PREP ROUNDUP: Lake City gets defensive, downs Central Valley
JASON ELLIOTT/Press Lake City senior guard Reese Strawn drives past Central Valley's Emerson Lippoldt during the second quarter of Friday's game at Lake City High.
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COEUR d’ALENE — Lake City coach James Anderson knows that if the Timberwolves are going to have some success this season, they’ve got to find a nice balance to their offense.
So defensively, they worked.
“It’s been a huge point of emphasis to defend better,” said Anderson, whose team beat Central Valley 67-48 on Friday night. “We’re slowing it down a little more, but we thought our biggest avenue was to shave six points off the defensive side of the ball.”
Junior Josh Watson scored 15 points, junior Jackson Bowman and sophomore Jordan Carlson 10 points for Lake City (7-3).
“Overall our team effort was fantastic tonight,” Anderson said. “Jackson, we’ve asked a lot of him to guard the best players in the state in the last week, and he’s getting good at handling that. Both him and Paxton (Winey) have been alternating and doing a good job for us.”
Lake City hosts Mead tonight at 6.
Hunter Bernhart scored 13 points for Central Valley (3-4).
Central Valley 10 7 12 19 — 48
Lake City 19 16 14 18 — 67
CENTRAL VALLEY — Daines 2, Bernhart 13, Walls 10, Nordhagen 0, Olson 2, Axton 12, Anderson 0, Plunkitt 2, Lippoldt 2.
LAKE CITY — Parker 6, Winey 0, Strawn 9, Miller 3, Everson 2, Watson 15, Kloos 5, Bowman 10, Anderson 2, Meredith 0, Pearson 3, Plummer 2, Carlson 10.
Post Fallls 66
Moscow 41
MOSCOW — Junior Connor Carver had 16 points and five rebounds for the Trojans in an Inland Empire League win over the Bears at Bear Den.
Senior Tyras Blake had eight points and six rebounds, junior Jaxon Lysne 15 points and five rebounds and senior Trenton McLean five rebounds for Post Falls.
“We did a good job on the boards tonight,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said. “Moscow is as well-coached a team as we played all year. We’ve got all the respect for them and they make us work hard. They did a good job of controlling the tempo and really limited our possessions and what we wanted to do.”
Post Falls, which has won five straight, faces Broken Arrow, Okla., in the Surf ‘n Slam Tournament at Helix High in San Diego on Dec. 27.
Grant Abendroth scored 13 points for Moscow (4-3, 0-1).
Post Falls 19 10 17 20 — 66
Moscow 12 8 10 11 — 41
POST FALLS — Naylor 0, Ostlund 0, McLean 2, Lysne 15, Cameron 4, Bodman 12, Carver 16, Blake 8, McKeown 0, Dean 9.
MOSCOW — Izzo 4, Godfrey 6, Breese 2, Cummings 8, Bethel 2, Isakson 0, Abendroth 13, Winfree 0, Tobben 0, Morhorst 1, Hurley 5.
Coeur d’Alene 85
Roosevelt 75
LAS VEGAS — Caden Symons scored 23 points for the Vikings, who rallied from a 12-point deficit to beat the Roughriders of Portland in a Nike Bracket game in the Tarkanian Classic at Bishop Gorman High.
Coeur d’Alene (4-4), which went 1-2 in the tournament, returns to Coeur d’Alene tonight to face Liberty High of Renton, Wash., at North Idaho College at 7:30.
Full scoring was not available.
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Coeur du Christ, ppd.
COEUR d'ALENE — The North Star League game was postponed due to low numbers for the visiting team.
No makeup date was immediately announced.
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Sierra Canyon 69
Coeur d'Alene 56
LAS VEGAS — The Vikings fell to 1-2 in the Diamond Bracket of the Tarkanian Classic after falling to the Trailblazers (8-0) of Chatsworth, Calif., at Durango High.
Further details were not available.
Coeur d'Alene concludes the tournament today against Francis Parker (Calif.) at Durango High.
Central Valley 69
Lake City 38
COEUR d’ALENE — Sophomore Macy Murphey scored 17 points for the Timberwolves in a nonleague loss to the Bears at Lake City High.
Senior Sadie Zimmerman scored 10 points for Lake City (6-6), which faces Deer Park in the opening round of the Glacier Peak Invitational on Thursday in Snohomish, Wash.
Brynn McGaughy, a Washington commit, scored 14 points for Central Valley (6-0).
Central Valley 19 13 18 18 — 69
Lake City 8 12 10 8 — 38
CENTRAL VALLEY — Lanphere 6, Sander 17, Henry 8, Parker 7, Gosney 8, Wilson 4, Patshkowski 5, McGaughey 14.
LAKE CITY — Murphey 17, Kolden 3, Pearson 2, Fagan 8, S. Zimmerman 10, Johnson 0.
N.I. Christian 67
Classical Christian 35
HAYDEN — Chelsey Cate had 23 points, 11 rebounds and six blocked shots for the Royals in a Mountain Christian League win over Classical Christian at North Idaho Christian School.
Belle Jordan had 18 points and seven rebounds, Kenna Brotherton 10 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and three blocks for North Idaho Christian (7-2, 4-0 MCL), which faces Spokane Athletic Co-Op on Jan. 9 at the HUB Sports Center in Liberty Lake.
Abby Hoefling scored 10 points for Classical Christian (0-4, 0-4).
Classical Christian 13 5 9 8 — 35
N.I. Christian 26 8 16 17 — 67
CHRISTIAN CENTER — Abby Fling 10, Barnhart 6, Kummer 2, Wheeler 2, Darrow 8, Smith 7.
NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Ellis 3, Jordan 18, Chelsey Cate 23, Salaiz 7, Collins 2, Brotherton 10, Smith 2, Pilgrim 2.