CLARK FORK — Clark Fork girls basketball was unable to keep up with Wallace on Thursday night, falling 46-32.

The loss drops the Lady Cats to 1-4 in North Star League play.

“It just was not our night and it showed,” head coach Jordan Adams wrote in a text. “Wallace came out with a pretty strong defense, nothing we haven’t encountered in the past, but we’ve got Ellie [Kiebert] who is sick and down and she’s obviously a key component to our offense. The thing about girls basketball is if one of them is down either everybody goes down with her, or everybody else brings that one up. Today the morale was just not there. And I also can’t stress this enough — we are a young team. Learning to work through that will come.”

Clark Fork trailed 14-12 after the first quarter, but then Wallace outscored them 9-3 in the second to gain a firm grasp on the game that they never let go of.

Katelyn Matteson led the team with 13 points while Sara Hathaway added 7 and Caiya Yanik tallied 6.

The Lady Cats (6-10, 1-4 NSL) host Kootenai at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Wallace 14 9 9 14 — 46

Clark Fork 12 3 9 8 — 32

WALLACE — Morrin 6, Merrick 1, Johnson 6, House 13, Welch 0, Hill 4, Clelke 11, Hunter 3, Bergem 2.

CLARK FORK — Matteson 13, Valliere 0, Myers 2, Yanik 6, Hathaway 7, Kiebert 4.