PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Lake City buries Sandpoint with fast start
COEUR d’ALENE — With size comes results.
On Tuesday, Lake City was happy with the result.
Senior Avery Waddington, who signed with Montana last month, scored six of the game’s first 13 points — all by the Timberwolves — in a 71-39 win over the Sandpoint Bulldogs in a nonleague game on Tuesday at Lake City High.
“We just knew how good they were and knew we had to come out and play hard on both ends of the floor,” said Lake City coach David Pratt of Sandpoint, last year’s state 4A champions. After seeing how well they played against Coeur d’Alene, our girls got up for the game knowing that they’re a good team.”
Lake City hit nine 3-pointers, compared to two by Sandpoint.
Lake City limited Aliya Strock, the state 4A Player of the Year last year, to 11 points for Sandpoint.
“We’ve got some length and speed that does us well on defense,” Pratt said. “We really took care of the glass tonight. When the ball went up, we were able to get a boatload of rebounds.”
Senior Sophia Zufelt scored 12 points, senior Kamryn Pickford 11 and junior Sadie Zimmerman 10 for Lake City (8-1), which travels to Lakeland in an Inland Empire League game on Thursday.
Freshman Jordyn Tomco scored 15 points for Sandpoint (5-1), which travels to Timberlake on Thursday.
Lake City's game at Sandpoint on Jan. 4 counts in the league standings.
Sandpoint 8 9 13 9 — 39
Lake City 22 23 19 7 — 71
SANDPOINT — Driggs 0, Laybourne 2, Tomko 15, Richardson 0, Myers 6, Strock 11, Banks 5.
LAKE CITY — Murphey 9, Frazey 4, Pickford 11, Kolden 4, Zufelt 12, Waddington 16, Pearson 5, Fagan 0, Zimmerman 10, Hiltenbrand 0.
Coeur d’Alene 72
Lakeland 45
RATHDRUM — Seniors Maddie Mitchell and Teagan Colvin hit three 3-pointers each in the second half for the Vikings, who pulled away in the third quarter for an Inland Empire League win over the Hawks at Hawk Court.
Junior Landree Simon scored 17 points for Lakeland, which trailed 28-24 at halftime before Coeur d’Alene outscored Lakeland 27-5 in the third quarter.
“It was a good first half for us and I thought some of our pressure sped up the game,” Lakeland coach Tyrel Derrick said. “When we’re able to attack, we’re pretty tough. But Teagan really settled them down in the third quarter and changed the course of the game.”
Mitchell scored 23 points, Colvin 17 for Coeur d’Alene (7-2, 2-1 IEL), which faces Democracy Prep of Las Vegas in a Diamond Bracket game in the Tarkanian Classic on Monday at Durango High in Las Vegas.
Senior Lila Kiefer scored 15 points for Lakeland (3-3, 1-2), which hosts Lake City on Thursday.
Coeur d’Alene 17 11 27 17 — 72
Lakeland 11 13 5 16 — 45
COEUR d’ALENE — T. Colvin 17, Mitchell 23, Bridge 2, Wallis 3, Lopez 6, Holecek 11, Larson 2, Carroll 8.
LAKELAND — Simon 17, K. Kiefer 2, Holte 4, McMurray 2, L. Kiefer 15, Bretveld 0, Sterling 5.
Timberlake 73
East Valley 25
SPIRIT LAKE — Leading by just six points midway through the second quarter, the host Tigers shut out the Knights for the next quarter and a half, and held the visitors to just three points all told the rest of the nonleague game.
“We had a pretty long talk at halftime about our defense in the first half, and the girls responded, tightened it up,” said Timberlake coach Matt Miller, whose team outscored East Valley 35-3 in the second half. “We just weren’t really locked in at the defensive end for the first quarter and a half.”
Kursten McKellips, a senior transfer from Lake City, scored 18 of her 22 points in the first half for Timberlake (6-1). Sophomore Payton Young added 14.
Sophomore Abby Moore scored 10 points for East Valley (0-5)
Timberlake plays host to Sandpoint on Thursday.
East Valley 12 10 0 3 — 25
Timberlake 20 18 23 12 — 73
EAST VALLEY — Salina 5, Moore 10, Salinas-Taylor 0, Fatzinger 2, Goggin 0, Rasmussen 3, Xiong 0, Seamone 3, Weger 0, Thomas 0, Dach 2, Payne 0.
TIMBERLAKE — Soumas 0, Dickinson 9, Young 14, Nelson 2, MacArthur 10, Simpson 5, Sjolund 3, Needs 6, Dykes 0, McKellips 22.
Kellogg 53
Stevensville (Mont.) 33
KELLOGG — Senior Macy Jerome had 18 points and four steals, senior Emily Coe 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats in a win over the Yellowjackets at Andrews Gymnasium.
“The girls played really aggressive and were able to deflect some passes,” said Kellogg assistant Gus Colburn, whose team had 15 assists. “We’ve improved playing as a team and we took another step forward today.”
Kellogg (5-1) travels to Bonners Ferry on Thursday.
Stevensville is 0-3.
Stevensville 7 10 10 6 — 33
Kellogg 14 15 10 13 — 53
STEVENSVILLE — individual scoring not available.
KELLOGG — Jerome 18, Ma. Groth 3, Schillereff 8, Coe 12, Karst 2, Stutzke 3, A. Groth 3, Henrikson 4, Hart 0, Bening 0, Dechand 0, Wilkinson 0.
Genesis Prep 52
Post Falls “C” 35
POST FALLS — Senior Katie Yount had 13 points and six rebounds as the host Jaguars downed the Trojans “C” team at The Courts at Real LIfe.
Junior Kinzie Lawler added 11 points and six boards for Genesis Prep (7-3), and Ella Martin had 11 points.
Emmalyn Sorensen hit three 3-pointers and led the Post Falls “C” with 11 points.
Genesis Prep plays host to St. Maries on Friday.
Post Falls “C” 10 8 11 6 — 35
Genesis Prep 14 15 14 9 — 52
POST FALLS “C” — Vatsvog 2, Evans 0, Whitman 2, Meade 0, Murphy 5, Sorensen 11, Felix 7, Benzinger-Stephens 6, Radchuk 2.
GENESIS PREP — S. Martin 0, Sorenson 0, Covey 5, E. Martin 11, Williams 6, Nelke 6, Yount 13, Nichols 0, Lawler 11, Wise 0.
Superior JV 35
Mullan 22
SUPERIOR, Mont. — Autumn Charvez scored 14 points for the Tigers in a loss to the Bobcats JV.
Mullan (1-7) travels to Clark Fork on Thursday.
Mullan 8 5 3 6 — 22
Superior JV 6 9 14 6 — 35
MULLAN — Crandall 0, Blankenship 4, Niemi 4, Bosson 0, Kostelich 0, Charvez 14, Elliott 0.
SUPERIOR JV — Smalley 0, Mueller 0, Doyle 0, Ray 0, Jasper 9, Acker 8, Pearce 2, Swope 10.
JASON DUCHOW PHOTOGRAPHY Lake City freshman Macy Murphey (0) sinks a 3-pointer against Sandpoint on Tuesday night at Lake City.