LEGION BASEBALL: Lums, Prairie win twice to open wood-bat tourney

COEUR d’ALENE — Parker Gabrielson struck out five in six innings as the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen “AA” team defeated the Gallitin Valley Outlaws of Manhattan, Mont., 4-3 in the Lums’ opening game of the Spokane/Çoeur d’Alene Wood Bat baseball Classic on Thursday at Thorco Field.

“It was awesome to win a close one,” Coeur d’Alene coach Zach Clanton said. “We’d been a little close in a few games lately, so it was good to see them hold on to the win.”

Later, Reggie Nault went 4 for 5 with two RBIs as Coeur d’Alene defeated the INMBL Padres, a men’s league team from Spokane, 11-4.

“Everybody in the lineup did a good job of hitting tonight,” Clanton said.

Ethan Brandt, who played for the Lumbermen last season, had a late double for the Padres.

Today at Thorco Field, Coeur d’Alene (13-19) will face the Maltby (Wash.) Battlecats at 10:30 a.m., and the Tri County Vandals of Hermiston, Ore., at 1 p.m. in pool play.

• At Post Falls High, Prairie Cardinals opened play with a pair of wins, beating the Spokane Cannons 17-3 and Bitterroot Red Sox of Hamilton, Mont., 11-1.

James Prockish went 3 for 4 with two doubles and Kris Jackson drove in three runs against the Cannons for Prairie.

Prockish also went 2 for 3 with two RBIs against Bitterroot for Prairie (15-16), which faces St. Albert today at 3:30 p.m. and Idaho Falls at 6 to conclude pool play today at Post Falls High.