Miscues doom Lake City
Austin Keefer reeled in a 25-yard touchdown pass from Mark Smily in the first quarter to give the Lake City football team an early lead Saturday against Sky View (Utah). The rest of the game was not as memorable as Sky View scored the next 34 points, winning 34-7 at Holt Arena in Pocatello.
The Timberwolves (0-3) committed 14 penalties and turned the ball over five times in the game and Sky View’s Kyler Carlsen threw for three TDs, eclipsing the 5,000-yard mark for career passing yards.
Boys soccer
Dalton Van Der Pol’s goal for Post Falls (4-1, 1-0) broke a scoreless tie in the 43rd minute to lead the Trojans to a 1-0 win over host Lake City (1-2, 1-1) in Inland Empire League 5A action. Van Der Pol was tripped up inside the box to force a penalty kick that was the deciding shot for the Trojans in a game that featured just 10 combined shots on goal.
In a non-league game between IEL teams, Sandpoint (5-0-2) rallied late to earn a 1-1 tie against Coeur d’Alene (5-1-2) with a goal in the 75th minute from Daniel Anderson.
•Bonners Ferry (5-3, 3-0) remained unbeaten in Intermountain League play as Alex Mendez’s goal at the 74-minute mark slammed the door shut on St. Maries (3-5, 2-1) en route to a 4-2 victory. Andre Zarate had two goals and an assist for the host Badgers.
Girls soccer
Post Falls (1-4, 0-3) nearly played visiting Lake City (1-1-1, 1-1) evenly through one half of the teams’ Inland Empire League match, but the Timberwolves dominated the second half getting a quick goal from Alyssa Allen and adding a fourth later on to put the Trojans away 4-1. … In a non-leaguer between two IEL teams, Lewiston (1-2-2) scored twice in the second half to down visiting Moscow (3-4-0) 2-0.
Cross country
Glacier Peak swept the boys and the girls No. 1 spots scoring 121 and 28 points, respectively, at the Silverwood Coaster Cross in Athol, Idaho. Cody Helbling of Lake City took first in the boys race posting a time of 15 minutes, 30.9 seconds. Glacier Peak’s Amy-Eloise Neale took first in the girls race, beating North Central freshman Katie Knight by almost 40 seconds in a time of 18:05.
•Alicia Doohan led the Gonzaga Prep girls to a fifth-place finish at the Bellarmine Invite in Tacoma, pacing the field for a first-place finish in a time of 12:10.20. The G-Prep boys took fourth with 100 points, off the pace of Sehome, which won the meet with 68. Collin Overbay and Byron Groh both finished in the top 10 for G-Prep.
Volleyball
Pullman took first place at the Lakeland Invitational at Rathdrum with a 2-1 victory over Sandpoint in the championship match. … North Central defeated Southridge 2-1 in the title game of the 32-team SunDome Tournament in Yakima.