PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Timberlake shoots past Lakeland

RATHDRUM — In a rivalry game, it came down to those extra shots at Hawk Court.

Hunter Higgins hit three 3-pointers to finish with 18 points, Ayson McLuskie had three 3-pointers for 15 as visiting Timberlake held off Lakeland 67-61 in a nonleague game on Tuesday.

“They did a good job of attacking the rim and knocking shots down,” said Lakeland coach Tony Hanna, whose team went 4 of 9 from the free-throw line, compared to 19 of 28 for Timberlake. “Our defensive rotations weren’t great and they just kept attacking and getting to the line.”

Raj Olivieri scored 11 of his 13 points in the first half for Timberlake (4-9), which faces Genesis Prep on Thursday at The Courts in Post Falls.

Ben Ryan scored a season-high 18 points for Lakeland (2-9), which travels to Kellogg next Tuesday.

“Ben had a really good game tonight,” Hanna said. “We started to get the ball inside and crashed the boards on the offensive end.”

Timberlake 20 18 15 14 — 67

Lakeland 9 23 9 20 — 61

TIMBERLAKE — Olivieri 13, McLuskie 15, Yetter 1, Vallieres 10, H. Higgins 18, V. Higgins 3, MacArthur 7.

LAKELAND — Nowell 6, Cameron 7, Ferguson 6, Ryan 18, Tebbe 0, Rothrock 0, Loutzenhiser 4, Hocking 15, Anderson 3, Harris 0, Locke 2.

Mullan 49

Kootenai 21

HARRISON FLATS — Floyd Nelson hit seven 3-pointers and scored 31 points as the visiting Tigers ran away from the Warriors in nonleague play.

Nelson hit three 3s in the second quarter as Mullan broke from a 9-all tie after one quarter to lead 25-12 at halftime.

“We were tied in the first quarter, and in the second quarter he knocked down some of those 3s, and we weren’t able to catch up,” Kootenai coach Jake Pfeiffer said.

Alex Trogden added 12 points for Mullan (4-5), which travels to St. Regis on Thursday.

Kootenai (0-4) plays at Wallace tonight at 6.

Mullan 9 16 8 16 — 49

Kootenai 9 3 2 7 — 21

MULLAN — Nelson 31, Trogden 12, S. Petit 5, Rupp Connors 1, L. Petit 0, Knoll 0, Acheson 0, Imes 0, Ayers 0.

KOOTENAI — C. Moore 11, Osman 6, Tiller 4, Hodges 0, Addington 0, Myers 0, J. Moore 0.

Post Falls JV 66

Wallace 38

WALLACE — Troy Nash scored 14 points for the Trojans JV in a win over the Miners at Kirby Krulitz Court.

Jaxon Lysne scored 13 points, Cole Coppinger 11 for Post Falls JV, which faces Lewiston on Thursday at Sacajawea Middle School.

Brad Tesky scored 13 points for Wallace (2-5), which hosts Kootenai tonight at 6.

Post Falls JV 16 16 21 13 — 66

Wallace 5 7 12 14 — 38

POST FALLS JV — Ulrich 3, Coppinger 11, Ries 4, Lysne 13, Naylor 0, Nash 14, Cameron 7, Campbell 2, Oslund 8, Reynolds 2, Hudson 1.

WALLACE — Tesky 13, Davis 0, Ritchey 3, Davis 4, Morden 0, Schmidt 2, Hasz 11, Cleveland 4.

Priest River 59

N.I. Christian 55

PRIEST RIVER — Jace Yount scored 17 points for the Spartans in a nonleague win over the Royals.

Zach Engelson scored 12 points for Priest River (4-5), which hosts Newport on Thursday.

Larry Fendich scored 15 points for North Idaho Christian (9-8), which faces Kootenai Thunder at the HUB Sports Center in Liberty Lake on Thursday.

N.I. Christian 7 14 12 22 — 55

Priest River 14 15 13 17 — 59

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Fendich 15, Barnett 1, Hunter 6, Smith 10, Ca. Malinauskas 14, Antone 9, Scott 0, Co. Malinauskas 0, Winde 0, Sullivan 0, Ellis 0.

PRIEST RIVER — Matthews 3, Butler 8, Staudt 6, Marinello 4, T. Engelson 9, Korff 0, Z. Engelson 12, Kreager 0, Cook 0, Soloman 0, Yount 17.