T-Wolves Dominate Iel Opener

Earlier in the season, the Post Falls High girls basketball team defeated Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls, Wash., in overtime.

Lakeside upset Inland Empire League favorite Lake City on Friday. So the IEL opener Saturday between Post Falls and Lake City figured to at least be competitive, right?

Wrong. LC’s Timberwolves thoroughly dominated the Trojans, 73-24, at LC.

And that’s the kindest way of describing the blowout.

After a steal and a layup by Jennifer Swanstrom cut LC’s lead to 6-4 midway in the first quarter, things collapsed for the Trojans.

LC did what a good team should do in the situation: It kept adding to the Trojans’ problems.

The top-ranked Timberwolves (11-2) outscored the Trojans (5-5) 34-0 the rest of the first half for a 40-4 advantage at intermission.

During that stretch, Post Falls missed 22 straight shots and all 13 of its attempts in a scoreless second period.

LC, meanwhile, was getting good looks out of its halfcourt sets and in transition. The Timberwolves made 14 of 23 shots in the first half, 27 of 48 for the game.

Post Falls was 2 of 26 in the first half, and the Trojans warmed up ever so slightly to finish 9 of 51.

“I’d go talk to the winning coach guys,” Post Falls coach Chris Johnson said to a pair of reporters. “We can play better than this, but obviously Lake City is a great ballclub. We got off to a bad start and then got very frustrated, and frustration led to mistakes.”

Johnson said it was easily his team’s worst game.

And LC responded the way T-Wolf coach Dave Stockwell expected following what he called a “wakeup call” against Lakeside the night before.

“I think last night’s game against Lakeside told the kids they needed to bring their game up a little bit,” Stockwell said. “We owned the inside and they had a hard time shooting against us inside. And that kind of set the tone early.”

The T-Wolves scored relatively at well from all over the court. They went to 6-foot-4 junior post Alison Asher early and countered with Lindsay Herbert’s jumpers and driving baskets.

Herbert finished with a game-high 22 points and Asher had 12. All nine T-Wolves scored.

The Trojans’ leading scorer, sophomore Janelle Ruen, came in averaging 14.7 points per game. Ruen and the other starters scored just 12 points combined. Ruen finished with four points, all in the second half.

With 15 points in the final period, Post Falls doubled its scoring in the first three quarters.

“We’re still pretty inexperienced in a couple of places so when we get off to a shaky start we have a tendency to press too hard and try to get it back all at once,” Johnson said. “The shots just weren’t going for us and the more we pressed the worse it went.”

At Lewiston, the Bengals defeated Sandpoint 61-22 in another league opener.

Lake City 73, Post Falls 24

Post Falls 4 0 5 15 - 24

Lake City 17 23 9 24 - 73

Post Falls - Billetz 4, Brown 3, Edmonds 0, Foster 0, Glaser 2, Juhlin 4, Klaudt 0, Ruen 4, Swanstrom 2, Waltz 5.

Lake City - Hatrock 8, Herbert 22, Hayes 6, Hawn 5, McCabe 9, Dodge 8, Asher 12, Cole 1, Nimke 2.

Pullman 45, Moscow 41

Christa Brossman hit four of her team’s seven free throws down the stretch and the Greyhounds (2-6) beat the visiting Bears to avenge an overtime loss earlier in the season.

Pullman led by eight midway through the fourth quarter, but Moscow pulled even at 39. Deb Curry had 10 rebounds, and Leah Wilde 18 points and nine rebounds for Pullman. For Moscow, Amber Matthews had six rebounds and Tami Goetz four assists and four steals.

Moscow 9 6 9 17 - 41

Pullman 7 12 12 14 - 45

MOSCOW Allen 11, Gibson 1, Goetz 8, Griggs 3, Makus 3, Shupe 2, Thomas 1, Wilder 4, Workman 2, Matthews 6.

PULLMAN Brossman 16, Pedersen 0, Schlettert 4, Rydbom 4, Curry 3, Wilde 18.

Lakeland 51, Lakeside 48

Tina Foldvik hit four late free throws to help the visiting Hawks regain their edge over the Knights during a nonleaguer at Plummer.

Lakeland led all game until Angela Flint, who scored nine fourth-quarter points, guided Lakeside to a four-point edge with 2:30 left. Lakeside’s Harmony Hammons had nine rebounds.

Lakeland 12 11 11 17 - 51

Lakeside 12 6 11 19 - 48

LAKELAND Reed 2, Foldvik 13, Douglas 13, Jamison 7, Boone 3, DeBoer 2, Campbell 7, Banbury 0, Harwood 3, Berger 1.

LAKESIDE Hammons 10, Hoffman 4, SiJohn 13, Twoteeth 0, Flint 17, Mi.Middleton 2, Wolff 0, Kolar 2, Ma.Middleton 0.

Boys

West Valley 73, Lakeland 68

Josh Sweet scored 32, including 6 of 13 on 3-pointers, and the visiting Eagles (5-2) used a 16-5 scoring edge at the line to beat the Hawks (2-2) in a non-leaguer at Rathdrum.

Lakeland’s Jared Mudge scored 28, with 5-of-8 shooting from 3-point range, and added eight rebounds.

West Valley 15 17 19 22 - 73

Lakeland 16 12 21 19 - 68

WEST VALLEY Cardwell 10, Sweet 32, Deno 3, Groh 3, Mortensen 9, Gerrells 5, Stockton 4, Gregorak 2, Pecht 5.

LAKELAND Kowalcyzk 8, Rothrock 21, Dotts 3, Banks 4, Holt 3, Rasor 0, Reese 1, Thiringer 0, Mudge 28.

Moscow 57, Pullman 44

Adam Miller scored 23, including 8-of-12 shooting from the field in the first half, to guide the visiting Bears (3-3) over the Greyhounds (4-2).

Shawn Richards had seven of Moscow’s 35 rebounds. Aron Cummings and Serign Marong had six rebounds apiece for Pullman, which beat Moscow by five earlier in the year.

Moscow 23 18 8 8 - 57

Pullman 13 10 12 9 - 44

MOSCOW Brown 7, Strobel 0, Rinaldi 8, Miller 23, Kuske 2, Curtis 6, Cosgrove 2, Stewart 0, Richards 5, Johnson 0, Owen 4.

PULLMAN Linehan 0, Randall 0, Harms 9, Holmes 11, Svingen 5, B.Cummings 6, A.Cummings 11, Marong 2.

Post Falls 67, Bonners Ferry 58

Travis Bohn scored 22 on 7-of-12 shooting from the floor, and the Trojans (5-3) used a 42-28 rebounding edge and 26-19 scoring edge at the line to beat the visiting Badgers.

Adam Hiatt, 8 of 15 from the floor, scored 20 of his 26 in the first half for BF. The game had 50 fouls and 76 free throws.

Bonners Ferry 18 20 7 13 - 58

Post Falls 17 20 15 15 - 67

BONNERS FERRY LaMarsh 0, Bahe 3, Hiatt 26, Meeker 7, Ross 8, Ashby 5, Hurst 5, Robertson 2, Staples 2.

POST FALLS Quesnell 9, Alexander 8, Curlee 0, Bohn 22, McLean 13, Lee 7, Therrian 4, Juhlin 4, Fehling 0.

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