert, whose team scored the game’s next 15 points when play resumed following a 21-minute delay. “We kinda regrouped a little bit, and came out with a little more energy.

“We need to dim the lights before each game,” he added with a laugh. “We shot better after the lights were dim.”

Ali Carpenter added 15 points, Katie Fleming 11 for Post Falls.

Lewiston 12 19 9 6 — 46

Post Falls 19 12 15 25 — 71

LEWISTON — Collins 15, Foss 0, Bausch 0, Wilkins 0, Grant 7, Grogan 0, Ortiz 2, Johnson 0, Richardson 18, Barney 2, Wessels 2.

POST FALLS — Heath 21, Blake 3, Lovett 8, Johnson 2, Fleming 11, Smith 5, LaFountaine 0, Walton 2, Carpenter 15, Christensen 2.

Lakeside 73

Genesis Prep 17

POST FALLS — Samantha Adrian, Arianna Gorr and Tamara Anderson scored 10 points each for the Knights in a win over the Jaguars at The Courts at Real Life Ministries.

“We played really well as a team,” Lakeside coach Chris Dohrman said. “It was probably our best game as a group this season, which is really nice to see at this point in the season.”

Lakeside (13-4) travels to Garfield-Palouse today at 4 p.m.

Greta Neely scored nine points for Genesis Prep (0-14), which visits Deer Park today at 2:30 p.m.

Lakeside 13 21 20 19 — 73

Genesis Prep 10 3 0 4 — 19

LAKESIDE — Daniels 2, J. Holt 8, Middleton 6, Adrian 10, Matt 2, Gorr 10, Peters 9, Anderson 10, Allen 2, Marchand 8, A. Holt 6.

GENESIS PREP — Kim 2, Bohannan 0, Elonen 2, Neely 9, Nies 4, Burgess 0, Wilson 0, Thomas 0.