COEUR d’ALENE — The dilemma with teams trying to defend the Post Falls High boys basketball team — what do you focus on?

Pack in the defense, and the Trojans can kill you from the outside.

Extend, and Post Falls can drive past defenders and score.

Lake City tried a little bit of everything Tuesday night, but Post Falls had an answer each time.

Colby Gennett scored 16 of his 18 points in the first half, and Tanner McCliment-Call scored 10 of his 17 in the first half as the Trojans eased to a 69-49 victory in 5A Inland Empire League play.

“We’ve faced teams that tried to do different things,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said. “Sometimes teams try to take things away from J.P. (Jake Pfennigs). Both of them did a very good job of taking what was given to them. I don’t think they forced any shots ... those guys were shooting good shots.”

Gennett, a freshman, scored 14 points in the first quarter for Post Falls (12-2, 4-0 5A IEL). He hit 5 of 7 from the field, including 2 of 3 from 3-point range. McCliment-Call scored seven of his points in the first quarter.

Kenny Louie-McGee hit five 3-pointers and finished with 17 points for Lake City (12-5, 1-4), which lost 75-51 at Post Falls on Jan. 20.

Lake City tried zone and man defenses, but the rematch wasn’t much different.

“We have a tough time guarding them,” Lake City coach Jim Winger said. “We tried a variety of things, and they pose quite a quandary for you. If you really want to sag in and overemphasize the help, they’re kicking it out to 3-point shooters that are shooting unbelievable percentages against us. And if you stick and hang out on the shooters out on the 3-point line, they’re so athletic with the ball, if they get by you, it’s a layup.

Post Falls made 9 of 15 shots in the first quarter, an entertaining one which ended with the Trojans up 25-17 after Kodie Kolden’s running 3-pointer for Lake City from between the circles at the buzzer.

Post Falls made 14 of 26 from the field in the first half, and finished 24 of 56 with 10 3-pointers by five different players. McCliment-Call hit three 3s, Gennett, David Bourgard and Jake Pfennigs two each, and David Fleming one.

Pfennigs, Post Falls’ top scorer who missed the Trojans’ last game with an ankle injury, had 10 points, nine rebounds and two assists.

Nine of the 10 Trojans scored, and the five reserves played effective minutes together at the start of the second and fourth quarters.

“I thought Lake City did an outstanding job of playing every defense you could play on us,” McLean said. “We saw a couple different kinds of zone, different versions of man, and our kids were able to recognize and try to excute against each specific defense, the way we would like to.”

Nine of Lake City’s 19 baskets came from behind the arc.

“We wanted to control the tempo better, but they got the ball so fast up the floor, we couldn’t even get into our tempo stuff,” Winger said. “They’re a tough matchup for us. I thought the kids played hard and scrambled around ... I thought our zone worked pretty good for a while. But with a zone, at one point or another, you’re going to be extended and somebody’s going to get a look, and every time we got extended on one side, and they reversed the ball, they nailed it every time. Hat’s off to them again; they’re playing really, really well.”

Post Falls travels to Sandpoint on Thursday. Lake City is home vs. Lewiston on Saturday.

Post Falls 25 14 19 11 — 69

Lake City 17 10 15 7 — 49

POST FALLS — Gennett 18, Thompson 0, McKeown 0, McCliment-Call 17, Walker 4, Bourgard 8, Fleming 6, Ballew 2, Pfennigs 10, Morris 2.

LAKE CITY — Louie-McGee 17, Kolden 7, Womelduff 2, Butler 10, McCartin 0, Manzardo 2, Carlson 8, Schaffer 3, Street 0, Pollow 0.