LEWISTON - Seth Anderson had a team-high 18 points and 10 rebounds to lead the top-ranked Post Falls Trojans past the Lewiston Bengals 67-58 in a 5A Inland Empire League game at Booth Hall on Tuesday night.

"As we've learned, it's hard to win on the road in the IEL," said Post Falls coach Mike McLean, whose Trojans lost at Lake City and Coeur d'Alene last week. "We feel good to come out of here with a win."

Luke Thoreson had 16 points and four steals and Marcus Colbert had 10 points and five assists for Post Falls (12-2, 2-2 5A IEL), which travels to Lakeland for the Prairie Pig game on Friday.

"I thought in the third quarter, we quit gambling as much defensively and made (Sam) Heitzman work for his shots," McLean said. "We executed defensively, but didn't finish possessions in the first half. Seth played a great game and they just didn't have an answer for him tonight."

Heitzman had 19 points and Randon Fuentes added 17 for Lewiston (6-9, 0-4), which hosts Lake City on Friday.

Post Falls 20 15 15 17 — 67

Lewiston 17 14 8 19 — 58

POST FALLS — Anderson 18, Valente 8, Thoreson 16, Jackson 2, Colbert 10, Benner 0, Hillman 3, Koski 10, Shelton 0.

LEWISTON — Fuentes 17, Madsen 10, Scott 3, Gaskill 2, Heitzman 19, Hewitt-Steiger 3, Havens 4.

Coeur d’Alene 34

Lakeland 23

RATHDRUM — The host Hawks used what assistant coach Bill Ryan termed a “deliberate” style in hopes of pulling off the upset, but the Vikings scored the game’s final nine points after Lakeland pulled within two with 2:30 left in the nonleague game at Hawk Court.

Eric Cooper grabbed a loose ball and fed Derek Bayley for a layup to pull 4A Lakeland (3-11) within 25-23. But Deon Watson answered with an inside basket for 5A Coeur d’Alene (10-3), and the Vikings finished the game on a 9-0 run.

“We had a game plan to try to take care of the ball on offense, make sure we got a good shot every time down the floor, make them chase us and keep the ball out of their hands,” Ryan said.

Joe Roletto and Ty Higbie scored nine points each for Coeur d’Alene. Chad Chalich, out since football season with a broken foot, scored one point in his first-game action of basketball season.

Adam Black led Lakeland with nine points.

On Friday, Coeur d’Alene travels to Moscow, and Lakeland hosts Post Falls in the annual Prairie Pig spirit game.

Coeur d’Alene 4 12 8 10 — 34

Lakeland 5 7 9 2 — 23

COEUR d’ALENE — Tackett 0, Roletto 9, Chalich 1, Daniels 1, Loy 8, Moore 0, Higbie 9, Watson 6, Blakley 0.

LAKELAND — Spencer 0, Carr 0, Derrick 1, Black 9, Bayley 5, Horne 8, Cooper 0, Simpson 0.

Grace Bible 51

Kootenai Thunder 31

SANDPOINT — Nathan Collier scored 14 points and Isaac Schaefer had 10 points, eight rebounds and five assists to lead the Warriors past the Kootenai Thunder in a Mountain Christian League game.

Ben Thruman scored 11 points for Grace Bible (8-5, 8-4 MCL), which travels to Christian Heritage on Thursday.

Grace Bible 16 15 7 13 — 51

Kootenai Thunder 1 12 10 8 — 31

GRACE BIBLE — Collier 14, Thruman 11, Schaefer 10, Peabody 5, Nordhausen 5, Connelly 4, R. Madsen 2, Chersin 0.

KOOTENAI THUNDER — B. Jensen 16, Davis 6, Crosby 3, S. Jensen 2, Soderberg 2, Silverman 2, Maynard 0.

Genesis Prep 53

Christian Heritage 48

POST FALLS — Marques Mort scored 31 points to lead the hosts to the Mountain Christian League victory.

Score by quarters not provided.

CHRISTIAN HERITAGE — Individual scoring not provided.

GENESIS PREP — Mort 31, Chirstensen 6, Mcdonald 4, Zier 2, Chism 2, T. Darrow 4, J. Darrow 4.

Lewiston 43

Post Falls 36

LEWISTON — Klaree Hobart scored nine fourth-quarter points to help push the Bengals past the Trojans in a 5A Inland Empire League game at Booth Hall.

“We had some bad breaks and got into foul trouble late,” Post Falls coach Marc Allert said. “We just got some bad breaks at some bad times.”

Danielle Failor had 17 points and 14 rebounds and Sam Runkle added eight points for Post Falls (9-7, 2-4 5A IEL), which travels to Lakeland for the Prairie Pig game on Friday.

“Dani played really well tonight and battled hard against (Chelsea) Waters,” Allert said. “Both her and (Sam) Runkle did a great job on her tonight. We played really hard, we just had some missed opportunites that happened at the wrong time. Our effort was good, but Lewiston just hit some shots toward the end of the game.”

Tisha Phillips scored 11 points for Lewiston (15-2, 4-1), which hosts Lake City on Friday.

Post Falls 5 5 12 14 — 36

Lewiston 11 5 7 20 — 43

POST FALLS — Gonzales 3, King 1, Franklin 4, Smith 0, Litalien 3, Runkle 8, Failor 17.

LEWISTON — K. Wilson 5, L. Wilson 4, Schlader 0, Bernatz 2, Harrison 2, Hobart 9, Wells 8, Phillips 11, Waters 2.

Lake City 48

Sandpoint 27

COEUR d’ALENE — Jasmyn Smith scored 15 points to lead the Timberwolves past the Bulldogs in a nonleague game.

Maggie Kirscher scored 16 points for Sandpoint (7-10), which trailed 21-20 in the second quarter before the Timberwolves went on a 16-2 run in the second and third.

“It was a tight first half,” Lake City coach Royce Johnston said. “We played really good defense in the second half and hit a few shots in the third quarter to pull away.”

Jansen Butler had 12 points and five rebounds for Lake City (10-8), which travels to Lewiston on Friday.

Sandpoint 10 10 2 5 — 27

Lake City 16 10 11 11 — 48

SANDPOINT — Speelmon 4, Bruce 2, Van Ooyen 0, Alamillo 0, Olin 5, Corless 0, Roop 0, Kirscher 16, Young 0.

LAKE CITY — Jackson 7, Butler 12, Smith 15, Little 0, Wheelock 0, Torres 6, Gay 0, Hawkes 2, Heidenreich 6.

POSTPONEMENTS

Timberlake at St. Maries and Wallace at Kootenai were postponed due to snow. No makeup dates have been set.