PREP BASKETBALL: Cd'A wins first outright league title since 2014

• GIRLS

COEUR d’ALENE — Once the Vikings overcame the emotion and energy of Senior Night, they were able to overcome something else that hadn’t been done since 2014.

Clinching an outright Inland Empire League title.

Skylar Burke scored 13 points for the Vikings in a 41-29 win over the Sandpoint Bulldogs at Viking Court on Thursday night.

“We have an amazing group of seniors and our program is blessed to have had these girls a part of it,” said Coeur d’Alene coach Nicole Symons, who started seniors Nakisha Matheson, Jaelyn Brainard-Adams, Tori Younker, Jaden Chavez and Emma Whiteman. “But as always, the girls worked hard and settled in and did was we needed to do to win in the fourth quarter.

“We missed that goal of winning the league last year, and it was the first of three goals the team set this year. Now, we can focus on winning districts.”

Younker scored 12 points for Coeur d’Alene (15-1, 11-0 IEL), which hosts Moscow on Feb. 2.

Hattie Larson scored 12 points for Sandpoint (6-7, 3-5).

“Sandpoint played hard and never backed down,” Symons said.

Sandpoint 6 6 10 7 — 29

Coeur d’Alene 4 11 11 15 — 41

SANDPOINT — Gammon 0, Driggs 4, Reinink 0, Lyons 0, Tomco 0, Cessna 0, Phillips 4, Kar. Banks 4, Larson 12, Platte 2, Kay. Banks 4.

COEUR d’ALENE — Matheson 0, Brainard-Adams 6, Whiteman 2, Symons 3, Ja. Johnson 2, Younker 9, Chavez 6, Burke 13.

Timberlake 54

Post Falls 43

SPIRIT LAKE — Brooke Jessen scored 26 points and the host 3A Tigers beat the 5A Trojans for the second time this season.

Jessen hit three 3-pointers in the first quarter for Timberlake (13-2), which won its seventh straight game.

“Her teammates did a good job moving the ball, and finding her,” Timberlake coach Matt Miller said. “It was a really hard-fought game on both sides. And I thought we did a good job of rising to the occasion, and playing tough.”

Timberlake outscored Post Falls 18-7 in the third quarter, after leading 27-25 at halftime.

Trinidie Nichols and Brielle Magnuson scored eight points each for Post Falls (9-5), which travels to Moscow tonight in Inland Empire League play.

Blayre Jeffs added 12 points for Timberlake, which visits Bonners Ferry on Saturday in Intermountain League play.

Post Falls 12 13 7 11 — 43

Timberlake 16 11 18 9 — 54

POST FALLS — McLean 4, Nichols 8, Lovett 7, Grant 3, Sims 1, Buckley 2, Crane 4, Magnuson 8, Walton 0, Blake 4, Christensen 2.

TIMBERLAKE — T. Soumas 7, Hammond 3, Kronenberg 2, C. Soumas 0, Carhart 4, Jessen 26, Jeffs 12.

Lakeside 74

Mullan 27

PLUMMER — Jolissa Holt scored 23 points for the Knights in a nonleague win over the Tigers at Ron Miller Court.

Ashlee Holt added 19 points for Lakeside (6-6), which travels to the Post Falls JV on Saturday.

The Knights were missing two starters due to COVID-19 protocols.

"Dahyiitihi White made a 3 toward the end, got the crowd excited — what crowd we had," Lakeside coach Chris Dohrman said, noting the freshman's first varsity points.

Talowa Fallingwater scored 16 points for Mullan (6-6), which travels to the Timberlake ‘C’ team next Thursday.

Mullan 13 1 8 5 — 27

Lakeside 18 14 21 21 — 74

MULLAN — Waters 2, Haig 2, Stahle 0, Fallingwater 16, Charvez 0, Frazier 5, Dykes 2.

LAKESIDE — A. Holt 19, Havier-Gorr 8, J. Holt 23, White 3, Lawrence 2, Wienclaw 6, Rivera 0, Tsawklai 0, Matt 4, Lowley 1, Marchand 2, Allen 6.

• BOYS

Coeur d’Alene 63

Sandpoint 51

SANDPOINT — The energy inside Les Rogers Court made it feel like a rivalry game, and the action on the court didn't disappoint.

For over three quarters, Sandpoint basketball traded blows with Coeur d'Alene, but in the end the Vikings defense allowed them to pull away in the fourth to secure an Inland Empire League victory.

“We didn’t execute very well in the first half,” said Coeur d’Alene coach Jon Adams, whose team led 29-23 at halftime. “If you let a team stay in it on the road, they’re going to gain some confidence. We really wanted to come out and jump on them, but weren’t able to do what we needed to. We kind of righted that at halftime.”

Cameren Cope had 23 points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots for Coeur d’Alene (4-5, 3-2 IEL).

"He's just a big kid so he can go down there and bang," Sandpoint interim coach Mike Roos said, "and this was kind of one of his games because you can bang into him as much as you want, you're not going to move him much. It's nice and it frees up some of our other guys to move into different spots."

Steven Burgess had 12 points for Coeur d’Alene, which hosts Lewiston on Tuesday.

“Steven did a good job of managing the game,” Adams said. “He had some good active hands on defense and knocked down some shots late in the game.”

Darren Bailey had 14 points for Sandpoint (4-7, 0-5), which hosts Lewiston on Saturday.

Coeur d’Alene 19 10 16 18 — 63

Sandpoint 12 11 15 13 — 51

COEUR d'ALENE — Bengtson 2, King 0, Prka 2, Burgess 12, Larson 11, Ivankovich 0, Entzi 0, Gatten 0, Cope 23, Smith 6, Reyes 4, McLaughlin 3.

SANDPOINT — Roos 12, Pettit 2, Frank 6, R. Lee 2, VanDenBerg 0, Bailey 14, S. Lee 2, Lane 6, Butler 7.

St. Maries 70

Priest River 48

PRIEST RIVER — Greyson Sands made three of his four 3-pointers in the first half, and scored 13 of his 17 points in the first two quarters as the fast-starting Lumberjacks beat the Spartans in nonleague play.

“After a week of finals and a long road trip, I was proud how e got off to a good start in the first quarter,” said St. Maries coach Bryan Chase, whose squad led 21-6 after one quarter. “We were running well, and playing good defense.”

Tristan Gentry had 17 points, six rebounds and three assists for St. Maries (11-0), ranked second in 2A in this week’s state media poll. Eli Gibson had six points and three steals.

Luke Butler scored a game-high 18 points for Priest River (7-3).

St. Maries travels to Orofino on Saturday in a Central Idaho League game.

St. Maries 21 13 22 14 — 70

Priest River 6 12 14 15 — 48

ST. MARIES — Sands 17, Ross 10, Bechtel 4, Gentry 17, Stancil 4, Elliott 3, Gibson 6, Ledbetter 0, Colby Renner 5, Tyler Renner 4, McMaster 0.

PRIEST RIVER — Mathews 6, Butler 18, J. Nortz 4, Kreager 12, Marinello 3, Barrett 2, D. Nortz 1, Thompson 2.

Mullan 54

Lakeside 43

PLUMMER — For the first three quarters, it was looking like Lucky’s night.

Then, foul trouble hit.

Lucky Matt, a 6-foot-5 freshman, scored 21 of his 23 points in the first three quarters, including 15 in the first half, before fouling out early in the fourth for the Knights JV, who fell to the Tigers at Ron Miller Court.

“Mullan switched to a zone and that collapsed our inside game,” Lakeside JV coach Jess Arthur said. “That led to a lot of offensive fouls on Lucky.”

Luke Trogden had 29 points and six steals, and Riley Trogden had 12 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots for Mullan (4-3), which is scheduled to host Wallace on Tuesday.

“I thought we played a lot better in the second half,” Mullan coach Paul Elston said. “We played much better defense, probably our best to date this season.”

Lakeside JV returns to action at Kellogg on Monday.

Mullan 12 16 10 16 — 54

Lakeside 19 12 10 2 — 43

MULLAN — L. Trogden 29, Zingler 2, R. Trogden 12, Nelson 11, L. Pettit 0, S. Pettit 0, Layton 0.

LAKESIDE — Rivera 3, Callahan 2, Matt 23, Jones 2, Brown 7, Nomee 2, Martin 2, Key 2, Allen 0, Fulton 0, Sperber 0, Smith 0, Janson 0.