POST FALLS — Senior Tyras Blake hit a 3-pointer with 2:50 remaining to stretch the Post Falls advantage to 59-55, then fellow senior Trenton McLean closed out the game with a pair of free throws with 3.4 seconds remaining as the Trojans beat the visiting Lake City Timberwolves 61-56 in an Inland Empire League game on Tuesday at The Arena. 

Post Falls (12-5, 4-0 IEL) won 67-63 at Coeur d’Alene on Jan. 7. Lake City (12-4, 3-1) defeated the Vikings in the Fight for the Fish spirit game last Friday. 

“I was super proud of our guys to be able to prepare for a team like Lake City,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said. “They can score in several different ways, and they’ve got posts that can score and always have constant movement. They’ve got a really challenging style and I couldn’t be prouder of how the guys executed.”

Junior Jaxon Lysne scored 17 points for Post Falls, which led 35-30 at halftime. 

“(Post Falls assistant coach) Brian Carlson handles our defense and he did a great job of getting our guys prepared,” Mike McLean said. “Coach (Jayson) Ulrich did a great job of getting them in the right positions and getting them ready to play in that environment. Lake City’s a really good team.” 

Junior Connor Carver scored 17, Blake had 11 points and Trenton McLean 10 points for Post Falls, which hosts Coeur d’Alene on Jan. 25. 

Senior Reese Strawn scored 19 points, sophomore Jordan Carlson 13 points for Lake City, which hosts Coeur d’Alene on Jan. 23. 

Lake City    18    12    21    5    —    56 

Post Falls    19    16    17    9    —    61 

LAKE CITY — Parker 5, Winey 1, Strawn 19, Miller 4, Watson 7, Kloos 0, Bowman 7, Pearson 0, Carlson 13. 

POST FALLS — Ostlund 2, McLean 10, Lysne 17, Cameron 0, Bodman 2, Carver 17, Blake 11, McKeown 2, Dean 0. 

Lakeland 91 

Flathead 90 (3OT) 

BONNERS FERRY — Senior Gabe Harris totaled 31 points and nine rebounds and the Hawks outlasted the Braves from Kalispell, Mont., in a meet-you-halfway game at Bonners Ferry High. 

Peyton Hillman added 22 points and eight rebounds for Lakeland (7-5), which has won five straight games. Brayden Carrel had his third straight double-double with 16 points and 11 boards, and Mason Hensley 14 points, five assists and five rebounds for the Hawks, who play at Sandpoint on Friday in the Battle for the Paddle spirit game. 

“I’m happy with how our guys fought and found a way to win at the end,” Lakeland coach Caleb De Fabiis said. “But if we continue to turn the ball over like we did tonight, we won’t be making too much noise in February and March. We are at the halfway mark of the season, and we need to start correcting some of the same mistakes we’ve been making.” 

Lyric Ersland scored 34 points, Korbin Eaton 22, Dustyn Franchini-White 16 for Flathead (2-5).  

Flathead     11    14    20    19    8    8    10    —    90 

Lakeland     19    10    18    17    8    8    11   —    91 

FLATHEAD —Franchini-White 16, Wells 0, Ersland 34, St. Germain 2, Coopman 0, Case 0, Sonju 6, Zahn 8, Smith 2, Eaton 22. 

LAKELAND — Hensley 14, Yager 2, Hillman 22, Harris 31, Carrel 16, Varner 0, Larcher 0, Roth 0, Weil 0, Cook 6. 

Timberlake at

Kellogg, ppd.

KELLOGG — The nonleague game was postponed due to a flu outbreak within the visiting Tiger program according to Kellogg school officials.

No makeup date was announced.

Sandpoint 58 

St. Maries 38 

ST. MARIES — Junior Isaiah Gustaffe had nine points, five rebounds and three assists for the Lumberjacks, who shot 15 of 50 in a nonleague loss to the Bulldogs at St. Maries High. 

“We didn’t shoot the ball really well tonight,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “We did a good job of getting out on their shooters in the first half and containing the rebounds, but it got away from us in the second half.” 

Emerik Jones scored 12 of his game-high 21 points in the third quarter for Sandpoint (4-7), which hosts Lakeland in the Battle for the Paddle spirit game on Friday at Les Rogers Court. 

Junior Jack Barta had six points and five rebounds, junior JJ Yearout nine points for St. Maries (5-5), which travels to Kellogg on Friday. 

Sandpoint    12    11    21    14    —    58 

St. Maries    11    8    13    6    —    38 

SANDPOINT — Gilman 0, Williams 3, Iverson 3, Yarbrough 15, Gion 2, Corbett 13, Leisy 1, Jones 21, Wolff 0. 

ST. MARIES — Harold 3, Sexton 2, J. Barta 5, Yearout 9, Gustaffe 9, B. Barta 2, L. Riberich 6, Speakman 0, T. Riberich 2. 

    JASON ELLIOTT/Press Lake City junior Jackson Bowman jumps to block the shot of Post Falls senior Cobe Cameron during the first quarter of Tuesday's Inland Empire League game at The Arena.