Coeur d'Alene, Prairie split to conclude regular season
Prairie Cardinal Andrew Davidson fights the sun and catches a fly ball in right field in a game against the Coeur d'Alene Lumberman on Tuesday. (LOREN BENOIT/Press)
Coeur d’Alene Lumberman Landen Thompson makes contact for a two-run single in the sixth inning of the first game to break a 2-2 tie against the Prairie Cardinals. LOREN BENOIT/Press
COEUR d’ALENE — Landen Thompson broke a 2-2 tie with a two-run single with two out in the sixth inning to send the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen past the Prairie Cardinals 4-2 in the first game of a class AA North Idaho League doubleheader on Tuesday at Thorco Field.
With the win in the opener, Coeur d’Alene (28-15-1, 10-2 NIL) clinched the outright league title and will be the top seed to the Area A (district) tournament, which begins Friday at Thorco Field. Prairie (11-20-1, 5-7) will be the third seed and face second seeded Lewis-Clark (22-17) on Friday at 4 p.m., followed by the Lums against fourth-seeded Northern Lakes (0-12 in league) at 7.
In the nightcap, Tanner McCliment-Call hit a sacrifice fly to score Miller with two outs to lift Prairie past Coeur d’Alene 4-3 to earn a split.
FIRST GAME
Prairie 010 001 0 — 2 8 1
Coeur d’Alene 110 002 x — 4 5 0
Matt Fleming, Ethan Miller (5) and Zach Clark; Brandon Gay, Quinn Conces (4), Jake Brown (6) and Jackson Scherr. W — Brown. L — Miller.
HITS: Pra — B. Zeller, McCliment-Call 2, Chase 2, Miller 2, Chamberlain. Cd’A — Thompson, Manzardo, Kraak, Smith 2. 2B — McCliment-Call, Chase, Manzardo, Smith. HR — Miller.
SECOND GAME
Prairie 000 021 1 — 4 8 3
Coeur d’Alene 011 010 0 — 3 4 2
Brock Zeller, Nick Chase (3), Zach Clark (5) and Clark, Casey Weeks (5); Landen Thompson, Riley Smith (3), Bode Bailey (5), Peyton Childers (6), David Kraak (7) and Jackson Scherr, Thompson (3). W — Clark. L — Kraak.
HITS: Pra — B. Zeller, S. Zeller, McCliment-Call, Fleming, Reid, Clark, Miller 2. Cd’A — Kraak, Brown, Gay, Conces. 2B — none. 3B — none.