Prairie sweeps Trail

Prairie's Tony Davidson slides safely into second base in the third inning of game one of an American Legion double header against Trail Wednesday in Post Falls.

Cody Vandever, third baseman for the Prairie Cardinals, fields the ball in the third inning against Trail.

| July 1, 2010 9:00 PM

Cody Vandever, third baseman for the Prairie Cardinals, fields the ball in the third inning against Trail.

POST FALLS - Bryson Smith hit a two-run double in the first game of the Prairie Cardinals' 6-0, 8-6 doubleheader sweep of the Trail Blue Jays (8-13, 3-4 NIL) on Wednesday at Post Falls High.

"(Bryson) Smith had a good day for us offensively," Prairie coach Dustin Frank said. "When we'd get into trouble, we'd find a way to get out. We're starting to get people to step up in the clutch and making the plays we need to. Everyone did what they needed to today. It took a pretty good team effort to get that second win."

Tyler Shaffer had a complete-game shutout in the opener for Prairie (8-14, 6-4).

In the second game, Tyler Burnett hit a two-run double in a six run second inning for the Cardinals. Smith had an RBI double for Prairie, which faces the Meridian Rangers at 8 a.m. and the Kennewick Bandits on Friday at Hart Field in Spokane as part of the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Fourth of July wood bat tournament.

FIRST GAME

Trail 000 000 0 - 0 7 0 Prairie 100 050 x - 6 8 0

Cam Strachan and Kyle Paulson; Tyler Shaffer and Cody VanDuyne. W - Shaffer (1-2). L - Stracken.

HITS: Tra - Sidey 3, Underwood, N. Rypien 2, J. Rypien. Pra - Burnett 2, Smith 2, South, Tymesen 2, VanDuyne. 2B - Smith, Burnett. 3B - J. Rypien.

SECOND GAME

Trail 104 100 0 - 6 8 0

Prairie 062 000 x - 8 11 3

Gerry Rebelato and Kyle Paulson; Nik Berger, Kostas Garcia (3), Tony Davidson (5), Connor Peery (7) and Cody VanDuyne. W - Berger (2-2). L - Rebel. S - Peery (2).

HITS: Tra - Sidey 2, Underwood 2, N. Rypien 2, J. Rypien, Miller. Pra - VanDuyne, Burnett, Smith 2, Vandever, South 2, Shaffer, Leva, Peery, Coleman. 2B - Sidey, N. Rypien, Miller, Vandever, Leva.

Lumbermen,

Chino go late

COEUR d’ALENE — The Chino Red scored four unearned runs in the first inning, but the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen battled back to even the score at 4 after seven innings in a nonleague game at McEuen Field on Wednesday.

Kaleb DeHaas had two RBIs, with Mitch Bevacqua adding one for the Lumbermen.

Bevacqua and Chad Nyquist reached with nobody out, but the Lumbermen were unable to capitalize as Derek Priano was called out on strikes to end the seventh.

The game was still in progress when The Press went to print.