PREP BASKETBALL: Viking girls get past Rocky Mountain; visit Sandpoint on Tuesday

• GIRLS

COEUR d’ALENE — Leading 44-30 at halftime, Coeur d’Alene — for whatever reason — lost a bit of its momentum on offense in the second half.

However, the Vikings found it when it mattered most.

Sophomore Karisa Wallis and senior Maddie Mitchell hit late 3-pointers for the Vikings, who held off the Rocky Mountain Grizzlies 58-54 at Viking Court on Saturday in a rematch of February’s state 5A championship game, won by the Vikings.

“We had a good first half, and then just struggled in the third quarter,” Coeur d’Alene coach Nicole Symons said. “The game got slowed down and didn’t really go in our favor. Neither team could get a flow going and we had to go to some kids that haven’t played much in their roles. But it was a great game for our girls to learn from.”

Senior Teagan Colvin, who has signed with UNLV, scored 23 points for Coeur d’Alene (5-1), which plays at Sandpoint, winners of last year’s state 4A title, on Tuesday.

“I’m proud of the girls for figuring out a way to win when we weren’t playing at our best,” Symons said. “It was a good experience for our younger kids.”

Senior Cianna Legaspi scored 13 points for Rocky Mountain (4-2).

Rocky Mountain    18    12    10    14    —    54

Coeur d’Alene        21    23    6    8    —    58

ROCKY MOUNTAIN — L. Sailors 16, Asbury 0, Ad. Osterhout 1, Av. Osterhout 12, T. Gilberson 0, M. Gilberson 0, DaBell 9, Legaspi 13.

COEUR d’ALENE — Colvin 23, Mitchell 8, Bridge 0, Wallis 3, Lopez 5, Holecek 10, Carroll 9.

Lake City 74

Meridian 38

COEUR d’ALENE — After a sluggish second half on Friday, the Timberwolves shook that off in a hurry against the Warriors.

Senior Avery Waddington scored 16 of her game-high 22 points in the first quarter and the Timberwolves hit nine 3-pointers en route to a nonleague win.

“We came out still disappointed from Friday’s game, and had a big first quarter,” said Lake City coach David Pratt, whose team led 30-4 after the first quarter. We didn’t shoot it well (Friday), but we were almost 80% today in that first quarter. The girls just couldn’t miss.”

Senior KaLiah Frazey scored 15 points, senior Sophia Zufelt nine points for Lake City (6-1), which plays at Moscow on Tuesday.

Meridian is 3-3.

Meridian    4    12    15    7    —    38

Lake City    30    22    16    6    —    74

MERIDIAN — Watson 10, Martinez 6, Fluckinger 1, Clampitt 3, Dick 6, Dunn 12, Rwagasore 0, Little 0.

LAKE CITY — Murphey 3, Frazey 15, Pickford 3, Zufelt 9, Waddington 22, Pearson 2, Fagan 6, Zimmerman 7, Hiltenbrand 7.

Eagle 59

Post Falls 38

POST FALLS — Senior Paige Cofer, who has signed to play at Utah Tech, scored 21 points for the visiting Mustangs in a win over the Trojans at The Arena.

“She’s a good ballplayer,” Post Falls coach Brian Hall said of Cofer, an first team all-state pick last year. “She hit three 3-pointers and12 points in the second half. She’s just an consistent player.”

Senior Brooklynn Brennan scored 10 points, senior Leti Asper had eight points and six rebounds and junior Myckenzee Mitley six points and four steals for Post Falls (2-6).

“We just had a lack of offensive boards,” Hall said. “Leti, she’s always working hard inside. Offensively, we just couldn’t get anything going and came out a little sluggish.” 

Post Falls hosts Ridgeline on Monday.

Eagle is 3-4.

Eagle    19    15    9    16    —    59

Post Falls    5    9    13    11    —    38

EAGLE — Johnson 7, Viera 2, Loucks 0, Vargas 3, Marg 3, Cofer 21, Thompson 8, Jones 6, Hunt 0, White 0, Wood 7.

POST FALLS — McLean 8, Brennan 10, Asper 8, Mitley 6, Walton 4, Allen 2, Hollenbeck 0, Nipp-Berger 0.

Lakeland 59

West Valley 21

SPOKANE VALLEY — Landree Simon scored 24 points for the Hawks in a win over the Eagles at West Valley High.

Karstyn Kiefer scored nine points for Lakeland (2-2), which hosts Lewiston on Friday.

“I thought our team flew around, causing more disruption tonight than in games past,” Lakeland coach Tyrel Derrick said. “It was a game to build on. Landree and Karstyn did an awesome job sprinting the court for us tonight and bringing that edge we’ve been looking for.”

West Valley is 0-3.

Lakeland    21    18    17    3    —    59

West Valley    2    5    10    6    —    21

LAKELAND — Simon 24, K. Kiefer 9, Loutzenhiser 3, L. Kiefer 4, Bretveld 2, Sterling 12, Bullington 4.

WEST VALLEY — Spinach 2, McIntyre 4, Burrill 10, Adamson 0, Ordinario 5, Osborn 0.

Sandpoint 80

East Valley 14

SPOKANE — Freshman Jordyn Tomco scored 22 points for the Bulldogs in a romp of the Knights.

“We started out pretty slow with some missed shots and turnovers in the first quarter,” Sandpoint coach Will Love said. “Eventually, we turned things around midway through the first and were humming the entire rest of the way”.

Freshman Brecken Mire scored 11 of her 15 points in the first quarter to help the Bulldogs get out to a 20-7 lead. In the second quarter, Aliya Strock, who scored all 17 of her points in the quarter, knocked down three 3-pointers as Sandpoint took a 37-point lead into halftime.

Tomco scored 17 of her 22 points in the second half.

“Jordyn (Tomco) did a great job leading our bench crew, who played really well today,” Love said. “Jordyn’s worked really hard and it’s great to see that hard work pay off with the way she played this weekend… I was really pleased with that whole group, who played most of the second half.”

Sandpoint hosts Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday.

Sandpoint 20 27 16 17 – 80

East Valley 7 3 1 3 – 14

SANDPOINT — Tomco 22, Strock 17, Mire 15, Laybourne 9, Banks 8, Thaete 4, Driggs 2, Richardson 2, Bleckwenn 1. 

EAST VALLEY – Thomas 6, Seamone 3, Rasmussen 2, Taylor 2, Salina 1.

Kendrick 74

St. Maries 11

ST. MARIES — The visiting Tigers (3-1) used a big first quarter to get past the Lumberjacks in a nonleague game at St. Maries High.

St. Maries (1-5) is off until a Dec. 15 game against Genesis Prep at The Courts in Post Falls.

Kendrick    27    19    23    5    —    74

St. Maries    4    1    4    2    —    11

KENDRICK — Kimberling 1, M. Heimgartner 2, H. Heimgartner 13, Anderson 16, Cowley 2, Boyer 0, Kimbley 8, Casto 0, Clemenhagen 0, Silflow 9, Johnston 0, Stewart 7, Taylor 16.

ST. MARIES — Elliott 2, Thomas 0, Martin 0, Baird 2, R. Yearout 0, Sindt 3, Janssen 4, Sloper 0, M. Yearout 0, Linnemeyer 0.

• BOYS 

Ridgevue 65

Post Falls 47

NAMPA — Sophomore Connor Carver had 14 points and seven rebounds for the Trojans, who fell to the Warhawks in the third-place game of the Capital Classic at Northwest Nazarene University.

Alex Shields had 12 points and five rebounds, Trenton McLean five points and four steals for Post Falls (2-2), which hosts Ridgeline on Monday.

“We’ve got to play better defensively,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said. “We were really saddled with foul issues after the first quarter. Ridgevue did a good job with their bigs and they kind of beat us with their size, and we didn’t do a good job of defending that. They executed well.”

Ridgevue is 2-1.

Post Falls    16    10    9    12    —    47

Ridgevue    16    20    17    12    —    65

POST FALLS — Lysne 0, McLean 5, McCarthy 8, Cameron 4, McKeown 0, Carver 14, Blake 4, Shields 12.

RIDGEVUE — Correa 6, Boles 14, Camario 2, Phillips 6, Randall 6, Peterson 2, Kasper 5, Nielson 7, Tiddens 16.

West Valley 78

Lakeland 74, OT

SPOKANE VALLEY — Kenton Ferguson scored 24 of his game-high 32 points in the second half, including 15 in the third quarter for the Hawks, who fell to the Eagles in a nonleague game.

Gabe Harris scored 18 points for Lakeland (2-1), which hosts Lewiston on Friday.

West Valley is 2-0.

Lakeland    14    15    22    15    8    —    74

West Valley    21    13    15    17    12    —    78

LAKELAND — Norce 5, Hensley 7, Ferguson 32, Ryan 9, Tebbe 0, Varner 0, Roth 1, Cook 2, Carroll 0, Harris 18.

WEST VALLEY — Hart 0, Munns 20, Gadd-Lewis 2, Busse 12, Oberemok 9, Abbey 16, Fried 17, Spunich 2, Zettle 0.

Sandpoint 72

West Valley 52

SPOKANE — Junior Emerik Jones scored a team-high 21 points for the Bulldogs, one of five players in double-figures in a win over the Knights.

 “It was a good bounceback win for us,” Sandpoint coach Brian Childs said. “It was a good team win, and every player made a contribution.”

Freshman Derrick Chamberlain who scored 13, had big second half performances which helped the Bulldogs turn a three-point halftime lead into a 20-point victory.

“I wouldn’t call it a sluggish start, but our wheels weren’t spinning in the first half,” Childs said. “In the second half we were able to get the ball inside to Emerick (Jones) and Derrick (Chamberlain) which helped to open up our other guys.”

Sandpoint (1-1) visits Coeur d’Alene (2-0) on Tuesday.

Sandpoint 11 14 21 26 – 72

East Valley 14 8 17 13 – 52

SANDPOINT — Jones 21, Williams 13, Chamberlain 12, Roos 11, Childs 10, Gion 5. 

EAST VALLEY – Mertens 12, Kinter-Burkhart 11, Layne 9, Flahavin 8, Nunn 4, Harry 3, Cloud 2, Martin 2, Anderson 1.

Kendrick 60

St. Maries 44

ST. MARIES — Seth Swallows scored 16 points, Wyatt Holmes had eight rebounds and seven rebounds for the Lumberjacks in a loss to the Tigers.

JJ Yearout had eight points and four steals for St. Maries (0-3), which travels to Timberlake on Wednesday.

Kendrick    20    21    9    10    —    60

St. Maries    11    13    12    8    —    44

KENDRICK — Roetcisoender 4, Twidt 25 (Nathan), Cook 6, Kimberling 5, Boyer 0, Koepp 14, Silflow 4, Morgan 2.

ST. MARIES — W. Holmes 8, Harold 0, J. Barta 0, Yearout 8, Gustaffe 6, L. Holmes 2, Defoort 0, Sloper 4, Swallows 16.

Lakeside 57

Kellogg 27

KELLOGG — Brutis SiJohn, Liam Hendrickx, Qwincy Hall and Tyson Charley scored 11 points each for the 1A Division I Knights in a win over the 2A Wildcats in the championship game of the Silver Valley Tournament at Andrews Gymnasium.

Lakeside, which claimed the state 1A Division 1 championship in March, improved to 3-0.

“We just could not score against their zone,” Kellogg coach Mike Martin said. “They’re an experienced team that brought back a lot of pieces from a state championship team. I thought our half-court defense was good, but a team that likes to push the pace, it’s tough.”

Reed Whatcott and Draeden Taylor scored nine points each for Kellogg (1-2), which travels to Moscow on Wednesday.

Lakeside hosts Timberline of Weippe on Dec. 16.

Lakeside    11    11    17    18    —    57

Kellogg    10    5    7    5    —    27

LAKESIDE — Peone 1, SiJohn 11, Callahan 5, Hendrickx 11, Nomee 3, Hall 11, Jones 0, Spotted Horse 0, Kee 4, Charley 11.

KELLOGG — Robinson 0, Whatcott 9, Coburn 4, Taylor 9, Blalack 0, Fields 0, Lewis 0, McDonald 2, Garry 3, Cheney 0, Vindasius 0.

Christian Center 65

Koot. Thunder 35

COEUR d’ALENE — Michael Marshall scored 15 points for the Lions in a Mountain Christian League win over Kootenai Thunder at the Coeur d’Alene Boys and Girls Club.

Colton Smith had nine points and nine assists for Christian Center (1-0, 1-0 MCL), which faces Spokane Classical Christian on Monday at the Church of the Nazarene in Spokane.

Kootenai Thunder    9    9    5    12    —    35

Christian Center    23    16    17    9    —    65

KOOTENAI THUNDER — Rowan P. 0, Melkam M. 6, Jude B. 4, Preston B. 8, Dylan D. 6, Jackson W. 4, Hunter P. 7, Kohen R. 0, Ben B. 0, Gavin M. 0.

CHRISTIAN CENTER — Michael Marshall 15, Mametiff 8, McWhorter 11, Jones 3, Sperling 2, Cotton 2, Smith 9, Siers 6, Coppinger 2, Tesky 4, Paulson 3.