COEUR d'ALENE - Miscues late in regulation and in overtime ruined what was an otherwise impressive performance by the Lake City High boys basketball team Friday night.

South Kitsap of Port Orchard, Wash., scored the last five points of regulation, then made the key plays late in overtime to upend the Timberwolves 69-67 in the semifinals of the Lake City Invitational at Lake City High.

"I wasn't real pleased with myself, and a couple of plays we called down the stretch," Lake City coach Jim Winger said. "And I wasn't overly impressed with our composure down the stretch. I expected it to be much better than it was, with our experience and upperclassmen out on the floor. I didn't like some of our body language."

"That's why we come to this tournament; these are the games that we need," South Kitsap coach John Callaghan said. "Those guys (the Timberwolves) are tough. That was a great game, man."

South Kitsap (7-1) will play Kentridge (9-0) of Kent, Wash., today at 5 in the championship game. Kentridge defeated

Columbia River of Vancouver, Wash., 40-36 in the other semifinal.

Lake City (6-2) will face Columbia River (6-2) in the third-place game at 3:15.

In consolation games earlier Friday, Lakeland beat Vernon (British Columbia) 61-40 and Wilsonville (Ore.) beat Sandpoint 52-30.

Lakeland (5-4) will play Wilsonville (6-2) for the consolation title today at 1:30 p.m.

Sandpoint (5-4) plays Vernon (8-7) in today's opener at noon.

South Kitsap 69, Lake City 67, OT: Lake City led 60-55 after a free throw by Justin Pratt with 3 minutes, 27 seconds left, but did not score again in regulation. A missed Timberwolf shot led to a fast-break basket by Logan Knowles of South Kitsap with two minutes left, and a Lake City turnover was turned into a 3-pointer by Knowles with 1:42 remaining. Those were his only points of the game.

South Kitsap had a chance to win it in regulation, but Ryley Callaghan's 3-pointer bounced off the rim at the buzzer.

In overtime, South Kitsap took the lead for good with 1 1/2 minutes left. The Wolves missed a shot and Lake City rebounded, but Eric Wattree III stole the ball from the rebounder and scored on a layup to make it 67-65. Caulin Bakalarski, who finished with 25 points, followed with a dunk off an inbounds pass to make it a four-point game with less than a minute remaining. Pratt, who finished with 18 points, scored on the drive with nine seconds remaining. Lake City got the ball back after South Kitsap missed the front end of a one-and-one, but did not get a shot off before the buzzer sounded.

"We're still kind of searching for someone to take charge of the ship," Winger said. "There were times we just had to take a deep breath and get it under control. I think sometimes, as a group, trying too hard, instead of taking a step back. Sometimes you get into these kinds of games and try to do things too fast, instead of taking a deep breath and executing what we need to do."

South Kitsap tried a 1-3-1 at the start, but Lake City shot the Wolves out of hit by hitting three 3-pointers in the first quarter, set up by great ball movement, along with some drive-and-kicks. The T-Wolves hit six 3s in the first half, and finished 7 of 21 from behind the arc.

Kyle Guice connected on 3 of 4 3s and finished with a game-high 25 points for Lake City. He also grabbed nine rebounds.

"Boy, they shot the ball," John Callaghan said. "That (zone defense) didn't last long. But our man defense was OK."

Lake City led by as many as 12 points in the first half, and by 10 at halftime. South Kitsap, using a four-guard lineup and a dribble-drive motion offense, hit six 3-pointers in the second half, 10 in the game - on 29 attempts. Bakalarski made five for the game, four in the first half as he had 14 points at intermission. Callaghan made two 3s and finished with 12 points - 10 in the second half.

South Kitsap led just once, briefly - at 48-47 early in the fourth quarter - prior to overtime.

"We just had to get out on them; pressure them a little harder," said Bakalarski, who added the key to the comeback was, "we played really good defense, and we were getting all the boards."

Lake City 19 15 13 13 7 - 67

South Kitsap 14 10 21 15 9 - 69

LAKE CITY - Adams 10, Pratt 18, Louie-McGee 0, Vetsch 2, Guice 25, Turner 0, Dahl 5, Winger 7, Mitchell 0, Hancock 0.

SOUTH KITSAP - Callaghan 12, Bakalarski 25, Knowles 5, Delgado 0, Wattree III 10, Wells 7, Bingham 8, Lewis 2.

Kentridge 40, Columbia River 36: Jawan Stepney scored 17 points and Keasean Kelly added 14 to lead Kentridge in the semifinal game.

Torey Jones scored 12 points, Nathan Hawthorne 11 for Columbia River.

KENTRIDGE - Stepney 17, Kelly 14, Adams 4, Ford 2, Wainhouse 2, Torlai 1.

COLUMBIA RIVER - Jones 12, Hawthorne 11, Vickers 2, Walker 2, Pedigo 9.

Lakeland 61, Vernon 40: Jay Plunkett scored 14 points and Hayden Nosworthy added 13 points - both varsity highs -for the Hawks, which beat the Panthers in a consolation game.

"I thought that we had a good defensive effort," Lakeland assistant coach Bill Ryan said. "We pushed the ball when we had the ball, we pushed it and got some good baskets out of that and a good contribution from Hayden and Jay."

Derek Bayley had eight rebounds and Tyrel Derrick had 10 points, six assists and four steals for Lakeland.

Vernon 11 11 13 5 - 40

Lakeland 16 17 16 12 - 61

VERNON - Gallant 9, Ross 9, Oddy 7, Pruckl 1, Jhajj 8, Dippenaar 6.

LAKELAND - Nosworthy 13, Ram 4, Derrick 10, Henry 4, Dingman 3, Bayley 6, Plunkett 14, Ray 7.

Wilsonville 52, Sandpoint 30: Freshman Zach Reichle scored 20 points, Sam Bullock 14 for the Wildcats in the consolation-round game.

Jeremiah Gagnon led Sandpoint with 10 points.

Sandpoint 2 10 8 10 - 30

Wilsonville 9 14 9 20 - 52

SANDPOINT - Timothy 0, Jurenka 1, Rodriguez 5, Spalding 4, Kuzmich 1, Schwartz 3, Edwards 2, Burgstahler 4, Breuner 0, Gagnon 10, Collado 0.

WILSONVILLE - Bullock 14, Ogles 0, Malvar 5, Hieb 4, Christensen 0, Fennell 1, McClellan 0, Steiger 0, Martin 2, Jordan 0, Reichle 20, McNulty 6.