Bulldogs nab home-court carrot
SANDPOINT — The Sandpoint Bulldogs had already clinched the 4A Inland Empire League title.
But by beating the Moscow Bears 47-31 on Saturday in the league finale Saturday at Les Rogers Court, Sandpoint (14-7, 4-0 4A IEL) secured home court advantage throughout the best-of-3 4A Region 1 championship series by virtue of finishing undefeated in league.
“This has been a goal for us since the beginning of the season,” Sandpoint coach Will Love said.
Third-seeded Moscow (1-14) travels to No. 2 seed Lakeland on Monday at 6 p.m. in a regional loser-out game. The winner will advance to play Sandpoint on Wednesday in the first game of the regional championship at Les Rogers Court. Game 2 is Friday and Game 3, if necessary, is Saturday.
Sandpoint dominated the second quarter and outscored Moscow 18-6 to take control of the game.
Kaylee Banks led the Bulldogs with 9 points and Kelsey Cessna, Dawson Driggs, Brooklen Steiger and Hattie Larson each had 8.
Megan Watson finished with 9 points and six rebounds for Moscow, and Angela Lassen and Peyton Watson each tallied 7 points.
Moscow 11 6 8 6 — 31
Sandpoint 10 18 11 8 — 47
MOSCOW — M. Watson 9, Gray 6, Heyns 0, Claus 2, P. Watson 7, Anderson 0, Craig 0, Lassen 7, Baker 0.
SANDPOINT — Cessna 8, Lish 1, Day. Driggs 0, Morgan 3, Daw. Driggs 8, Edwards 0, Steiger 8, Phillips 0, Larson 8, Platte 2, Banks 9.
Orofino 38
St. Maries 32
OROFINO — The visiting Lumberjacks had their season come to an end with a loss to the Maniacs in a 2A District 1-2 play-in game at Orofino High.
Orofino won a coin-flip to host the game with St. Maries after the teams finished tied in the Central Idaho League standings.
Macie Rimel and Mackenzie Hammond scored eight points each for St. Maries, which finishes 6-14.
Kaylynn Johnson scored 14 points for Orofino (9-9), which faces Grangeville in a best-of-3 game district tournament starting Monday at Genesee.
St. Maries 17 4 6 5 — 32
Orofino 6 9 13 10 — 38
ST. MARIES — Holder 6, Rimel 8, Hammond 8, Koser 0, Badgett 2, Christensen 0, Watkins 4, Mitchell 0, Miller 0, Chappell 0, Sines 4.
OROFINO — Zywina 9, Beardin 6, Schwartz 5, Shuman 4, Johnson 14.
Clark Fork 35
Kootenai 18
HARRISON FLATS — Senior Ellie Kiebert had 17 points and 13 rebounds to help the Wampus Cats beat the Warriors in the regular-season and North Star League finale for both teams.
No. 5 seed Kootenai (0-12, 0-8 NSL) plays at No. 4 Mullan (4-11) in the loser-out game of the 1A Division II District 1 tournament Monday at 6 p.m.
The No. 2 seed Wampus Cats (9-10, 4-4) take on No. 3 Genesis Prep at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at North Idaho College. The Kootenai-Mullan winner faces No. 1 seed Lakeside (13-6) at 6.
Sara Hathaway added 11 points for Clark Fork.
Jacey Grange led Kootenai with eight points.
Clark Fork 9 9 5 12 — 35
Kootenai 3 5 2 8 — 18
CLARK FORK — Matteson 2, Valliere 0, Myers 3, Yanik 2, Hathaway 11, Kiebert 17, Hoffman 0.
KOOTENAI — Tiller 5, Glessner 0, Defoort 2, Addington 0, Thaut 3, Wine 0, Donohoe 0, Grange 8, Loucks 0.
N.I. Christian 48
Pullman Christian 36
SPOKANE VALLEY — Imelda Bresee had 20 points, 17 rebounds and four blocked shots for the Royals in a win over the Eagles in the championship game of the Mountain Christian League tournament at The Oaks Academy.
Symone Pilgrim had nine points and 10 rebounds, Grace Gwin nine rebounds, five assists and five steals for North Idaho Christian (19-6), which won its second straight tournament title, and ninth in 15 years.
Sam Schaffer scored 13 points for Pullman Christian, which made 10 3-pointers in the game.
Pullman Christian 6 11 6 13 — 36
N.I. Christian 12 13 10 13 — 48
PULLMAN CHRISTIAN — F. Berg 12, G. Berg 9, Goetze 2, Schaffer 13, Wilson 0, Combs 0, Bren 0, Todd 0, Weaver 0.
NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Monaghan 2, Pilgrim 9, Gwin 4, Anderson 6, Malinauskas 5, Connelly 0, Newman 2, Bresee 20.