Hatrock Guides Lake City Girls Past Lewiston, 60-47

It’s a combination that’s been known to be deadly for Lake City opponents in the past.

Katie Hatrock’s passing to anybody who happens to be looking.

That combination proved to be fatal for Lewiston Thursday as the Timberwolves snatched a 60-47 Inland Empire League girls basketball victory from the Bengals before about 350 fans at Lake City.

The win gives Lake City an early lead in the IEL race with a 2-0 mark (12-2 overall) while Lewiston, which is expected to be the Timberwolves main competition in league play, goes to 1-1 in the IEL and 10-1 overall.

Hatrock, the T-Wolves 5-6 senior point guard, helped to break open a close game in the second half with some nice passes while leading a pressure defense that came up with the key stops.

The chief beneficiaries of Hatrock’s generosity were junior wing Lindsay Herbert and junior post Alison Asher.

Herbert, after a slow start, came on strong to finish with 19 points to lead Lake City while Asher was right behind with 18 points. Asher also had 14 rebounds and seven blocks.

Lake City head coach Dave Stockwell pointed to Hatrock as a key.

“She’s really coming into her own as a point guard,” Stockwell said. “Some of the other girls may get most of the accolades, but it’s her team.”

Lewiston jumped out to an early 6-0 lead but the T-Wolves fought back to close the gap to 10-9 at the end of the first quarter.

Lake City was able to stay close because of constant defensive pressure that led to 11 first-half Bengal turnovers and the T-Wolves took their largest lead of the half at 25-20 with 13 seconds to go on a 3-pointer by Herbert.

It was Asher who kept the T-Wolves in the game in the first half.

While most of her teammates were having trouble finding the mark, the 6-4 Asher was getting open inside, scoring 11 first-half points on 5 of 7 shooting.

“Alison kept us in it in the first half,” Stockwell said. “Lewiston has a good ball club, but she dominated them inside.”

Lake City 60, Lewiston 47

Lewiston 10 10 9 18 47 Lake City 9 16 14 21 60

Lewiston-A. Roberts 0, Cain 14, B. Roberts 0, Martin 0, Benson 0, Wegner 2, Cushman 8, McEachern 17, Bloom 6.

Lake City-Hatrock 16, Hayes 0, Hawn 0, Cole 0, Herbert 19, McCabe 5, Dodge 2, Asher 18, Gerzina 0.

Post Falls 45, CdA 40

Post Falls overcame sloppy play and early foul trouble to down visiting Coeur d’Alene in Inland Empire League girls basketball.

The Trojans were led by 15 points from Jennifer Glaser who dominated the interior play.

“We’re not a really big team so it helps a lot when a player like Jennifer plays an incredible game inside,” Post Falls (6-5) coach Chris Johnson.

Coeur d’Alene (4-9) was led by Katie Shirley with 11 points.

Post Falls 14 13 9 9 45 Coeur d’Alene 7 16 8 9 40

POST FALLS - Klaudt 6, Brown 5, Edmonds 4, Waltz 4, Swanstrom 2, Ruen 5, Glaser 15.

COEUR d’ALENE - Andre 2, Stranger 7, Shirley 11, Orr 6, Wilkey 7, Stern 3, Davis 4.

Intermountain League

Priest River 69, Kellogg 38

The visiting Spartans (7-4, 3-2) had a 43-36 rebounding edge in knocking the Wildcats (4-7, 2-1) out of a tie for second place with Moscow.

Kellogg made 14 of 69 field goals (20 percent).

Priest River 20 17 17 15 - 69 Kellogg 13 10 4 11 - 38

PRIEST RIVER - K.Duley 8, M.Duley 0, Reed 7, Ruiz 15, Ennis 17, Smith 8, Go 1, Carpenter 5, Vogrig 4, Guthrie 4.

KELLOGG - Magnus 3, Greibil 0, Burkgart 6, Vork 0, Stevens 0, Lemon 16, Burg 2, Hei 2, Luchini 4, Hunt 2, Connors 3, Delcomte 0.

Non-league

Wallace 40, Mullan 26

The Miners (6-6) trailed after three quarters, but rallied when the visiting Tigers (1-9) couldn’t handle their press and Katie Elwood fouled out.

Lucia Gregory had nine rebounds and Meghan England six steals for Wallace.

Mullan 6 9 10 1 - 26 Wallace 5 5 13 17 - 40

MULLAN - Winstead 0, Autio 7, Hegbloom 6, Hendryx 0, Elwood 11, Garitone 2.

WALLACE - Gregory 7, Calabretta 7, England 7, Nipp 7, Branstetter 0, Sleazer 4, Krulitz 4, Carrico 4, Striker 0, Dean 0.

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