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Pocatello bounces back against previously unbeaten Teton in Holiday Shootout – East Idaho News
REXBURG – The East Idaho Holiday Tournament has taken over the area as 118 boys and girls basketball teams converge for some spirited competition to start the new year.
Perhaps no game was as intriguing – at least on the girls side – as Friday’s matchup between Pocatello and Teton.
Both teams have state tournament aspirations and have sprinted out to solid starts this season with the Thunder ranked No. 1 in 5A and the Timberwolves No. 3 in 4A.
That was enough to earn EastIdahoNews.com Game of the Week.
As for the game itself, the significance of the final result depends on who you ask.
“Today I really liked us,” Pocatello coach Sunny Evans said after the Thunder rolled to a 61-24 victory. “Yesterday we weren’t as successful doing the things we wanted to do … I was really proud of their response today. They made a decision to bounce back and they really did get all aspects of the game going.”
Pocatello suffered its first loss of the season on Thursday, falling 65-52 to Westlake (UT) in the tournament opener.
The Thunder (11-1) didn’t waste much time on Friday as their full-court pressure set the tone early and Teton (10-1) couldn’t hit its shots. The Timberwolves trailed 17-6 after one quarter and had no answers for Poky’s Kennasyn Garza inside or Abby Lusk from anywhere. Lusk finished with a game-high 18 points.
Lusk connected on a pair of 3-pointers late in the quarter to force a Teton timeout, but the Timberwolves never recovered. They trailed 35-14 at the half.
“We didn’t show out like we wanted to,” Teton coach Pat Hogan said. “We could have made it a game and controlled the ball a little better.”
Hogan noted that Teton hadn’t seen the level of play they faced Friday, so despite the score, the net result might be a positive.
“We’ve been able to get by with athleticism, but not doing the little things, against a good team like Pocatello you got to do the little things,” he said.
The loss was the first for Teton, but the Timberwolves’ season will ultimately come down to conference play, where South Fremont (11-0) and Sugar-Salem (11-0) each entered the day unbeaten, meaning the Mountain Rivers Conference was a combined 32-1 after Teton’s loss and all three teams are ranked in the latest 4A state medial poll.
As for Pocatello, Evans said she was happy to see how the team responded after a loss.
“We got some good inside-out, knocked down some 3’s, and got some inside stuff from Kenna and Abby. Guard play was good and good defense … I like my team.”
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BLACKFOOT — A large contingent of Blackfoot Police officers has cordoned off an area near the Taco Bell on Parkway Drive in Blackfoot.
Police responded around 5 p.m., according to multiple witnesses who contacted EastIdahoNews.com.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — An Idaho Falls angler is back in the Idaho record books after landing a record-setting lake trout at Payette Lake.
Idaho Fish and Game said Dylan Smith caught and released a 43.25-inch lake trout on May 2, setting a new state catch-and-release record for the species. The fish surpassed the previous record of 42 inches.
The catch marks Smith’s second appearance in Idaho’s record books. He previously held the state catch-and-release lake trout record after landing a trophy fish in 2018 before that mark was later broken.
According to Fish and Game, Payette Lake has become one of Idaho’s premier lake trout fisheries thanks to years of management efforts aimed at improving both lake trout and kokanee populations.
Pride Month looks different this June along Boise’s Harrison Boulevard, where a long-standing tradition of hanging Pride flags on lamp posts has been put on hold after a new state law restricted which flags can be flown on government property.
For several years, Pride flags lined lamp posts along Harrison Boulevard in Boise’s North End neighborhood. But Idaho House Bill 561, signed by Gov. Brad Little in March, restricts which flags can be flown on government property, including the City of Boise’s Harrison lamp posts.
In response, a group of neighbors formed Pride North End and launched a distribution effort to help residents show support from their own front yards. The group has been making Pride flags and yard signs available to people who want to display them at home.
“I thought that I would…be a personal example of ‘yes, this is what I do.’ This is what I believe in,” said Edna Schochat, a North End resident.
Pride North End has already distributed more than 900-yard signs and 250 flags. The group’s original donation goal was around $2,000 to order 100 flags and 200 yard signs, but it has exceeded that GoFundMe goal, reaching $10,000 worth of donations.
The group plans to continue holding public flag and sign distributions through the end of the month.
“We cannot just say something without doing something that proves that we mean what we say,” Schochat said.
Pride North End said any leftover funds after materials are distributed will go to local LGBTQ+ nonprofits. A link to the group’s GoFundMe can be found here.
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