The paddle came back home with the Hawks for the sixth year in a row.
Battle for the Paddle is a tradition for Lakeland and Sandpoint High School, where they compete in sports and games to see who wins the paddle.
The Lakeland girls basketball took the game 49-41.
“You just have to tune out the noise and make it feel like any other game,” Macy Bretveld said. “I could have performed better. It was a nerve-wracking game. It feels like a great win supporting our school in an all-or-nothing versus our rivals.”
The Wrestling team continues to dominate the mat against the Sandpoint Wrestlers beating them 50-29.
Jaren Knopp at 126, Austin Howell at 150, and Kaleb Hammer at 157, all won by a technical fall against the Bulldogs.
“I knew I was gonna beat my kid,” Howell said, “It was just another match. I did not pin the kid so I was a little disappointed, I fell a point short of the maximum amount of points I could give the team.”
Cole Cooper continues to keep proving why he ranked pinning William Gish in 1:00. Thayer Sabatke went out there for his last year and took a major decision over Daniel Holman 18-5.
The boys’ basketball team lost 51-49 with a questionable buzzer-beater call.
“We could have played our game and not get caught up in the crowd,” Mason Hensley said, “We control what we had to control, we can not leave it up to the refs. We have to play as a team. We played relatively well, it was not a bad game but it could have been better.”
