Sandpoint topples Timberlake
BASEBALL
SPIRIT LAKE - Nick Halpin's RBI single broke a seventh-inning tie, and lifted the Sandpoint Bulldogs past the Timberlake Tigers 4-2 in a nonleague game Thursday afternoon.
Timberlake (4-3) committed all three of its errors in the seventh, the third allowing Sandpoint's final run to score.
Patrick Anthony struck out eight and gave up five hits for Sandpoint (4-3). Tevin Hamilton and Anthony hit RBI singles in the second to stake the Bulldogs to a 2-0 lead.
Joe Sedillo doubled and scored on an error in the fifth for Timberlake. Derek Tymesen hit a leadoff home run deep over the center field fence in the sixth to tie the game.
Kyle Overland struck out four and gave up five hits in five innings for Timberlake.
Timberlake travels to Bonners Ferry on Saturday for an Intermountain League doubleheader.
Sandpoint 020 000 2 - 4 6 2
Timberlake 000 011 0 - 2 5 3
Patrick Anthony and Eddo Feyen; Kyle Overland, J.D. Page (6) and Sal Miranda. W - Anthony. L - Page (0-1).
HITS: Spt - Fisher, Halpin, Nikssarian, Feyen, Hamilton, Anthony. TL - Tymesen, Shaffer, Sedillo 2, Rogstad. 2B - Sedillo. HR - Tymesen (1).
SOFTBALL
Moscow 7
St. Maries 3
MOSCOW - Amy Westberg's two-run home run triggered a five-run fourth inning as the host Bears overtook the Lumberjacks in a nonleague makeup game.
Tia Asbury, Morgan Cummings and Dusti Huddleston each singled and scored on passed balls in the first inning to stake St. Maries (2-1) to a 3-0 lead.
St. Maries plays host to Kellogg on Saturday in an IML doubleheader.
St. Maries 300 000 0 - 3 5 5
Moscow 000 520 x - 7 9 2
Tia Asbury and Jade Wemhoff; Gosse, Redinger (4), name unavailable (5), Gosse (6) and Maxey. W - Redinger. L - Asbury (1-1).
HITS: SM - Asbury, Mo. Cummings, Huddleston 2, Sanchez. Mos - Redinger, Papineow, Maxey, Westberg, Hicks, Lunsford 2, Wallace, Gosse. 2B - Hicks, Wallace. HR - Westberg.
Kellogg 7
Sandpoint 6
KELLOGG - Carli Durick's two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning drove in the winning run for the Wildcats (1-1).
Rachel Hammack and Maggie Kirscher homered for Sandpoint. (3-5). Taylor Huber homered for Kellogg, which plays a doubleheader at St. Maries on Saturday.
Sandpoint 102 030 0 - 6 11 2
Kellogg 222 000 1 - 7 9 2
Molly Givens and Meghan Hamilton; Haley Dulaney and Taylor Samuelson; W - Dulaney. L - Givens (2-3).
HITS: Spt - Hamilton 2, Hammack 3, Kirscher 3, Quigley, Elsfelder; Kel - Huber 2, Hojem, Viche 2, Ivie 2, Durick. 2B - Hammack 2, Hamilton, Ellsfelder, Ivie. 3B - Viche. HR - Huber, Hammack, Kirscher.