Strong start sparks St. Maries
ST. MARIES — Coleman Ross scored nine of his 11 points in the second quarter, and the St. Maries Lumberjacks held the Orofino Maniacs scoreless in the first quarter of a 63-26 Central Idaho League win on Saturday.
“It was a good team effort,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “We played great defense, which has been something we’ve been working on all week. We’d talked about getting out to a good start. I was proud of how hard the kids played tonight.”
Brett Stencil scored nine points for St. Maries (10-4, 2-0 CIL), which finished 25 of 46 shooting.
Slade Sneddon scored nine points for Orofino (4-9, 0-1).
Orofino 0 11 5 10 — 26
St. Maries 11 21 23 8 — 63
OROFINO — Sneddon 9, Barajas 0, Sparano 3, Ja. Scott 8, Jo. Scott 3, Beardin 2, Thomas 1.
ST. MARIES — Sands 5, Ross 11, Becktel 8, Gentry 6, Stencil 9, Peet 3, Elliott 0, Gibson 5, Renner 8, Ledbetter 8, McMaster 0, Wicks 0, Badgett 0.
Lake City 67
Lewis and Clark 38
COEUR d’ALENE — Zach Johnson scored 11 of his game-high 22 points in the first quarter for the Timberwolves in a win over the Tigers.
“We shot the ball really well from start to finish,” Lake City assistant coach Kelly Reed said. “It’s always a little easier when the ball goes in. We were good in all facets of the game from start to finish. We defended well and guys were in the right spots all game on defense, and we attacked the basket to score on offense.”
Seth Hanson had 13 points and seven rebounds for Lake City (10-4), which travels to Sandpoint on Tuesday.
Joel Zylak scored 11 points for Lewis and Clark (4-11).
Lewis and Clark 4 15 15 4 — 38
Lake City 27 15 22 3 — 67
LEWIS AND CLARK — Jackson 0, Heath 4, Spray 4, Zylak 11, Goeller 5, Carney 6, Pfeifer 5, Heer 0, Lewis 3, Hollenback 0, Sieveke 0.
LAKE CITY — Janke 8, Irvin 5, Spellman 4, Johnson 22, Hansen 13, Mitchell 3, Sundstrom 2, Meredith 10.
Moscow 61
Kellogg 39
KELLOGG — No other information was available.
Kendrick
at Kootenai
HARRISON FLATS — No report was received.
Priest River 42
N.I. Christian 41
COEUR d’ALENE — Cole Thompson of the visiting Spartans scored the go-ahead basket on a goaltending call with 1 1/2 minutes left, and the Royals missed a handful of shots and had a made free throw wiped out by a lane violation in the final minute of the nonleague game at Holy Family Catholic School.
Trent Kreager scored 15 points, Jayden Hahn 10 for Priest River (5-5).
Malachi Bullington, a 7-foot sophomore returning to the lineup after missing four games following an apendectomy, totaled 14 points and 16 rebounds for North Idaho Christian (15-5). Jack Hill added 10 points, Jake Peterson five assists.
North Idaho Christian plays host to Christian Heritage on Monday at Holy Family.
Priest River 8 14 10 10 — 42
N.I. Christian 14 8 10 9 — 41
PRIEST RIVER — Mathews 6, Butler 0, Hahn 10, Kreager 15, Bell 0, Lucas 3, Brennan 2, Thompson 4, Yount 2.
NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Pilgrim 0, Peterson 6, Connelly 5, Koonze 0, Johnson 6, Hill 10, Crabtree 0, Kelly 0, Bullington 14.
- SCHEDULE UPDATE
After each school’s schedule listed the games on different days, it was determined Lakeside’s boys and girls basketball games at Genesis Prep will be Friday at The Courts at Real Life Ministries in Post Falls.
The varsity girls game is scheduled for 6 p.m., followed by the varsity boys game at 7:30.