PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Waddington, Lake City make Pratt a winner in T-Wolf coaching debut

BOISE — Big-time players made big plays in big moments.

On Thursday, it was Avery Waddington’s moment.

Waddington, who signed with Montana last week, hit a 3-pointer with 38.5 seconds remaining, then had a blocked shot for Lake City, which beat the Boise Brave 49-43 in its season opener at Boise High.

“We threw a few things at them defensively that they hadn’t seen us do on film yet,” said first-year Lake City coach David Pratt. “They didn’t know what to expect. We made Avery (Howell, the state Gatorade Player of the Year for 2022-23, who has signed with USC) get rid of the ball, but she’s such a good player. We did a good job of limiting them to one shot and forced them into some tough shots.”

Sophia Zufelt and Macy Murphey scored 10 points each for Lake City, which plays Owyhee tonight.

Howell scored 15 points for Boise (3-1), which hosts Coeur d’Alene tonight.

Lake City    9    6    11    23    —    49

Boise        2    9    16    16    —    43

LAKE CITY — Murphey 10, Pickford 8, Zufelt 10, Waddington 14, Zimmerman 7, Frazey 0.

BOISE — Clark 5, Binder 8, Patricco 5, Howell 15, Haan 10, Montgomery 0.

Coeur d’Alene 63

Mountain View 36

MERIDIAN — Teagan Colvin scored 16 points as the Vikings ran away from the host Mavericks.

Brookslee Colvin and Kendall Holecek each scored 10 points for Coeur d’Alene (2-0), which wraps up its three-games-in-three-days opening of the season tonight at Boise.

Sophomore Quincy Keller scored a game-high 20 points for Mountain View (0-3).

Coeur d’Alene     16    16    28    3    —    63

Mountain View        9    6    12    9    —    36

COEUR d’ALENE — T. Colvin 16, Mitchell 7, Bridge 3, Wallis 9, B. Colvin 10, Lopez 0, Holecek 10, Larson 2, Carroll 6.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Peterson 0, Judd 2, Steinwand 1, Keller 20, Hatfield 0, Jones 0, McCarty 4, Gresham 0, Thompson 0.

Owyhee 58

Post Falls 34

MERIDIAN — Senior Brooklyn Brennan, who signed with Division II Montana State-Billings earlier this week, had 12 points for the Trojans in a season-opening loss to the Storm.

“We came out and got them tired in the second quarter, but didn’t stay running on them,” Post Falls coach Brian Hall said. “They got a lot of putbacks and we just couldn’t get them on the boards.”

Senior Letti Asper had five points and five rebounds, senior Kinlee McLean seven rebounds for Post Falls, which visits Mountain View tonight.

Junior Riley Beck scored 19 points for Owyhee (1-1), which hosts Lake City tonight.

Post Falls    10    12    5    7    —    34

Owyhee    15    14    10    19    —    58

POST FALLS — McLean 0, Hollenbeck 5, Brennan 12, Nipp-Berger 2, Asper 5, Mitley 5, Walton 5, Frantz 0, Allen 0, Reese 0.

OWYHEE — Beck 19, Rodriguez 13, Davis 2, Brooks 2, McKenna 3, Wright 7, Roy 7, Hardy 5, Dozier 0, Fagarang 0. 

Timberlake 50

Lakeland 41

RATHDRUM — Junior Jozee MacArthur scored 13 points, junior Diana Nelson 11 points for the Tigers in a nonleague win over the Hawks at Hawk Court.

“It was a tale of two halves,” said Lakeland coach Tyrel Derrick, whose team outscored Timberlake 28-15 in the second half. “(Timberlake coach) Matt Miller and his coaching staff have their girls so well coached and fundamentally sound. It’s always a great challenge for us and fun to play a team like that because they play basketball the right way.”

Junior Landree Simon and sophomore Karstyn Kiefer had 12 points each for Lakeland (1-1).

“I thought our girls didn’t give up because they easily could have,” Derrick said. “When we went down 35-11 at halftime, I wasn’t sure how we were going to respond and we had some girls come off the bench who really stepped up.”

Timberlake (2-0) travels to West Valley on Nov. 28.

Lakeland hosts Post Falls on Tuesday.

Timberlake    15    20    8    7    —    50

Lakeland    9    2    14    14    —    41

TIMBERLAKE — Soumas 2, Dickinson 4, Young 8, Nelson 11, MacArthur 13, Simpson 0, Needs 9, McKellips 10.

LAKELAND — Simon 12, K. Kiefer 12, Holte 3, McMurray 3, L. Kiefer 0, Bretveld 3, Sterling 5, Bullington 3.

Wallace 50

St. Maries 39

WALLACE — Senior Britany Phillips scored 11 of her game-high 33 points in the third quarter for the Miners in a nonleague win over the Lumberjacks at Kirby Krulitz Court.

Phillips hit four 3-pointers for the Miners in their season opener.

Danika Sloper scored 14 points for St. Maries (1-1), which travels to Potlatch on Tuesday.

Wallace hosts the Post Falls JV on Monday.

St. Maries    7    10    9    13    —    39

Wallace    9    14    18    9    —    50

ST. MARIES — Elliott 6, Thomas 0, Martin 0, Baird 3, R. Yearout 5, Janssen 5, Sloper 14, M. Yearout 4, Linnemeyer 2.

WALLACE — Birdsell 2, Striker 0, Lewis 0, K. Phillips 0, Hasz 2, Wood 4, Br. Phillips 33, Delano 3, Be. Phillips 6.

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POST FALLS — No report was received.