LEGION BASEBALL: Northern Lakes gets bats going late in loss

WHITEFISH, Mont. — Northern Lakes was hitless until the seventh inning before finally breaking through in a 6-2 loss to the Spokane Crew on Friday at the Sapa-Johnsrud Memorial Tournament at Memorial Field.

Consecutive hits from Louis Powell, Jaret Taylor, Colton Aragon and Tristan Clift resulted in two runs for the Mountaineers (13-4), 0-2 in pool play at the tourney. Aragon and Clift each had RBI singles.

Northern Lakes was held to one hit in a 9-1 loss to the Glacier Twins on Thursday night.

“It’s taken a little bit to get our bats going,” Northern Lakes coach Bryce Johnson said. “Most of the kids we are facing are college-level kids, or seniors who are going into college.”

Northern Lakes will play the Spokane Expos today to complete pool play.

Crew 110 040 0 — 6 8 0

N. Lakes 000 000 2 — 2 4 0

Wessels and Redmond; Jack McDonald, Tristan Clift (6) and Colton Aragon. W — Wessels. L — McDonald.

HITS: Crew — Schwarz 2, Ponoff, Rowley 2, Redmond 2, Fox. NL — Powell, Taylor, Aragon, Clift. 3B — Schwarz, Rowley.

Lums coaching news

Paul Manzardo will be taking over as head coach of the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen class AA team for the remainder of the season, said Erik Karns, who had been the head coach. Manzardo had been the assistant coach. Karns will shift to the Lums’ 16U team, where he will be head coach. Karns and Manzardo were coaching both the AA and 16U teams.

“We hope that by keeping us isolated to a team and not moving kids between teams, we won’t have to shut down all teams if one team experiences a positive COVID test,” Karns said.

The AA and 16U teams have been shut down this season by a positive COVID test.