Northwest Premier reaches semifinals of wood-bat tourney

Northwest Premier won the Thorco Field pool of the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene wood bat classic on Saturday afternoon, finishing with a 5-0 record in pool play.

Northwest Premier beat Calgary Blues 8-4 and Sherwood Park (Alberta) 14-4 to advance to a semifinal game today against the Spokane Expos 18U today at Al K. Jackson Field in Spokane at 11:30 a.m.

The host Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen went 0-2, concluding tournament play with a 5-1 loss to the Spokane Crew (Black) at Thorco Field. The Lums went 1-4 in the tourney

Jack Bloom had two hits and a run scored in the fourth inning for Coeur d’Alene (5-4), which returns to North Idaho League play on Friday, hosting Prairie in a doubleheader at Thorco Field starting at 5 p.m.

Earlier, Carter Friesz doubled for the Lumbermen in a 9-0 loss to Sherwood Park at Thorco Field.

At Post Falls High, Harrison Reid and Matt Fleming had two hits and three RBIs each as the Prairie Cardinals beat Edmonton 11-2 to conclude tournament play. The Cardinals finished 2-3 in the tourney.

Tanner McCliment-Call had two RBIs and two runs scored for Prairie (7-21), which hosts Lewis-Clark in a doubleheader on Tuesday at Post Falls High starting at 3 p.m.

Louis Powell drove in three runs and Braden Gifford and Dustin Smith homered for Northern Lakes in a 10-8 loss to the Spokane Northstars at Post Falls High.

Northern Lakes, which finished 2-2-1 in the tourney, is 13-6-1.

At Jackson Field, the North Idaho Black Sox beat the Medicine Hat Seminoles 10-2 before falling to Bellingham Post No. 7 7-6 to finish 3-2 in the tournament.

SHERWOOD PARK 9, COEUR d’ALENE 0

Sherwood Park 103 41 — 9 14 0

Coeur d’Alene 000 00 — 0 3 2

Drunklaar and Glockzin; Jack Bloom, Caleb Beggerly (5) and Carter Friesz. W — Drunklaar. L — Bloom.

HITS: SP — Loranger 2, Burton, Federkiewicz 2, Cust 2, Glockzin 2, Schattle, Harsulla, McGouan 2, B. Glockzin. Cd’A — Beggerly, Friesz, Bailey. 2B — Glockzin, McGouan, Friesz. 3B — Loranger.

PRAIRIE 11, EDMONTON 2

Edmonton 000 20 — 2 5 1

Prairie 236 0x — 11 6 1

Edmonton battery unavailable; Brock Zeller and Derek Pearse. W — B. Zeller.

HITS: Ed — not available. Pra — Reid 2, McCliment-Call, Fleming 2, Pearse. 2B — Fleming, McCliment-Call.

SPOKANE CREW BLACK 5,

COEUR d’ALENE 1

Coeur d’Alene 000 200 0 — 1 6 4

Spokane Crew 201 020 x — 5 7 1

Brady Thompson, Caleb Beggerly (6) and Carter Friesz; Irwin, Johnson (5) and Haynes. W — Irwin. L — Thompson.

HITS: Cd’A — Karns, Friesz, Thompson, Bloom 2, Scheer. SC — Edwards, T. Edwards, Johnson 3, Haynes, Hamilton. 2B — Edwards, Haynes. 3B — T. Edwards.