PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Salaiz secures North Idaho Christian win on senior night

POST FALLS — Senior Madison Salaiz made two free throws with seven seconds remaining to lift North Idaho Christian past Kootenai Thunder 33-31 in a Mountain Christian League game at The Courts at Real Life on Thursday. 

Salaiz had nine points, eight rebounds, five assists and five steals for North Idaho Christian (10-10, 8-3 MCL), which finished second in the league. 

Junior Belle Jordan had 14 points and 11 rebounds and senior Sydney Ellis 10 rebounds, six steals and three blocked shots for North Idaho Christian, which faces Spokane Classical Christian School next Thursday in an opening round game in the Mountain Christian League Tournament at The Oaks in Spokane Valley. 

Mazie Miles scored nine points for Kootenai Thunder. 

Kootenai Thunder    4    9    6    12    —    31 

N.I. Christian        11    4    7    11    —    33 

KOOTENAI THUNDER — J. Barnhart 4, Hill 0, Hammond 2, Miles 9, Ball 6, Darrow 2, S. Barnhart 8, Hoefling 0. 

NORTH IDAHO CHRISTIAN — Ellis 5, Salaiz 9, Collins 3, Owens 0, Jordan 14, Smith 2. 

Lapwai 69 

Lakeside 37 

PLUMMER — The Wildcats, ranked fourth in the state 2A classification by MaxPreps.com, held the Knights scoreless in the first quarter of a nonleague game at Ron Miller Court. 

Senior Kyleigh Wolfe scored 19 points for Lakeside (9-11), which is currently ranked 10th. 

Following state-qualifying tournaments, MaxPreps.com is used to seed the state tournament, starting Feb. 19 at Columbia High in Nampa. 

Lakeside hosts Clark Fork to conclude the regular season on Saturday. 

Senior Madden Bisbee scored 27 points for Lapwai (17-1). 

Lapwai        20    15    11    23    —    69 

Lakeside    0    17    15    5    —    37 

LAPWAI — A. Yearout 4, Payne 4, Samuels 0, Picard 18, Wheeler 0, Oatman 12, WhiteTemple 0, T. Yearout 4, Bisbee 27. 

LAKESIDE — Gorr 0, Pluff 4, Wolfe 19, SiJohn 9, Hodgson 0, Stensgar 0, Peone 2, Leo 3, Ortivez 0, Lambert 0, Samuels-Brown 0, Abrahamson 0, Thompson 0. 

Priest River 45

St. Maries 31

ST. MARIES — The Lumberjacks (0-14, 0-8 Central Idaho League) fell to the Spartans (7-7, 2-5) in a conference game at St. Maries High.

Further information was not available.

St. Maries is scheduled to host Kootenai next Thursday.

Clark Fork 35 

Kootenai 30 

CLARK FORK — Sophomore Brooklyn Charles had 10 points, 11 rebounds and three steals for the Warriors, who fell to the Wampus Cats in a nonleague game at Clark Fork High. 

Freshman Juniper Stevenson had eight points, four rebounds and two steals for Kootenai (5-7), which hosts Mullan in a North Star League game on Tuesday. 

Freshman Vanessa Rogier scored eight of her 15 points in the second half for Clark Fork (5-10), which travels to Lakeside on Saturday. 

Kootenai    9    8    6    7    —    30 

Clark Fork    7    4    11    13    —    35 

KOOTENAI — J. Stevenson 8, Loucks 0, H. Charles 3, H. Stevenson 2, S. Davidson 0, B. Charles 10, D. Davidson 6, Dutton 0. 

CLARK FORK — Petersen 5, Anderson 12, Raynor 0, Stevens 0, Rogier 15, Scarlett 3, Mayorga 0. 

Mullan 43 

Kootenai Classical JV 18 

MULLAN — Freshman Laycie Morris scored 26 points for the Tigers in a win over the Kodiaks JV of Post Falls at the Mullan Pavilion. 

Mullan (3-6) travels to Kootenai for a North Star League game on Tuesday. 

Lizzie Smith scored eight points for Kootenai Classical. 

Kootenai Class.    3    0    10    5    —    18 

Mullan        14    8    15    6    —    43 

KOOTENAI CLASSICAL — Touraille 2, Williams 5, Sowada 0, Ramirez 3, Smith 8, Kolobow 0. 

MULLAN — Crandall 0, Tirabasso 1, Morris 26, Ullrich 0, Kostelich 10, Elliott 6.