AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL: Prairie rallies, but falls at tourney

| June 22, 2014 9:00 PM

SPOKANE VALLEY - Logan Bruner had a two-run single in the fourth inning for the Prairie Cardinals, who lost 10-8 to Champion Baseball of Vancouver, Wash., in a consolation game of the Best of the Northwest wood-bat tournament on Saturday at Central Valley High.

Prairie scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game at 8-8, but Champion scored twice in the top of the seventh to pull out the win.

"We're doing good at battling back," Prairie coach Ron Mackie said. "But we need to do a better job of finishing games and need to learn how to finish. We just have that one inning where we have that bad inning and have a few errors and need to battle back."

Prairie (7-15) returns to class AA North Idaho League play on Tuesday with a doubleheader at Lewis-Clark starting at 5 p.m. at Harris Field in Lewiston.

Champion 104 003 2 - 10 10 1

Prairie 100 304 0 - 8 11 4

Jace Bolton, Jordan Craig (4), Kordell Vasbinder (7) and Vasbinder, Craig (7); Dustin Ceballos, Killian Estes (6), Trystan Valente (7) and James Prockish. W - Bolton. L - Ceballos (1-1).

HITS: Cham - Cline, Craig 2, Fitzpatrick 2, Swartz, Lariza 3, Coerper. Pra - Howell 2, Bruner 2, Prockish 2, Hammell, Ceballos, Cooper, Lebsock, Estes. 2B - Cline, Schwartz.

Spokane Expos 10

Coeur d'Alene 9

COEUR d'ALENE - The Lumbermen were eliminated after the loss to the Expos in the Best of the Northwest wood bat tournament at Thorco Field.

Further information was not reported.

Coeur d'Alene (10-13) play host to the Spokane Bandits on Tuesday in a 5 p.m. doubleheader.