PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Lake City holds off Coeur d'Alene late

COEUR d’ALENE — Sometimes, the shots fall. 

Other times, teams just have to find a way. 

On Thursday, Lake City found a way. 

Sophomore Jordan Carlson scored a game-high 24 points, 15 in the second half for the Timberwolves in a 61-55 Inland Empire League win over the Coeur d’Alene Vikings at Lake City High. 

“Jordan is more of a competitor than it seems,” Lake City coach James Anderson said. “We’ve been trying to involve him in more stuff and he’s really finding his footing. He’s still kind of growing to playing at the varsity level, and had his moments last year where you saw some things. Now, he’s rising to a spot where you see it all the time and he’s really beginning to separate himself.” 

Lake City (13-4, 4-1 IEL) beat Coeur d’Alene 71-53 in the Fight for the Fish spirit game on Jan. 10 at Viking Court. 

“It would have been nice to shoot it like we did the first time, but Coeur d’Alene’s a good team and good program,” Anderson said. “We knew that we’d regress and they’d come out fighting. It was a good competitive game.” 

Junior Caden Symons scored 23 points for Coeur d’Alene (7-7, 1-3), which led 28-24 at halftime. 

“I was proud of how we played in the first half,” Coeur d’Alene coach Jon Adams said. “We’ve taken more focus defensively and are getting kids to buy into that. We were patient and looking for good shots, then had a stretch where we had some turnovers and we were playing from behind. We just need to play four quarters and buy in defensively.” 

Senior Reese Strawn and junior Jackson Bowman scored nine points each for Lake City, which hosts Post Falls on Jan. 31. 

Seniors Maxwell Riley and Kai Wheeler scored eight points each for Coeur d’Alene, which travels to Post Falls on Saturday. 

Coeur d’Alene    12    16    8    22    —    56 

Lake City    15    9    15    22    —    61 

COEUR d’ALENE — Murray 0, Rupp 7, Booth 2, Riley 8, Wheeler 8, Symons 23, Robertson 7. 

LAKE CITY — Parker 2, Winey 3, Strawn 9, Miller 7, Watson 6, Kloos 0, Bowman 9, Pearson 0, Carlson 24. 

Timberlake 91 

Genesis Prep 83 (2OT) 

POST FALLS — Tyler Engelson hit nine 3-pointers and poured in 50 points, and the visiting Tigers pulled away in the second overtime to outlast the Jaguars in nonleague play at The Courts at Real Life. 

Max Simpson scored 15 of his 22 points in the second quarter for Timberlake (7-7), which returns to action Feb. 4 at home vs. Lakeside. 

Spencer Farrell hit four 3s and scored 18 points, and Gabe Meyer also had 18 points for Genesis Prep (7-9), which travels to Wallace tonight. 

Timberlake     13    24    14    40    —    91 

Genesis Prep     25    11    20    27    —   83 

Note: Fourth-quarter scores include both overtimes. 

TIMBERLAKE — Engelson 50, Dykeman 0, Shively 2, Vallieres 12, DeVore 5, Simpson 22. 

GENESIS PREP — Nichols 9, Tosh 13, Martin 7, S. Bateman 12, Meyer 18, I. Bateman 6, Farrell 18. 

Kootenai 61 

Mullan 31 

MULLAN — Senior Chris Moore poured in 40 points to lead the Warriors past the Tigers in North Star League play at the Mullan Pavilion. 

“What a fantastic game, and our first victory of the season,” Kootenai coach Tom Tucker said. “The team played just like a team is supposed to play — working the ball. A lot of passes, a lot of open layups.” 

Kootenai (1-8, 1-0 NSL) plays host to Coeur du Christ tonight in a North Star League game. 

Mullan is 0-12, 0-2. 

Mullan     13    4    3    11   —   31 

Kootenai     18    16    12    15    —    61 

MULLAN – Sala 8, Imes 7, Calvert 0, Rupp 7, Morgan 6, Bosson 3. 

KOOTENAI – Addington 0, Derry 2, Braz 0, Strobel 5, C. Moore 40, J. Moore 8, Berkshire 0, Gentry 6, Myers 0. 

Clark Fork 53 

Immaculate Conception 36 

CLARK FORK — Owen Howard had 18 points and 22 rebounds for the Wampus Cats in a win over the Cristeros of Post Falls at Clark Fork High. 

Westin Caven added 13 points for Clark Fork (2-8), which travels to Kootenai on Thursday. 

Michael Wilhelm scored 14 points for Immaculate Conception. 

Im. Concept.    10    10    6    10    —    36 

Clark Fork    10    16    12    15    —    53 

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — D. Wilhelm 14, M. Wilhelm 13, Demeyer 4, Lloyd 3, Schmitt 2. 

CLARK FORK — Howard 18, Caven 13, Montgomery 12, Cruz 10. 

    JASON ELLIOTT/Press Lake City senior guard Cason Miller splits the defense of Coeur d'Alene's Carter Rupp (2) and Kai Wheeler (14) during the first quarter of Thursday's game at Lake City High.