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Area boys

basketball teams

return to court

Boys basketball teams from Coeur d’Alene, Lake City and Post Falls High will be back in action today in the annual Lake City Invitational at Lake City High.

Coeur d’Alene (4-3) opens with Heritage High of Vancouver, Wash. (4-4) today at 3:30, followed by Post Falls (8-2) against Rogers High of Puyallup (2-4). Tournament play concludes for the day with Lake City (4-2) against Mead (5-2) at 7.

Columbia River (3-2) of Vancouver faces North Central (1-7) in the opening game today at 2 p.m.

LAKE CITY INVITATIONAL

At Lake City High

Thursday’s Games

Columbia River vs. North Central, 2 p.m.

Heritage vs. Coeur d’Alene, 3:30

Rogers vs. Post Falls, 5:15

Mead at Lake City, 7

Friday’s Games

Post Falls vs. Columbia River, 2 p.m.

North Central vs. Heritage, 3:30

Mead vs. Coeur d’Alene, 5:15

Rogers at Lake City, 7

Saturday’s Games

Rogers vs. Heritage, 9:30 a.m.

Columbia River vs. Coeur d’Alene, 11

North Central at Lake City, 12:30 p.m.

Mead vs. Post Falls, 2

NIC basketball teams

open conference play

at home tonight

The North Idaho College men’s and women’s basketball teams will entertain Big Bend Community College of Moses Lake to open Northwest Athletic Conference play tonight starting with the women’s game at 5:30 at Rolly Williams Court.

NIC’s women (6-5) beat Lethbridge and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology last weekend in Coeur d’Alene, improving to 6-5. Big Bend is 8-5.

The Cardinal men are 12-1, with two straight wins to conclude play in the Pima Invitational in Arizona. Big Bend is 6-8.