PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Strong third quarter lifts Lakeside past St. Maries

PLUMMER — Junior Liam Hendrickx hit two quick 3-pointers early in the third quarter to give Lakeside the lead, then the Knights took it inside to finish off the St. Maries Lumberjacks 69-61 on Friday night in nonleague play at Ron Miller Court.

Hendrickx finished with 13 points for Lakeside (3-0). Vander Brown scored a game-high 25 points for the Knights, and also had seven assists and six rebounds, and freshman Tyson Charley added 15 points and eight rebounds.

“They (the Lumberjacks) were in a zone, and we were thinking we were shooters in the first half,” Lakeside coach James Twoteeth said. “At the half we decided we needed to get it inside, and shoot layins instead of 3s.”

Twoteeth said junior Lucky Matt gave the Knights a boost down low in the fourth quarter, Charley also played well down low.

Greyson Sands scored 20 points for St. Maries (2-1).

The teams meet again next Friday, this time at St. Maries.

St. Maries 19 17 10 15 — 61

Lakeside 18 16 19 16 — 69

ST. MARIES — Holmes 8, Sands 20, Badgett 8, Holder 10, Renner 4, Wicks 2, Hall 9.

LAKESIDE — Matt 2, Brown 25, SiJohn 8, Callahan 0, Hall 6, Hendrickx 13, Charley 15.

Lewiston 77

Lakeland 45

LEWISTON — The visiting Hawks went on a 7-0 run to open the game, then were held scoreless in the remainder of the first quarter of the Inland Empire League openerto the Bengals at Lewiston High.

“We played well in spurts tonight,” Lakeland coach Tony Hanna said. “Lewiston’s quite big and shot the ball really well. They played well.”

Senior guard Scotty Hocking scored 14 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter for Lakeland (0-4, 0-1 IEL), which hosts Priest River on Tuesday.

William White scored 12 points for Lewiston (3-1).

Lakeland 7 10 8 20 — 45

Lewiston 20 21 18 18 — 77

LAKELAND — Nowell 7, Cameron 2, Ferguson 5, Ryan 5, Tebbe 4, Rothrock 0, Hocking 19, Anderson 1, Harris 2, Locke 0.

LEWISTON — Gomez 10, Way 10, Knewbow 0, Bramlett 8, Cushman 10, Mader 6, White 12, Wren 9, Bensching 2, Hottinger 5, Lawrence 5.

N.I. Christian 67

Spo. Class. Chr. 50

LIBERTY LAKE — Larry Fendich scored 33 points as the Royals improved to 2-0 in the Mountain Christian League with the win over Spokane Classical Christian late Thursday at the HUB Sports Center.

Caden Smith added 15 points for North Idaho Christian (4-3, 2-0 MCL), which plays Spokane Athletic Co-op on Tuesday at the HUB.

Spo. Class. Chr. 8 18 11 13 — 50

N.I. Christian 20 19 14 14 — 67

SPOKANE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN — Aiden F. 2, Nate K. 11, Luke H. 13, Nick A. 0, Conlan M. 2, Sam E. 5, Justis P. 14.

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Fendich 33, Barnett 5, Hunter 10, Smith 15, Malinauskas 4, Antone 0, Winde 0, Sullivan 4.