COEUR d’ALENE — Sam Entzi hit a 3-pointer to break a tie early in the fourth quarter, and the Coeur d’Alene Vikings finished strong to knock off the Lewiston Bengals 57-46 in Inland Empire League play Tuesday night at Viking Court.

Cooper Larson scored 19 points for Coeur d’Alene (9-3, 3-1 IEL), hitting 7 of 8 free throws in the fourth quarter. Cameron Cope added 14 points, Alex Nipp nine for the Vikings.

“Our bigs played great,” Coeur d’Alene coach Jon Adams said. “Between Sam, Alex and Cam, that was 32 of our 57 points. They were physical against a big, physical team. And Sam and Alex were stepping out and knocking down 3s.

“We were without our point guard, Steven Burgess (medical condition), and I was super proud of my other guards, Cooper, Logan (Orchard), Tugg (Wellsandt) and Chandler (King).”

Chasse Eke and Braydon Forsman scored 10 points each for Lewiston (11-3, 1-2).

Coeur d’Alene plays host to Lake City on Friday in the Fight for the Fish spirit game.

Lewiston 10 15 10 11 — 46

Coeur d’Alene 13 9 15 20 — 57

LEWISTON — Eke 10, McKarcher 5, Way 5, Hepburn 3, A. Hottinger 6, Forsman 10, Wren 0, Lawrence 0, White 3, D. Hottinger 4.

COEUR d’ALENE — Entzi 9, King 0, C. Larson 19, Wellsandt 0, Nipp 9, Cope 14, Orchard 6, G. Larson 0.

Lake City 64

Post Falls 29

POST FALLS — Zach Johnson scored 15 points and the visiting Timberwolves overcame a slow start to beat the Trojans in IEL play at The Arena.

Blake Buchanan and Nathan Hocking added 12 points each for Lake City (14-0, 3-0 IEL), and Kolton Mitchell scored 10.

“I did not like the start,” Lake City coach Jim Winger said. “We came out very flat … we were ragged offensively. The second half was much better; we were much more energetic, and played harder.”

Christian VonBruck scored seven points for Post Falls (3-11, 0-3), which plays host to Lewiston on Friday.

Lake City plays at Coeur d’Alene on Friday in the Fight for the Fish spirit game.

Lake City 14 22 15 13 — 64

Post Falls 9 10 9 1 — 29

LAKE CITY — Buchanan 12, Strawn 3, Hill 0, Jones 2, Miller 3, Kiesbuy 5, Hocking 12, Z. Johnson 15, Weaver 0, K. Johnson 2, Mitchell 10, Lind 0.

POST FALLS — Sciortino 5, Naylor 0, Shields 2, McCarthy 3, VonBruck 7, Craig 4, Bowie 6, Blake 2, Butler 0, Cooper 0.

Lakeland 68

Kellogg 48

KELLOGG — Grant Roth hit three of his four 3-pointers in the first half, and scored 16 of his game-high 20 points in the first half as the Hawks beat the Wildcats at Andrews Gymnasium.

Nick Nowell hit two big 3-pointers in the fourth quarter for Lakeland (5-6), which made nine 3s in the game to one for Kellogg (6-7).

“That first quarter we got a little too disconnected from him (Roth), and he made us pay,” Kellogg coach Mike Martin said.

Scotty Hocking hit two 3s and added 14 points for Lakeland.

“We got in a little bit of foul trouble, but we handled it well. It was our most complete game of the season,” Lakeland coach Tony Hanna said.

Riply Luna had 15 points, KJ Walker 12 for Kellogg, which plays host to Timberlake on Friday.

“Two of our seniors, Luke Frohlich and KJ Walker, had their best games of the year,” Martin said.

Lakeland plays host to Sandpoint on Friday in the Battle for the Paddle spirit game.

Lakeland 24 14 14 16 — 68

Kellogg 13 12 12 11 — 48

LAKELAND — Nowell 8, Cameron 0, Rings 0, Henry 12, Munyer 9, Hocking 14, Roth 20, Haug 0, Loutzenhiser 4, Pearson 1, Anderson 0.

KELLOGG — Miller 0, Wahtcott 0, R. Luna 15, K. Luna 6, McLean 1, Groves 6, Maciosek 2, Frohlich 6, Walker 12, Hendrix 0, Bristow 0.

St. Maries 66

Timberlake 51

SPIRIT LAKE — The host Tigers were within five with 5 minutes to go, but the Lumberjacks scored on a couple of runouts, and then put the nonleague game away from the free-throw line.

Coleman Ross scored 16 points for St. Maries (9-2), and Tristan Gentry-Nelson added 11.

“I like the way we fought,” Timberlake coach Mike LaFountaine said. “It was a pretty intense game; we gave ourselves some chances.”

Raj Olivieri scored 16 points, Zach Yetter 15 for Timberlake (5-5), which plays host to Bonners Ferry tonight in an Intermountain League game.

“They outhustled us in the first half; I was pretty disappointed in our rebounding effort,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “In the fourth quarter we did a better job of playing tougher defense and rebounding.”

St. Maries is scheduled to play at Genesis Prep on Thursday.

St. Maries 13 15 20 18 — 66

Timberlake 10 16 17 8 — 51

ST. MARIES — Gentry-Nelson 11, Sands 8, Badgett 7, Ross 16, Wolfe 5, Elliott 4, T. Renner 4, C. Renner 9, Hill 2.

TIMBERLAKE — Olivieri 16, Tay. Menti 0, Vallieres 0, Paslay 7, Yetter 15, Millsap 0, Borges 2, Higgins 9, Tan. Menti 2, MacArthur 0.

Post Falls C 60

Mullan 54

MULLAN — Luke Trodgen scored 30 points for the Tigers in a loss to the Trojan C team at the Mullan Pavilion.

“Post Falls came out with great energy, hustle and ran their stuff to a tee,” Mullan coach Paul Elston said. “They looked very solid.”

Mullan (1-7) plays at Troy, Mont., on Thursday.

Post Falls C 21 13 16 10 — 60

Mullan 12 21 13 8 — 54

POST FALLS C — Brooks 0, Heath 2, Coppinger 8, Hudson 5, Reynolds 4, Sullivan 24, Taus 4, Haakingson 4, Cansino 0, Lewis 3, Guzman 6.

MULLAN — L. Trogden 30, F. Nelson 13, A. Zingler 10, A. Trogden 1, S. Petit 0, T. Zingler 0, L. Petit 0, Rupp-Connors 0.

Kootenai Thunder 46

Chr. Center 35

KOOTENAI — Devon Hansen had 10 points and four assists for the visiting Lions in the loss to the Thunder in Mountain Christian League play at Kootenai Elementary.

Colton Smith had five rebounds, Cade McWhorter four assists and three rebounds for Christian Center School (4-8 MCL).

Zeke Roop scored a game-high 14 points for Kootenai Thunder.

Christian Center plays Pullman Christian on Friday at The Courts at Real Life in Post Falls.

Chr. Center 8 6 10 11 — 35

Kootenai 19 8 8 11 — 46

CHRISTIAN CENTER — Smith 5, Hansen 10, Badgley 8, Hamblin 6, Barnhart 0, Stark 0, McWhorter 6, Secrest 0.

KOOTENAI THUNDER — Roop 14, Smith 9, Duchow 6, Koch 11, P. Beck 2, Barker 2, J. Beck 0, Hill 0, Palmer 0, Samuels 0, Moore 0.