* 1A DIVISION I DISTRICT 1

SPIRIT LAKE - Joe Brown had 13 points, six rebounds and three assists to lead the Lakeside Knights past the Wallace Miners 50-46 to win the best-of-3 game 1A Division I District 1 tournament on Wednesday night at Timberlake High.

"It was a good way to continue our season," Lakeside coach Chris Dohrman said. "Wallace came out really tough. They doubled us up in the first quarter and played well. It wasn't our best game, so we returned the favor in the second quarter by going up by one. In the second half, it was pretty scrappy. We built a 10-point lead during parts of the fourth quarter and they made it close. We were 7 for 12 from the free-throw line and usually we're better than that."

Lakeside (18-4), which won its fourth game in a row, plays in the state play-in game at 6 p.m. on Saturday at St. Maries against either Genessee or Troy.

Doug Schatz scored 14 points a for Lakeside. Hunter Kolar also grabbed six rebounds.

Bradley Brantley scored 15 points and Brock Arthun added 14 for Wallace (13-8).

Lakeside 7 15 13 15 - 50

Wallace 14 7 11 14 - 46

LAKESIDE - Stensgar 0, Pluff 4, Meshell 6, Schatz 14, Kolar 4, Daman 0, Zahir 0, Nilson 9, Brown 13.

WALLACE - Owens 0, Little 0, Rasmussen 9, Lemieux 2, Brantley 15, Arthun 14, Browning 6.

* 1A DIVISION II DISTRICT 1

Kootenai 58

Mullan 36

SPIRIT LAKE - The top-seeded Warriors fell behind by six points early, then went on a 19-9 second-quarter run to ease away from the Tigers in the 1A Division II District 1 championship game at Timberlake High.

Kootenai (9-10) will play in a state play-in game against Summit Academy (14-6) of Cottonwood on Saturday at 4 p.m. at St. Maries High. The winner advances to the state tournament in Caldwell.

"We were actually down 7-1," Kootenai coach Doug Napierala said. "We finally got things going and got some momentum offensively and calmed down. We were more patient, got some good looks and got control and never looked back. We did a great job on the boards and got some quick fast breaks. It was good to come out and take charge and get a good victory."

Jake Pfeiffer led Kootenai with 20 points and he finished with six rebounds. Anthony Ausman finished with 11 points and 16 rebounds for Kootenai.

TJ Placencio scored 12 points for Mullan, which finished 6-10.

Mullan 11 9 4 12 - 36

Kootenai 14 19 10 15 - 58

MULLAN - Barnes 0, Kotschevar 8, Placencio 12, Henderson 11, Ovnicek 5, Johnson 0, Dykes 0.

KOOTENAI - H. Whipple 0, Willms 2, Jones 8, Ausman 11, Love 6, Pfeiffer 20, Schultz 11.

* 2A DISTRICT 1-2

St. Maries 53

Orofino 37

TROY - Cody Posselt scored seven of his game-high 23 points in the fourth quarter as the Lumberjacks (10-11) beat the Maniacs (11-8) in a loser-out game in the 2A District 1-2 tournament at Troy High.

"We were in control, but we really opened it up in the fourth quarter," St. Maries coach John Bisson said. "We made free throws down the stretch."

St. Maries plays No. 1 seed Grangeville (16-3) in the championship game tonight at Troy at 6 p.m. St. Maries needs two wins to advance to state.

St. Maries 9 11 14 19 - 53

Orofino 5 13 10 9 - 37

ST. MARIES - Seiler 0, Posselt 23, Michael 2, Truscott 2, Greer 3, McGregor 2, Gertje 13, Feasline 8.

OROFINO - Wilson 3, G. Turner 0, Judd 7, K. Brink 2, K. Turner 9, Lee 11, M. Brink 1, Kuykendall 4.