LEWISTON — A subpar effort for most of the night ended up costing the Lake City Timberwolves in a 48-47 loss to the Lewiston Bengals in 5A Inland Empire League play Tuesday night at Booth Hall.

James Carlson scored a game-high 23 points for Lake City (9-8, 1-3 5A IEL), which stepped it up in the final four minutes and had a shot to win it at the buzzer.

“We did not play well for 28 minutes; very disappointing,” Lake City coach Jim Winger said. “We shot 12 for 21 from the free-throw line, and missed a ton of layups. Considering what we needed to accomplish, we did not play well for 28 minutes.”

Kyle VanBoeyen scored 18 points for Lewiston (8-10, 1-3), which lost by 18 points at Lake City in early January.

Hunter Schaffer added 11 points for Lake City, which plays at Coeur d’Alene on Thursday.

Lake City 10 13 7 17 — 47

Lewiston 12 13 11 12 — 48

LAKE CITY — Schaffer 11, McCartin 8, Kolden 0, Carlson 23, Manzardo 2, Kiesbuy 3, Sensel 0, Pollow 0.

LEWISTON — Wallace 2, Ruddell 9, Santana 11, Bradley 4, Forsman 4, VanBoeyen 18, Spencer 0, Chapman 0.

Post Falls 72

Lakeland 56

RATHDRUM — Tanner McCliment-Call hit 6 of 8 3-pointers and finished with 20 points for the visiting Trojans, who fended off the Hawks in nonleague play at Hawk Court.

Jake Pfennigs scored 21 points for Post Falls (14-5).

Dylan Vahey scored 12 points for Lakeland (10-6), which pulled within five points early in the third quarter, and missed a shot that would have made it a one-possession game. Post Falls came down and hit a 3, and began to pull away.

“Every time we came close, they put a little spurt on,” Lakeland coach Bill Ryan said. “McCliment-Call and Pfennigs hit big shots when they needed them.”

Post Falls made 13 of 23 3-pointers. Pfennigs made 3 of 5 3s, and Colby Gennett made two en route to 13 points.

“Our effort from our kids was really good,” Ryan said. “We’re playing better basketball than we were a week or two ago.”

Post Falls plays host to Lewiston on Thursday in 5A Inland Empire League play.

Lakeland is idle until visiting Timberlake on Feb. 10.

Post Falls 15 20 24 13 — 72

Lakeland 8 21 13 14 — 56

POST FALLS — Gennett 13, Buer 4, McCliment-Call 20, Walker 8, Bourgard 0, Fleming 3, Ballew 0, Pfennigs 21, Morris 3.

LAKELAND — Taylor 2, Zubaly 7, Johnson 6, Knight 4, Vahey 12, Davis 8, Skalskiy 7, Neilson 8, Haaland 2.

St. Maries 53

Sandpoint 52 (OT)

ST. MARIES — Dan Howard had 19 points and 16 rebounds for the Lumberjacks, who jumped out to a 5-0 lead in overtime and held on to beat the Bulldogs in a nonleague game.

Sandpoint (6-11) had a chance to force a second overtime, but missed a free throw with one second remaining.

“It wasn’t pretty, but we found a way to win tonight,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said.

Tyler Lohman scored eight of his 11 points in the fourth quarter for St. Maries (13-3), which travels to Kellogg on Friday.

Alex Stockton scored 12 points for Sandpoint, which hosts Moscow on Thursday.

Sandpoint 8 7 19 14 4 — 52

St. Maries 11 9 7 21 5 — 53

SANDPOINT — Dalthorp 6, Davis 15, Jones 6, Johnson 12, Van Den Berg 0, Casey 0, Stockton 13.

ST. MARIES — Gibson 5, Duffield 0, Green 0, Lohman 11, Sands 7, Pritchard 9, Buell 2, Howard 19.

Wallace 72

Kootenai 23

WALLACE — Erik Brackebusch scored 19 points to lead the Miners past the Warriors in a North Star League game at Kirby Krulitz Court.

Triston Usdrowski scored seven points for Kootenai (0-14, 0-7 NSL), which travels to Mullan on Thursday.

Matt Farkas scored 18 points for Wallace (10-5, 5-1), which hosts Genesis Prep on Friday.

Kootenai 9 6 5 3 — 23

Wallace 17 22 24 9 — 72

KOOTENAI — Whipple 4, J. Usdrowski 0, Maitland 5, Vawter 1, Munson 2, T. Usdrowski 7, Ausman 4.

WALLACE — Hunter 4, Farkas 18, Brackebusch 19, Dimitroff 5, Bailey 11, Hull 1, Brantz 2, Stutzke 11, Neubauer 1.

Genesis Prep 70

Lakeside 31

PLUMMER — No other information was available.