PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Kootenai notches first postseason win since 2017

COEUR d’ALENE — Junior Christopher Moore scored 33 points for the second-seeded Kootenai Warriors in a 64-30 win over the third-seeded Mullan Tigers in a semifinal game in the 1A Division II District 1 tournament on Tuesday at North Idaho College, the Warriors’ first postseason win since 2017.

“What a wonderful game we had,” Kootenai coach Tom Tucker said. “The boys played their best game of the year.”

Freshman Logan Strobel scored 13 points for Kootenai (3-13), which faces top-seeded Clark Fork in Thursday’s championship game at 5:30 p.m. at North Idaho College.

Senior Stephen Petit scored 12 points for Mullan, which finished 2-16.

“Kootenai was a lot better than we were tonight,” Mullan coach Paul Elston said. “They did what they needed to do to get a win and played hard. We haven’t been healthy since late January, and just picked a bad time to get ill.”

Mullan    10    8    6    6    —    30

Kootenai    17    17    20    10    —    64

MULLAN — Rupp Connors 9, S. Petit 12, Imes 5, L. Petit 0, Calvert 0, Ayers 2, Knoll 2.

KOOTENAI — Addington 2, Derry 2, Myers 3, Moore 3, Strobel 13, Moore 33, Hodges 6, Unger 2.

Bonners Ferry 77

Timberlake 33

BONNERS FERRY — Junior Asher Williams scored a game-high 25 points for the top-seeded Badgers in a win over the second-seeded Tigers in Game 1 of the best-of-3 game 3A District 1 championship series at Bonners Ferry High.

Senior Trey Bateman scored 17 points for Bonners Ferry (18-3), which can advance to the state 3A tournament with a win in Game 2 on Thursday in Bonners Ferry. The Badgers finished runner-up to Sugar-Salem in last year’s state tournament.

Junior Nathaniel Dykeman and senior Jacob Yetter scored six points each for Timberlake (6-15).

Timberlake    14    11    3    5    —    33

Bonners Ferry    19    27    26    5    —    77

TIMBERLAKE — Engelson 5, Dykeman 6, Yetter 6, Vallieres 4, DeVore 0, Meidinger 3, McDougall 4, Doorman 0, Higgins 5, Simpson 0.

BONNERS FERRY — Schrock 3, Jimerez 0, Blackmore 13, Rice 2, Smith 7, Hinthorn 2, Williams 25, Th. Bateman 17, Cartwright 0, Tr. Bateman 4, Abubakari 4. 

St. Maries 49

Priest River 42

ST. MARIES — Senior Wyatt Holmes had 11 points and nine rebounds for the top-seeded Lumberjacks, who pulled away late from the fifth-seeded Spartans in a semifinal game in the 2A District 1-2 tournament at St. Maries High.

St. Maries (14-7) will face second-seeded Orofino (8-11), a 72-55 winner over visiting third-seeded Grangeville on Tuesday, in the championship game tonight at 6 in St. Maries. Priest River (6-14) travels to Grangeville (3-11) in a loser-out game tonight.

“We split with them, so it’s going to be a battle,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “It’s a tough matchup for us. They’ve got a lot of shooters and guards.”

Sophomore Jack Barta had 11 points, four assists and three steals and senior Seth Swallows had six points — all in the fourth quarter — and six rebounds for St. Maries.

“In the first half, our defense really kept us in the game,” Chase said. “We were able to get a basket on a last second layup by Jack that really turned the momentum toward us.”

Sophomore Ian Lamanna and junior Carter Cook scored eight points each for Priest River.

Priest River    6    14    12    10    —    42

St. Maries    10    8    17    14    —    49

PRIEST RIVER — Mathews 5, Coleman 7, Staudt 5, Lamanna 8, Korff 2, Cook 8, Hatten 4, Kraeger 3.

ST. MARIES — W. Holmes 11, Garcia 0, J. Barta 11, Yearout 2, Gustaffe 6, L. Holmes 0, Ribberich 0, Defoort 2, Sloper 11, Swallows 6.

Genesis Prep 69

Wallace 55

COEUR d’ALENE — Sophomore Brady Rubert scored 17 points for the third-seeded Jaguars in a win over the second-seeded Miners in a semifinal game in the 1A Division I District 1 tournament at North Idaho College.

Genesis Prep (6-15) will face top-seeded Lakeside (14-3) in Thursday’s championship game at 7 p.m.

Junior Julian Davis scored 21 points for Wallace, which finished 6-13.

Genesis Prep    17    15    20    17    —    69

Wallace        14    11    11    19    —    55

GENESIS PREP — Farrell 5, Nichols 2, Tosh 9, Martin 0, Bateman 10, Rubert 17, Meyer 10, Farley 2, Gintz 3, Blood 11. 

WALLACE — Schmidt 1, Larson 4, Myles 18, Guardipee 3, Davis 21, Paul 6, Cleveland 2.