Trojan baseball splits with Chiawana

- BASEBALL

PASCO, Wash. — Four players had two hits each for Post Falls, which scored six runs on five walks in the top of the seventh inning to rally past the Chiawana Riverhawks 8-7 in the first game of a doubleheader on Friday night.

“They just walked the yard in the seventh,” Post Falls coach Mick Zeller said. “They brought in a guy to close it out, and he couldn’t find the zone. They brought in another guy, he couldn’t either.”

Jake Rutherford, Jake Pfennigs and Brock Zeller had singles in the inning, with Zeller’s driving in a run in the seventh. Austin Higgins struck out three in two innings of scoreless relief to get the win for Post Falls.

In the second game, Chiawana scored three unearned runs in the first inning on the way to the split. Quin Bennett hit a solo home run leading off the second inning for Post Falls in the nightcap.

“We didn’t play clean, crisp baseball,” Zeller said. “We dropped some fly balls and didn’t make the routine play. That will come with more field time.”

Post Falls travels to Kennewick today at 11 a.m., then plays at Kamiakin at 3 p.m.

FIRST GAME

Post Falls 011 000 6 — 8 8 2

Chiawana 220 030 0 — 7 10 0

Quin Bennett, Austin Higgins (6) and Nate Buer; Chiawana pitching unavailable. W — Higgins.

HITS: PF — Rutherford 2, Pfennigs, Bennett 2, Zeller 2, Higgins. Chi — Wagner, Favor, Childs 2, Monnington, Romero, Ruiz, Seldmann, Sugden, Vine. 2B — Childs 2.

SECOND GAME

Post Falls 010 120 0 — 4 7 3

Chiawana 300 500 x — 8 8 2

Jake Rutherford, Austin Higgins (4) and Nate Buer; Marco Romero, Bianco (6) and I. Romero. W — M. Romero. L — Rutherford.

HITS: PF — Buer, McCliment-Call, Rutherford 2, Pfennigs 2, Bennett. Chi — Wagner, Childs, Boddington 3, Ruiz 2, Vang Phanchanc. 2B — McCliment-Call, Ruiz, Vang Phanchanc HR — Bennett (1).

- SOFTBALL

Lake City 9

Lewis and Clark 2

SPOKANE — Olivia Zufelt and Emma Gray hit two-run home runs to power the Timberwolves past the Tigers at Hart Field.

Lake City took a 4-2 lead after three innings and added to its lead on Zufelt’s two-run shot in the fifth and a three-run seventh inning.

Reilly Williams went 3 for 4 with a solo home run and freshman Phoebe Schultz struck out six in relief for Lake City (5-1), which faces Southridge and Richland today in Richland.

“It was really great to get on them early,” Lake City coach Jesse Lenz said. “You can tell our bats are starting to wake up after that Utah trip. It was really nice to play those five games and see live pitching (last week when the T-Wolves went 4-1 in a tournament in St. George). You could see that today.”

Lake City 112 020 3 — 9 10 1

Lewis and Clark 200 000 0 — 2 5 0

McKenzie Wilson, Phoebe Schultz (4) and Olivia Zufelt; T. John, M. Towns (5) and P. Ochsner. W — Wilson (1-0). L — John.

HITS: LC — Loffer, Allen, Zufelt 2, E. Gray 2, Williams 3, Jankay, A. Gray. L-C — Eraeux 2, Pester, John, Ochsner. 2B — Williams, Eraeux, Pester, Ochsner. 3B — Eraeux. HR — Zufelt, E. Gray, Williams.

Coeur d’Alene at

Richland

No report was received from the Vikings.

Post Falls at

Chiwana

No report was received from the Trojans.

- TENNIS

Post Falls 7

East Valley 5

SPOKANE VALLEY — The Trojans boys swept in singles and doubles matches that reached a conclusion before rain called off a match against the Knights.

“This match came after our fourth practice on the courts, so we were just kind of flying blind in this match,” Post Falls coach Kirk Hartzell said. “We went into it and treated it like a practice match and had some kids that were stressed out about performing. We just tried to stress to them to learn and have fun doing it.”

Shery Mae Espina won in straight sets in girls singles for Post Falls, which travels to Rogers of Spokane on Tuesday.

“Shery Mae didn’t find out she was playing singles until they were announcing the varsity matches,” Hartzell said. “After her match, she was in full tears and I was wondering if she was hurt. She was just so proud and excited that she’d won. It was really kind of a neat moment and I was glad to be a part of that. You don’t get to see that kind of genuine moment out of kids that often.”

BOYS SINGLES — No. 1, Colton Melton, PF, d. Julien Gunderson, 6-2, 6-3. No. 2, Mason Nagrone, PF, d. Luke Dinaraua, 6-0, 6-2. No. 3, Danny Alaverez, PF, d. Andrew Ducts, 6-4, 6-0. No. 4, Justin Wiggers, PF, vs. Tate Gregorson, suspended due to rain.

BOYS DOUBLES — No. 1, Jason Benton/Derrick Luby, PF, d. Malloy Larson/Payton Kurline, 6-0, 6-0. No. 2, Tyler Sterritt/Jacob Nowak, PF, d. Ky Denton/Ethan Van Cleave, 6-2, 6-3. No. 3, Malakai Verduzco/Garrett Smith, PF, p. Don Carillo/Alex Ma, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.

GIRLS SINGLES — No. 1, Jenna Pefley, EV, d. Madi Lahr, 6-1, 6-1. No. 2, Kate Pointer, EV, d. Sam Schumacker, 6-2, 6-1. No. 3, Shery Mae Espina, PF, d. Maddie Henderson, 6-4, 6-4.

GIRLS DOUBLES — No. 1, Sarah Kroll/Diana Dikhamindzhiya, EV, d. Maddy Sunnel/Sam Nearing, 6-2, 6-1. No. 2, Jessica Ho/Brooke Young, EV, d. Amber Steenburgh/Kaisa Sowers, 6-3, 6-2. No. 3, Jasmine McGee/Daizy Camargo, EV, d. Joely Austin/Mary Weicks, 6-0, 6-0.

MIXED DOUBLES — No. 1, Carson Schertz/Desirae McGee, PF, vs. Brack Phillips/Bree Holicek, suspended due to rain.