Fast Start Fuels Trojans’ Rout Against Lakeland
If it has ever been safe to say that a game was over at halftime, Thursday night’s non-league boys basketball game between Post Falls and Lakeland was it.
The Trojans, leading 50-14 at the intermission, cruised to a 84-34 victory at Post Falls. The Hawks, however, did manage to win the inaugural “Prairie Pig” award given to the team with the best fan support.
“We were on fire early, and they seemed to get a little frustrated,” said Post Falls coach Scott Moore.
The Trojans scored 25 points in each of the first two quarters. PF guard Brason Alexander scored all 12 of his points in the first half. Backcourt mate Chad Quesnell was the game’s leading scorer with 22 points, half of those coming from the free-throw line.
“We were really pumped up by the crowd,” Quesnell said. “It’s the biggest crowd that I’ve ever seen here.”
Post Falls’ gym was packed to the rafters, but the fans didn’t have much to cheer about as the game was a blowout from the early minutes. The Trojans jumped to a 12-0 lead to start the game before the Hawks’ Jared Mudge scored Lakeland’s first basket with 3:25 remaining.
Post Falls (9-3 overall) continued to run it up behind the hot hand of Quesnell, one of eight seniors who have never lost a game to Lakeland.
Four Trojans scored in double figures, and the team shot 26 of 53, including eight 3-pointers.
Lakeland (4-5) got 10-point efforts from Mudge and Petra Thiringer.
Post Falls 84, Lakeland 34
Lakeland 5 9 12 12 - 34
Post Falls 25 25 12 22 - 84
Post Falls - Quesnell 22, Alexander 12, Curlee 13, Bohn 2, McLean 12, Juhlin 12, Lee 9, Fehling 2.
Lakeland - Holt 0, Mudge 10, Banks 2, Reese 6, Koawlczyk 2, Rothrock 0, Dotts 0, Thiringer 10, Bertsch 1.
Moscow 48, Coeur d’Alene 46
Tony Rinaldi buried a jumper at the buzzer to lift the Bears over the Vikings in a non-league game at CdA.
Lukas O’Dowd had 15 points and eight rebounds for CdA.
Moscow 12 8 12 16 - 48
Coeur d’Alene 9 13 15 9 - 46
MOSCOW Brown 3, Strobel 6, Rinaldi 13, Miller 15, Kuske 0, Curtis 4, Cosgrove 0, Stewart 2, Richards 0, Johnson 0, Owen 5.
COEUR D’ALENE O’Dowd 15, Davis 6, Kovatch 2, Gibbs 15, Hoorelbeke 3, Wood 2, Rupp 1, Dretke 0, Chapman 0, Sigler 2.
Lewiston 56, Lake City 47
Carson Egland scored 18 as the Bengals stopped the Timberwolves in an Inland Empire League game at Lewiston.
Lewiston (8-5, 2-1) led by as many as eight points through three quarters before pulling away in the fourth.
Chad Cheeley led Lake City (7-9, 1-3) with 16 points.
Lake City 13 12 9 13 - 47
Lewiston 17 10 13 16 - 56
LAKE CITY Camantigue 3, Cheeley 16, Barlow 11, R.Reiswig 2, Stroh 4, Hern 6, Morris 2, Nipp 3.
LEWISTON White 14, Charlo 12, Pierce 6, Sullivan 4, Egland 18, Smith 1, Lupinacci 1.
Falls Christian 60, Kootenai 46
At Kootenai, the Eagles used an 8-0 fourth-quarter run to pull away from a third-quarter tie and beat the Warriors in a North Star League game.
Drew Baker scored 17 points and Jared Bligh 16 for Falls Christian (6-5, 1-1). Kootenai slipped to 3-6, 0-2.
Falls Christian 12 7 16 25 - 60
Kootenai 6 14 15 11 - 46
FALLS CHRISTIAN Mitson 6, Baker 17, Staggs 0, Bligh 16, Beck 0, Burns 11, Malinauskas 0, Wild 0, Larson 10.
KOOTENAI B.Brede 3, Timken 6, Schorzman 0, J.Brede 0, Passow 6, Reinhofer 4, Petersen 0, Johns 0, Prickett 4, Ausman 0, Lamb 23.
Sandpoint JV 67, Clark Fork 51
The Wampus Cats fell behind 16-4 in the non-league game and never recovered against the Bulldogs’ JV at Sandpoint. Brent Stevens led Clark Fork (5-5) with 17 points.
Clark Fork 4 15 13 19 - 51
Sandpoint JV 16 18 18 15 - 67
CLARK FORK Beers 3, Berkey 0, Higgins 10, Klontz 0, Powell 3, B.Stevens 17, J.Stevens 7, Stutzke 11.
SANDPOINT JV Morse 1, Singleton 6, Watson 16, Fuhrman 10, Menard 13, Ringhand 3, Rust 13, Rinaldi 5.
Girls
Post Falls 65, Lakeland 34
The Trojans used a huge effort from the free-throw line to defeat the visiting Hawks in a non-league game.
Megan Billetz scored 18 points to lead Post Falls. Billetz was 14 of 16 from the line, as the Trojans shot 34 of 45.
Post Falls (9-7 overall) used a 22-6 second quarter to pull away and continued to make free throws in the second half to seal the win.
The Hawks fell to 6-9.
Lakeland 10 6 5 13 - 34
Post Falls 13 22 15 15 - 65
LAKELAND Jamison 8, Douglas 6, Harwood 4, Reed 0, Foldvik 2, Boone 1, DeBoer 8, Campbell 3, Banbury 0, Fox 2, Berger 0.
POST FALLS Billetz 18, Brown 2, Edmonds 0, Foster 8, Glaser 10, Juhlin 2, Klaudt 2, Ruen 10, Swanstrom 8, Waltz 5.
Lake City 66, Sandpoint 25
Alison Asher had 14 points, nine rebounds and eight blocked shots as the Timberwolves (16-2, 6-0) hammered the Bulldogs (2-14, 0-5) in an IEL game in Coeur d’Alene. Katie Hawn had seven of Lake City’s 19 steals.
Sandpoint 2 7 11 5 - 25
Lake City 19 13 19 15 - 66
SANDPOINT McKitrick 0, Allmaras 0, Verby 4, Bymaster 0, Ward 2, Cargill 5, Ross 3, Glines 0, Gill 4, Jensen 7.
LAKE CITY Hatrock 12, Hayes 2, Hawn 6, Cole 1, Nimke 0, Stetson 0, Herbert 8, McCabe 8, Dodge 12, Asher 14, Gerzina 3.
Lakeside 34, Mullan 19
The Knights (7-6, 3-1) held the Tigers (1-12, 0-5) scoreless in the first quarter and got 13 points from Angela Flint to win the North Star game at Mullan.
Lakeside 7 13 11 3 - 34
Mullan 0 10 7 2 - 19
LAKESIDE (Plummer, Idaho) - Flint 13, Sijohn 10, Mi.Middleton 2, Kolar 4, Ma.Middleton 0, Hammons 3, Hoffman 2, Twoteeth 0, McPeak 0, Kelly 0.
MULLAN Autio 12, Hegbloom 2, Hendryx 0, Elwood 4, Garitone 1.
St. Maries 50, Wallace 21
Amy Sotin made a rare start on Senior Night and had career-highs of 15 points and 12 rebounds as the Lumberjacks routed the Miners in a non-league game at St. Maries. Jolie Kunkel added 10 points for the Lumberjacks (6-10). Wallace fell to 7-11.
Wallace 2 6 4 9 - 21
St. Maries 8 15 16 11 - 50
WALLACE Gregory 0, Calabretta 4, England 2, Nipp 2, Branstetter 1, Sleazer 3, Krulitz 3, Carrico 4, Striker 0, Dean 2.
ST. MARIES Harpole 4, Holdahl 4, Boyd 0, J.Wolfe 4, B.Wolfe 9, Badgett 2, Kunkel 10, Sotin 15, Gibson 2.
Wrestling
Kellogg beat Priest River 48-22 in an Intermountain League match at Priest River. The Spartans also beat Newport 39-36 in a non-league match.