POST FALLS — Six days after enjoying a 77-point scoring outburst, the Post Falls Trojans showed they could win a slugfest as well, scoring 30 fewer points.

Alex Horning scored 16 points and Post Falls clinched a tie for the 5A Inland Empire League title with a bruising 47-30 victory over the Coeur d’Alene Vikings on senior night Thursday at The Arena.

“We were 1 for 14 from the 3-point line, but we were 78 percent inside,” Horning said. “I think that shows how our game went.”

Caden McLean sank his team’s only trey, and finished with 12 points for Post Falls (17-3, 4-1 5A IEL). Colby Gennett, one of two seniors honored before the game, added 10 points, six rebounds and two steals. After coming up with a steal with just over a minute to go, he passed ahead to Horning, who tossed the ball off the backboard to Gennett, who capped his night with a two-hand slammer.

Horning, a 6-foot-5 wing, scored 10 of his points in the third quarter, and all six of his baskets came inside as he was aggressive taking it to the basket.

“Let’s just say I played a little slow against him,” Horning said, referring to Cameren Cope, Coeur d’Alene’s 6-4 sophomore with hops. “I told myself I’ve got to step up tonight.”

“We have so many different talented players,” said Post Falls coach Mike McLean, who coached the game from a motorized wheelchair behind the bench, after suffering a variety of ankle and foot injuries last Sunday in a mishap on his farm. “Early in the game I thought it was obvious they were going to get out into Caden and Colby’s face. That’s OK; if you want to play one-on-one against Alex on the block with no help, we’ll take that game all day. If teams want to cheat and take away certain players on our team, we’re not a one-guy show.”

Devon Johnson and Luke McLaughlin scored seven points each for Coeur d’Alene (6-11, 1-4), which shot 7 of 35 from the field. Post Falls, despite its lack of success from deep, finished 19 of 39 from the floor.

“It’s never a lack of effort with our guys,” Coeur d’Alene coach Tony Hanna said. “We’ve just got to figure out how to put the ball in the hoop. I didn’t think our offense had any rhythm to it.”

Post Falls led 18-10 at halftime of a game where the teams combined to shoot 12 of 38 from the floor.

Coeur d’Alene had some success posting up against the Trojans’ guards, but that was about it for the Vikings, who kept the game as close as they could with their defense.

“Coeur d’Alene’s a high school basketball team full of football players,” Mike McLean said. “They try to make the game physical, and they grab and they hold and they bump ... that’s what they have to do. That’s as good a rebounding team that we’ve played against in a long time. They rebounded phenomenal.”

Mike McLean, meanwhile, watched from his wheelchair with his right leg elevated, with Mike McKeown, a Trojans assistant football coach who also coaches one of the Post Falls Rebels AAU boys basketball teams, serving as a bodyguard of sorts.

Rob McCarthy, McLean’s varsity assistant, and Brian Carlson, the Trojans’ junior varsity coach, handled most of the in-game coaching.

“It was really frustrating, not being more a part of the game,” McLean said. “It’s a new perspective, as far as coaching the game from where I did. I had no worries about Brian and Rob.” Every day in practice I spend 30-45 minutes coaching the JV guys, and Brian and Rob coach these guys. That something that I start to incorporate into my practices, typically in the middle of January, just to give our guys a different voice in practice more.”

“It was weird,” Horning said, “because they’re the stat people, telling you what to run, and McLean’s the one yelling. I didn’t see any veins pop out of McLean’s head tonight.”

Coeur d’Alene plays host to Sandpoint on Tuesday.

Post Falls wraps up the regular season next Friday at Lake City in 5A IEL play.

Coeur d’Alene 6 4 9 11 — 30

Post Falls 13 5 14 15 — 47

COEUR d’ALENE — Whittaker 5, Bengtson 1, C. Smith 0, Johnson 7, Larson 3, Karns 5, Cope 2, O. Smith 0, Prka 0, McLaughlin 7.

POST FALLS — Gennett 10, McLean 12, Wubbolding 2, Rodriguez 2, Peterson 2, Rutherford 3, Ballew 2, Lee 0, Horning 16, Shields 0.