Cade lifts Lums past Eagle
COEUR d'ALENE - Matt Cade hit an RBI double in the fifth inning to push the Coeur d'Alene Lumbermen past the Eagle Vipers 4-3 on Saturday night at McEuen Field in the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Wood Bat tournament.
"We're starting to get some of our pitching back," Coeur d'Alene coach Lloyd Duman said. "We've been playing with only two real pitchers on the mound in this tournament. Derek (Priano) threw for the first time since high school tonight (Saturday) and did a great job. The guys we've got pitching are stepping up big and we're learning what we need to do - but we've got a lot of guys getting big innings."
Coeur d'Alene has been without Grant Curtis and Pete Hoffman, who suffered injuries while at a tournament in Omaha.
"It's a struggle now, but we're looking at the big picture," Duman said. "Alex (Gunnerson) came in and threw some big innings last night."
Julian Burgess had two hits on Saturday for Coeur d'Alene (11-16), which will face Rainier Legion today at 1 p.m. and Pullman at 3:30 p.m. at McEuen Field. Coeur d'Alene is 1-2 in pool play.
Coeur d'Alene fell to Prospect Baseball late Friday in a game that concluded at 12:20 a.m. after Friday's games at McEuen Field were pushed back two hours due to wet field conditions.
Jason Pattis had two hits for the Lumbermen.
In earlier games on Saturday in the McEuen Field pool, the Pullman Patriots defeated Rainier Legion 11-3, Prospect Baseball defeated the Pullman Patriots 5-2, Walla Walla defeated Rainier 7-2 and Eagle defeated Walla Walla 4-3.
COEUR d'ALENE 4, EAGLE 3
Eagle 102 000 0 - 3 6 3
Coeur d'Alene 000 130 x - 4 3 1
Hildebrand, Kraft (6) and Falck; Alex Krapas, Derek Priano (5) and Alex Gunnerson. W - Priano. L - Kraft.
HITS: Eag - Darling, Falck, Stidham 2, Hess, Kraft. Cd'A - Burgess 2, Cade. 2B - Cade.
Late Friday
PROSPECT BASEBALL 9, COEUR d'ALENE 2
Coeur d'Alene 000 101 0 - 2 6 2
Prospect Baseball 240 003 x - 9 7 1
Matt Klepfer, Alex Gunnerson (5) and Joe Roletto; Johnson and Thurott. W - Johnson. L - Klepfer (1-2).
HITS: Cd'A - Burgess, Priano, Pattis 2, Cade, Klepfer. Pro - Beaudreau 2, DeWolfe, Johnson, Thurott 2.
Cardinals drop
two in Spokane
SPOKANE - The Prairie Cardinals lost to Bellingham 5-2 and the Spokane Bandits 7-2 in pool play at the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Wood Bat tournament at Hart Field.
In the first game, Bellingham took advantage of five errors by the Cardinals.
Kurt South and Derek Tymesen had RBIs in the opener for Prairie.
Connor Peery and Tyler Burnett had RBIs in the loss to the Spokane Bandits.
Prairie (9-17), 1-3 in pool play, faces White Rock today at 9 a.m. to conclude pool play.
BELLINGHAM 5, PRAIRIE 2
Bellingham 200 003 0 - 5 7 3
Prairie 000 200 0 - 2 5 5
Quinn Moore, Mitchell Tropp (6) and Jake Froth; Kostas Garcia, Tony Davidson (6) and Cody VanDuyne. W - Moore. L - Garcia.
HITS: Bell - Forhan, Pitsch 2, Albert 2, Knight, Krysinki. Pra - Berger, Metcalf, Vandever, South, Shaffer. 2B - Forhan, Albert, Knight, Vandever.
SPOKANE BANDITS 7, PRAIRIE 2
Spokane 200 003 2 - 7 8 0
Prairie 000 000 2 - 2 5 6
Garrick Little and Gerhard Muelheims; Connor Peery, Daniel Whitesitt (6) and Bordyn Grieser. W - Little. L - Peery.
HITS: Spo - Bozett, Muelheims, McInnis, Poland, Neilsen, Johnson 2, Little. Pra - Berger, Tymesen, Peery, Burnett, South. 2B - Muelheims, Johnson, Peery.
• In the junior division of the tournament, the Peak Sand and Gravel Lakers of Sandpoint won three games Saturday to improve to 4-0 in pool play at Lake City High.
Peak finished off a 6-1 win over Latah County in a game stopped by rain after three innings on Friday. The Lakers then beat University 6-5 and the Coeur d'Alene Lakers 8-6.
In other games, Latah County and the Newport Grizzlies tied at 1 after eight innings when the game was stopped due to the tourney time limit, and University beat Newport 13-0.
Pool play concludes today.
• In the Coeur d'Alene High pool of the junior wood bat tourney, the Coeur d'Alene Loggers finished off a 14-5 victory over Northwest Christian in the completion of a game suspended Friday due to darkness.
On Saturday, the Loggers lost a pair of 7-6 games to West Kootenay and the GK Eagles.
In other games, Northest Christian beat the Eagle Vipers 1-0, and West Kootenai edged Northwest Christian 2-1.