Sandpoint Rolls By Lc

The Sandpoint High volleyball team’s balance and precision at the net was too much for Lake City to overcome Tuesday.

Five Bulldogs had three or more kills as visiting Sandpoint easily dispatched the Timberwolves 15-9, 15-4 in a Border League match.

Senior middle blocker Kendrea Meyer led with nine kills, setter Rochelle Ruen had seven and Emily Smith had five. Megan Lippi added four kills and two aces off jump serves.

“It was nothing spectacular, but we had a chance to work on a number of things,” said Sandpoint coach Jeff Hurst, whose league-leading team improved to 16-1 overall, 4-0 in league.

Sandpoint ran off five straight points - two coming off jump-serve aces by Ruen - to build a 10-3 lead in the first game. An ace by Jaylyn Malsam combined with a hitting error by the Bulldogs allowed LC to close it up at 10-7.

The Bulldogs pulled away on a tip kill by Ruen, a kill off a free ball by Meyer and a game-point kill by Smith.

Sandpoint opened a 13-1 lead in the second game. The run was briefly interrupted by three straight points by LC, one coming off a Malsam ace, before the Bulldogs quickly ended the match.

“They have an almost unshakeable confidence,” LC coach Kent Scanlon said of Sandpoint.

LC dropped to 5-10, 3-2. Middle blocker Rachel Mogen led the T-Wolves with six kills.

Sandpoint plays host to Coeur d’Alene on Thursday. CdA is considered the lone Border League team capable of challenging the Bulldogs.

In other Border League play, CdA waltzed over visiting Post Falls 15-9, 15-0. The Viks’ Casey Anderson, who had to be taken to the hospital Saturday after a home loss to Cheney because of an allergic reaction, served all of CdA’s points in the second game. She added three blocks. Middle blocker Katie Jo Shirley led the Viks with seven kills and four blocks. Sarah Biddle added five kills. … Visiting Moscow edged Lewiston 2-1 with no game being decided by more than four points. The win kept the Bears (8-3, 4-0) tied with Sandpoint for the league lead. Moscow burned the Bengals (5-6, 1-4) with 14 aces. Laurie Gregg had 12 kills for the Bears and teammate Courtney Goetz added 20 digs.

In Intermountain League action, Bonners Ferry (5-5, 3-3) defeated visiting Priest River (2-8, 1-4) 2-0 behind 93 percent team serving, five kills from Kendra Maas and five assists from Meghan Mellett. … Visiting St. Maries (8-3, 5-0-1) blanked Timberlake (2-8, 2-5) 2-0 despite Tiffany Holdahl’s 10-for-10 serving.

Lapwai raised its overall record to 4-1 and its Central Idaho League mark to 3-1 with a 2-1 road win over Lakeside (0-5, 0-4).

In non-league matches, visiting Kellogg scored the final 12 points of the third game to come back from an 8-3 deficit and defeat Kootenai 2-1.

Girls soccer

Visiting Coeur d’Alene outshot Lewiston 40-7 but scored only three goals in a 3-0 Border League triumph. Casey Joyner, Kathy Cottrell and Erica Hauck scored for the league-leading Vikings (6-0, 10-0-1). Lewiston fell to 5-5, 1-4… . Cheney (4-3, 3-2) got two goals from starting goalkeeper Jessica Cole in a 7-0 rout of winless Clarkston (0-7, 0-5). Cole was moved out of goal and given a chance to score after the Blackhawks jumped to an early lead.

Boys soccer

Mike Beard scored all three goals and registered his first hat trick of the year as Moscow beat visiting Coeur d’Alene 3-1 in a North Idaho League rematch. The Bears (5-4, 4-3) dropped a 2-0 decision to CdA (6-2-1, 4-1-1) last Thursday… . Post Falls (1-7-1, 1-6-1) used a penalty kick goal from Jeff Morrison at 72:00 to earn a 1-1 tie with visiting Lakeland (1-5-3, 1-4-2).