LEGION BASEBALL: Smith, Thompson, Childers, Karns lead Lums to sweep
COEUR d’ALENE — Riley Smith’s two-run homer in the second inning triggered a comeback, and the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen went on to beat the Spokane Crew 19U 7-5 in the first game of a nonleague American Legion doubleheader Thursday night at Thorco Field.
In the second game, three Lums pitchers held the Crew to two hits in a 3-1 victory for the sweep.
In the fifth inning of the opener, Breyson Coppess’ RBI single tied the game at 5, and Smith followed with an RBI groundout to put the Lums ahead to stay.
Coppess finished 2 for 4 and scored twice, Alex Karns went 3 for 4 and Marcus Manzardo was 2 for 3.
In the second game, Landen Thompson allowed one hit in three shutout innings, Payton Childers struck out four in two shutout, hitless innings, and Karns followed with three strikeouts over the final two innings.
Thompson broke a scoreless tie with a two-run double in the fourth. Camdyn Martindale singled in a run in the fifth.
Coeur d’Alene (4-7) is scheduled to play host to the Spokane Cannons on Saturday in a 4 p.m. doubleheader at Thorco Field.
FIRST GAME
Crew 19U 230 000 0 — 5 6 3
Cd’A 030 121 x — 7 8 3
Colt Rowley, Comes (6) and Bellantoni; Liam Paddack, Troy Shepard (2), Camdyn Martindale (5), Quinn Conces (6) and Jackson Scherr. W — Martindale. L — Rowley.
HITS: Crew — Tiffany 2, Bellantoni 2, Wessels, Gray. Cd’A — Manzardo 2, Karns 3, Coppess 2, Smith. 2B — Tiffany, Wessels, Gray, Coppess, Karns. HR — Smith.
SECOND GAME
Crew 19U 000 000 1 — 1 2 0
Cd’A 000 210 x — 3 6 1
Tiffany and Tellinghusen; Landen Thompson, Payton Childers (4), Alex Karns (6) and Camdyn Martindale. W — Childers. L — Tiffany.
HITS: Crew — Tiffany, Atken. Cd’A — Conces, Manzardo 2, Thompson, Childers, Martindale. 2B — Thompson.
Missoula 9
Northern Lakes 5
MISSOULA — The Mountaineers jumped to a 5-0 lead after two innings, but the host Mavericks erased that with seven runs in the bottom of the fifth inning in a Missoula Mavericks Memorial Tournament game at Lindborg-Cregg Field.
Jaret Taylor hit an RBI single in the first and a two-run single in the second for Northern Lakes (3-1). Louis Powell finished 2 for 3 with two runs and an RBI.
Trailing 5-2, six of the first seven Missoula batters had hits in the fifth — including two triples and two doubles.
“We played really clean,” Northern Lakes coach Bryce Johnson said. “To be honest, they just hit the ball (in the fifth), and hit it where we weren’t.”
Northern Lakes is scheduled to play the Glacier Twins today at 10 a.m. in Missoula.
N. Lakes 230 000 0 — 5 6 2
Missoula 002 070 x — 9 10 2
Jack McDonald, Tristan Clift (5), Scott Pote (6) and Colton Aragon; Nolan McCaffery and Andrew Claussen.
HITS: NL — Powell 2, Taylor 2, Knerr, Pote. Miss — Makovich, Fraser, Stensrud 3, Palmer 2, Hangas, Claussen 2. 2B — Powell, Stensrud, Palmer, Hangas. 3B — Makovich, Fraser.