Montague’s 21 Carries Lakeside

Senior Dan Montague scored 21 points as No. 4 Lakeside beat Cascade 60-49 at Hillcrest High School Thursday in the first round of the Idaho A-4 boys high school basketball tournament.

Lakeside (20-4) plays Highland-Craigmont (17-7) and Nampa Christian (23-1) takes on Carey (20-7) in Friday championship final play.

Cascade (15-9) meets No. 3 Shoshone (21-5), and North Gem (14-10) tackles Oakley (22-3) in loser-out consolation play.

Montague, junior guard James Twoteeth and junior post Brendon Nelson, who had 13 points each, led Lakeside past Cascade in the tournament’s first game. Twoteeth had three 3-pointers and Nelson pulled down nine rebounds.

Junior forward Dan Dunn led Cascade with 12 points and junior forward Steve Hull added 10 for the Ramblers.

In the other games, sophomore forward Garrett Jones sank 20 points, 14 in the first half, as top-ranked Nampa Christian outdueled No. 2 Oakley 52-49.

Senior Rich Payne tossed in 24 points and put in 11 rebounds as Carey slipped by defending champion North Gem 70-66.

Junior Phillip Way scored 14 points and senior Shawn Bovey added 13 as Highland-Craigmont edged Shoshone 40-37.

Lakeside 60, Cascade 49

LAKESIDE (60) - Twoteeth 13, Nelson 13, Montague 21, Wolfe 2, Matheson 3, Allen 4, Mishell 4.

CASCADE (49) - Kennedy 5, Pierce 7, Cimbalik 7, Hull 10, Dunn 12, Freeman 3, Stevens 5.

Halftime-Lakeside 32, Cascade 24.

A-3

Senior guard David Fiscus was high-point player with 20 points and five 3-point casts to carry Potlatch past Soda Springs 83-65 at the Idaho A-3 boys high school basketball tournament.

Earlier, junior center Kaleb Kunz scored 32 points as defending champion Teton crushed Fruitland 82-57. Austin Tubbs led the way with 19 points as Malad outran Declo 68-49 at Skyline High School.

Junior center Matt Hill was the only player to hit double figures as Grangeville ground down Homedale 50-39.

Top-ranked Teton (25-0) plays No. 2 Malad (23-1) in a championship semifinal game on Friday, while Fruitland (18-7) faces Declo (16-7) in a loser-out consolation game.

No. 5 Potlatch (19-4) had to gear down in the fourth quarter as Brad Nicholson and Jacob Vowels both had drawn four fouls each. The Cardinals (16-10) started to press the Loggers, but Potlatch patiently worked around them to clinch the game.

Senior forward Greg Jolley led the Cardinals with 15 points, while junior forward Cliff Strupp had 14.

Teton trailed Fruitland 41-40 at halftime of their tournament opener. But Kaleb Kunz scored 20 of his 32 points after intermission and the Redskins’ full-court press and trapping defense forced the Grizzlies into poor shot selection.

They also out-rebounded Fruitland 35-18, led by junior center Kelly Nead with 15 boards. Nead also scored 19 points and Mike Kunz added 15 for Teton.

Fruitland was paced by Jeremy Yraguen with 17 points. Matt Osburn and Willie Lake had 15 each for the Grizzlies.