PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Blake, McCarthy pushes Post Falls in IEL win

SANDPOINT — Sophomore guard Tyras Blake scored a game-high 32 points for Post Falls in a 67-62 win over the Sandpoint Bulldogs in an Inland Empire League game at Les Rogers Court on Wednesday.

Junior guard Neil McCarthy added 15 for Post Falls, which scored 45 points in the second half.

Rusty Lee scored 27 points for Sandpoint (8-11, 3-4 IEL), which hosts Lake City on Friday.

Post Falls (5-15, 3-5) travels to Moscow on Tuesday.

Post Falls 16 6 20 25 — 67

Sandpoint 9 16 16 21 — 62

POST FALLS — Anderson 0, Ostlund 3, McLean 0, McCarthy 15, Shields 7, Cameron 0, McKeown 0, Wolfe 0, Blake 32, Bowie 0, Carver 7.

SANDPOINT — Pettit 4, R. Lee 27, Frank 5, VanDenBerg 5, Eacret 0, Dickinson 0, Childs 8, Lane 11, Jones 2, Hindberg 0, Bopp 0, V. Lee 0.

Lewiston 74

Lakeland 54

RATHDRUM — Senior Scotty Hocking went 10 for 10 from the free-throw line, finishing with 20 points for the Hawks, who fell to the Bengals in an Inland Empire League game at Hawk Court.

William White, who has signed to play football at Idaho, had 17 points on 7 of 9 shooting for Lewiston.

“Lewiston just shot the lights out in the first quarter,” said Lakeland coach Tony Hanna, whose team trailed 30-22 after the first quarter. “White had 11 in the first quarter and really sparked them. We hit some shots too, but they did a good job of using their size. When they kicked it out, they hit their shots.”

Senior Collin Cameron scored 12 points for Lakeland (3-14, 1-5 IEL), which hosts Coeur d’Alene on Friday.

Carson Way scored 15 points for Lewiston (13-6, 5-4), which hosts Moscow on Friday.

Lewiston 30 18 11 15 — 74

Lakeland 22 12 7 13 — 54

LEWISTON — Way 15, Knewbow 0, Bramlet 9, Aldridge 3, Mader 7, White 17, Bensching 3, Hottinger 14, Arlint 0, Lawrence 6.

LAKELAND — Nowell 4, Cameron 12, Ryan 6, Tebbe 0, Rothrock 0, Loutzenhiser 2, Hocking 20, Hensley 2, Anderson 3, Locke 5.

Lakeside 98

Wallace 39

WALLACE — Senior Vander Brown scored 22 of his game-high 34 points in the first half for the Knights in a Scenic Idaho Conference win over the Miners at Kirby Krulitz Court.

Junior Liam Hendrickx scored 20 points for Lakeside (13-3, 3-0 SIC), which faces Genesis Prep on Friday at The Courts in Post Falls.

Damian Davis scored 17 points for Wallace (3-14, 0-4), which is scheduled to play at Kootenai on Friday.

Lakeside 30 23 29 16 — 98

Wallace 7 15 11 6 — 39

LAKESIDE — Brown 34, SiJohn 9, Callahan 11, Spotted Horse 2, Rivera 1, Hall 4, Hendrickx 20, Charley 15, Peone 0.

WALLACE — Ritchey 0, D. Davis 17, Tesky 13, Morden 2, J. Davis 0, Hasz 3, Schmidt 0, Cleveland 4.

Genesis Prep 59

Priest River 56

PRIEST RIVER — Donovan Daniels scored 11 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter for the Jaguars, who rallied past the Spartans in a nonleague game.

“It was a great team win,” Genesis Prep coach Lon Morast said. “We took care of the ball and fought through some adversity. We were just fortunate to beat a very good team.”

Joey Specht scored 14 points for Genesis Prep (9-9), which hosts Lakeside on Friday at The Courts in Post Falls.

Priest River is 7-11.

Genesis Prep 13 15 10 21 — 59

Priest River 20 12 8 16 — 56

GENESIS PREP — Farrell 2, Daniels 13, Russworm 12, Rubert 9, Tosh 2, Young 7, Specht 14, Martin 0, Wood 0.

PRIEST RIVER — Butler 18, Marinello 14, Course 3, T. Engelson 7, Yount 12, Solomon 2, Matthews 0, Stoudt 0, Koch 0.

Coeur d'Alene at

Moscow, ppd.

MOSCOW — The Inland Empire League game was postponed due to a lockdown at Moscow High School on Wednesday.

No makeup date was announced.