PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Sans Sands, St. Maries cruises past Genesis Prep
MARK NELKE/Press Tyler Renner of St. Maries looks for his shot as Joey Specht, left, and Cooper Russworm of Genesis Prep on Saturday night at The Courts at Real Life in Post Falls.
MARK NELKE/Press Spencer Farrell (1) of Genesis Prep drives to the basket as Jared Badgett of St. Maries reaches on Saturday night at The Courts at Real Life in Post Falls.
POST FALLS — Even without standout guard Greyson Sands, the St. Maries Lumberjacks showed Saturday night they still have plenty of dudes.
Tristun Hill had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Trace Wicks added 17 points, Tyler Renner 13 as the visiting Lumberjacks toppled the Genesis Prep Jaguars 75-51 in nonleague play at The Courts at Real Life. All are seniors.
Sands, a senior, suffered a Grade 2 MCL sprain in his left knee in Thursday’s game at Orofino. He’s expected to be out 3-4 weeks, and the Lumberjacks hope to have him back for districts, coach Bryan Chase said.
“We still have a good core group of seniors, five of them playing together for a long time,” Chase said. “And we got good minutes out of our juniors.”
Senior Dillon Holder added seven points and eight assists for St. Maries (7-3), whose pressure and size were too much for Genesis Prep.
“Their post play was what hurt us; they were tough inside,” Genesis Prep coach Lon Morast said, referring to Renner and Hill, both 6-6. “And we turned it over too much; we didn’t handle the pressure very well, way too many turnovers.”
“Both Tristun and Tyler played well; we tried to make sure that a point of emphasis — start inside and work our way outside,” Chase said. “Once we polished up our spacing that opened things up a bit.”
Joey Specht scored 19 points for Genesis Prep (5-8), next plays Friday at Clark Fork.
St. Maries returns to action Saturday at Grangeville.
St. Maries 24 16 20 15 — 75
Genesis Prep 13 16 12 10 — 51
ST. MARIES — Holmes 7, Badgett 4, Holder 7, Barta 1, Renner 13, Wicks 17, Swallows 4, Hill 22, J. Barta 0, Yearout 0, L. Holmes 0, Sloper 0.
GENESIS PREP — Farrell 11, Daniels 10, Russworm 3, Rubert 5, Young 3, Specht 19, Schulz 0, Martin 0, Bateman 0, Earley 0, Nichols 0, Tosh 0, Wood 0.
Kellogg 56
Orofino 45
OROFINO — Senior Kolby Luna had 23 points, including five 3-pointers and six rebounds for the Wildcats in a Central Idaho League win over the Maniacs.
Senior Riply Luna had 19 points, six rebounds, seven steals and five assists for Kellogg (12-3, 6-0 CIL), which travels to Bonners Ferry on Tuesday.
“It was nice to get a win when we weren’t at our best,” Kellogg coach Mike Martin said. “We had 15 turnovers and gave up 13 offensive rebounds. We just had some little things and weren’t great at the small details. But to get back-to-back road wins, that was really good.”
Joel Scott scored 12 points for Orofino (6-4, 1-3), which travels to Grangeville on Tuesday.
Kellogg 15 9 19 13 — 56
Orofino 8 11 14 12 — 45
KELLOGG — Miller 4, Whatcott 3, R. Luna 19, K. Luna 23, Maciosek 3, O’Neill 0, Hendrix 4, Taylor 0.
OROFINO — Hanna 2, H. Schneider 0, E. Schneider 7, Drobish 9, Hudson 2, Gray 0, Scott 12, Cochran 9, Naranjo 2, Olive 2.
Flathead Valley H.S. 83
N.I. Christian 69
SOMMERS, Mont. — Carson Malinauskas and Larry Fendich scored 25 points each for the Royals, who fell to Flathead Valley Home School in a nonleague game at Sommers Middle School.
Sam Hoback scored 16 points for Flathead Valley.
North Idaho Christian (13-10) travels to Pullman Christian on Tuesday.
N.I. Christian 23 13 15 18 — 69
Flat. Valley 20 9 24 30 — 83
NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Fendich 25, Barnett 7, Hunter 2, Smith 10, Ca. Malinauskas 25, Antone 0.
FLATHEAD VALLEY HOME SCHOOL — M. Gwynn 2, Lott 13, Baines 9, W. Gwynn 7, Schneller 11, Mathiason 5, Williams 3, Hoback 16, Bartel 12, Lander 5.
