PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Coeur d'Alene presses past Central Valley

SPOKANE VALLEY — Coeur d’Alene put the pressure on the host Central Valley Bears from the opening tip, rolling to a 74-53 win over the Bears in the Central Valley Holiday Tournament on Wednesday night.

“We pressed them and were able to get a lot of turnovers and points in the first half,” said Coeur d’Alene coach Jon Adams, whose team led 52-21 at halftime. “We were really active and kind of overwhelmed them a little bit. It gave us an opportunity to play a lot of guys.”

Junior Reed Sylte scored 12 points and sophomore Caden Symons scored 13 points, eight in the second quarter, for Coeur d’Alene (9-1), which faces Mead tonight at 5:30 at Central Valley High.

“It was good to see Reed step up tonight,” Adams said. “Caden really was big in the second quarter to help us stretch out the lead.”

Cameron Walls scored 11 points for Central Valley (1-6), which faces Lake City tonight at 7.

 Coeur d’Alene    25    27    15    7    —    74

Central Valley    14    7    20    12    —    53

COEUR d’ALENE — Larson 9, Orchard 10, Rupp 9, Nipp 3, Sutich 0, Riley 5, Wheeler 4, Murray 2, Robertson 0, Sylte 12, Booth 7, Symons 13.

CENTRAL VALLEY — Bernhart 4, Imus 2, Davis 6, Walls 11, Olson 8, Axton 6, Anderson 3, Miller 2, Willard 2, Preugschat 3, Pluckett 6.

Lake City 71

Mead 42

SPOKANE VALLEY — Freshman Jordan Carlson scored 15 points for the Timberwolves in a win over the Panthers in the Central Valley Holiday Tournament at Central Valley High.

“We went down and took some beatings in Vegas and played at a physicality and speed we hadn’t seen this year,” Lake City coach James Anderson said. “We came out and approached it with a different intensity tonight and it showed in how we played.”

Junior Reese Strawn scored 12 points, sophomore Josh Watson 10 points and senior Braydn Arrieta 11 points for Lake City (6-4), which faces Central Valley tonight at 7.

“Josh came in and gave us a huge lift,” Anderson said. “Everyone that played was really, really good tonight. Cason (Miller) got us going early and everyone was really solid in their defensive work tonight.”

Lake City    18    20    19    14    —    71

Mead        10    10    11    11    —    42

LAKE CITY — Parker 2, Winey 23, Strawn 12, Miller 8, Watson 10, Kloos 8, Arrieta 11, Williams 0, Carlson 15.

MEAD — not available.

Shadle Park 58

Kellogg 33

ROCKFORD, Wash. — Sophomore Draeden Taylor and freshman Porter Lewis scored eight points each for the Wildcats, who turned the ball over 15 times in the second half of a loss to the Highlanders in the Greg Larson Memorial Tournament at Freeman High.

“We did not shoot particularly well around the rim,” said Kellogg coach Mike Martin, whose team went 4 of 15 inside the 3-point line. “Once we got to the rim, we had some lack of confidence instead of putting pressure on the rim.”

Kellogg (4-5) faces Logos of Moscow today at 1:30 p.m.

Jacob Boston scored 16 points for Shadle Park (5-3).

Shadle Park    14    13    18    13    —    58

Kellogg    13    5    10    5    —    33

SHADLE PARK — Pearson 8, Johnson 5, Boston 16, Esiwini 5, Eickstadt 9, Williams 2, Bower 13, Lund 0, Pilton 0.

KELLOGG — Robinson 4, Whatcott 6, Coburn 2, Taylor 8, Blalack 2, Fields 0, Lewis 8, McDonald 3, Garry 0, Cheney 0, Vindasius 0.

Rogers 86

Timberlake 46

SPOKANE VALLEY — The Tigers dipped to 4-7 with a loss to the Pirates of Spokane in the West Valley Classic at West Valley High.

Further information was not available.

Timberlake faces Pullman at West Valley High to conclude the tournament on Friday.