Loggers win, earn top seed to state

ST. MARIES - Sam Schultz scattered four hits and struck out four in a complete-game five-hitter as the fifth-seeded Coeur d'Alene Loggers beat the St. Maries Savages 13-3 in five innings Sunday in the championship game of the class A Area A (district) American Legion baseball tournament.

Both teams came into the game having already secured berths to the state A tournament this week in Pocatello. Coeur d'Alene (23-22) plays the Idaho Falls Bees in its opener Thursday at 3 p.m. PDT.

Jacob McKnight went 2 for 3 with two doubles and an RBI for the Loggers. Brent Wingham went 3 for 4 with an RBI, and Colton Gray was 2 for 4 with an RBI.

Ray Flowers went 2 for 3 for St. Maries.