SANDPOINT — Sandpoint evened the score with Lakeland on Saturday.

Junior Daylee Driggs scored a career high 23 points, and the Bulldogs recovered from a rough opening quarter to down the Hawks 48-37 at Les Rogers Court and split the regular season series between the two Inland Empire League foes.

The victory also puts Sandpoint (9-7, 2-4 IEL) in the driver's seat to grab the No. 1 seed to the 4A Region 1 tournament.

The Bulldogs head to Moscow at 7 p.m. Tuesday for the first of two games against the Bears this coming week to wrap up the regular season.

Kenna Simon and Addie Kiefer scored eight points each for Lakeland (7-8), which finished the season with a 2-6 IEL record. Moscow sits at 1-5 in league. SHS needs just one win over the Bears to secure the top seed to regionals.

Sandpoint holds the tiebreaker over Lakeland based on point differential in their head-to-head meetings. Moscow, which split with Lakeland in league play, also holds the tiebreaker over the Hawks.

On Jan. 21, Lakeland handed SHS a 40-34 defeat in the Battle for the Paddle in Rathdrum. Shooting was a glaring issue for the Bulldogs in that loss, but on Saturday it powered the Bulldogs past their rival. Sandpoint hit seven 3-pointers.

"The girls did a good job of moving the basketball and finding the open shooter," Sandpoint coach Will Love said.

However, the win was by no means easy for the Bulldogs. The Hawks came out and threw the first punch, jumping out to a 18-9 lead in the first quarter.

"We were a little sluggish to start," Love said. "Lakeland came out and they did some things we weren't expecting, mainly they went to a man defense to start off with ... We had worked on playing against a zone [defense] throughout the week, so it took us a little while to kind of adjust to that."

But the Bulldogs took that punch from Lakeland straight to the chin and came right back at them. Driggs hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to end the first quarter to spark a Sandpoint comeback.

"That kind of got us going," Love said.

The Bulldogs held Lakeland to just 19 points over the final three quarters.

"The girls really turned up the defense," Love said.

Driggs also guarded two of Lakeland's best players most of the game and put the clamps on both of them, Love said.

"Just watching Daylee work tonight was something else," he said.

Tru Tomco, one of three seniors honored on senior night, scored 12 points on four 3-pointers for the Bulldogs.

Lakeland 18 4 3 12 — 37

Sandpoint 12 11 11 14 — 48

LAKELAND — Terzulli 2, Sterling 3, L. Kiefer 7, Knowles 0, K. Simon 8, A. Kiefer 8, Munyer 6, L. Simon 3.

SANDPOINT — Cessna 3, De. Driggs 0, Da. Driggs 23, Tomco 12, Richardson 0, Owens 0, Strock 6, Lyons 2, Platte 2.

Grangeville 73

St. Maries 26

ST. MARIES — The host Lumberjacks were shut out in the first quarter of the Central Idaho League game by the Bulldogs, ranked No. 2 in 2A by the state’s media.

Tayla Janssen scored eight points for St. Maries (0-13, 0-3 CIL), which committed 30-plus turnovers. Stacie Mitchell added six points and eight boards for the Lumberjacks, who fell 65-11 at Grangeville two weeks ago.

“The first quarter was just brutal, but I thought we did better against their press (than in the first meeting),” St. Maries coach Gary Krumheuer said. “Then we’d turn it over after we broke the press.

“They killed us on the boards. We played good initial defense, but then they’d get second, third and fourth shots.”

Camden Barger and Bailey Vanderwall scored 14 points each for Grangeville (16-3, 3-0), and Macy Smith added 13.

St. Maries travels to Priest River on Tuesday.

Grangeville 22 22 15 14 — 73

St. Maries 0 9 10 7 — 26

GRANGEVILLE — Barger 14, Anderson 1, Frei 1, Smith 13, Brown 6, Dame 0, C. Green 8, Thacker 7, Lefebvre 7, M. Green 2, Vanderwall 14.

ST. MARIES — Sexton 1, Elliott 1, Spray 3, McGreal 0, Janssen 8, Rimel 0, Baird 0, Watkins 6, Mitchell 6, Asbury 0, Sloper 0, Linnemeyer 1.