Post Falls, Coeur d'Alene in title hunt at Rollie Lane

- WRESTLING

NAMPA — Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene sit in the top four after the first day of the Rollie Lane Invitational at the Ford Idaho Center.

Post Falls is second with 99.5 points, and Coeur d’Alene is fourth with 84.5 points.

Roddy Romero (106), Lane Reardon (120), Isaac Jessen (126), A.J. De La Rosa (145) Ethan Miller (152) and Tyler Cook (220) advanced to the quarterfinals for Post Falls. Ryan Graves (113) and Isaiah Laguna (220) remain in the consolation bracket for the Trojans.

Dom Jessos (120), Drew Roberts (138), Nolan Randles (145) and Gunner Giulio (160) advanced to the quarterfinals for Coeur d’Alene.

“I thought all of our kids competed well, even those guys that got knocked out of the tournament,” Coeur d’Alene coach Jeff Moffat said. “Everyone is showing improvement.”

Christian Paniagua (98), Hunter Schueller (132) and Jackson Washington (220) remain in the consolation bracket for Coeur d’Alene.

“The guys were working on stuff and getting better,” Moffat said. “We’re starting to make some progress, but the biggest thing was seeing those guys come out and compete hard.”

Alex Edelblute (126), Riley Siegford (138), Rhonin Edwards (152), Colton Boettcher (170) and Sam Feusier (285) went unbeaten to advance for Lakeland, which is seventh with 82 points.

Isaiah Evans (132) and Joey Follini (182) advanced to the quarters for Timberlake, which is tied for 29th with Caldwell with 48 points.

Kuna leads the tournament with 106 points.

Eight advance for Lake City

at Northwest Classic

SPOKANE VALLEY — Nate Garner (126 pounds), Gavin Tuttle (152), Porter Howard (160), Seth Nutting (170), Matthew Whitcomb (182), Mahlon Clark (195), Connor Dremann (220) and Owen Hughes (285) won opening round matches for Lake City to advance in the Pacific Northwest Classic at University High.

Lake City is eighth after the first day with 20 points.

Hanford of Richland, Wash., leads with 36.

The tournament concludes today.

- BOYS BASKETBALL

Moscow 55

Timberlake 38

SPIRIT LAKE — Jacob James scored 15 points for the Tigers, who were held scoreless in the third quarter of a loss to the Bears at Timberlake High.

“I thought we played good defense throughout,” said Timberlake coach Mike Menti, whose team led 24-23 at halftime. “They’re huge and a lot bigger than us. You just can’t score zero points in the third quarter. We’ve got to keep working at it. We were up 1 at halftime, and that was it. We kept taking good shots, but were missing them. We’ve got to pick it up and keep getting better.”

Timberlake (1-9) hosts Lakeland on Jan. 14.

Blake Buchanan scored 16 points for Moscow.

Moscow 15 8 13 19 — 55

Timberlake 7 17 0 14 — 38

MOSCOW — Diego 13, Decker 5, Abendroth 3, Thompson 2, Simpson 2, Colter 2, Postell 8, Buchanan 16, Skinner 4.

TIMBERLAKE — Menti 4, Peightal 0, Paslay 4, Yetter 5, McDonald 0, James 15, Dickinson 7, Simpson 3.

Potlatch 61

St. Maries 33

POTLATCH — The visiting Lumberjacks shot 4 of 30 from the 3-point line and couldn’t overcome Conner Akins’ 27-point night in a nonleague loss to the Loggers.

“We started slow and just couldn’t get anything going,” said St. Maries coach Bryan Chase, whose team last played on Dec. 18 against Potlatch. “We bobbled some passes and weren’t ready to shoot and were terrible offensively and our defense wasn’t as good as it needed to be against a team like that.”

Brett Stancil scored 12 points for St. Maries (5-2), which travels to Prairie today at 2:30 p.m.

St. Maries 6 10 10 7 — 33

Potlatch 18 13 13 17 — 61

ST. MARIES — Sands 6, Ross 7, Becktel 0, Gentry 2, Stancil 12, Peet 0, Elliott 0, Gibson 4, Ledbetter 2.

POTLATCH — Hadaller 11, Ju. Nicholson 5, Je. Nicholson 2, Wilcoxson 8, Bouma 2, Akins 27, Andrews 2, Svancara 1.

- GIRLS BASKETBALL

Eagle 44

Lake City 39 (OT)

BOISE — The Timberwolves had their chances in the fourth quarter and overtime, but fell to the defending state 5A champion Mustangs at Timberline High on day 2 of the Timber-Lion Tournament.

Betsey King, sister of former Eagle star Janie King, now a sophomore for the University of Idaho women’s team, hit two free throws with some 20 seconds left to force overtime. In OT, King was fouled on a 3-pointer, and hit all three free throws to put Eagle (7-6) ahead to stay at 41-39 with 1 1/2 minutes left.

“We’ve struggled this year playing back-to-back games,” said Lake City coach James Anderson, whose squad lost to 5A Southern Idaho Conference-leading Timberline on Thursday night. “Today they (the Mustangs) came out with a lot of intensity, and it took us a while to match that intensity.”

Junior forward Brooklyn Rewers had 21 points and 10 rebounds for Lake City (8-4), and now has 43 points and 18 boards in the two tourney games. Kendall Pickford had four assists, Jaya Miller four steals for the Timberwolves.

“Brooklyn’s been awesome; she’s been totally dialed in and been a difference maker,” Anderson said. “We haven’t shot the ball well down here.”

King, a senior guard, led all scorers with 24 points.

Lake City has now played four of the top five teams in the 5A CIL this season, including two on this trip.

“It’s been really good for us; the teams down here are real physical,” Anderson said. “We’re taking some steps in the right direction.”

Lake City wraps up tourney play vs. 4A Caldwell today at 9:15 a.m. PST at Timberline.

Lake City 8 7 11 10 3 — 39

Eagle 4 15 6 11 8 — 44

LAKE CITY — Pickford 5, Miller 5, Chase 0, Parks 0, Shanley 3, Roberts 0, Rewers 21, Hawkins 5, Munoz 0.

EAGLE — Boockholdt 7, Bohner 2, Michalik 5, Kirk 4, Cox 0, King 24, Carter 0, Beck 2.

N.I. Christian 53

Lib. Christian 52

RICHLAND, Wash. — Imelda Bresee sank a baby hook shot with 16 seconds left as the visiting Royals won the nonleague game.

Bresee finished with 20 points, 16 rebounds and four steals for North Idaho Christian (10-2). Kate Malinauskas added nine points, Riley Jo Anderson eight points, five assists and six steals, Grace Gwin eight points, nine rebounds and four steals.

Emma Reed hit seven 3-pointers and scored 30 points for Liberty Christian, a class 2B school.

North Idaho Christian plays Spokane Classical Christian on Tuesday at The Warehouse in Spokane.

N.I. Christian 7 10 18 18 — 53

Lib. Christian 11 10 13 18 — 52

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Kelley 2, Gwin 8, Anderson 8, Malinauskas 9, Bresee 20, Newman 6, Pilgrim 0, Knight 0.

LIBERTY CHRISTIAN — L. Reed 6, E. Reed 30, Cochran 0, Bush 6, Culver 10, Herron 0, Wilson 0, Armigo 0, Whitmore 0.