PREP BASKETBALL: Sandpoint girls get away from Timberlake

• GIRLS

SPIRIT LAKE — 3A power Timberlake jumped out to an early lead on the reigning 4A champion Sandpoint Bulldogs on Thursday night.

Then the Bulldogs outscored the Tigers 33-19 in the middle two quarters, and held off the hosts down the stretch for a 58-53 nonleague victory.

“The tempo got away from us,” Timberlake coach Matt Miller said. “They controlled the tempo in the second and third quarter, speeding us up. They’re a really good team in transition. We started playing a little faster than we wanted to.”

Kursten McKellips scored a game-high 23 points for Timberlake (6-2), including 15 in the second half, 10 of those in the fourth quarter.

“She did a good job being aggressive and getting to the hoop, and keeping us close,” Miller said.

Aliya Strock scored 21 points, Karlie Banks 17 for Sandpoint (6-1), which was coming off a 32-point loss at Lake City on Tuesday. The Bulldogs made 6 of 8 free throws in the last minute-plus, including 4 of 4 by Strock, who finished with three 3-pointers.

Timberlake was 8 of 17 from the line.

“The girls played hard,” Miller said. “We had mistakes, but we had our chances.”

Timberlake travels to Moscow on Monday.

Sandpoint    11    19    14    14    —    58

Timberlake    16    8    11    18    —    53

SANDPOINT — Driggs 0, Laybourne 0, Tomco 7, Richardson 0, Mire 12, Strock 21, Banks 17, Thaete 0.

TIMBERLAKE — Soumas 0, Dickinson 0, Young 10, Nelson 8, MacArthur 4, Simpson 2, Needs 6, McKellips 23.

Lake City 69

Lakeland 36

RATHDRUM — Senior guard Sophia Zufelt hit her first four 3-point attempts, finishing with five total and a game-high 23 points for the Timberwolves in an Inland Empire League win over the Hawks at Hawk Court.

“Our ball movement was great tonight,” Lake City coach David Pratt said. “We did a nice job of moving it around and getting everyone involved. Lakeland presses and traps a lot, but we did a nice job all around, especially defensively.”

Senior Avery Waddington scored 10 of her 20 points in the third quarter for Lake City (9-1, 3-0 IEL), which hosts North Central on Saturday.

Junior Landree Simon scored 17 points for Lakeland (3-4, 1-3), which visits Shadle Park on Monday.

“Lake City’s a dominant team that’s played a lot of basketball,” Lakeland coach Tyrel Derrick said. “I like the level we’re playing at and the stuff we did. Against Lake City, if you don’t have some things that are going to rattle them, it’s not going to happen too often.”

Lake City    21    19    20    9    —    69

Lakeland    8    12    7    9    —    36

LAKE CITY — Murphey 5, Frazey 6, Pickford 5, Kolden 1, Zufelt 23, Waddington 20, Pearson 0, Fagan 0, Zimmerman 9, Hiltenbrand 0.

LAKELAND — Simon 17, K. Kiefer 7, Holte 4, McMurray 0, L. Kiefer 2, Bretveld 0, Sterling 6.

Clark Fork 43

Mullan 14

CLARK FORK — Autumn Charvez scored seven points for the visiting Tigers (1-7) in a loss to the Wampus Cats (2-5) in the North Star League opener for both teams.

Lilly Reuter scored 12 points for Clark Fork.

Mullan returns to action Jan. 4 at home against the Lakeside junior varsity.

MULLAN — Charvez 7, Bosson 3, Niemi 2, Blankenship 2.

CLARK FORK — Reuter 12, Thompson 7, Shelton 7, Scarlett 5, Matteson 3, Printz-Hay 3, Hoy 2, Boehme 2, Mayorga 2. 

• BOYS 

Sandpoint 71

Timberlake 65

SANDPOINT — Juniors Nathaniel Dykeman and Tyler Engelson scored 19 and 17 points, respectively, for the visiting Tigers (2-5) in a nonleague loss to the Bulldogs (3-3) at Les Rogers Court.

Emerik Jones led Sandpoint with 19 points.

Timberlake plays host to Deer Park tonight at 6.

Timberlake     12     20     12     21    —    65

Sandpoint     22     6     22     21     —    71

TIMBERLAKE — Dykeman 19, Engelson 17, Higgins 8, Meidinger 7, McDougall 6, Yetter 6, Dorman 2.

SANDPOINT – Jones 19, Roos 13, Childs 12, Chamberlain 11, Gion 6, Leisy 5, Williams 5. 

Kellogg 39

Wallace 23

KELLOGG — Sophomore Draeden Taylor scored 11 points for the Wildcats, who held the Miners without a field goal in the first half of a nonleague win at Andrews Gymnasium.

Freshman Porter Lewis scored 10 points for Kellogg (4-3), which faces Sandpoint next Thursday at ICCU Arena in Moscow.

“We really needed those guys to step up tonight,” Kellogg coach Mike Martin said. “We didn’t have our best stuff. We saw them at the Silver Valley Tournament and (Wallace coach) Jared (Young) has got them playing well right now. We did what we needed to do and got a win tonight.”

Junior Julian Davis scored 11 points for Wallace (1-5), which travels to St. Maries next Thursday.

Wallace    0    1    9    13    —    23

Kellogg    2    14    9    14    —    39

WALLACE — Stutzke 0, Sabala 0, Larson 5, Myles 5, Anderson 0, Guardipee 2, Davis 11, Paul 0, Williams 0, Cleveland 0.

KELLOGG — Robinson 8, Whatcott 2, Coburn 2, Taylor 11, Blalack 4, Fields 0, Lewis 10, McDonald 2, Garry 0, Cheney 0, Vindasius 0.

Clark Fork 69

Mullan 20

CLARK FORK — Stephen Petit scored nine points for the visiting Tigers (0-5) in a loss to the Wampus Cats (3-1) in the North Star League opener for both teams.

Ethan Howard scored a game-high 21 points for Clark Fork.

Mullan returns to action Jan. 4 at home against the Lakeside junior varsity.

MULLAN — S. Petit 9, Appiah 4, L. Petit 3, Ayers 2, Rupp Connors 2.

CLARK FORK — E. Howard 21, O. Howard 16, Co, Sanroman 14, S. Caven 10, Montgomery 6, W. Caven 2.