PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Trojans clamp down defensively, beat Lake City

COEUR d’ALENE — Senior Ellie McGowan scored nine of her 11 points in the second half for the Post Falls Trojans in a 55-35 win over the Lake City Timberwolves in an Inland Empire League game at Lake City High on Friday. 

“We’ve got a lot of respect for Lake City,” Post Falls coach Mike Divilbiss said. “Those kids played hard and I’m proud of our girls. They’ve done a great job of staying together and improving and growing. I think they continue that.” 

Junior Kailey Walton had 11 points, senior Myckenzee Mitley 10 points for Post Falls (7-14, 4-4 IEL), which hosts Lake City (7-13, 2-5) in the 6A District 1 loser-out game on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. That winner will face Coeur d’Alene in a best-of-3 series starting next Saturday at Coeur d’Alene High.

“We got a lot of contributions from different people tonight,” Divilbiss said. “Ellie was really good and I think it was a really good effort. Jaya really helped us off the bench. Our scoring was really balanced, but feel our defense played really hard. We were really solid defensively all night.” 

Sophomore Macy Murphey and senior Sadie Zimmerman scored eight points each for Lake City, which hosts Moscow to conclude the regular season today. 

Post Falls    6    17    17    15    —    55 

Lake City    10    8    6    10    —    35 

POST FALLS — Hollenbeck 7, Reese 2, Felix 4, McGowan 11, Johnson 3, Tucker 0, Nipp-Berger 3, Mitley 10, Walton 11, Wilcox 0. 

LAKE CITY — Murphy 8, Mad. Zimmerman 0, Hiltenbrand 0, Mac. Zimmerman 6, Baltzell 0, Fagan 5, S. Zimmerman 8, Chavez 0, Smith 5, Johnson 2. 

Lakeland 65 

Lewiston 44 

LEWISTON — Sophomore Macy Bretveld scored 15 of her 16 points in the middle two quarters as the visiting Hawks pulled away from the Bengals in Lakeland’s regular season and Inland Empire League finale. 

Landree Simon scored 10 of her game-high 21 points in the first quarter for Lakeland (13-5, 5-4 IEL), and Karstyn Kiefer added 10. 

Skye VanTrease led Lewiston (7-12, 2-6) with 14 points. 

Lakeland returns to action next Friday in the first round of the 5A Region 1 tournament, at home vs. either Lewiston or Moscow, depending on the result of Tuesday’s game between Sandpoint and Lewiston. 

Lakeland     17    16    16    16    —    65 

Lewiston     13    13    8    10   —    44 

LAKELAND — Simon 21, Kiefer 10, Forsman 3, H. McMurray 0, Hatcher 3, J. McMurray 0, Vanek 0, Bowie 4, Bretveld 16, Bullington 8. 

LEWISTON — Walker 0, Balmer 6, Albright 5, Fisher 0, VanTrease 14, Stanger 1, Samuels 0, Lathen 8, Holman 10. 

Bonners Ferry 58 

Genesis Prep 23 

POST FALLS — In their regular-season finale, the host Jaguars fell behind 37-13 at halftime in the nonleague loss to the Badgers at The Courts at Real Life. 

Sydney Hinthorn scored 15 points, Makenna Baisden 10 for Bonners Ferry (12-7). 

Sienna Williams scored eight points for Genesis Prep (13-8), which play to Wallace on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Post Falls High in the first round of the 2A District 1 tournament. 

Bonners Ferry     17    20    11    10    —    58 

Genesis Prep     4    9    7    3   —    23 

BONNERS FERRY — Petesch 5, Baisden 10, Bateman 0, Mierke 8, Willis 8, Hinthorn 15, Thomson 8, Hiatt 4.  

GENESIS PREP — Rude 0, Martin 3, Williams 8, Nelke 6, K. Lawler 6.