PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Lakeside's Brown goes off for 50 as Knights clinch league title

PLUMMER — Junior guard Vander Brown scored 50 points — 30 in in the first half — for Lakeside in a 106-52 Scenic Idaho Conference win over the Miners at Ron Miller Court on Friday.

“Vander really made it personal tonight,” Lakeside coach James Twoteeth said. “He was really aggressive and played with a lot of intensity.”

Brutis SiJohn had 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 steals for Lakeside (10-3, 3-0 SIC), which won its second straight conference title.

Luke Hull scored 14 points for Wallace (3-9, 0-2).

The teams meet again on Monday at Kirby Krulitz Court in Wallace.

Wallace 12 19 10 11 — 52

Lakeside 36 34 25 11 — 106

WALLACE — Tesky 11, Streeter 0, Morden 0, Allison 6, Schmidt 9, Morin 12, Hull 14.

LAKESIDE — V. Brown 50, SiJohn 21, Vassar 7, Rivera 2, Hall 17, Nomee 6, Kee 3.

Lake City 76

Sandpoint 23

LAKE CITY — On senior night, freshman Reese Strawn hit 4 of 6 3-pointers and scored 16 points as the Timberwolves beat the Bulldogs in Inland Empire League play to wrap up the No. 1 seed to the 5A Region 1 tournament which begins next Friday.

Junior Kolton Mitchell hit 3 of 3 from deep for Lake City (19-1, 7-1 IEL), which made 9 of 14 3-pointers, and shot 30 of 45 (66.7%) from the field overall.

“We came out with a ton of energy, especially defensively,” Lake City coach Jim Winger said. “And offensively, we were firing on all cylinders.”

Blake Buchanan added 14 points, Zach Johnson 11 for the T-Wolves. Nathan Hocking had eight rebounds, and Lake City held Sandpoint to 1 of 12 from deep.

Miles Jones, one of three seniors on the roster, added three points and helped hold standout Sandpoint sophomore Parker Childs to four points.

“Miles played really good defense on Childs,” Winger said. “I thought he was impressive.”

Junior Arie VanDenBerg scored 10 points for Sandpoint (5-14, 1-6).

Lake City wraps up the regular season Tuesday at home vs. Lakeland in IEL play, then plays host to Post Falls on Friday in the first round of regionals.

Sandpoint 3 9 5 6 — 23

Lake City 27 20 18 11 — 76

SANDPOINT — VanDenBerg 10, Childs 4, Lane 9, Lee 0, Eldridge 0, Dunkel 0, Dickinson 0, Kuehn 0.

LAKE CITY — Buchanan 14, Strawn 16, Hill 2, Jones 3, Miller 2, Kiesbuy 3, Hocking 4, Johnson 11, Weaver 4, K. Johnson 2, Mitchell 15, Lind 0.

Kellogg 67

Timberlake 50

SPIRIT LAKE — Junior Kolby Luna hit five 3-pointers and scored 30 points, shooting 9 of 10 from the field, and had four steals for the Wildcats in a win over the Tigers to clinch the Intermountain League championship.

“Kolby had a super efficient night tonight,” second-year Kellogg coach Mike Martin said. “Defensively, he’s usually matched up against the other team’s best player. So for him to contribute on the offensive side was huge tonight.”

Kellogg won its second IML title in three seasons, and sixth in eight years.

“It was a hard-fought game,” said Timberlake coach Mike LaFountaine, whose team trailed 18-4 after the first quarter. We dug a hole early on, and you can’t do that against a good Kellogg team. Hats off to Kolby, we needed to get a hand up on him, and he nailed some shots.”

Junior Hunter Higgins scored 16 points, junior Raj Olivieri 15 for Timberlake (6-10, 1-4 IML), which plays at Bonners Ferry on Monday.

“We came out and didn’t play with the intensity we needed to,” LaFountaine said. “We started playing better offensively and defensively. We’re learning and need to play with some intensity from the start.”

Junior Riply Luna had 12 points and seven rebounds for Kellogg (12-7, 5-0), which hosts Priest River on Tuesday.

Kellogg 18 13 19 17 — 67

Timberlake 4 14 14 18 — 50

KELLOGG — Miller 6, Whatcott 1, R. Luna 12, K. Luna 30, Groves 10, Frohlich 4, Walker 2, Hendrix 2.

TIMBERLAKE — Olivieri 15, Paslay 6, Yetter 4, Millsap 4, Borges 1, Bangs 0, Higgins 16, Tan. Menti 0, MacArthur 4.

St. Maries 40

Orofino 33

OROFINO — Greyson Sands scored 14 points and the visiting Lumberjacks overcame a sluggish performance to clinch their third straight Central Idaho League title, and seventh in eight years.

Tristan Gentry-Nelson added eight points and seven rebounds for St. Maries (14-3, 3-0 CIL), and Coleman Ross had five assists.

“We just came out really flat,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “We got in a little foul trouble, and got out of sync. I was disappointed in our effort; we got outplayed, outhustled in the second half. I'm glad we got out of there with a win.”

Joel Scott scored 12 points for Orofino (6-5, 0-3).

St. Maries plays host to Timberlake on Tuesday.

St. Maries 10 17 8 5 — 40

Orofino 5 8 13 7 — 33

ST. MARIES — Gentry-Nelson 8, Sands 14, Badgett 0, Ross 4, W. Holmes 0, Elliott 0, T. Renner 2, Wicks 2, C. Renner 6, Hill 4.

OROFINO — S. Sneddon 7, Schneider 5, Drobish 5, Scott 12, Thomas 3, Graham 1.