Prairie sweeps in Sandpoint, reaches .500

| June 30, 2011 9:00 PM

SANDPOINT - Cody Vandever went the distance in the first game and the visiting Prairie Cardinals scored 15 runs in the fourth inning of the second game against Peak Sand and Gravel to sweep a North Idaho "AA" League doubleheader at Pine Street Field on Wednesday.

Tyler Shaffer went 3 for 4 with two RBIs in the first game for Prairie.

Kurt South had three hits and a double and Riley Denney had a three-run triple in the fourth inning of the second game for Prairie (13-13, 8-5), which opens the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene wood bat tournament on Friday against Weber (Utah) at 10:30 a.m. at Jackson Field in Spokane.

"We got down in the third inning 6-1, but the kids kept battling back," Prairie coach Dustin Frank said. "It was really nice to see the kids respond the way they did. Just their attitude and mentality of refusing to lose was nice to see."

Peak Sand and Gravel (6-7, 4-6) hosts Coeur d'Alene in Sandpoint today in a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.

FIRST GAME

Prairie 030 500 0 - 8 7 1

Peak 000 102 0 - 3 6 2

Cody Vandever and Bordyn Grieser; Caleb Nishimoto and Scott Snow. W - Vandever (4-2). L - Nishimoto.

HITS: Pra - Reeder, Cooper, Denney, Tymesen, Shaffer 2, Schwalbach. Spt - Gordon 2, Mayzel 2, Nitcy 2. 2B - Denney, Tymesen, Shaffer, Gordon 2. 3B - Mayzel 2.

SECOND GAME

Prairie 030 (15)0 - 18 10 3

Peak 024 00 - 6 6 3

Game ended after five innings due to 10-run rule.

Zack Carter, Joe Schwalbach (5) and Zack Reeder; Dan Mayzel, Sean Conlin (4) and Alek Lopez. W - Carter (2-2). L - Mayzel.

HITS: Pra - Reeder, Cooper 2, Davidson 2, Smith 3, Howell, Denney. Spt - Gordon, Snow, Moore, Conlin, Skeen 2. 2B - Davidson, Smith. 3B - Denney.