Strong Finish Helps Mead Defeat Lc

Prep basketball

Lake City faced a different Mead team in the second half of Friday’s game.

Mead (4-3), which allowed 21 points in the first quarter, clamped down after halftime and beat the visiting Timberwolves 58-48 in a boys non-league game. Lake City (4-3) scored just four points in the fourth quarter.

Adam Morris put Mead ahead for good with a driving layup in the third quarter. Damian Long led the Panthers with 22 points and 11 rebounds. John Chatfield had three 3-pointers and 21 points for the Timberwolves.

Mead 58, Lake City 48

Lake City 21 10 13 4 - 48

Mead 13 15 18 12 - 58

LAKE CITY Camantigue 4, Thompson 2, Everson 0, Keefer 9, Chatfield 21, Bryan 0, Beadell 10, Asper 2.

MEAD Morris 12, Klaus 0, Inderrieden 0, Riccelli 0, Armitage 2, West 2, Long 22, Eggers 0, Walton 2, Castaneda 18, Myers 0.

East Valley 80, Lakeland 50

Brad Wilson made 5 of 6 3-pointers in the second quarter and James Spotted Horse added 21 points and six rebounds as the Knights (2-4) beat the visiting Hawks (0-6).

EV took the lead for good when Don Snyder made three consecutive baskets midway through the second quarter. Lakeland’s 6-foot-7 Doug Freed scored 15.

Lakeland 13 14 17 6 - 50

East Valley 10 26 23 21 - 80

LAKELAND Banks 1, Singer 8, Bevacqua 5, DeBoer 7, Freed 15, Kowalczyk 10, Rothrock 2, Mudge 2.

EAST VALLEY Johnson 5, LeGrant 7, Wilson 20, Snyder 15, Unser 3, Anderson 7, Freund 2, Spotted Horse 21.

CUSICK CROSSOVER

Selkirk 59, Clark Fork 36

Nathan Dial and Josh Davis had 10 rebounds apiece to lead a 41-22 edge on the boards as the Rangers (5-2) beat the Wampus Cats (3-5).

Clark Fork 11 7 8 10 - 36

Selkirk 14 18 13 14 - 59

CLARK FORK Rueter 8, Lambarth 10, Stutzke 5, Powell 5, Stevens 8.

SELKIRK Kinney 5, Farris 4, Gere 2, Davis 11, Pichette 14, Huffine 2, Dial 15, Fandrey 6.

F.Christian 41, Cusick 38

Jared Horton had 21 points, 12 rebounds and three blocked shots, and Ben Berg hit a pair of late free throws to lift the Eagles (2-4) over the Panthers (1-5).

Falls Christian 8 17 8 8 - 41

Cusick 11 7 14 6 - 38

FALLS CHRISTIAN Bligh 0, Berg 2, Meoak 0, Burrage 0, Mullen 0, Smith 0, Burns 10, Lefevre 0, Backs 0, Horton 21, Larson 8.

CUSICK Scott 13, Hamilton 3, Waldman 2, Meek 3, Chantry 2, J.Finley 2, Martin 3, Birchall 4, S.Finley 6.

PRIEST RIVER TOURNAMENT

Potlatch 64, Newport 45

A long, third-quarter scoreless streak by the Grizzlies (4-3) allowed the Loggers to pull away in the title game.

Potlatch 14 17 15 18 - 64

Newport 12 11 4 18 - 45

POTLATCH B.Nicholson 3, Haddock 1, Brown 2, J.Nicholson 2, Fiscus 12, Lovell 9, Baker 11, Taylor 1, Strong 9, Vowels 14.

NEWPORT Larson 2, Ellersick 7, McClean 2, Martindale 1, Carrara 13, Knapp 5, Mumford 6, Richter 9.

GIRLS

INLAND EMPIRE

Sandpoint 62, Lewiston 44

Alli Nieman scored 31 on 12-of-21 shooting from the floor and 7-of-14 from the line to lead the Bulldogs (3-0, 10-2) over the visiting Bengals (1-2, 5-4).

Nieman, who has 71 points in her last two games, also had eight rebounds and four steals. Sandpoint’s Tanya Allmaras was 7 of 11 from the floor and had seven rebounds.

Lewiston 14 9 8 13 - 44

Sandpoint 9 19 15 19 - 62

LEWISTON Roberts 4, Hunt 2, Gomez 9, McEachern 7, Cushman 8, Bloom 10.

SANDPOINT Timblin 6, Verby 6, Ross 3, Allmaras 16, Nieman 31.

CUSICK CROSSOVER

F.Christian 65, Cusick 12

Sarah Peterson scored 12 of her 24 in the fourth quarter and a 36-19 rebounding edge helped the Eagles (9-3 ) top the host Panthers (0-6).

Falls Christian 16 12 22 19 - 65

Cusick 2 0 4 6 - 12

FALLS CHRISTIAN Johnson 0, Wallace 6, Pang 8, Peterson 24, Moate 16, Taylor 2, Gelnette 0, Runkle 2, Coy 3, Jenkins 4.

CUSICK Norton 8, Pickerel 3, Cutshall 0, Waldman 0, Haas 0, Foster 0, Nenema 0, Johnson 2, Thomas 0, Zeismer 0, Barton 0.

Selkirk 50, Clark Fork 22

Pollianna Dickenson made four consecutive baskets from the outside in the first quarter, and Tara Porter and Molly Carlson worked the inside for 23 points as the Rangers (5-2 ) beat the Wampus Cats (5-6) in the tourney’s other game.

Clark Fork 5 6 5 6 - 22

Selkirk 21 11 13 5 - 50

CLARK FORK Miller 4, Morderscheid 4, Longstreet 3, St. Claire 2, Storaasli 4, Hager 5.

SELKIRK Dickenson 11, Jennings 5, Weaver 5, Koontz 2, Dury 4, Porter 12, Carlson 11.

PRIEST RIVER TOURNEY

Newport 61, P.River 46

Michele Carrara had 13 rebounds and six steals, and the Grizzlies (6-2) made 12 of 18 third-quarter free throws to pull away from the host Spartans (6-5) in the title game.

Priest River’s Krissi Ruiz had 18 points and nine rebounds.Potlatch beat Orofino in an all-Idaho consolation. No score was reported.

Priest River 14 10 10 12 - 46

Newport 9 13 20 19 - 61

PRIEST RIVER Go 0, M.Ruiz 2, Stensland 4, Reed 2, K.Ruiz 18, Ennis 8, Suchocki 2, Duley 4, Rasmussen 4, Vogrig 2, Cary 0, White 0.

NEWPORT Casey 1, Schulz 13, Almond 0, Sauer 15, Sherman 6, Frandrup 9, Vallieres 4, Carrara 12.

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