RATHDRUM - When it counted on Tuesday night, all the Lakeland Hawks had to do was look inside to get them back on the right track.

Senior post Jenna Davis scored 15 points to lead the Lakeland Hawks past the Sandpoint Bulldogs 58-48 in the opening round of the 4A Region 1 girls basketball tournament Tuesday night at Hawk Court.

Lakeland (11-10) travels to Moscow on Thursday at 7 p.m. to face the top-seeded Bears (6-14).

"We're looking forward to going down there," Lakeland coach Steve Seymour said. "We played well tonight. It was nice to play well and start building some momentum going forward."

Sandpoint jumped out to an 8-2 lead before the Hawks battled back to cut the deficit to 8-7 after the first quarter.

"We got out to a slow start tonight," Seymour said. "We got down 8-2, but I thought we did a good job of battling back. We started to get some stops on defense. Sandpoint did a good job of knocking down shots early in the first quarter."

Lakeland outscored Sandpoint 21-15 in the second quarter to take a 28-23 halftime lead.

“Davis was great for us in the post tonight,” Seymour said. “Her and Neena (Buchmann) played really well for us tonight. I thought Jenna was the first and Neena was the second half.”

Buchmann hit a 3-pointer to put the Hawks up 51-42 with 1:14 remaining in the game.

“Hitting that shot felt good,” Buchmann said. “It was a huge win for us as a team. This was the first time in a while we’ve played well as a team. We wanted to win this one pretty bad.”

Maggie Kirscher had 14 points, 11 rebounds and four steals for Sandpoint (7-14), which travels to the loser of Thursday’s game on Saturday.

“I thought we did a nice job in the first half and were able to score some transition baskets on them,” Sandpoint coach Lance Bruce said. “They got a bit of a lead on us in the second half. You’ve got to give them credit, they switched to a 1-on-1 game and broke us down.”

Sandpoint pulled as close as 44-39 on a Carissa Chatburn 3-pointer with 3:44 remaining, but could not get any closer.

“We couldn’t get those stops down the stretch to close that gap,” Bruce said. “The one nice thing is that we get another shot. Anything can happen. It just takes a game like this sometimes to get over the top.”

Junior Darby Murray had 10 points and four assists for Lakeland.

“It was great to see someone get to the line and put it away,” Seymour said. “That 3 Buchmann hit was big for us tonight and (Ciena) Close did a great job of distributing the ball tonight.”

Sandpoint 8 15 9 16 — 48

Lakeland 7 21 9 21 — 58

SANDPOINT — Speelmon 1, Bruce 11, Van Ooyen 0, Tucker 0, Neumann 4, Alamillo 0, Olin 14, Chatburn 3, Oyharsabal 0, S. Roop 0, Kirscher 14, N. Roop 1.

LAKELAND — Babor 5, Murray 10, S. Coder 4, Reed 2, Davis 15, Buchmann 12, Close 6, Tapplin 4.