PREP BASKETBALL: Slow start hampers Lakeland at Moscow

• BOYS

MOSCOW — The Lakeland Hawks fell behind by 22 points in the first half, and could never get it into single digits the rest of the way, losing 69-50 to the Moscow Bears in Inland Empire League play Friday night at Bear Den. 

Moscow made eight 3-pointers, six in the first half.

“They just came out and shot the lights out early,” Lakeland coach Tony Hanna said. “Our goal is to take (Ian) Hillman out (he finished with four points), but they had other guys step up.

Lakeland (9-6, 1-3 IEL) trailed 37-15 with 3 minutes left in the first half, but rallied to cut the deficit to 40-26 at halftime.

The Hawks got within 12 midway through the third quarter, and within 14 early in the fourth.

“It didn’t feel it was out of reach; we just couldn’t claw back,” Hanna said.

Kenton Ferguson hit three 3-pointers and led Lakeland with 17 points, and Ben Roth added 10.

The Hawks made just 8 of 18 free throws.

Brayson Reed hit four 3s and scored a game-high 19 points for Moscow (7-9, 3-2), and Grant Abendroth hit two 3s and added 16 points.

Lakeland plays host to Bonners Ferry on Tuesday.

Lakeland    10    16    14    10    —    50

Moscow    18    22    16    13    —    69

LAKELAND — Ferguson 17, Harris 2, Hensley 2, Hillman 5, Norce 3, Roth 10, Ryan 5, Varner 6, Weil 0.

MOSCOW — Wilson 4, Bethel 2, Frei 0, Abendroth 16, Izzo 11, Reed 19, Hillman 4, Hurley 2, Williams 9, Ceron 2.

Kellogg 53

Priest River 48

KELLOGG — Senior Blake Coburn scored eight of his team-high 17 points in the first quarter for the Wildcats in a Central Idaho League win over the Spartans at Andrews Gymnasium.

Sophomore Draeden Taylor scored 13 points and freshman Porter Lewis added 10 points for Kellogg (6-10, 3-2 CIL), which hosts Orofino today.

Junior Sawyer Staudt scored 22 points for Priest River (3-10, 1-5), which faces Genesis Prep on Thursday at The Courts in Post Falls.

Priest River    10    11    18    9    —    48

Kellogg        15    12    15    11    —    53

PRIEST RIVER — Mathews 7, Coleman 2, Staudt 22, Stifel 0, Lamanna 5, Hughes 0, Korff 4, Cook 3, Hatten 2, Kreager 3.

KELLOGG — Robinson 4, Whatcott 6, Coburn 17, Taylor 13, Blalack 0, Lewis 10, McDonald 2, Garry 1.

Sandpoint 75

Genesis Prep 28

SANDPOINT — The visiting 1A Division I Jaguars fell to the 4A Bulldogs on senior night at Les Rogers Court. 

Dylan Tosh had four points, five rebounds and three steals for Genesis Prep (5-10), which plays host to Lakeside tonight at 7 at The Courts at Real Life in a Scenic Idaho Conference game.

Parker Childs scored 18 points for Sandpoint (9-9), which plays host to Moscow on Tuesday. 

Genesis Prep     3     6     8     11    —    28

Sandpoint     16     26     24     9    —    75

GENESIS PREP — Farrell 5, Nichols 5, Meyer 5, Tosh 4, Bateman 3, Gintz 3, Blood 3, Earley 0, Martin 0.

SANDPOINT — Childs 18, Jones 15, Williams 10, Chamberlain 7, Roos 7, Gion 6, Taylor 5, Leavitt 3, Corbett 2, Wolff 2, Leisy 0, Haddock 0. 

Coeur du Christ 68

Kootenai 40

HARRISON FLATS — The visiting Coeur du Christ Saints, who have been accepted as a full member of the Idaho High School Activities Association in class 1A beginning with the 2024-25 school year, built a 41-13 halftime lead over future North Star League foe Kootenai en route to the nonleague win.

No other details were reported.

“We played the most fundamental team of the year so far — very well coached,” Kootenai coach Tom Tucker said of Coeur du Christ. “They shot out and played good team basketball. Once again, we were plagued by turnovers — I think at halftime we were at 16 already.”

Kootenai (1-7) plays host to the Priest River junior varsity on Tuesday.

Christian Center 54

Pullman Christian 50

PULLMAN — Cyrus Coppinger scored 17 points and Colton Smith had 10 points and 17 rebounds for the Lions in a Mountain Christian League win over the Eagles at Pullman Christian School.

Michael Marshall had 12 points and nine rebounds and Micah Jones had 10 points and seven rebounds  for Christian Center (8-8, 7-6 MCL), which travels to Christian Heritage of Edwall, Wash., on Monday.

Seth Hathaway scored 24 points for Pullman Christian (8-5, 7-5).

Christian Center    10    16    13    15    —    54

Pullman Christian    12    7    12    19    —    50

CHRISTIAN CENTER — Jones 10, Smith 10, Coppinger 17, McWhorter 3, Marshall 12, Mametiff 2.

PULLMAN CHRISTIAN — Hammond 17, Hathaway 24, Olson 1, Fitzgerald 5, Gleason 3.

• GIRLS

Kellogg 61

Priest River 31

KELLOGG — The host Wildcats improved to 10-8, 4-2 Central Idaho League with the win over the Spartans (8-6, 1-4) on senior night at Andrews Gymnasium.