Lums open wood bat tourney with two wins

COEUR d’ALENE — Alex Karns hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning — no easy feat with a wood bat — and the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen went on to beat the Vauxhall Spurs 18U 5-2 in their opening game Friday at the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic at Thorco Field.

Later Friday, Coeur d’Alene scored the last 12 runs of the game to beat the Edmonton Padres 15-7 and get off to a 2-0 start in pool play.

Against Vauxhall, Karns’ shot put Coeur d’Alene up 2-1 in the fourth. After Vauxhall pulled to within 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth, Riley Smith delivered an RBI triple in the top of the seventh for the Lums, and scored on a passed ball.

Brandon Gay scattered six hits and struck out four to earn the win for Coeur d’Alene.

Against Edmonton, Jackson Scherr’s two-run single in the bottom of the third pulled Coeur d’Alene within 7-5. Landen Thompson followed with a run-scoring double.

Dylan Brum’s two-run single in the fifth boosted the Lums’ lead to 11-7.

Coeur d’Alene (23-9-1) is scheduled to play the Parkland Twins 18U tonight at 7 at Thorco Field as pool play continues.

COEUR d’ALENE 5, VAUXHALL 2

Cd’A 000 300 2 — 5 8 1

Vauxhall 100 001 0 — 2 6 2

Brandon Gay and Jackson Scherr; Hayden Mack, Brady Howg (4) and Kole Fujita. W — Gay. L —Mack.

HITS: Cd’A — Brum, Karns 2, Brown, Childers, Coppess, Kraak, Smith. Vaux — Cummins, Vulcano 2, Honess 2, Anderson. 2B — Brum, Kraak, Cummins, Honess, Vulcano. 3B — Smith. HR — Karns.

COEUR d’ALENE 15, EDMONTON 7

Edmonton 115 00 — 7 4 2

Cd’A 125 07 — 15 9 0

Edmonton battery unavailable; Landon Vergeer, Riley Smith (2), Dylan Brum (3), Jake Brown (3) and Trent Elstad. W — Brown.

HITS: Ed — N/A. Cd’A — Brum 2, Brown 2, Karns 2, Thompson 2, Scherr. 2B — Thompson 2.