Greg Lee

While the weather forecast called for rain, snow and high winds in the region, Moscow High girls basketball coach Lisa Carscallen was dealing with the fallout of her team's season ending without losing on the court. Overnight snow and high winds that caused drifting on outlying roads forced the Moscow School District to call off classes Thursday. The Moscow girls were scheduled to travel to Sandpoint for a 4A Region I loser-out game that was postponed Wednesday – the fifth time since the tournament began Jan. 29 that a game pitting Moscow at Sandpoint had been postponed. Four times last week the tourney opener between the teams had to be rescheduled.

It had been a while since Ali Johnson played in a 5A Region I tournament game. Try three years, in fact. Johnson, a starter as a freshman who missed essentially the last two seasons after two knee surgeries, was the spark the Coeur d'Alene Vikings needed Saturday afternoon.

PULLMAN – A 19-point margin of defeat usually isn't a sign that a team has given a fair account of itself. But Washington State women's basketball coach June Daugherty would beg to differ. Arizona State University's depth, size and defense eventually wore down the Cougars as the Sun Devils pulled away 59-40 Saturday afternoon in a Pac-10 Conference game before 673 at Friel Court.

MOSCOW, Idaho – The ardor which the Idaho Vandals displayed two nights earlier was missing Saturday. In the end, a season-best crowd of 1,518 watched Idaho botch an opportunity to win back-to-back conference games for the first time since 2004-05 as the Hawaii Warriors withstood a late rally, 58-53, in a Western Athletic Conference men's basketball game at the Cowan Spectrum.

Look who has the momentum now. It wasn't improbable, but the Post Falls High girls basketball team pulled off victories in back-to-back nights that some may have thought implausible.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Chalk it up to the talcum powder that his grandfather sent him. Or as Idaho men's basketball coach George Pfeifer jokingly called it, magic dust.

The College of Southern Idaho men's basketball team scored 28 points below its season average Saturday. The problem for North Idaho College, though, is the No. 2-ranked Eagles had more weapons than could be defended.

The Post Falls girls and boys basketball teams hogged the Pig. Motivated perhaps by a loss that snapped a 10-game winning streak two nights earlier, the Trojans girls overwhelmed Lakeland 62-28 in the first game of the Prairie Pig spirit and Inland Empire League doubleheader Thursday.

The Lake City High boys basketball team was looking point blank at an 0-2 start in the Inland Empire League – with both defeats coming at home. But that was before junior guard Jason Wheelock rescued the Timberwolves, who were the preseason pick to win the conference.

Just when you didn't think another "first" could be accomplished at the Tri-State wrestling tournament, which turned 36 years old this year, along comes another Saturday evening. Flathead High of Kalispell, Mont., became the first Montana team to capture a team championship, and the Braves did so in convincing fashion. Flathead, behind one individual champ and seven other placers, piled up 208 points to easily outdistance runner-up and traditional Tri-State power Lake Stevens (155).